1892-01 Annual Report of the Trustees of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn, for 1891, Together with the Reports of the Treasurer and Superintendent. Sixtieth Year.

SIXTIETH ANNUAL REPORT.

Mount Auburn Cemetery.

JANUARY 1, 1892.

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ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE

TRUSTEES

OF THE

Cemetery of Mount Auburn,

FOR 1891,

TOGETHER WITH

THE REPORTS

OF THE

TREASURER AND SUPERINTENDENT.

SIXTIETH YEAR.

BOSTON: ALFRED MUDGE & SON, PRINTERS, No. 24 FRANKLIN STREET. 1892

OFFICERS OF THE CORPORATION FOR 1892.

Trustees. ISRAEL M. SPELMAN ....... Term expires in 1892. JEROME JONES ........ " " 1892. WILLIAM S. EATON ....... " " 1893. ROGER WOLCOTT ........ " " 1893. SAMUEL R. PAYSON ....... " " 1894. T. QUINCY BROWNE ....... " " 1894. HENRY A. RICE ........ " " 1895. CHANNING CLAPP ........ " " 1895. J. MONTGOMERY SEARS ...... " " 1896. CHARLES F. CHOATE ....... 1896. RICHARD M. HODGES ....... " " 1897. DAVID R. WHITNEY ....... " " 1897.

President. ISRAEL M. SPELMAN.

Treasurer H. B. MACKINTOSH.

Secretary, L.G. FARMER.

Superintendent. J.W. LOVERING.

Office of the Corporation. 5 TREMONT STREET, BOSTON.

Office of the Superintendent. AT THE CEMETERY. 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.

SIXTIETH ANNUAL REPORT.

The Trustees herewith submit the sixtieth annual report, together with the reports of the Superintendent and Treasurer.

The condition of the funds is as follows: —

The Repair Fund, which represents the amounts accumulated for the perpetual care of lots, has increased to $685,426.81, and shows a gain for the year of $41,726.56, which mainly represents amounts paid to the Treasurer during the year for the care of additional lots; the whole fund being held in trust for the care and repair of designated lots.

The Permanent Fund, on which dependence is placed for general expenses after all available lots shall have been sold, amounts to $309,379.77, showing a gain of $11,271.22.

The General Fund, on which we rely for improvements and renewals while the Permanent Fund is accumulating, has increased to $83,255.78, a gain for the year of $8,767.24.

The new catalogue, which it was stated in the last report was under preparation, has been issued during the past year, copies of which can be obtained free by proprietors, who have not received them, on application at the Treasurer’s office.

It was stated in the last report that "to complete the water-works, about two thousand feet more of iron pipe should be laid in the coming year.” This distance and about four hundred and fifty feet more of iron pipe have been laid; and our water system is now so complete that by the use of three hundred feet of hand hose any lot in the cemetery can be reached. This is a great advantage in so dry and sandy a soil as that of our cemetery; as by the free use of