1894-01 Annual Report of the Trustees of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn, for 1893, Together with the Reports of the Treasurer and Superintendent. Sixty-Second Year.

OFFICERS OF THE CORPORATION FOR 1894.

Trustees. JOSEPH SAWYER Term expires in 1894 T. QUINCY BROWNE Term expires in 1894 HENRY A. RICE Term expires in1895 SAMUEL JOHNSON Term expires in1895 J. MONTGOMERY SEARS Term expires in 1896 CHARLES F. CHOATE Term expires in1896 RICHARD M. HODGES Term expires in1897 DAVID R. WHITNEY Term expires in1897 ISRAEL M. SPELMAN Term expires in 1898 JEROME JONES Term expires in 1898 WILLIAM S. EATON Term expires in 1899 HENRY S. SHAW Term expires in 1899

President. ISRAEL M. SPELMAN,

Treasurer. Secretary. H. B. MACKINTOSH. L. G. FARMER. Superintendent. J. W. LOVERING.

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

Orders for work on lots may be given at the office. of the Superintendent or sent by mail to his address.

SIXTY-SECOND ANNUAL REPORT.

The Trustees herewith submit to the proprietors their sixty-second annual report together with the reports of the Superintendent and Treasurer.

A moderately prosperous year has left our funds in the following condition : —

The Repair Fund which, it should always be borne in mind, is not to be regarded as an asset of the corporation, as its full amount is estimated to be balanced by the obligations which have been assumed for the perpetual care of lots and monuments, has increased $35,- 326.70, and now amounts to $771,684.38.

The Permanent Fund has gained $10,459.96, and now amounts to $330,880.76.

The General Fund shows increase of $8,046.38, and now amounts to $100,382,

Grading for new lots has been re-commenced on Bireh and Larch Avenues. Hitherto we have been obliged to leave some portions of our grounds in an unfinished condition, on account of the material which they supplied for the repair of our paths and roads, but the supply suitable for such purposes is at last exhausted, and there is no good reasou why the final grading should not be completed as fast as it can be economically and judiciously done.

Compelled to look, in futtire, to outside sources for road and path material, the Trustees early in the season came to the conclusion that a connection with the tracks of the Fitchburg Railroad Company was very desirable. With this object in view, they purchased a lot containing about forty-four thousand square. feet, lying between our