THE MODERN CEMETERY. 
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Water Works at “Oakwood,” Red Wing, Minn. 
Editor Modern Cemetery. 
In compliance with your request, and for the leason that I 
have several times been on the point of making a suggestion that 
simple descriptions of any cemetery object, fixture, system, 
method of working, tools used, would be interesting and helpful 
to many of your readers, I will try for a description of our water 
system now in process of construction . 
First get an idea of our location. We are about one mile 
back from the Mississippi river, upon the brow of the table lands, 
and at an altitude above the river of nearly 450 feet. The views 
from there are, you can imagine, most grand, but as a compens- 
ation, the highest stage of water in the river is still “ quite a few” 
trifles too low to irrigate us. Dehydrated feebly expresses the 
dryness of a dry summer up there. 
When the present board took charge of the cemetery we 
found that two adjacent lots, exactly upon the crest of the high- 
est ground in the cemetery, had not been deeded. These were 
at once reserved as a site for a drilled well and windmill. Drill- 
ing through limestone and sandstone, a good supply of water was 
reached at 330 feet, filling the six-inch bore 40 feet. A 12 foot 
steel high-speed mill does the pumping. It stands 60 feet from 
the ground on a four-post wooden tower, having a base of 17 
feet. The foot of each post stands upon a large rock well bedded 
into the soil, and is held fast by a strap-bolt leaded into the 
rock. 
The tank, which we are just now putting into place, will 
stand inside the tower upon a framework ii feet high. It is ii 
feet in diameter at the bottom, feet at top, and 16 feet in 
length of stave, thus giving a possible head in the vicinity of the 
well of 27 feet, and at other points in the cemetery of 40 to 70 
feet. 
The pipe through which the water is pumped will pass up 
through a four-inch pipe standing in the center of the tank, and 
the blocks and tackle for taking up the pump pipe from the well 
will be hung from the top of the tower. 
Our object in placing the tank thus in the tower is, that the 
whole may be ornamentally enclosed. We can see possible ob- 
jections to the plan, but have concluded to take the risks. 
Galvanized piping will be used for the mains, beginning with 
two-inch and reducing toward the ends of the lines. The mains 
will be placed one foot below the surface, and be so provided 
with drip valves or plugs at the lowest places in the lines, that 
the entire system can be thoroughly drained at the end of the 
season ; and with street valves to cut out portions of the lines, if 
necessary . 
At proper intervals along the avenues arrangements will be 
made for connecting hose for sprinkling, and as we have not yet 
attained to the utterly too, too, half barrels will at present be 
placed at convenient points, where lot owner can procure water 
for sprinkling, if desired. Set down to nearly level with the sur- 
face, and, provided with hinged covers, they will not be intoler- 
able. 
Of course, as a part of our plan, there come in some small 
lakes (the bed of one of which is already completed), and, possible, 
fountains — not large, but large enough for the quiet of a ceme- 
tery, — and other alluring thoughts that while away the time dur- 
ing the slow growth of the improvement fund. 
D. Densmore. 
Oakwood, Red Wing, Minn. 
Lima, Ohio, May, 29, 1893. 
Mr. Editor : — 
Your article in the May number of The Modern Geme 
TERY headed — “Right of Widow to control Burial of Deceased 
Husband” recalls to me a similar case recently tried in our 
courts here, and in which our company was made party defen- 
dants. I refer to the case of Mila Hadsell a/, z/. Theresa 
Hadsell and the Vermont Granite Co. 
Therera Hadsell, being the widow and second wife of Al- 
mond Hadsell contracted with our company for a family monu- 
ment, and selected a suitable and roomy site in the country-home 
cemetery as a burial lot and upon which to build the monu- 
ment. 
Mr. Hadsell was buried by the side of his first wife, in what 
was termed the Hadsell burial row, located in an unkept part of 
the cemetery and it was necessary to remove the remains from 
their location to the new lot on which stands the family monu 
ment. 
At the time of building the monument, Milo Hadsell a son 
of the deceased and of his first wife, who was acting as Adminis- 
trator, obtained an injunction restraining the removal of the re- 
mains. 
The case was tried in the Court of Common Pleas and the 
injunction was dissolved; it was carried to the Circuit Court, 
which body, held that Theresa Hadsell not only had the proper 
and legal right to remove the remains of her husband to the place 
selected by her, but also the right to remove the remains of his 
first wife to that place. 
Had your May article been published earlier, it would have 
aided us materially in our case. Such citations are certainly 
very valuable to many readers of your Journal. I, for one, ap- 
preciate them. 
Wilson W. Butler, 
Manager, The Vermont Gran. Co. 
RULES AND REGULATIONS. 
Every cemetery should be governed by certain rules and 
regulations, which should be printed in pamphlet form for distri- 
bution among lot owners. While this has been done in most of 
the large cemeteries, where the rules are very much alike, we 
will, for the benefit of the smaller cemeteries, publish in this de- 
partment such rules as commend themselves for general adoption . 
Contributions are solicited. 
Extract from Rules of Floral Park Cemetery of Binghamp^ 
ton, N. Y. 
No vault or mausoleum will be permitted to be 
built unless the designs are exceptionally good and 
the construction is solid and thorough. The designs 
must be submitted to the Trustees and will not be 
approved unless the structure would in their judg- 
ment be an architectural ornament to the cemetery. 
Mounds over graves must be kept low, not ex- 
tendingTour inches in height, stone or othet inclos- 
ures around graves will not be allowed. 
No desinterment will be allowed without the 
permission of the Trustees, the lot owner and the 
next of kin of the deceased. 
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The use of metal (except real bronze) in con- 
struction of monuments, effigies or other ornamen- 
tation is prohibited. 
Forest Lawn, Detroit, Mich. 
