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THE MODERN CEMETERY. 
CEMETERY NOTES. 
The commissioners of Highland Lawn Cemetery, Terre 
Haute, Ind., have decided to build an Entrance Gateway to cost 
some $3,000 
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The Homewood Cemetery Co., Pittsburgh, Pa., is erecting 
a handsome lod^e at the main entrance from designs of J . T. 
Steen, architect. 
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A movement is on foot among the various lodges of the 
Knights of Pythias of New Orleans to organize a Pythian Ceme- 
tery Association. Committees have been at work investigating 
as to sites and probable cost. 
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In the will of the late Silas Evans, of East Vincent township, 
Montgomery County, Pa., is a bequest of money to put the cem- 
etery of Vincent Baptist Church in good order. For this purpose 
funds are provided for 200 headstones for unmarked graves, and 
they have been contracted for. 
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The tendency to discourage Sunday funerals is spreading. 
The Aulenbach Cemetery Compan> of Reading, Pa., has been 
seriously considering the matter, but it is a fact that, compared 
with years ago, the practice of Sunday funerals has largely 
abated without any prohibitory efforts. 
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The Arcade Rural Cemetery, Arcade, N. Y., has carried 
out a scheme of improvement this year, with the usual exper- 
ience. The original amount intended to be expended was $600, 
but the bills have footed up $2,000. The authorities may safely 
conclude, however, that it '.vill be a good investment. 
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The Utica, N. Y., Herald reports that the superintendent 
of Forest Hill Cemetery has been sued by the New Forest Cem- 
etery Association for “slander and misrepresentation,” and 
damages laid at $10,000. Cemetery officials more than all other 
people should be above this low order of competitive methods. 
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In Grand View Cemetery, Johnstown, Pa., the first inter- 
ment took place April 30, 1887. Since that time until June 
1894, 2,556 burials are recorded. Of this number 430 were 
drowned in the terrible flood of 1889 besides 772 in the Un- 
known Plot. Including the unknown and deducting two bodies 
removed, the total number of interments have been 3,326, of 
which 1,201 were flood victims. 
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Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, N. Y., made its fifty- 
thousandth burial on June i, 1894. The first purchase of land 
was made January 2, 1837, and the first burial took place in 1837. 
There appears to be no record as to how the cemetery came by 
its name, but it has always been called Mount Hope. Some of 
the deeds date back to 1841; at the present time each lot has a 
separate deed of which there are some 14,000. 
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Brookside Cemetery, the new cemetery at Carbondale, Pa., 
wfll soon be ready for dedication. The landscape work has been 
under the care of Mr. B. F. Hatheway, of Stamford, Conn., and 
is designed on modern plans and with a view to modern improve- 
ments. The natural beauty of the site, aided by a liberal man- 
agement, will make this an attractive cemetery. The tract 
comprises 100 acres, only a small portion of which will be fully 
improved immediately. 
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In the 138 years since Fairview Cemetery, New Britain, 
Conn., was opened, hardly over a dozen people have been buried 
there who were over 90 years of age when they died. There are 
a great many five, and even three years lees than that. The 
eldest noted is 94. Mr. Gladden’s record was copied in part 
from the Rev. Dr. Skinner’s record of nearly a century ago. In 
those days the town pastor kept whatever record of that kind 
there was kept. There are over 8,000 bodies interred in Fair- 
view Cemetery. 
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Cemeteries in small towns are gradually seeing the necessity 
of limiting admissions to the grounds to lot owners, and then by 
tickets of admission. The flagrant violations of the rules of pro- 
priety by so many visitors, and the utter disregard, that in some 
minds prevails, of the conditions imposed by the acceptance of 
privileges, are compelling cemetery authorities to use what 
means may be at their disposal to protect their properties and 
lot owners, and preserve the conditions that should exist in cem- 
etery grounds. 
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The snap shot and kodak man is having a hard experience 
nowadays in our prominent cemeteries, from many of which he 
is rigorously excluded. The bad practice of photographing 
monuments for copying purposes, a practice which is universally 
condemned, has had the effect of compelling restrictions in per- 
mits for picture-making purposes. One of the most strictly en- 
forced rules of Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Boston, is that: no one 
shall be permitted to take photographs of any monument with- 
out the permission of the owner. Applications by marble work- 
ers and dealers are invariably refused. 
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The Hobart Mausoleum in course of construction in Cypress 
Lawn Cemetery, San Francisco, Cal., will be twenty feet high 
and IS to be in the form of a Greek temple. The entire exterior, 
with the exception of the four fluted columns, is to be of granite 
from Raymond, Cal. The capitals of the four columns will be 
of granite, of the Ionic order, and the columns themselves will 
be fluted and made of Mexican onyx. Each of these columns 
will be a single stone, and will be imported from Mexico. The 
entire exterior of the building, from the ground up, will be fine 
hammered. The interior will be highly polished, and the double 
doors will be of solid bronze. It is expected that the cost will 
reach between $65,000 and $70,000. 
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There are over 2400 acres of cemetery property in Queens 
County, L. L, used principally for interments of dead from New 
York and Brooklyn, and to the end of prohibiting future growth 
of such property, the following proposed amendment has been 
oflered in the Constitutional Convention at Albany: “It shall not 
be lawful for any person or for any cemetery or corporation here- 
inafter incorporated to use, set apart or take by deed, devise or 
otherwise any land for cemetery purposes in either of the coun- 
ties of Westchester, Kings, Queens, Rockland or Richmond 
without first obtaining the consent of the Town Board and the 
Board of Supervisors in the town and county wherein said land 
is located. The legislature may provide for the manner and 
method by which said consent may be obtained.” 
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On the summit of a high hill in Evergreen Cemetery, Brook- 
lyn, N. Y., stands what is known as the sailors’ monument. This 
monument has an interesting history, particularly so to “Jack” 
and his friends. The death of some unfortunate sailors in New 
York decided the Chamber of Commerce in 1852 to petition 
Congress to appropriate $5000 for the purchase of a suitable 
burial plot. This was granted, the Seamen’s Cemetery Associa- 
tion formed and the three acre plot bought. It was formally 
opened January 31, 1853, and immediately transferred to the 
Government. Every nation has its own space set apart, which 
is marked by granite blocks placed thirty feet from each other. 
The name of the country is cut on the front of each block. The 
United States Government seems to be the only one in the world 
that has provided for the decent burial of sailors of all nations. 
