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Several plans for large public 
mausoleums of concrete for perma- 
nent interment are being projected in 
the Central West and one to be 63x 
28x13 feet and contain 152 catacombs 
is under way at Oxford, Ind. It will 
cost $15,000 and will have a marble 
interior, and cement block exterior. 
A large mausoleum of this character 
is also to be erected in Toledo, O., 
one block from Woodlawn cemetery 
by the Toledo Alausoleum Associa- 
tion, which has just been formed for 
mutual benefits. The association has 
purchased land and the site will be 
made beautiful by trees, flowers and 
plants, it being the intention to ar- 
range it as a park with driveways. 
According to the present plans, the 
building is to be 175 feet long and 40 
feet wide. It will have either white 
enamel brick or terra cotta walls and 
marble, with a stained glass sky- 
light and white concrete floors. The 
corridor will be twelve feet wide, en- 
abling carriages to drive through. The 
contract for its construction has been’ 
awarded to the Permanent Construc- 
tion Company, for $45,000. The real 
estate cost between $5,000 and $6,000. 
There will be 480 crypts made of 
monolithic concrete. 
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The ironclad rule that has hitherto 
prevailed at all the cemeteries in the 
vicinity of St. Louis against the admis- 
sion of automobiles within their gates 
has been slightly modified by the Belle- 
fontaine Cemetery Association, which 
has decided to allow lot owners, with 
their automobiles, when presenting ad- 
mission cards, to enter the grounds on 
Monday morning only, between the 
hours of 7 and 11 o’clock. Automobiles 
will be barred if they are driven by 
women or children or have chains on 
their tires. Those entitled to admission, 
under the rule must stop at the gate go- 
ing in and coming out, and show a 
numbered card of admission to the gate- 
keepers, whom they must summon, for 
that purpose, by blowing their horn. 
"While in the cemetery automobiles must 
not meet a funeral or pass one, and 
when meeting other vehicles must give 
all the road possible, and if horses are 
restive the automobile must be drawn 
to the curb, and the power shut off. 
They must not come up behind nor pass 
other vehicles from behind, and must 
not exceed a speed of five miles an 
hour. 
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Charles H. Hubbart, of Cambridge, 
Mass., has proved his title to the fam- 
ily tomb in the Granary Burial 
Ground in Boston, after five months’ 
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dispute with the cemetery authorities, 
and has buried the body of his wife, 
Thankful Ann, beside those of Mr. 
' Hubbart-’s ancestors. In opening the 
tomb four large stones were un- 
earthed that had at one time stood in 
the graveyard near the tomb. Two 
of these stones bore the date 1743, 
one having the name of Francis Park- 
er and the other that of William 
Meen. In commenting on this inter- 
ment, the Boston Herald says: “The 
latest interment in the Old Granary 
Burying Ground is another reminder 
of the fact that Boston is one of the 
few populous centers where intra- 
mural sepulture in ancient and rickety 
tombs is still tolerated, contrary to 
due regard for the public health.’’ 
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Freeport, 111., has advertised for 
sealed bids for mowing the grass in 
the Freeport City Cemetery during 
the season of 1908. The specifica- 
tions require that “All mowing must 
be done with lawn mowers, regularly 
at least as often as once every ten 
days during the season, and oftener 
if necessary in the opinion of the 
committee. No dry clippings shall be 
permitted to show and if necessary 
must be prevented by raking. Shear- 
ing around all copings, trees and other 
edges must be done at least once in 
every three weeks, including copings 
in the driveways; also all blocks or 
subdivisions must be mowed to meet 
the mowing done by the City Sexton. 
Contractors must keep watered all 
plants in vases within the blocks or 
sections covered by their contracts. 
Persons taking contract or contracts 
must furnish their mowers and other 
implements.” 
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A grave problem is being considered 
by the board of health, the cemetery 
commission. Superintendent of Water 
Works Brown and City Engineer Brew- 
er, of Waltham, Mass., in the question 
of furnishing a proper receptacle for the 
bodies in Mt. Feake Cemetery lying 
within a radius of a thousand feet of the 
well, whence Waltham derives its water 
supply. The state board of health has 
advised that a change in the method of 
the disposition of the bodies be made. 
The local board of health is also of the 
opinion that it will be safer to take 
every precaution, and although the wa- 
fer supply is ground water and the sur- 
face water that comes from this portion 
^ of the cemetery is carried down stream 
while the filter protects the well from 
contagion, it is thought best to disarm 
any possible criticism by making sure 
that there is no danger. 
Cemetery officials of Minneapolis who 
are working to make the grounds in 
their keeping more parklike have se- 
cured Archbishop John Ireland’s order 
for the removal of the unsightly wooden 
grave markers from St. Mary’s ceme- 
tery. This action grew out of a recom- 
mendation of A. W. Robert, superin- 
tendent of Lakewood Cemetery, who 
told .\rchbishop Ireland that if they 
ever wanted to clean up Calvary and 
St. Mary’s they would have to remove 
the unsightly wooden markers. This 
was done some time ago in Calvary. 
The board of health and the board of 
commissioners of "Upper Darby town- 
ship, Chester, Pa., have jointly decided 
that no more extensions shall be made 
to the cemeteries existing within the 
jurisdiction of the township authorities. 
The board of health has declared that 
Har Judah Cemetery, on the West 
Chester pike, is a menace to public 
health and future interments may be 
prohibited if the board of conimission- 
ers, after investigation, so orders. Nay- 
lor’s "Run Creek is said to be polluted by 
percolations from graves. 
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Superintendent William Hamill of the 
Knights of Pythias Cemetery, Frank- 
ford, Philadelphia, was successful the 
past month in capturing one of several 
thieves who have robbed the cemetery of 
flowers and ornaments. The miscreant 
was held in bail for court. Mr. Hamill 
says thieves have carried off expensive 
bulbs, potted plant's and even lot decora- 
tions. Superintendents of other ceme- 
teries have had similar troubles to con- 
tend with and they are determined to 
land the thieves in jail. 
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Superintendent Black of Mt. Zion 
Cemetery, near Clifton Heights, a sub- 
urb of Philadelphia, would not permit 
public ceremonies to be held in the cem- 
etery Memorial Day, giving as a reason 
that in past years the big crowds had 
damaged graves and lawns by trampling 
over them. In a quiet way, however, 
he did not object to soldiers’ associa- 
tions decorating graves. 
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The city authorities of Mobile, Ala., 
are offering to disinter bodies in the old 
Church Street Cemetery free of cost, 
and give them larger lots in Magnolia 
Cemetery in exchange for the family 
lots in the former. As the Church 
Street Cemetery occupies a block in the 
residence district of the city, it is the 
desire of the Mobile aldermen to con- 
vert' this small cemetery into a city 
park or square. 
