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THE MODERN CEMETERY. 
paratively short time of such vigorous enterprise as 
that shown by the officers of the association when 
Riverside will be one of the most beautiful 
burial grounds in the state. The officers of the 
association are : Merton E. Lewis, president; G. 
W. Sanborn, vice-president; Erastus U. Ely, secre- 
tary; Dean Alvord, treasurer and manager; Joseph 
T. Ailing and William C. Walker, directors. The 
grounds are in charge of J. H. Shepard, an active 
member of the the Association of American Ceme- 
tery Superintendents, whose long experience as 
superintendent of Oakwoods Cemetery, Chicago, 
coupled with his natural qualifications eminently fits 
him for the important position. 
CEMETERY NOTES. 
The Government of Austria has requested infor- 
mation from our National Government regarding 
cremation in America. 
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Charters recently granted: Mutual Union Ceme- 
tery Co., Houston, Te.xas capital stock $20,000. 
Riverside Cemetery Co., Roanoke, Va., capital 
stock $20,000. 
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Many village cemeteries were awrecked along 
the Atlantic coast by the severe October storms. 
On Solomon’s Island gravestones were thrown down, 
and coffins torn open and the bodies exposed. 
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The chime of bells nine in number that pealed 
forth from the clock tower in the Manufactures 
Building at the World’s Eair will be placed on a 
costly mausoleum now in course of construction at 
Glen Cove, Long Island, for the Pratt family, of 
Brooklyn, N. Y. 
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An English law in effect the latter part of the 
17th. century required that all bodies should be 
buried in woolen shrouds. This act was meant as 
an encouragement to the woolen trade, but was re- 
pealed by George III. An affidavit stating that the 
requirements had been carried out had to be 
given to the officiating priest, or a penalty paid. 
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In the old Cross Street Cemetery, at Canandai- 
gua, N. Y., are three little stones blackened with 
age standing close together side by side. They bear 
the dates, January 17, 1813; August ii, 1814; and 
November 20, 1815 with inscriptions showing them 
to be in memory of three wives of Moses Goodsell. 
Just what became of Moses the records fail to show. 
The cemeteries of Grand Rapids, Mich., three in 
number are owned, controlled and regulated by the 
city through a commission composed of three mem- 
bers who by the provisions of the city charter are 
vested with “exclusive” power. This under some 
conditions might be considered a wise policy in as 
much as it lays the entire responsibility of proper 
management upon a small committee, but on the 
other hand it is liable to form an autocratic body 
who while supposedly carrying out the will of the 
people in the performance of their duties may as- 
sume a “public be — policy” which is anything but 
desirable in cemetery matters. Jiidging from the 
local papers this seems to be the status of affairs -at 
the present time. 
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The Younglove monument illustrated in this is- 
sue is a unique specimen of monumental art recent- 
ly erected in Lakeview cemetery, Cleveland, O. It 
is a massive bowlder of Westerly granite weighing 
about 35 tons. The weatherworn surface of the 
stone has been preserved as far as possible. On the 
face a slight niche has been cut into the bowlder 
and in it carved in low relief is a female figure typi- 
fying Purity. Between the partially clasped hands 
is the stem of an Easter lily, which lies against her 
breast in a most natural manner. The relief at no 
point e.xceeds one inch in height and is an excellent 
e.xampleof the sculptors art in granite. The family 
name cut in sunk letters across the face of the stone 
is the only suggestion of an inscription. 
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Queer things happen in cemeteries as well as 
out of them. An elaborate receiving vault was 
built in a Massachusetts cemetery last year at a cost 
of $6,000 and considerable expense incurred in' 
grading, sodding and otherwise beautifying the sur- 
roundings, up to the present time however the vault 
has not been used. The cemetery is under munici- 
pal control and the superintendent states that he 
has never been able to ascertain whether “the com- 
mittee on city property has turned the vault over 
to the committee on burial grounds” and in the ab- 
sence of such knowledge he does not care to take 
the responsibility of using the vault. Apathy on 
the part of cemetery committees is not uncommon 
but it is seldom carried to such an extent as this. 
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Two appealed cases of the city of Chicago against 
Rosehill Cemetery for taxes have recently been de- 
cided. The first case for 1890 taxes on eighty acres 
of land owned by the cemetery company, but which 
it was claimed, were not used for burial purposes. 
The lower court held that the land was not exempt, 
owing to the fact that no burials had been made in 
