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compelled, at least to the extent of the 
rights so acquired, to afford reasonable 
service to the public in the public business 
they have imdertaken at reasonable rates." 
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Perpetual Care Funds 
By a law_ adopted at the 1917 session of 
the Kansas legislature, cities of the second 
and third class and corporations owning 
and conducting cemeteries are empowered, 
on majority vote of the commission or 
council of any such city or of the stock- 
holders of a cemetery company, to create 
an endowment fund for the care of the 
cemeteries. (Laws 1917, c. 83.) 
The fund may be constituted out of 
moneys or funds on hand not otherwise 
appropriated, or from contributions for 
the purpose, or from the proceeds of lot 
sales, or other property belonging to the 
cemetery. 
“All funds raised by popular subscrip- 
tion or profits or surplus set aside for 
said endowment fund as provided in this 
act shall be invested in state, county or 
municipal bonds, and the interest accru- 
ing therefrom, from said investment shall 
annually be expended for caring for graves, 
beautifying and improving said cemetery; 
but in no case shall said sinking fund be - 
depleted or lessened, and nothing but its 
earnings, as they accumulate annually, 
shall be expended for any purpose whatso- 
ever, except, as specified above, and said 
endowment fund’ shall be for the purpose 
prescribed in this act and its earnings ex- 
pended in the manner prescribed forever." 
By the fourth section of the law, it is 
provided that where any such fund is cre- 
ated, the custodian shall include in his 
bond for faithful performance of his duty, 
double the amount of said endowment 
fund, on hand at the time of his taking 
office. 
Abandoned Cemeteries in Kansas 
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“It shall be the duty of the township 
board of any township within the state of 
Kansas in which there is situated an aban- 
doned cemetery to provide for the care of 
such abandoned cemetery and to provide 
for the cutting of weeds and grass in such 
abandoned cemeteries at least once each 
year; provided, that such township shall 
not expend an amount in excess of ten 
dollars annually in the care and mainte- 
nance fihder this act on any one ceme- 
tery." — Laws 1917, chapter 84. 
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Kansas Health Regulations As to 
Mausoleums 
By Kansas Laws, 1917, chapter 85, it is 
required that before any mausoleum, .vault, 
or burial structure, to be built wholly,- or 
partly above the ground, shall be con- 
structed a permit shall be obtained from 
the State Board of Health on submission 
of plans and specifications and satisfac- 
tory showing that the structure will be 
“absolutely permanent and sanitary.” 
Crypts and catacombs must be so con- 
structed as to be readily examinable by 
any health officer, and must be hermeti- 
cally sealed when bodies are placed in them, 
to avoid escape of unhealthful or offensive 
odors. On complaint of improper sealing, 
the sexton of the cemetery may be re- 
quired to either place the structure in sani- 
tary condition or to reinter the bodies at 
tlie expense of the owner of the structure. 
If the owner cannot be found in the coun- 
ty the reinterment is to Ipe made at the 
expense of the township or city in yvhich 
the cemetery lies. 
Violations of the provisions of the act 
are punishable by a fine of not more than 
$500 or by imprisonment for not more 
than six' months. 
Interesting Forms 
of Monument -Tombs 
WESTERLY GRANITE TOMB IN WEST LAUREL HILL CEMETERY, PHILADELPHIA. 
Probably nowhere in the country are 
mausoleums and underground tombs in so 
many varieties to be seen as in the ceme- 
teries of Philadelphia. 
There are brick graves with several 
crypts, and underground tombs of every 
type to be found in Philadelphia and some 
of the most elaborate private mausoleums 
in the country are to be found in this 
city. 
We illustrate here two very fine forms 
of the monument-tomb, embodying what is 
to all appearances a sarcophagus monu- 
ment, covering a vault. 
The “Ernest Goessler" tomb, an all-pol- 
ished sarcophagus form of fine lines, 
stands in Westminster Cemetery, and con- 
tains six underground crypts. The exte- 
rior is of dark Barre granite, as are also 
the handsome urns at either side. The in- 
terior is polished Riverside Vermont mar- 
ble, and the walls are of hard brick, 1-1 
thick. The roof and the neck are of rein- 
forced concrete and the floor of mosaic. 
The dimensions of the sarcophagus part 
are: base, 10-0x5-0x1-0; die, 8-6x3-6x2-0. 
The centers of the urns are hollowed out 
for flowers ; urns are of the following di- 
mensions : 2-81^ wide by 2-10% high ; 
cover, 2-1 square by 0-5% high. The work 
was erected by John M. Gessler’s Sons, and 
was cut for them by George Straiten, of 
Barre. 
The “Shakespeare" tomb, a handsome 
sarcophagus of Westerly granite with 
