1899-01 Annual Report of the Trustees of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn, for 1898, Together with the Reports of the Treasurer and Superintendent. Sixty-Seventh Year.

SIXTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT.

Mount Auburn Cemetery.

JANUARY 1, 1899.

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ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE

TRUSTEES

OF THE

Cemetery of Mount Auburn,

FOR 1898,

TOGETHER WITH

THE REPORTS

OF THE

TREASURER AND SUPERINTENDENT.

SIXTY-SEVENTH YEAR.

BOSTON : ALFRED MUDGE & SON, PRINTERS. No. 24 FRANKLIN STREET. 1899.

OFFICERS OF THE CORPORATION FOR 1898.

Trustees.

SIXTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT.

THE Sixty-seventh Annual Report is herewith submitted by the Trustees to the Proprietors, together with the reports of the Treasurer and Superintendent.

The business of the past year has, on the whole, maintained its usual average. The condition of the various funds, as shown on the Treasurer’s books, is as follows : —

The Repair Fund, the income of which is devoted to the perpetual care of lots, and can be used for no other purpose, amounts to $986,289.44, showing an increase of $48,402.55 for the past year. It must always be borne in mind that this fund is a Trust, and its income devoted to a special purpose.

The Permanent Fund, accumulating for the care of the Cemetery after all lots have been disposed of, now stands at $389,799.32, and has been increased the past year $11,626.34.

The General Fund now amounts to $119,810.91, showing a reduction of $20,358.05 in consequence of expenditures for the completion and furnishing of the new Chapel and office buildings.

These buildings, under construction for the last two years, were completed ‘in the summer of the present year. They are thus described in our report for the year 1897 : —

"The new buildings now in progress of erection are located just within the gates of the Mt. Auburn Street entrance to the Cemetery. They consist of an office building having its entrance front on Garden Ave., and a chapel building fronting on Central Ave. The main entrance to the chapel is through a covered driveway porch; the extreme length of the building from the front of this porch to the rear wall of the chancel being 116 ft. and the extreme width across the transepts being 54 ft. The office building has a frontage of 55 ft., and a depth of 65 ft., and is connected with the chapel by a cloister which also extends along the north wall of the chapel.

‘‘The English perpendicular style of architecture, as exemplified in many of the English parish churches, built during the early part of the fifteenth century, has been adopted, and the chapel has been planned to meet the require ments of all religious denominations.”