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CmETERY NOTES 
San Francisco has a Cemetery Work- 
ers’ Union which has alleged grievances 
against Mount Olivet and Cypress 
Lawn officials. Discrimination is charged 
against union grave-diggers. 
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The ministers in Mishawaka, Ind., 
have decided to preach no more funeral 
sermons on Sunday, except in case of 
contagious diseases. A resolution to 
this effect has been signed by all the 
Protestant ministers in the city and by 
the two undertakers. 
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A grass fire in old Calvary Cemetery, 
San Francisco, recently swept bare 
more than 250 graves, destroyed as 
many fences and burned up a large 
number of wooden tablets — the only 
markings that identified the graves. 
The flames finally were subdued. 
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The local Board of Health has for- 
bidden further interments in Constable 
Hook Cemetery, Bayonne, N. J., and 
it is likely that the bodies already in- 
terred may be removed. It is said 
that after almost every rain the sand 
covering the graves is washed away, 
leaving a skeleton near the surface or 
exposing a coffin to view. 
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An original case of vandalism is re- 
ported from Salem, Mass. Flowers and 
flags were several times found missing 
from Greenlawn Cemetery. A watch 
was set and a black spaniel was seen 
running out of the cemetery with a flag 
in its mouth. He was later seen with 
another flag and again with a bouquet. 
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The last annual report of Pine Grove 
Cemetery, Lynn, Mass., tells of the 
death of William Stone, the former su- 
perintendent, and pays tribute to him in 
strong resolutions. George E. Lane, his 
successor, reports 777 interments for 
the past year, making a total of 22,728. 
The expenditures for the year amounted 
to $33,884. The report also contains the 
by-laws and rules. 
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At a recent meeting before the Board 
of Estimate and Apportionment of New 
York City in the matter of adopting 
final maps for nine sections in the town 
of Newtown, L. L, comprising 3,110 
acres, there arose serious difficulties as 
to the adoption of a rational and con- 
nected street system in four of the 
above named sections, because of the 
obstruction caused by the big cemeteries 
which are alleged to have closed up ex- 
isting highways and taken in large un- 
occupied areas, preventing the laying 
out in those sections of highways. 
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Notwithstanding protests of citizens, 
who signed a petition against the 
granting of permission to the Green- 
wood Cemetery Association of Millville, 
N. J., to locate a burying ground in 
that town, the State Board of Health 
has reversed the decision of the local 
Board of Health and has granted the 
franchise. The opponents of the cem- 
etery are considering raising a fund to 
fight the case in the courts. 
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John R. Gaudin, secretary of Elm- 
wood Cemetery, Birmingham, Ala., 
writes that Elmwood has recently been 
subjected to a tax of $1 for each burial 
or disinterment by Elyton, Ala., a small 
village under whose police jurisdiction 
they are. No other cemetery in the dis- 
trict is subject to such a fee and Mr. 
Gaudin' believes it a case of graft. He 
would like to have cemetery people of 
influence write to the following officials 
condemning the ordinance : Hon. Frank 
W. Smith, Mayor of Elyton, Ala., W. 
M. J\Iarriner, C. M. Bitz, W. A. Brown, 
Thos. T. Talley, R. F. Idlewild and 
Dan H. Smith. Mr. Gaudin sends a 
Memorial Day poem which he used with 
good effect as an advertisement. 
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On the protest of citizens of Spring- 
field, L. L, N. Y., Mayor McClellan 
of Greater New York vetoed the bill 
recently passed by the Board of Aider- 
men to enlarge the Springfield Ceme- 
tery to 125 acres. The present ceme- 
tery has about seven acres and is un- 
der the control of what is known as 
Springfield Cemetery Society. A 
corporation styling itself the Spring- 
field Cemetery Association secured all 
the land around the cemetery and 
sought to have it added to the grounds. 
The bill has been amended to provide 
for adding only 50 acres and will be 
again presented to the Board of Aider- 
men. 
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The Montana Agricultural Experiment 
Station reports that iron sulphate or 
copperas as a spray solution for 
the eradication of dandelion has been 
tested by several experiment sta- 
tions in the United States with more 
or less success. It is said that when 
the spray solution is properly made 
and applied the dandelions ■ can be 
killed without injury to blue grass or 
white clover, except that the leaves of 
the white clover may be spotted a lit- 
tle by the iron sulphate solution, rare- 
ly enough, however, to disfigure a 
lawn. By keeping the lawn closely 
cut and well watered the clover and 
blue grass will rapidly recover from 
any . injury which might result from 
the spraying. We should like to hear 
from superintendents, gardeners or 
others who have tried or who know 
anything of this remedy. 
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In an opinion handed down by 
Judge R. S. Frazer in Common Pleas 
Court No. 2 at Pittsburg, he dismisses 
the exceptions of the Uniondale Ceme- 
tery Company to a finding of a board 
of viewers appointed to assess dam- 
ages and benefits for the construction 
of a sewer. The board of viewers 
found the cemetery company was ben- 
efited to the extent of $4,145.69 by the 
construction of the sewer, and to the 
finding the officials of the cemetery 
took exceptions. They contended that, 
by the provisions of their charter, they 
were exempt from taxation of this 
character. The court, however, finds 
that this was not a tax in the strict 
sense of the word, and the act of 1899 
repealed the act of 1857, under which 
the charter for the cemetery was 
granted. The report of the viewers 
was sustained and the exception dis- 
missed. 
FROM ANNUAL REPORTS 
At the annual meeting of the Wood- 
lawn Cemetery Association, Winona, 
Minn., Superintendent J. E. Thomp- 
son reported the grading and platting 
of 6,050 square feet of land and the 
planting of 250 trees and shrubs. The 
general fund receipts were $10,966.15 
with disbursements of $10,120.25. The 
greenhouses were self-supporting, clos- 
ing the year’s work with a balance of 
$73.48 to their credit. The permanent 
care and improvement fund shows an 
increase of $2,793, making a total of 
$49,005. There were 131 interments 
during the year, making a total of 
6,164. 
Secretary H. B. Ferguson, of Wood- 
lawn Cemetery, Canandaigua, N. Y., 
reports receipts of $7,206 and expendi- 
tures of $4,597. The total receipts 
since the organization of the associa- 
tion in 1884 amounted to $98,851. 
