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THE MODERN CEMETERY. 
New Office and Residence Building, Fairmount 
Cemetery, Newark, N. J. 
We are indebted to Mr. Charles Nichols, superin- 
tendent of Fairmount cemetery, Newark, N. J., for the 
following description of the new building recently com- 
pleted on those grounds; 
The building is fifty feet square, constructed of 
brown stone and is modern in all its appointments. On 
the first floor are the offices for the superintendent and 
assistant superintendent, a map room, a large fire-proof 
vault and a commodious waiting room provided with 
toilet rooms. The second and third floors are for resi- 
dence purposes; there are six rooms on the second and 
three on the third floors, with all of the modern con- 
veniences. It is lighted by gas and heated by the hot 
water system, which has given perfect satisfaction the 
past winter. The building cost $17,000. Another im- 
provement at Fairmount is a new entrance and gateway. 
Four massive brown stone posts support heavy iron 
gates, those on the driveway being 12 feet 6 inches in 
width and the side gates 4 feet 6 inches. The cost of 
this improvement was $2,145. The new avenue in the 
grounds, which approaches this entrance, is twenty-five 
feet wide laid with Telford, with a low granite coping 
on either side. 
Father Henrici, leader of the Economist Society, of Econo- 
my, Pa., who died recently, had a remarkable funeral. The body 
was simply wrapped in a sheet, and laid in a coffin of rough pine 
boards painted black, and without handles or name-plate. It was 
taken to the cemetery in a wagon. The Economites are buried 
side by side in one long row, with no headstone or anything to 
tell where they He. No distinction was made in the case of 
Father Henrici. The society is worth $30,000,000 and its mem- 
bers are sworn to celibacy. — Fro^^i-ession. 
CEMETERY NOTES. 
The annual report of Harmony Grove cemetery, 
Salem, Mass., states that seventeen iron fences were re- 
moved during the past year. 
The affairs of Woodland cemetery, DesMoines, la., 
which have always been controlled by the city govern- 
ment, are said to be in such a condition as to require 
investigating. An expert accountant has been appoint- 
ed to examine the books. 
Fairs, suppers, raffles, lectures and other forms of 
entertainment have been given for the purpose of rais- 
ing funds for cemetery purposes, but it has remained 
for a congregation of Polish Jews to give a dance for 
this object, and it was a Sunday dance at that. 
It is unnecessary to mention the desirability of re- 
moving the fences and hedges as the argument is elo- 
quently made by a comparison with other parts of the 
cemetery where the lawn system has been adopted. — 
Directors’ report. Evergreen cemetery. New Haven, Ct.* 
Very successful fairs have been held by the Sandy 
Hill Cemetery Association, Paterson, N. J., and the 
Ladies’ Cemetery Association, East Weymouth, Mass. 
In each place a varied programme was given and the 
entertainment continued several evenings. The results 
were very satisfactory and a handsome fund realized to 
commence needed improvements. 
A bill has been introduced in the Ohio legislature 
amending section 6185 of the revised statutes so as to 
read as follows: 
The court may also, in settlement, allow, as a credit 
to the executor or administrator, any just and reasona- 
ble amount expended by him for a tombstone or monu- 
ment for the deceased, aiid for any just a?id reasonable 
amount he may have paid to any cemetery association or 
corporatio 7 i as a perpetual fund for caring for and pre- 
serving the lot 071 which said deceased is buried; but it 
shall not become incumbent on any executor or admin- 
istrator to procure a tombstone or monument or to pay 
any sum into such perpetual fund. 
In the 51st report of the Lowell cemetery, Lowell, 
Mass., President Charles L. Knapp recommends revising 
the present by-laws, under which the cemetery has been 
operated since 1841, and makes several suggestions that 
apply with equal force to many other cemeteries situ- 
ated similarly to that at Lowell. He suggests having 
the governing board or trustees consist of six members 
instead of twice that number as at present, on the well- 
grounded theory that as the number in such bodies in- 
creases the efficiency decreases. But if this pruning be 
too radical, he adds, the present twelve might continue 
and the direct management might devolve upon an 
executive committee of three trustees who should fulfill 
prescribed duties for a term of three months, when they 
should be succeeded by three more, so continuing by 
quarterly periods through the year. In this way the 
labor would be more ecjually distributed than is the case 
to-day, and all trustees would have an opportunity of 
