1896-01 Annual Report of the Trustees of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn, for 1895, Together with the Reports of the Treasurer and Superintendent. Sixty-Fourth Year.

SIXTY-FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT.

— Mount Auburn Cemetery.

JANUARY 1; 1896:

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ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE

TRUSTEES

OF THE

Cemetery of Atlount Auburn,

FOR 1895,

TOGETHER WITH

THE REPORTS

OF THE

TREASURER AND SUPERINTENDENT.

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SIXTY-FOURTH YEAR.

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BOSTON: ALFRED MUDGE & SON, PRINTERS, No. 24 FRANKLIN STREET. 1896.

OFFICERS OF THE CORPORATION FOR 1896.

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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.

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

SIXTY-FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT.

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The Trustees herewith submit to the Proprietors their sixtyfourth annual report, and also the reports of the Superintendent and Treasurer.

The results of the general business stagnation are shown this year by a falling off in the receipts from sales of lots, but as the sales last year were unusually large the average of the two years preserves about the usual proportion.

The condition of the funds is as follows : —

The Repair Fund, which shows the amount paid in for the perpetual care of lots, and the income of which is pledged for that especial purpose,‘and cannot be applied to any other use, is $853,972.08, having increased during the year $41,755.26.

The Permanent Fund, accumulating under the By-Laws to provide for the care of the cemetery after all the lots are sold, is $353,301.89, showing an increase of $9,202.62,

The General Fund, owing to strict economy in the expenditures during the past year of small sales, has increased $15,852.62, and now amounts to $135,309.25.

During the past year the Trustees have been deprived of the valuable services of their late Superintendent, Mr. James W. Lovering, by his accidental death. Mr. Lovering was thrown from his vehicle and received injuries at first not thought serious, but which resulted in lock-jaw, and terminated his life on the eighteenth day of May, last.

Mr. Lovering was chosen superintendent in 1872, and continued to fill that office for twenty-three years ; during which he devoted