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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
A bill introduced by Representa- 
tive Fahy, of Ralls Countj% has passed 
the Missouri Legislature, making van- 
dalism in a cemetery a penitentiary 
offense. The bill reads as follows; 
“Ever}' person who shall willfully 
and maliciously destroy, disfigure or 
injure any wall, fence, hedge, monu- 
ment, tombstone, tree, shrubbery, or 
any part thereof, around or within 
any cemetery, graveyard or burial 
ground, or shall use such cemetery, 
graveyard or burying ground for any 
other purpose than a burying ground, 
shall be adjudged guilty of a felony, 
and shall, upon conviction, be pun- 
ished by imprisonment in the peni- 
tentiary not more than five years, or 
b}' imprisonment in the county jail 
not less than thirty days, or by a fine 
not less than $25.” 
A bill has been passed by the New 
York legislature authorizing the Com- 
missioner of Public Works of Utica 
to remove the bodies from the old 
cemetery in the second ward and to 
acquire title to the lands for school 
purposes. It is probable that a meet- 
ing of the Common Council will be 
called before long for the purpose of 
giving a public hearing on the matter. 
Supreme Court Justice James J. 
Bergen has granted a writ of certior- 
ari to Dennis Long, Fred Krueger 
and others, of the Township of Union, 
N. J., to review the action of the town- 
ship whereby permission was given to 
the Clinton Hill Cemetery Association 
to locate a burial ground in the town- 
ship. The township granted a trol- 
ley line to the grounds a fran- 
chise. The property owners who ob- 
ject to the cemetery claim that the 
The cemeteries of Cincinnati having 
refused to admit automobiles, the 
Automobile Club of that city has 
made an inquiry as to the rules of 
cemeteries in different cities in this 
respect. It was found that automo- 
biles are excluded from all the ceme- 
teries of Boston, Washington, Roch- 
ester, Albany, Portland and Dayton; 
from some cemeteries of Buffalo, 
from the Green Mount, Loudon Park, 
Baltimore, and Bonnie Brae cemeter- 
ies of Baltimore and from the North- 
■wood Cemetery of Philadelphia. In 
the Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, 
automobiles are admitted only on 
Mondays; at all cemeteries in Lowell, 
trolley company would not have been 
granted the franchise had not the 
cemetery association obtained permis- 
sion to locate in the township. The 
main question debatable is as to 
whether there are not already three 
cemeteries in the township. 
The board of health of Troy town- 
ship, Pontiac, Mich., has petitioned the 
circuit court for permission to do 
away with an old cemetery in that 
township which has not been used for 
burial purposes in fifty years. There 
is no organization to care for the 
cemetery and the board reports that 
not more than eight bodies are buried 
there. 
The West Meriden Cemetery As- 
sociation, Meriden, Conn., is going to 
contest the suit brought by the city, 
in which $800 of the bank funds of 
the corporation was attached, to sat- 
isfy the claim for laying the curb on 
Orange street opposite the cemetery. 
The cemetery people have retained E. 
A. Merriman as counsel, and he has 
filed a plea in abatement on the al- 
leged technicality that the writ was 
not left with the proper person. 
The petition of the Fair Haven 
Union Cemetery association of New 
Haven, Conn., to the committee on 
incorporation asked to change the 
charter of the organization so that 
the cemetery may occupy an adjoin- 
ing lot, has developed a most active 
opposition to it among the residents 
of Fair Haven, and others who are 
opposed to setting a precedent of al- 
lowing a cemetery in a thickly popu- 
lated district to expand. Represen- 
tative Bush of Orange introduced the 
bill for the cemetery. 
Mass., and at the Wilmington and 
Riverview cemeteries in Wilmington, 
Del., they are admitted only on week- 
days and in the Homewood and Alle- 
ghany cemeteries in Pittsburg they 
are admitted only during forenoons. 
A considerable number of cemeteries 
are open to automobiles without any 
restrictions whatever, The following 
cemeteries admit only lot owners in 
automobiles; Woodlands, West Lau- 
rel Hill, Cathedral, New Cathedral, 
Holy Cross and Holy Sepulchre, of 
Philadelphia; Greenlawn, of Colum- 
bus, Ohio; all cemeteries of Syracuse, 
N. Y.; Evergreen, of New Haven; 
Springfield, of Springfield, Ohio, and 
Cambridge, of Cambridge, Mass. The 
following cemeteries admit automo- 
biles by card only; Bellefontaine, St. 
Louis; Homewood and Alleghany, 
Pittsburg, and Spring Hill, Natural 
Hill and Mount Olivet, Nashville, 
Tenn. 
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Officials in the office of the quar- 
termaster general at the War Depart- 
ment at Washington report that the 
order for the removal of plants and 
shrubbery from the graves of soldiers 
buried at Arlington was made neces- 
sary by a large number of requests to 
decorate graves in this manner. 
“It is believed that uniformity is 
especially desired in a military ceme- 
tery,” declared an official, “and this 
could not be effected when friends 
were allowed to decorate graves in 
any manner they pleased. We did 
not object so much to flowers, but 
some sections of the cemetery have 
become overgrown with ivy and 
shrubbery. The general appearance is 
very bad. Though the order was is- 
sued six months ago all plants that 
are in a thriving condition are still 
there and it is not our intention to 
root up those already there until they 
die. When the scheme of sodding 
the graves is carried out the cemetery 
will present a much more uniform 
and artistic appearance.” 
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Announcement was recently made 
by the Trinity Church Corporation of 
New York City, that the Trinity 
cemetery on Washington Heights is 
to be built upon. A church and a 
parish house are to be erected upon 
the cemetery grounds, upon land, 
however, which, it is said, does not 
contain any graves. The uptown 
Trinity cemetery, which slopes to the 
river on Washington Heights from 
153d street to 155th street, is also 
of considerable historic interest. Mem- 
bers of many prominent New York 
families are buried there. The tomb 
of Audubon is there. 
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The board of town trustees of 
Colusa, Cal., have passed an ordinance 
calling for the removal of the graves 
in the old Colusa cemetery which will 
be made into a park. The ordinance 
calls for the removal of the graves to 
the Colusa Cemetery and a contract 
for such removal will be let to the 
lowest bidder. 
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Bids were received at Lodoga, Cal., 
for removing the bodies from the old 
Indian Valley Cemetery, removal be- 
ing necessary because the cemetery 
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