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Allegheny Cemetery Fund "If there be one object more material, more revolting, more gloomy than another, it is a crowded churoh yard in a oity. It has neither sympathy nor memory. The pressed down stones lie heavy upon the very heart. The sunshine oannot get at them for smoke. There is a crowd, and, like most crowds, there is no oompanionship. Sym­ pathy is the softener of death; and memory of the loved and lost, is the earthly shadow of their immortality. "I pray thee, lay ME not to rest Among these mouldering bones; Too heavily the earth is prest By all these crowded stones." MIss LANDON'S CITY CHURCH YARD. ) REPORT. THE grateful enterprise of establishing, in the vi­ cinity of Pittsburgh, a rural repository for the dead, had, at an earlier period, been a favorite subject with several of our leading citizens;* but it was not till the fall of 1843, that it arrested any considerable de­ gree of the public attention. Similar undertakings in the older and richer cities of the East, had been eminently successful; yet with some it was esteemed a matter of doubt, whether the population of Pittsburgh, proverbial for their habits of industry and rigid economy, would feel prepared to render the necessary aid to insure success. The practice of burying the dead in populous ci­ ties, had been condemned by eminent medical wri­ ters, as prejudicial to the health, as in too many in- " As early as 1834, an attempt was made by Dr. .Tames R. Speer, Ste. phen Colwell aud .Tohn Chislett, Esqrs. to establish a Ruml Cemetery in this neighborhood; although unsuccessful at that time, 1100 of the gentlemen have participated largely in recent and more successful ellbrts. 6 stances it was repugnant to the feelings of the living. Some of our oldest church yards did not afford room for a single interment, without desecrating the slum­ " bering ashes of some departed friend or relative. The necessity for action had therefore become ur­ gent, and a public meeting of citizens was convened at the Rooms of the Board of Trade, to take the mat­ ter into consideration. All classes were represented, without distinction of creed or sect, animated by the one purpose of buying a c0r.nmon "possession of a burying place." The meeting was unanimous in its opinion, that the establishment of a Rural Cemetery was both expedient and practicable; and proceeded at once to appoint committees to procure an act of Incorporation, and select suitable grounds. The la­ mented Richard Biddle, one of the earliest and most efficient advocates of the measure, was appointed chairman of the committee to procure the charter; and the act incorporating the "Allegheny Cemetery," as it passed the Legislature on the 21st April, 1844, is believed to be precisely in the comprehensive form in Which it emanated from his pen. The committee to select grounds, proceeded to the immediate discharge of its duty. Every tract of land lying north of the Monongahela and Ohio rivers, and within a range of three miles of the city, deemed at all 7 suitable, was carefully explored. Several eligible lo­ cations were offered on reasonable terms; but the one reported as the choice of the committee, supposed to combine the greatest number of advantages, was a tract of sixty acres, being the southern portion of the Hatfield property of George A. Bayard, Esq. and constituting a part of the present cemetery property. The organization of the company and the first election of officers and managers under the charter, took place early in the summer of 1844, the precise date of which cannot now be ascertained, owing to the destruction of the records and papers of the cor­ poration in the memorable fire of the 10th of April, 1845; at that election, Richard Biddle was chosen President; Charles Avery, Thos. Bakewell, John H. Shoenberger, James R. Speer, Wilson McCandless and Thos. M. Howe, Managers; Nathaniel Holmes, Treasurer; and Thos. J. Bigham, Secretary. The board of Managers immediately appointed appropriate committees to mature plans for carryi.' out the objects of the charter. Prominent, and most important amongst these, was a committee to devise a plan for raising the necessary funds. Several schemes were suggested: one was to form a joint stock Company, with a capital divided into shares, 8 adequate to the purchasing of the grounds and putting them under proper improvement, and from the sale of lots, after, reserving a sufficient fund for ornamentiIig { and for repairs, to reimburse the stockholders by peri­ odical dividends. Another was to solicit subscriptions by way of loans of money from the citizens, to be re­ paid with interest from the sales of burial lots, allow­ ing to the lenders the right to apply the amount so loaned in