THE MODERN CEMETERY. 
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three out of every five of the dead as indigent sub- 
jects. 
Each country and each age have their own fash- 
ion of disposing of their dead, from the Patagonian 
who makes “lion meat,” of his spouse, back to the 
ancient Roman with his ancestral urns. Taken in 
all, perhaps there is no more reasonable arrange- 
ment than that of the thrifty Parisian who manages 
to have each disposal of the dead carried out de- 
cently and in order through the exploitation of a 
love of lavish display in a minor portion of the com- 
munity. 
One sees nothing of the ghastly side of under- 
taker’s work in visiting the vast premises which have 
been recently devoted to the use of the Pompes 
Funebres, away out in the extreme northwest of 
Paris, in La Villette. There we found “the trap- 
pings and the suits of woe,’’ the materials for the 
funeral decorations and funeral cortege. Take it 
altogether, a ramble over the establishment is one 
of the most interesting sights of the city. — The 
Forum. 
QUSSTIQH BOX. 
Forms of agreement used in selling lots on time 
have been received from F. W. Chislett, Crown Hill, 
Indianapolis, Ind. , C. M. Chamberlain, Mt. Olivet, 
Maspeth, Long Island; Geo. E. Rhedemeyer, Har- 
leigh, Camden, N. J.; John Levering, Spring Vale, 
LaP'ayette, Ind. ; and extract from Charter, of Grove 
Hill, Shelbyville, Ky. , on the same subject from 
Geo. W. Riely. The two first are reproduced. 
THE CROWN HILL CEMETERY. 
$ Indianapolis, Ind 189.. 
Received of 
/loo Dollars, in cash, and 
promissory notes for Dollars 
each, payable in 
months from this date, under a conditional contract for the 
sale of 
of Lot No in Section No m 
The Crown Hill Cemetery. 
The rights of the said are fully set forth 
in said conditional contract of sale, a copy of which is found 
below. 
CROWN HILL CEMETERY. 
Indianapolis, 189. . 
This certifies. That I have this day paid to The Crown Hill 
Cemetery, the sum of Dollars, 
in cash, and have also executed to them my 
promissory note for Dollars each, payable 
months from this date. Such cash has been paid 
and such note executed by me on the conditional sale to me by 
said Crown Hill Cemetery of 
Lot No in Section No in The Crown 
Hill Cemetery. 
But it is expressly understood and agreed that no title to or 
interest in said lot has become vested in me by reason of such 
payment or the execution of said note; and that if said note, or 
any part thereof, or any renewal thereof, in whole or in part, be 
not prompty paid at maturity then The Crown Hill Cemetery 
shall have the right, without notice to me, to take possession of 
said lot, remove any body or bodies buried therein, and all 
monuments or marking stones to other grounds reserved for 
single interments, in which event all previous sums of money 
paid shall be taken as paid for the privilege of the burial of such 
body or bodies upon said grounds and the occupancy thereof, for 
the time being, to cover the cost of transferring such bodies, 
monuments or marking stones, and for the price of such grounds 
reserved for single interments, to which such body or bodies and 
such monuments shall have been transferred; and thereafter I 
shall liave no right either at law or in equity to claim any right 
whatever in and to said lot or any part thereof, or to recover any 
of the moneys so paid to The Crown Hill Cemetery. 
Signed duplicates. 
MOUNT OLIVET CEMETERY. 
Maspeth, L. L, N. Y., 18 
Received from 
the sum of dollars, in partial 
payment on account of Lot 
; the balance of 
dollars, it is hereby agreed, shall be paid 
on or before the day of 18 
with interest from this date, when the deed will be delivered at 
the Office of the Cemetery, provided, however, and it is hereby 
expressly agreed, that in case of any default in the above men- 
tioned payment this receipt shall be null and void, and any pay- 
ment made on the above mentioned lot shall be forfeited to the 
Cemetery; and it is further conditioned, that any interment 
made in the said Lot, in the mean time, shall be considered as 
temporary, and subject to removal, unless the deed for the said 
Lot shall be taken within the time above mentioned. 
The conditions of sale are quite similar in all of 
the forms. The Harleigh agreement reads that “the 
heirs and assigns shall forfeit all right and claim in 
said lot and the amount paid on account of said con- 
sideration money shall be forfeited to said Associa- 
tion as payment to it for the burying of such re- 
moved body or bodies.” In addition to the right 
to remove to single grave section for non-payment 
the Spring Vale agreement contains the following 
“or at the option and consent of the corporation the 
re-interment may be made upon any lot bearing 
price not exceeding, with expense of removal, the 
amount paid by the delinquent party.” 
At Spring Vale the receipt embodying condi- 
tions of sale, and two notes one at six and one at 
twelve months are printed on the same page and 
bound in book form. The two latter remain in 
the book until they are paid. The stub keeps a re- 
cord of the transaction. Mr. Chamberlain heartily 
favors selling lots in this way. At Maspeth, lots are 
sold on 3, 6, 9, and 12 months time and where rea- 
sonable excuse is given the time is extended. Mr. 
Chamberlain writes that he heartily favors the plan, 
as in a long experience he has had but two or three 
occasions for removing bodies. 
