THE MODERN CEMETERY 
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WALT WHITMAN VAULT, HARLEIGH CEMETERY, CAMDEN, N. J. 
was grouped for the photographer, and the regular 
order of exercises taken up. Addresses of welcome 
were made by Mr. Howard M. Cooper, president of 
Harleigh, Mayor J. L. Westcott of Camden, and 
the Hon. J. G. Engard. 
Mayor Westcott, in extending the welcome to 
Camden, said: “Whenever good work has been 
done it has been done through organization. The 
individual may succeed in making some improve- 
ment, but will not get beyond his own province. 
The results end with him. But when he imbues 
others with his ideas, these consult together, and 
by considering different plans and means accom- 
plish what was needed. It is only a little time 
since burial grounds were looked upon only as such, 
and the keepers were nothing more than grave dig- 
gers. To-day we have the evidence of something 
different, and this organization is evidence of differ- 
ent ideas. There are still a good many graveyards 
wherein nothing in the line of improvement has 
been tried for, and again, there are beautiful spots 
that show the superintendent has come to an idea 
beyond the grave. He is an artist; must be, or he 
could not accomplish the results he has.” 
A paper on: “Suitable Trees and Shrubs for a 
Modern Cemetery,” was read by Thomas Meehan, 
Jr., of Philadelphia, and addresses by President 
Salway and Messrs. J. G. Barker, T. McCarthy and 
O. C. Simonds. This enjoyable feature of the en- 
tertainment was followed by a banquet of most 
tempting menu. Tastefully decorated tables were 
spread under a large tent on the lawn, where more 
than one hundred guests did ample justice to the 
repast. A vote of thanks was extended to Mr. 
“Rhedemeyer and the officials of Harleigh for their 
hospitality, and soon after dusk the party departed 
for Philadelphia. 
SECOND DAY. 
Fifty-eight members answered roll call on con- 
vening for the second day’s session. 
“Civil Plngineering in Cemetery Work,’’ a pa- 
per written by U. Z. Morris, superintendent of Mt. 
Hope Cemetery, Rochester, N. Y., was read by 
Secretary Eurich. “No more judicious investment 
can be made in organizing a new cemetery than the 
employment of a competent engineer with a knowl- 
edge of its peculiar requirements from a landscape 
point of view. Drainage, road making, waterworks, 
grading, the economic handling of earth and stone, 
and other features of a cemetery engineer’s work 
were dwelt upon, and the value of a knowledge of 
engineering to cemetery superintendents clearly de- 
monstrated. An interesting discussion followed on 
the subject of engineering instruments required in 
cemetery work, foundation building, etc. 
The second paper: “How to Make and Main- 
tain a Cemetery with the Restrictions of Mounds 
and Memorials of any kind above the General Sur- 
face of the Lawn, and to Substitute a Satisfactory 
Method of Marking Graves,” was read by Timothy 
McCarthy of Swan Point, Providence, R. I. ' He 
said in part: “This subject is worthy the best 
thought and attention not only of superintendents 
of cemeteries, but by every intelligent citizen or as- 
sociation who feel and understand that the great 
object of our association is to educate the public 
how to properly embellish their burial lots in a 
more simple and less costly manner than prevails 
at present. Our association has accomplished very 
much by inducing the public to dispense with the 
costly curbing, iron fences, hedges, etc., and the 
BELL TOWER, WEST LAUREL HILL CEMETERY, PHILADELPHIA. 
