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such parts thereof as thej^ shall determine 
to be detrimental, unsightly or incon- 
venient. 
VIII. If any monument, effigy or en- 
closure, or any structure whatever, or any 
inscription be placed in or upon any lot, 
which shall be determined by the authori- 
ties of the cemetery to be offensive or im- 
proper or injurious to the appearance of 
the surrounding lots or grounds, they shall 
have the right, and it shall be their duty, 
to enter upon said lot and remove the said 
offensive or improper object. 
IX. No sign indicating that a lot, vault 
or tomb is for sale will be permitted in 
the grounds. 
X. The cemetery authorities may from 
time to time lay out or alter the avenues 
or walks or make such rules and regula- 
tions for the government of the grounds 
as they may deem recjuisite and proper to 
secure and promote the general objects of 
the cemetery. 
XI. The proprietors of lots and their 
families will be allowed access to their 
lots subject to such rules and regulations 
as may be adopted by the cemetery. 
XII. All steps or stoops erected upon 
lots must be made entirely of one stone. 
None other will be allowed. 
XIII. No metallic urns, monuments, 
grave marks or anything of any shape in 
metal will be allowed upon lots in the 
cemetery except bronze statuary on stone 
pedestals. In the latter case the plans and 
specifications must be first submitted to 
the cemetery authorities for their approval. 
I. Grave mounds will not be allowed on 
Aster, Butternut, Wlintergreen, Dahlia, 
Acacia or Honeysuckle plots. 
Mounds must not exceed four inches in 
height on Dogwood, Pansy, Rose Hill, 
Fill^ert, Wistaria, Golden-Rod, Whitewood 
or Heather plots. 
The cemetery recommends the elimina- 
tion of all grave mounds. 
II. The cemetery declines to be respon- 
sible for chairs or settees placed upon lots; 
and after May 1, 191(), no more chairs or 
settees will be allowed. 
III. Watering-cans or other gardening 
utensils must not be left on lots; if so 
found, they will be removed by the cem- 
etery. 
IV. Automobiles, carriages, or other ve- 
hicles will not be allowed to proceed at a 
greater speed than six miles per hour. 
V. Dogs will not be allowed at large. 
VI. Smoking will not be allowed. 
VII. No advertisements in any form will 
be allowed. 
VIII. All persons are asked to remem- 
ber that these grounds are sacredly de- 
voted to the interment of the dead, and 
that all who violate the regulations of the 
cemetery will be excluded therefrom. Any 
person who injures or disturbs any monu- 
mental work, tree, shrub, plant, memorial 
or anything whatever in the cemetery, 
without authority, is guilty of a misde- 
meanor and is punishable by a fine or im.- 
prisonment, or both. The provisions of 
the law will be strictly enforced in all cases 
of wanton injury. 
IX. A uniformed police force patrols 
the entire cemetery day and night. A night 
signal checking system guarantees the 
thoroughness of the night patrol. 
A station house with telephone connec- 
tion is located near the Jerome Avenue 
entrance. 
Care of Lots Not Under Perpetual Care 
Address before New England Cemetery Association by Henry 
-S'. Adams, Supt. Forest Hills Cemetery, Boston, Mass. 
The subject which I have been asked to 
discuss today is one in which the superin- 
tendent of every cemetery, all of which is 
not under perpetual care, should be vitally 
interested and probably has pretty def- 
inite ideas upon. The following paper will, 
I hope, lead you to a full discussion of the 
subject and be of some help to the members 
present. I come to you today well adver- 
tised by our worthy secretary, and I trust 
you will not be disappointed in what I have 
to say. 
In discussing the subject it seems to me 
we should compare the attention that is 
given a lot under perpetual or annual care 
with that care which is given practically 
every lot in our New England cemeteries, 
even though nothing has ever been paid by 
the lot owner, and consider only the addi- 
tional expense necessary to bring all lots 
under equal care. Comparing these we 
realize that it is merely a question of de- 
gree, that is, all lots get some attention 
although the perpetual care lots receive the 
most. 
We should start in with the idea that if 
we are going to give our patrons full value 
no lot or grave in any cemetery should be 
sold without perpetual care, and that the 
question asked refers only to cemeteries 
where lots were formerly sold without per- 
petual care of grass, and the problem is, 
what to do with these lots. Since Forest 
Hills became a lot owners’ corporation in 
1868 no lot has been sold without perpetual 
care of grass. Unfortunately this rule was 
not made with reference to single graves 
with the result that we now have several 
large sections in which, within a few years, 
graves could be purchased without perpetual 
care. These sections are now and always 
will be a burden to the cemetery and, 
although no endowment for perpetual care 
is provided we will have to give them a cer- 
tain amount of care if we wish to maintain 
a well kept cemetery and the longer this 
kind of land is sold in any cemetery the 
greater will be the burden, or the more 
neglected will certain parts of the cemetery 
appear. 
The only excuse for selling lots and 
graves without perpetual care of grass is 
that of expense to the purchaser, or if the 
cemetery is owned by a city or town that is 
willing to either neglect the graves of its 
townspeople or willing to indefinitely pile 
up obligations for the future generations. I 
cannot see any possible excuse or justice in 
a proprietors' cemetery not looking out for 
the future. As far as cities and towns go 
we all well know that the expenses for 
managing them are increasing from year 
to year and I do not see how large areas of 
valuable land can be sold in this way and 
become a burden to the public which will 
increase from year to year indefinitely. 
The question of free lots and graves for 
the city’s paupers is a different matter from 
selling lots and graves to the general public 
without perpetual care. This is charity and 
should be looked upon as such. We do not, 
however, consider it is charity to allow 
people to provide expensive funerals and 
bury in cheap graves and lots which will 
always be a burden to the public to main- 
tain. All this, however, is but an introduc- 
tion to our subject, “Does it pay to care 
for lots and graves which are not under 
Perpetual Care?” When we stop selling lots 
and graves without perpetual care we must 
begin to increase what we may call free 
care on the old sections in proportion to 
their age. .At Forest Hills, for instance, 
most of those lots which are not now under 
care will be placed under perpetual care 
slowly or not at all. We feel that what 
money we spend in taking care of these 
old lots is perhaps the best spent money 
in the cemetery as far as results are con- 
cerned. Since 1911 all lots in the cemetery 
have had the grass cut regularly whether 
under perpetual care, annual care or no 
care and since that time we have not heard 
a statement fairly made that perpetual care 
lots are only cared for as long as the lot 
owners make periodical complaints at the 
cemetery office. If lots appear neglected 
few visitors realize it is because the lots are 
not under care and not the fault of the 
cemetery management. 
We made an attempt some years ago in 
Forest Hills to have the old lots placed 
under perpetual care in a section where 
only a part of them were. Every lot owner 
in this section was written a letter and the 
matter was followed up for some time by 
means of other letters and a card catalogue 
of results kept. The experiment was prac- 
tically a failure and our conclusion was 
that many of the proprietors had passed 
away and that the present heirs either could 
