SIDEWALKS TO THE CEMETERY

Cemetery Board Will Ask Council to Provide Better Way to Reach City of Dead, Where Over 8,000 Lie Buried.

    The board of cemetery trustees at the meeting last evening passed a resolution that the council be petitioned to order cement sidewalks built from Fifth and Michigan streets to the southwest entrance to the cemetery and from Thirteenth street to the northeast approach to the cemetery.
    There are about 8,000 graves in Silver Brook cemetery and the well kept condition of most of them indicate that the cemetery is at all times frequently visited.
    The two leading approaches to the cemetery are often times in bad condition, especially after a heavy rain.  On Michigan street particularly there is scarcely a path to the cemetery and the need of the sidewalk is apparent.  This is one of the most traveled approaches to the cemetery as it is the road leading directly from the car line.
    It is understood that the property owners in that neighborhood are in favor of making the improvement.

Niles Daily Sun, Friday, May 12, 1916, page 1, col. 6, microfilm Niles District Library.