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THE MODERN CEMETERY. 
Association of American Cemetery Snperintendents. 
WM. SALWAY, “ Spring Grove ” Cincinnati, O., President. 
T. M. McCAUTHY. “Swan Point’’ Providence, K. I., Vice-President. 
F. EURICH, Woodiawn, Toledo, O., Secretary and Treasurer. 
The Eighth Annual Convention of the Association will be 
held at Philadelphia in September, 1894. 
'©epoirtment. 
Tire receipt of Cemetery literature and Trade Catalogues will Ix! 
acknowledged In tliis column. 
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TO ADVERTISERS. The MODERN CEMETERY is the only publica- 
tion of its class and will be found a valuable medium for reaching 
cemetery officials in all parts of the Fnited States. 
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TO SUBSCRIBERS. Cemetery officials desiring to subscribe for a 
number of copies regularly to circulate among their lot owners, 
should send for our special terms. Several well-known cemeteries 
have already adopted this plan with good results. 
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Contributions on matters pertaining to cemeteries are solicited. 
Address all communications to 
R. J. HAIGHT, 3:14 Dearborn St., Chicago. 
Cemetery Literature Received: Rules and Reg- 
ulations of Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Ky. ; 
Rules and Regulations of the Staten Island Ceme- 
tery Association, West New Brighton, Staten Island, 
N. Y. 
Plan of Glenwood Cemetery, Oneida, N. Y., 
recently re-surveyed, has been received from B. P'. 
Hatheway, landscape surveyor of Stamford, Conn. 
The margins of the map are illustrated with views 
of the entrance, receiving vault and other portions 
of the grounds. 
Four boilers made by Hitchings & Co., of New 
York, will be used for heating the five new green- 
houses now under construction at Forest Hills Cem- 
etery, Boston. The Hitchings Co. makes a hand- 
some exhibit of green-houses at the World’s Fair 
and invite the inspection of same by visiting ceme- 
tery officials. 
W. D. Diuguid of Lynchburg, Va. , has just 
completed a record, comprising five volumes, of the 
interments in Spring Hill Cemetery. Accompany- 
ing the record is a diagram of every lot on which an 
interment has been made. Only those who have 
attempted to make up a complete book of this kind 
for an old cemetery can appreciate the amount of 
labor connected with it. 
In the announcement of the Hartman Manufact- 
uring Co., on another page, may be seen an illus- 
tration of one of their Steel Picket Fences which 
they have recently placed around the cemetery at 
Plattsburg, N. Y. The company are meeting with 
marked success in the sale of their steel fencing, 
which, as may be seen from their printed price list, 
is supplied at a price within the reach of all ceme- 
tery corporations. 
Glenwood Cemetery, Mankato, Minn., and 
Minneopa Cemetery at South Bend, Minn, , were 
recently visited by vandals and a large number of 
marble and granite monuments thrown to the 
ground. Although a large reward has been offered 
there is no clue to the perpetrators who are thought 
to have been a party of hoodlums, or as the Man- 
kato Hcr'ald calls them, human hyenas. 
The automatic burial apparatus made by The 
Scherer Manufacturing Company of Hartford, Ct. , 
consists of a rectangular frame, which is placed on 
the ground over the grave, leaving the mouth of 
the grave open. The sides of the frame are hollow 
and contain the mechanism by which the casket is 
lowered. P'rom each inner side of the frame strong 
web bands issue, which, meeting and fastening in 
the middle, form the support for the casket. A 
touch of a spring and the casket is lowered noise- 
lessly into the grave. The straps are then discon- 
nected and drawn up into the frame, which com- 
pletes the operation. The apparatus is made in 
three sizes: No. i — 7 feet 3 inches by 3 feet; No. 
2 — 7 feet 3 inches by 2 feet 8 inches; No. 3 — 7 feet 
by 2 feet 6 inches. To responsible parties the 
company will send' the apparatus on sixty days’ 
trial. 
Public monuments should not always be found 
in the most conspicuous places. In the public 
square at Gainsville, P'la. , stands a monument to 
yellow fever victims whose bodies were interred in 
the local cemetery. The monument was erected by 
subscription and the much frequented square was 
thought to be the proper place for it. It has just 
occurred to some of the citizens that a monument 
telling that the city was once visited by yellow 
fever is “absolutely frightful to the visiting stran- 
gers,” and an effort is being made to have it remo- 
ved to Evergreen Cemetery, where it should have 
been erected in the first place. 
Auburndale, O., Sept, ii, 1893. 
To members of A. A. C. S. in particular , and cemetery officials 
in general: 
Before placing my order for the printing of the proceedings 
of our seventh annual convention, recently held, I 'would appre- 
ciate advice from all who intend ordering extra copies, so as to 
be governed as to the number likely to be needed. 
The proceedings are unusually interesting and instructive 
and will form quite a valuable pamphlet. 
An immediate reply by postal or otherwise is requested as 
the copy must soon go to press in order to have the report out 
early. Those who wish to place their definite orders for copies 
can do so and remit when convenient after receipt of goods. 
Respectfully, 
Frank Eurich, Sec. and Treas, 
Situation Wanted. 
Superintendent and landscape gardener with an extended 
experience desires situation; was nine years in one of principal 
Massachusetts cemeteries; references. Address S, H. G., care 
Modern Cemetery, Chicago. 
