1898-01 Annual Report of the Trustees of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn, for 1897, Together with the Reports of the Treasurer and Superintendent. Sixty-Sixth Year.

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SIXTY-SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT.

Mount Auburn Cemetery.

JANUARY 1, 1898.

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ANNUAL REPORT

_{OF THE}

TRUSTEES

_{OF THE}

Cemetery of Mount Auburn,

FOR 1897,

_{TOGETHER WITH}

THE REPORTS

_{OF THE}

TREASURER AND SUPERINTENDENT.

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SIXTY-SIXTH YEAR.

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BOSTON:

ALFRED MUDGE & SON, PRINTERS

No. 24 FRANKLIN STREET, 1898.

OFFICERS OF THE CORPORATION FOR 1898.

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Trustees.

Treasurer. H. B. MACKINTOSH.

Secretary. L. G. FARMER.

Superintendent. J. C. SCORGIE.

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Office of the Corporation. 5 TREMONT STREET, BOSTON.

Office of the Superintendent. AT THE CEMETERY. P.O. ADDRESS, CAMBRIDGE, MASS.

SIXTY-SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT.

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The Trustees herewith submit to the Proprietors their sixtysixth annual report, together with the reports of the Treasurer and Superintendent.

The business of the year has been good, as shown by increased receipts from sales of lots and other sources. The expenses have only been increased by necessary expenditures for the new buildings.

The Repair Fund, which is a trust, the income of which can only be‘applied to the care of lots, has increased $40,473.77 in the past year, and now amounts to $937,886.85.

The Permanent Fund for the care of the Cemetery after all the lots are sold is $378,172.48, and shows a gain for the year of $13,711.25.

The General Fund now stands at $140,168.96, but is subject to considerable reduction when full payments are made on completed contracts for the new chapel and office buildings.

Progress on these buildings has not been so rapid as was anticipated in our last report. This has been owing to unexpected delay on the part of the contractors, and also largely to the distance from which the Potsdam sandstone and other material necessary for the work had to be brought. The work thus far has been well done, and is in all respects satisfactory. We now anticipate the final completion of the buildings in the spring, or early summer.

Considerable grading bas been done, especially in the neighborhood of the new buildings, to prepare the ground for the laying out of new lots. ‘The usual care has been given to avenues and paths, and not less than five hundred tons of crushed stone have been spread upon them during the past season. This crushed stone has been brought to us by our side-track connection with the Fitchburg Rail-