THE MODERN CEMETERY. 
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CEMETERY NOTES. 
It is proposed to create a city park out of Greenlawn Ceme- 
tery, Indianapolis, Ind., if the legal obstacles can be removed. 
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Mr. Frederick M. Farwell,son of the late Marcus A. Farvvell, 
has been elected President of the Oakwoods Cemetery, Chicago. 
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Toledo Av., Detroit, Mich., is to be opened through Wood- 
mere Cemetery, legislation of 1893, for that purpose having been 
declared constitutional. 
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A Sunday-School convention at Spnngtown, Bucks Co., Pa., 
decided that it was improper and sinful to strew flowers on the 
graves of departed friends on Sunday. 
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The Odd Fellows held their annual memorial meeting at 
Spring Crove Cemetery, Cincinnati, on June 17, some 500 mem- 
bers participating. The decorations were very elaborate. 
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A project is on foot to establish a new cemetery in Ham- 
burg, a suburb of Buffalo. It is the idea of the projectors to 
make it the burial place of the dead of Buffalo after Forest Lawn 
shall have been filled. 
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At the 4th anniversary dinner of the Essex, Union Co., Fun- 
eral Directors Association held at Newark, N. J., last month, 
among the toasts responded to was, “Our local Cemeteries,” by 
Mr. Charies Nichols, Supt. of Fairmount. 
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The ladies of the Cemetery Association of Parker, S. D., 
have raised the money and placed a windmill in their cemetery 
for irrigation purposes. All our small towns have just such la- 
dies and there must be cemetery work to do. 
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Proposed reduction of pay and fines for trivial causes led to 
a meeting of the employees of Calvary Cemetery, Brooklyn, N. 
Y., at which it was resolved to submit the matter to Archbishop 
Corrigan, Chairman of the Board of Trustees. 
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The Board of Health of Philadelphia, has instructed the 
City Solicitor to proceed with the bill in equity filed by him to 
stop interments in Westminster Cemetery. The grounds for 
action are the possible contamination of the City Water supply 
from the Schuylkill River. 
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A new cemetery. Riverside Cemetery, is in preparation at 
Norristown, Pa. Mr. Acker of Phoenixville, prepared the plans 
for the residence and offices, and the receiving vault. Mr. 
Bellett Lawson, Jr., of Chicago, has been chosen superinten- 
dent and he is now busy pushing forward landscape work. 
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From the fact that the Queen’s County boundary line passes 
through most of the large cemeteries on the outskirts of Brooklyn, 
N. Y., these cemeteries are assessed one dollar for every inter- 
ment made over the boundary line in that county. In 1891 an in- 
come of $20,000 accrued to Queen’s county from this source. 
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The Mount Auburn cemetery corporation of Lewiston, Me., 
is expending about $3000 this year in beautifying that place. A 
complete system of water works has been put in, the receiving 
vault is to be enlarged, and other improvements made. A tower 
for the purpose of distributing water has been built. It is 
pumped to the top by a windmill. 
An Ohio State law provides for the erection of fences around 
all cemeteries at the expense of the county in which the ceme- 
tery is located. Fence companies at least seem to have taken 
advantage of the suggested possibilities in this law and have 
caught the attention of the “press” which is asking where all the 
fencing which the county pays for is going. 
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The selectmen of Canaan, Conn., have been remiss in their 
care of the lower cemetery of that town and are being editorally 
censured. Numbers of rural cemeteries suffer from similar offi- 
cial indifference and the remedy would appear to be a local as- 
sociation of lot owners whose personal as well as mutual interests 
would tend to devise ways and means to properly meet the 
question. 
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There is trouble for the Health officers of Toronto, Canada. 
It appears that a reported outbreak of diphtheria is claimed to 
be due to the exhumation of some children’s bodies in Mount 
Pleasant Cemetery. These children had been the victims of the 
fell disease and had been exhumed b) permits of the Health 
officers. The superintendent took active steps to prevent fur- 
ther trouble. 
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An association has been formed at St. Louis, the Under- 
takers and Liveryman’s Association, for the purpose of regula- 
ting the prices of coffins and caskets as well as hire of hearses, 
carriages, etc. It is also proposed to keep a “dead beat” book to 
black-list such families as do not pay their funeral bills. It is 
possible that proceedings will be taken against the association 
under the anti-trust law of Missouri. 
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The old observatory tower on Highland Way, Cypress Hills, 
Cemetery, Long Island, has been taken down owing to decay. 
It had been frequently used by the U. S. Covernment for signal 
and geodetic purposes. It is the intention of the cemetery auth- 
orities to replace the observatory with a shelter or pavilion, one 
story in height, which will answer the purpose of accomodations 
for visitors as well as that of an observatory, it being located on 
very high ground. 
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There is a graveyard at Siegfried’s Bridge., Pa., that was es- 
tablished in 1720 — 174 years ago. The ground on which it is loca- 
ted was deeded by one David Chambers to Joseph Shovvalter, Hen- 
ry Funk, Peter Fried and Jacob Bear in trust for the Mennonites 
for burial purposes only. It originally consisted of one acre, but 
by an act of Assembly the trustees were granted the right to sell 
a part of the ground in order to secure means for erecting a yard 
wall around the remaining portion. The plot enclosed is about 
75 by too feet in dimensions. 
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A little girl sat upon a grave in M t. Hope Cemetery last Dec- 
oration Day, crying bitterly. Abenevolent lady noticing hergrief 
approached and laid her hand kindly on the child’s head and in- 
quired softly; “Poor child! Why are you crying dear? Is some 
soldier friend of yours buried here?” “Oh! no ma’am,” said the 
child between her sobs. “Pm crying because I havn’t any grave 
to decorate. Almost all the girls I know have got ’em. There’s 
Lucy and Mary and Jennie, all have got graves, but there wa’nt 
none o’ my folks killed in the war.” And her grief broke forth 
afresh . 
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A correspondent of the Boston Transcript sends the follow- 
ing anecdote concerning the inutility of cemetery fences: An 
eccentric person known on the turf as “Billy Nicholl” of the Not- 
tingham Town Council, in a warm discussion about rebuilding a 
wall around a disused churchyard was asked by a gentleman sit- 
