Trustees Records, Vol. 7, 1886 (page 369)

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at the present meeting, stating the order in which such im-
provements should be taken up and carried out, the President
reported that the following work was all that could conveniently
be done during the next year: 1. The enlargment of the catacombs
in the Receiving Tomb; 2. The building of a potting shed for
the Greenhouse; and, 3. The erection of a house for the care
of half-hardy plants. The next improvement to follow
these he thought should be a new Pumping Station, and stated
that plans and estimates for all the work proposed would
be made before the net Annual Meeting of the Proprietors, so
that the same can be presented to the Trustees at their first
meeting thereafter.

Work at Cemetery authorized
The President further stated that he had taken the responsi-
bility of having the plastering removed from the walls of the
Ladies' Waiting Room in the Administration Building and replaced
by plastering laid upon wire lathing at about one inch from
the brick for the purpose of preventing the leakage which
formerly occurred there, and that, after a recent violent rain
storm, there had been no appearance of such leakage;
also, that he had authorized the Superintendent to lay six
hundred feet of 8-inch water pipe in Fountain Avenue,
thus completing the Main to the Engine House, the estim-
ated expense thereof being less than One Thousand dollars.

Henry H. Fay Request
The President further reported in the matter of the request
of Henry H. Fay in regard to a proposed contract for the
care of Lot No. 1416, without guaranty, which had been
referred to Mr. Hutchins and himself, as a Committee