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THE MODERN CEMETERY. 
Association of American Cemetery Superintendents. 
WM. SALWAY, *' Spring Grove ’* Cincinnati, O., President. 
T. MCCARTHY. *‘Swan Point’* Providence, R. I., Vice-President. 
F. EURICH, WoodlawD, Toledo, O., Secretary and Treasurer. 
The Eighth Annual Convention of the Association will be 
held at Philadelphia in September, 1894. 
■Qepoirtment. 
lawn mowers adapted to cemetery work. One of 
the improvements is a flexible washer to cover the 
outside hubs of wheels, and another is a flexible 
rod projecting from front of machine, to prevent 
the latter coming in contact with monument bases, 
etc. These experiments are being made by the 
Caldwell Lawn Mower Co., Newburg, N. Y. , whose 
high-wheel mower has already been introduced in a 
number of cemeteries. 
Tlie receipt of Cemetery Uiterature ami Trade Catalogues will be 
acknowledged in this column. 
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TO ADVEliTlSEKS. 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 United States. 
TO SUBSCKIBEUS. Cemetery officials desiring to siibscribe for a 
number of copies regularly to circulate among their lot owners, 
should send for our special terms. Several well-known eemeteries 
have already adopted this plan with good results. 
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Contributions on matters pertaining to cemeteries are solicited. 
Address all communications to 
B. J. IIAIGIIT. 334 Dearborn St., Chicago. 
Cemetery Literature Received; Thirty-ninth 
annual report of the Board of Commissioners of Pine 
Grove Cemetery, Lynn, Mass.; Annual, report of 
Union Dale Cemetery, Allegheny, Pa. 
We are indebted to our subscribers who have 
sent lists of parties from whom cemetery supplies 
are purchased. 
Jesse B. Kimes, Philadelphia, Pa., is furnishing 
the slate for the new receiving vault at Woodmere 
Cemetery, Detroit, Mich. 
In the recently published annual report of the 
Union Dale cemetery, Allegheny, Pa., a page is de- 
voted to “Suggestions to Lot Owners” which we are 
pleased to note were taken from the columns of the 
Modern Cemetery and due credit given. 
I will consider it a lasting favor if some of the 
Modern Cemetery readers will suggest a means 
of exterminating moles. I have tried such remedies 
as corn soaked in Paris green, raiv pork spread with 
rough-on-rats, the ordinary mole trap, etc., but 
notwithstanding they continue to increase. — Alex. 
Russell, Supt., Camden, N. J. 
Inclosed find names and addresses of eight of 
our directors, to whom I wish the MODERN CEME- 
TERY sent for one year. Our president is already 
a subscriber and I am anxious that the other mem- 
bers of the board shall become more interested in 
cemetery matters and know of no better way to in- 
terest them than by their reading the MODERN 
Cemetery. — From a promine^it cemetery official. 
The committee appointed at the recent conven- 
tion to confer with lawn mower manufacturers in re- 
gard to certain improvements has heard from one 
concern who are now experimenting with several 
appliances designed to meet the requirements of 
By a typographical error in last months issue 
the address of the De Lamater Iron Works was 
given as 24-26 Cortland St. New York. It should 
have been 87-89 South Fifth Ave. This company 
manufacture the De Lamater-Rider and the De La- 
mater- PZricsson Pumping Engine, a hot air pump- 
ing engine well adapted to cemetery uses. An il- 
lustrated catalogue will be sent free on application 
to any one interested. 
The McMurray and Fisher patent vault hearse 
illustrated in our advertising columns this month is 
a complete and stylish hearse designed expressly 
for moving bodies from the vault to the grave. It 
is arranged to be drawn by two or four persons and 
is what every cemetery association having a receiv- 
ing vault should have. The trustees of Marion, O., 
Cemetery Association have used the hearse for 
sometime and give the following testmonial. 
Messrs. McMurray & Fisher, Marion O. 
Gentlemen:— t feel that you have perfectly supplied our 
long felt want of a suitable vehicle for removing the dead from 
the Receiving Vault to place of Interment. The Vault Hearse 
is just the thing and we must say for style and finish it is much 
better than we expected. We consider it indispensible where a 
vault is in use. Wishing you success in their manufacture we 
are, 
Yours Truly, 
P. O. Sharpless, \ 
A. H. Kling, [-Trustees Marion Cemetery. 
Geo. Crawford. ) 
Cemetery Stock for Sale. 
My one-eighth interest in Sylvan Lawn Cemetery, Chicago, 
is offered for sale. Full particulars on application. 
G. L. Ray. 
318^ N. Market St., Chicago. 
THE NEW HMDY BINDER 
Will be found a most valuable 
invention for keeping the num- 
bers of the Modern Cemetery 
in good condition. The method 
of binding allows the pages to 
lie perfectly flat, whether one 
or a dozen numbers are in the 
binder. Any number can be 
taken out and replaced without 
disturbing the other numbers. 
The binders are strong and dur- 
able and have the title of MODERN CEMETERY on the side in 
gdt, an ornament to any desk 01 reading table. We will supply 
them to subscribers in embossed cloth covers, 50 cents. Heavy 
flexible paper covers for 35 cents. By mail post-paid. 
MODERN CEMETERY, 334 Dearborn St., Chicago. 
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