THE MODERN CEMETERY. 
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them; that they were in fact trustees for certain pur- 
poses, and when the trust was not properly execut- 
ed, the court would have the same jurisdiction to 
compel its execution as in case of any other trust. 
Greater certainty might also be attained by hav- 
ing the title to lots conveyed in trust, providing so 
clearly for and limiting their use that no one would 
ever care to divert them in any way therefrom. 
Annual Convention of American Cemetery Superintend 
dents. 
Preparations are actively on the way for the 
Eighth Annual Convention of the Association of 
American Cemetery Superintendents to be held in 
Philadelphia, September ii, I2, and 13, 1894. 
The meetings will be held at the Hotel Lafay- 
ette, Broad and Chestnut streets, Philadelphia, one 
of the best hotels in the city of “Brotherly Love,” 
where accommodations may be had either on the 
American or European plans, which will afford 
some freedom of action, in this regard, to visiting 
members. 
The progressive advantages which the Associa- 
tion is assuring its membership, both from social 
and educational standpoints, warrants the belief 
that the coming convention will eclipse in benefi- 
cial results, all that have gone before, and it is ur- 
ged upon all members to use every effort to be pre- 
sent. One grand result of the Association’s meet- 
ings, and which is quite apparent, is the harmon- 
ious march of improvement now in progress all over 
the country. A fund of information is gathered, 
new ideas promoted and materialized, and a certain 
concert of intentions reduced to a formula for active 
work when returning to regular duties again. So, 
after all, the pleasure is really a duty, and this view 
can be carried right to the doors of the Cemetery 
Corporations themselves, who in their own interests 
should see to it that their superintendents have every 
facility at their command to attend the convention. 
The following partial program has been so far 
prepared: 
9 A. M. Tuesday, Sept. nth. 
Meeting called to order and Roll call. 
Receiving new members. 
Announcement of Executive Committee. 
President’s Address. 
Secretary and Treasurer’s Report. 
Communications. 
1st. Paper. How to Manage a Modern Cemetery. — A. W. 
Robert. 
2d. Paper. What are the Advantages to the Management, 
also to the Lot Owners of the Modern, or the Lawn Plan Ceme. 
tery? — Robert Scrivener. 
Discussion of papers. 
Afternoon and Evening — Arrangements not yet completed. 
9 A. M. Wednesday, Sept. 12th. 
Roll call. 
3d. Paper. Civil Engineering in Cemeteries. — D. Z. Mor- 
ris. Discussion. 
4th. Paper. How to Make and Maintain a Cemetery with 
the Restrictions of Mounds and Memorials .of any kind aboye 
the General Surface of the Lawns, and to Substitute a satisfac- 
tory Method of Marking Graves. — Timothy McCarthy. Dis- 
cussion. 
(2uestions from members for general discussion, with use of 
black board. 
Afternoon — Arrangements not yet completed. 
Evening, 8 P. M. 
5th. Paper. What qualifications are Necessary to Become 
an all around Successful Cemetery Superintendent? — W. D. 
Primrose. General discussion. 
9 A. M. Thursday, Sept. 13th. 
6th. Paper. What is generally the Best and Most Appro- 
ved System of Blending New Territory with an Old Cemetery? 
— Joseph Jewson. 
7th Paper. The Theoretical System for the Perfect Man- 
agement of Cemetery Employees, Teams, etc.— H. J. Diering. 
Report of Committees. 
Election of Officers, and Unfinished business. 
New business. 
Adjournment. 
Afternoon — Arrangements not yet completed. 
Decoration Day, 
Decoration Day has come and gone once more, 
and the fact that it has received more public atten- 
tion than before points to the conclusion that it is 
rapidly becoming one of the great festal days ot the 
, American people. 
It is true that being a public holiday, the real 
intention of the day is in many directions over- 
looked in the interests of current human pleasures, 
yet there still remains the potency for good of the 
day, and the custom of decorating the graves of the 
fallen brave, while largely at present maintained in 
its integrity by those whose memories are still 
green, will more and more be merged into a pub- 
lic duty, and the day will, perhaps, become indeed 
a Memorial Day of a happy solution of a national 
crisis. 
As long as the government maintains the na- 
tional cemeteries, we shall still have, year by year, 
the reports from those cemeteries. While there re- 
main communities who have not honored their fallen 
soldiery, we shall still have monuments to be un- 
veiled; and as long as there are any G. A R. men 
left, we shall still have interesting ceremonies at the 
graveside. 
But apart from all this there has been springing up 
in the community a custom of using Decoration Day 
as a limit for completing monumental memorials to 
the departed in individual and private cases in our 
cemeteries, which all tends to concentrate about Dec- 
oration Day a truly national interest, — an interest 
hallowed by the conditions which created it and fos- 
tered by the further interest which mutual sympathy 
will always attach to it. 
