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MOUNY AUBURN CEMETERY

Tire last year has been occupied at Mount Auburn in finishing some
of the works previously in progress, rather than in attempting new ones.
The annual receipts from purchasers have been less than for several preceding
years, yet the safety, stability, and available means of the Institu-
tion, have never been in a more satisfactory state.

The fountains and waterworks, described in the last year’s report,
have been completed and tested by several weeks of successful operation.
The steam engine, with pumps attached, made by Mr. Worthington
of New York, has been set up, and on a trial of about two
months, appears to answer the purpose of raising all the water required.
It has an advantage peculiarly adapting it to the place, that it operates
quietly and without noise.

The large water pipe which extends through Mountain, Magnolia,
and Citron Avenues, to the engine house, is now continued to the bridge
Auburn Lake, and thence, under water, in a straight line to the centre
of the upper half of that lake.

In the above-named place a large fountain is constructed, which, when
the reservoir is full, throws its water to the height of about one hundred
feet above the level of the lake. By altering the form of the dis-
charging orifices, the form of the jet can be varied to an indefinite

In the Lawn between the Front Gate and the Chapel, a smaller but
highly picturesque fountain is maintained by the same arrangement. It
receives its water through a branch pipe four inches in diameter, which
leaves the main pipe near the bridge at Auburn Lake, and after passing
under the new receiving tomb, is laid in the bottom of the culvert for
under nearly the whole length of Culvert Avenue ; ending in a paved circular
basin in the Lawn. A small experimental jet and basin, supplied by a
lead pipe, are also placed in the centre of Hazel Dell.

It will be seen that the water which supports the fountains, flows in a
continuous circle from the well to the reservoir, thence descending to
the fountains, and thence overflowing into the culvert, Auburn Lake,
and finally into the well from which it is taken. Theoretically, therefore,
there can be no loss of water, except by evaporation and absorption