1897-01 Annual Report of the Trustees of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn, for 1896, Together with the Reports of the Treasurer and Superintendent. Sixty-Fifth Year.

SIXTY-FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT Mount Auburn Cemetery

JANUARY 1, 1897,

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ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE

TRUSTEES

OF THE

Cemetery of Mount Auburn,

FOR 1896,

TOGETHER WITH

THE REPORTS

OF THE

TREASURER AND SUPERINTENT.

SIXTY-FIFTH YEAR.

BOSTON: ALFRED MUDGE & SON, PRINTERS, No. 24 FRANKLIN STREET. 1897

OFFICERS OF THE CORPORATION FOR 1897

Trustees

DAVID W. CHEEVER Term expires in 1897 DAVID R. WHITNEY Term expires in 1897

ISRAEL M. SPELMAN Term expires in 1898 JEROME JONES . Term expires in 1898

WILLIAM 8. EATON . Term expires in 1899 HENRY 8. SHAW Term expires in 1899

JOSEPH SAWYER Term expires in 1900 T. QUINCY BROWNE. Term expires in 1900

FRANCIS C. FOSTER. Term expires in 1901 SAMUEL JOHANSON Term expires in 1901

CHARLES F. CHOATE Term expires in 1902 JOSHUA M. SEARS Term expires in 1902

President ISRAEK M. SPELMAN

Treasurer. Secretary H. B. MACKINTOSH. L. G. FARMER

Superintendent J. C. SCORGIE

Office of the Corporation. Office of the Superintendent 5 TREMONT STREET AT THE CEMETERY BOSTON P.O. ADDRESS, CAMBRIDGE, MASS

SIXTY-FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT.

Te sixty-fifth annual report of the Trustees, together with the Treasurer’s and Superintendent’s reports, are herewith submitted to the Proprietors.

The financial condition of the corporation continues to be satisfactory. The receipts from sales of lots and other sources have been slightly larger than those of the previous year.

The Repair Fund, the income of which is pledged for the perpetual care of lots, and which cannot be used for any other purpose, amounts to $897,413.08, having gained $43,441 during the past year.

The Permanent Fund, accumulating for the care of the cemetery after all the lots are sold, amounts to $364,461.23. The increase of the year has been $11,159.34.

The General Fund amounts to $141,415.64, having gained above necessary expenditures on the buildings, now under construction, the sum of $6,106.39.

These new buildings consist of a chapel and an office building connected with it, which, to meet the demands of the present time, the Trustees have found it necessary to erect. Complaint had long been made of the old chapel, as furnishing insufficient accommodations for funeral services. It had no cellar, and was heated imperfectly and with difficulty; it lacked a robing room, and other necessary accommodations, and it was found impossible to get rid of a disagreeable echo, which interfered with the voice of the officiating minister and rendered choir singing impracticable.

The only available site for the new buildings was on the left of the main entrance, and the difficult problem was to determine the