payment of any burial lot which they might purchase; stipulating, that any subscriptions made were to be regarded as void, unless in the judgment ofthe Board of Managers a sufficient amount should be subscribed to consummate the undertaking. The former of these two plans was deemed to be highly objectionable, when viewed in connexion with the sacred character of the undertaking, and was promptly rejected, and the latter received the unani­ mous approval of the Board. Subscription papers were accordingly opened, and the sum of $8,975 subscribed by thirty-five indi­ viduals, whose names, together with the amount of their several subscriptions, will be found in the ap­ pendix. A committee of the whole Board in the meantime 9 had reviewed the various localities examined by the previous committee, and arrived at the conclusion that the grounds of Mr. Bayard were best adapted to the purpose of sepulture, and found that sixty acres could be purchased from that gentleman for the sum of $15,000, on a credit so liberal as to render it rea· sonably certain, that with the subscriptions of $8,975 and the probable receipts from sales oflots, the Board could have no difficulty in meeting the paymer:ts and going forward with the necessary improvements. It should be mentioned in this connexion, as an act ofjustice to Mr. Bayard, that he generously proposed to waive all lien upon the property in the shape of mortgage, thereby enabling the Managers to execute deeds for burial lots in fee simple, without incum­ brance, and trust to the good faith of a corporation shielded by the very terms of its charter fi'om execu­ tion for debt. An important objection to this selection, was the want of access to the ground by any of the principal thoroughfares leading from the city;-the nearest approach being within about three hundred yards, by the Pittsburgh and Greensburg Turnpike, at a point near the residence of Peter Kellar, Esq. A negotiation was accordingly opened with the heirs of 2 10 Samuel Ewalt, the owners of the intervening pro­ perty, for the right of way across their premises; but it was found that in consequence of the minority of one of the heirs, it would be necessary to invoke the Legislature for authority to enable the guardians to make the conveyance, or to clothe the Courts with additional power, to grant an avenue of the desired width, under the survey of,a jury. It became neces­ sary therefore to postpone all further action until the assembling of the Legislature the ensuing winter. In the ensuing spring many of the subscribers to the fund shared largely in the losses occasioned by the great fire of the 10th April, and it ,was deemed to be due to them that they should again be consulted as to their willingness to contribute. A committee for this purpose was accordingly appointed, consisting of Richard Biddle, Wilson M'Candless and T.J. Bigham, Esqrs. who reported at a meeting of the Corporators on the 6th June, that all the subscribers were willing to be held responsible. At the meeting on the 6th June, 1845, the Corpo­ rators, in pursuance of the requirements ofthe charter, proceeded to a new election of Officers and Managers. Mr. Biddle signifying his desire, on account of heavy losses by the fire, involving the necessity of renewed 11 application to the duties of his profession, to retire from the Board. The Hon.Thos. Irwin was elected President; Charles Avery, Thos. Bakewell, John H. Shoenberger, Wilson M'Candless, James R: Speer and Thomas M. Howe, were reelected Managers; Nathaniel Holmes, Treasurer; and Jesse Carothers, Secretary. On the 19th of June the new Board met; Mr. Bay­ ard being present by request of the Managers, pro­ posed to sell his entire Hatfield property, east of the Butler road, containing about 100 acres, including his mansion house and other improvements, for. the sum of $50,000, and that he would take the notes of the corporation guarantied by responsible individuals for $25,000, payable in five years, with interest; and for the remaining $25,000 would receive one half of the proceeds of the sales of lots, after the expiration of five years, until the same was paid, with interest; and would make a deed free of all incumbrance to the corporation. This proposition met with the unani­ mous approbation of the Board of Managers, and was accepted. A sufficient number of the Corporators came for­ ward with commendable liberality, and each became responsible for the sum of $1,000, and the purchase 12 was fully consummated, and on the 10th of June, Mr. John Chislett, the intelligent architect and superin­ tendent of the company, was authorized to proceed forthwith to survey and layout the grounds prepara­ tory to a public sale oflots.
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