1867-01 Annual Report of the Trustees of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn, Together with the Reports of the Treasurer and Superintendent. January, 1867.

ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE

TRUSTEES

OF THE

Cemetery of Mount Aubwen,

TOGETHER WITH

OF THE

TREASURER AND SUPERINTENDENT.

FANUARY, 1867.

BOSTON: 1867.

J. H. HASTBURN’S PRESS.

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TRUSTEES’ REPORT.

Tue satisfactory state of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn has required few changes or additions during the last year. The following are the principal things worthy of note.

The large iron fence in front of the Cemetery had been painted in 1845, 1851, and 1859. It was again painted with two coats in the past season of 1866. The cost of this paint* ing, as reported by the Superintendent, was $650. At the same time the wood-work of the Chapel and Tower has been repaired and painted three coats.

A new propagating-house for plants, 72 feet by 14, has been built, adjoining the former greenhouse, at the suggestion of the Superintendent, who reports that the experience of raising plants and flowers on the spot has been found acceptable to the Proprietors and remunerative to the Corporation. The appropriation for this purpose was $700.

The prospective size of the St. Matthew’s Public Lot, having been reduced for reasons of expediency, a new Public Lot, called “St. Paul’s,”” has been laid out on the south-westerly side of the Cemetery. It contains about 28,000 square feet, and is expected to be adequate to all future exigencies in Mount Auburn, for this mode of interment. The land in this place being in parts steep and difficult for grading, is obliged to be approached by stone steps, and secured by courses of block stone. It has already cost about $2,500, and when complete will constitute a valuable property to the Corporation.

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In the sunken and boggy tracts, north of Indian Ridge, land is in process of redemption, by filling with gravel, after the mud has been removed for compost. Sycamore Avenue has been extended through the hill and across the meadow, (as appears from the Superintendent’s Report,) 187 feet. The filling of the meadow is, On an average, six feet deep, and has required the moving of 3,947 cubic yards of gravel. Halcyon Avenue, with land bordering on the south side, has been filled for 160 feet of its length. It averages seven feet in depth, and has required the moving of 1,742 yards of gravel. Fountain Avenue has been enlarged and extended by filling in with 1,250 cubic yards of gravel.

More than two thousand feet of side gutters have been paved with heavy stones, all of which have been found upon the place. Like the painting and other work enumerated, it has been executed by the permanent workmen employed on the grounds.

By vote of the Trustees, the unexpired ground-lease held by Alexander McDonald of land on which he has erected a marble-shop, has, with the agreement of the parties, been cancelled, and a new lease executed to him, for ten years, at a rent of one hundred dollars, with rights and conditions specified in the agreement.

It appears from the Treasurer’s statement, that the Permanent Fund of the Corporation has accumulated to $66,481.90. The Repair Fund is $38,335.93; and the estimated balance in cash and invested disposable property is $41,437.27.

JACOB BIGELOW, President.

Boston, January, 1867.

5 SUPERINTENDENT’S REPORT. To the Trustees of Mount Auburn Cemetery, GENTLEMEN,— In accordance with the requirements of the Trustees, I herewith transmit the Annual Report of the Superintendent, for the year ending December 31st, 1866, as per account of his department.

IMPROVEMENTS. Number of New Lots graded and bounded with Granite Posts, 100 Number of Old Lots improved by being newly Graded and Sodded, 170 Number of Old Lots bounded with Granite Posts, 10 Number of Lots enclosed with Granite, 84 Number of Iron Fences erected 6 Number of Tombs built 10 Number of Monuments erected, 36

INTERMENT RECORD. Total number of interments as per last Report, 13,596 Number of Original Interments for year ending December 31, 1866, 508 ” ” Removals from other Cemeteries, 138 Total number of Interments for the year, 646 Total number of Interments in the Cemetries 14,242 Of the above, there were Deposits in Receiving Tomb, 42 Interments in Public Lots 51

THE REMOVALS IN AND FROM THE CEMETERY WERE AS FOLLOWS: To the Receiving Tomb 4 To the Public Lots 11 To the Private Lots, 19 106 From the Cemetery 24 Total number of Removals 130

Respectfully submitted, DANIEL L. WINSOR, Superintendent Mount Auburn Cemetery.

Mount Auburn, December 31, 1866.