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THE MODERN CEMETERY. 
The Question Box, 
Your question column in the November issue of 
Modern Cemetery is a good thing and a step in 
the right direction. I for one hope it will be kept 
up, for I venture the opinion that there are as many 
superintendents that can answer questions, as there 
are who can ask them. Is not this a good way to 
be constantly disseminating information? 
Some time ago a brother superintendent, asked 
me to suggest the names of the best works on flow- 
ers and their care, and work in a greenhouse and 
where to obtain them. It seems to me that this 
question is as applicable now as last spring, indeed 
more so, for in what way can we spend a portion of 
the long winter evenings more profitably than in 
reading and studying up for future work? These 
were the suggested books: Gardening , a semi- 
monthly publication at $i.oo per annum. Par- 
son's Landscape Gardening and Long's Ornamental 
Gardening for Americans, all of which can undoubt- 
edly be procured from the office of the MODERN 
Ceme'J'ERY, 334 Dearborn street, Chicago. 
John G. Barker. 
S. H. C., Iowa, asks: Where purchasers of 
cemetery lots buy or bargain for a lot, bury one 
body thereon and do not pay for said lot, how is the 
cemetery to get its pay? Of course deed can be 
withheld, but what can be done with the body 
buried thereon? purchaser being execution proof. 
[In some cemeteries where lots are sold on time 
the trustees reserve the right to remove bodies to 
the single grave section if payment is not made 
within a specified time, and to sell such lots to 
other parties. Will cemeteries having had such ex- 
perience, give Modern Cemetery readers the ben- 
efit of same. — Ed.J 
Put me down for twelve copies of the MODERN 
Cemetery for 1894, writes Mr. Charles Nichols, of 
Newark, N. J. 
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I have just had my Monumental News for 
1891 and ’92 bound in one volume, and have 1889 
and ’90 similarly bound. I treasure them very 
highly and take much pleasure in perusing their pa- 
ges. — Charles Nichols, Newark, N. J. 
Situation Wanted. A thoroughly competent and experi- 
enced business man and landscape gardener, expert in manage- 
ment desires position as superintendent or assistant, speaks 
German and French. Special attention given to new cemeter- 
ies and organizations of companies. Meier, care 47 Moffat Block, 
Detroit, Mich. 
Situation 'Wanted. 
Young man, experienced in cemetery management, steady 
and trustworthy, desires position to take charge, or as assistant 
superintendent. Apply, 
L. B., Modern Cemetery. 
Association of American Cemetery Snperintenclents. 
WM. SALWAY, “ Spring Grove ” Cincinnati, O., President, 
T. MCCARTHY. “Swan Point” Providence, R. I., Vice-President. 
F. EUEICH, WoodlawD, Toledo, O., Secretary and Treasurer. 
The Eighth Annual Convention of the Association will be 
held at Philadelphia in September, 1894. 
Resolutions Adopted at the Seventh Annual Convention 
of the Association of American Cemetery Superin- 
tendents. 
Resolved: That it is the sense of this convention that all 
Sunday funerals be discouraged as much as possible. 
Resolved: That it is the sense of this meeting that all 
headstones or markers should be limited to the height of thesod* 
or the level of the surface of the ground. 
Resolved: That it is the sense of this meeting that vaults 
and catacombs be discouraged and if possible prevented in cem- 
eteries. 
te)epQirtment. 
Cemetery Literature received: Rules, Regula- 
tions and Map of Laurel Grove Cemetery, Paterson, 
N. J. , from M. M. Brunner, supt. Rules and re- 
gulations of Calvary cemetery, Cleveland, O., from 
Rev. G. F. Houck. 
Mr. John G. Barker concludes his interesting 
“Vacation Reminiscences” this month. He has 
been ever ready to yield his pen at the editor’s re- 
quest, considering it a duty and a pleasure to give 
what assistance he could towards brightening these 
pages. 
Mr. Frank M. Floyd, superintendent of the 
Evergreen Cemetery, Portland, Me., has kindly fur- 
nished the plans of the new office building at that 
cemetery which we illustrate in this issue. The 
building is modern in its appointments, and was 
erected at a cost of about $4,000. 
From a recently published work on the business 
interests of.Salem, Mass., we learn that Mr. George 
W. Creesy, the Superintendent of Harmony Grove 
cemetery and a widely known member of the A. A. 
C. S. , has under his management the Harmony 
Grove conservatories covering an area of 40,000 
square feet. Mr. Creesy has served in both branch- 
es of the Salem city council, and has been promi- 
nently identified with the advancement of the best 
interests of the city. 
Decorating or lining graves for the purpose of 
robbing the sad rites of burial of one of its harshest 
features is now practiced quite generally in ceme-v 
teries large and small. Evergreen sprays are com- 
monly used for this purpose but where they are 
scarce various other devices have to be resorted to. 
To fill this want Mr. A. W. Anderson formerly 
asst, superintendent of Lakewood cemetery, Minne- 
apolis, Minn. , invented a grave lining that has been 
adopted by a number of cemeteries which is giving 
entire satisfaction and proving a source of revenue. 
In Mr. Anderson’s announcement which will be 
found in another column, it will be seen that a 
material reduction has been made in the price 
since the lining was first put on sale. 
