PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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LAWN AND MONUMENTS IN MOUNT HOPE. 
tails have been studied from this 
st3de. 
It is executed in Barre granite, 
with interior of white Vermont mar- 
ble, an art glass window and polished 
granite floor. It has seven catacombs 
and cost about $20,000. The structure 
stands in the center of a 100-ft. circle 
on the highest point in the cemetery, 
which is also the highest point in St. 
Joseph county, and affords a view of 
miles of the surrounding country. A 
20-foot drive circles the plot. 
Sphinxes guard the entrance and 
ten massive columns with Egyptian 
capitals form a colonnade about the 
building. . 
The vestibule is a single piece of 
polished red granite and the crypts 
are lined with Carthage stone, closed 
with polished granite doors, hinged 
with bronze. 
The single roof-stone is 18-Oxll-Ox 
1-10, and its moving from the station 
to the cemetery was the biggest job 
the Joplin Transfer & Storage Co. 
ever tackled. Mount Hope is between 
Joplin and Webb City, 2^ miles from 
the station. 
The work was cut by Barclay Bros., 
of Barre, Vt., and furnished through 
their western representative, Chas. H. 
Gall, of Chicago, to the Woodlawn 
Granite Works, of" Kansas City, the 
local contractors. 
J. Allen Hardy, Sr., of Joplin, is 
president of the association; T. N. 
NEW WATER SUPPLY BUILDING 
AT MOUNT HOPE. 
Campbell, superintendent, and Sid J. 
Hare, of Kansas City, landscape ar- 
chitect. The grounds were laid out 
by Mr. Hare. 
SOME IMPORTANT CEMETERY LEGISLATION 
Abandonment of Cemeteries 
Frequent instances have been re- 
corded where old, unusued, abandoned 
or unsightly cemeteries have been 
turned into parks or put to other 
uses when they are obstacles to city 
growth, or undesirable as cemeteries 
in their present locations. The legal 
difficulties that have been encoun- 
tered in the taking of the land or the 
removal of the bodies has brought 
about a new law in Pennsylvania, pro- 
viding for such contingencies, and 
need has been discovered in Wash- 
ington, D. C., for similar legislation. 
When Hazelton, Pa., wanted to 
abandon the old cemetery on North 
Church street, so that the site might 
be devoted to some public use, such 
as a public library, city hall or school 
building, it was found necessary to 
secure special legislation, and Sena- 
tor James introduced a bill in the 
legislature which has just become a 
law. The act provides that: “When 
by growth of cities, towns or bor- 
oughs and the opening of incorpor- 
ated or unincorporated cemeteries in 
cities or boroughs or in the vicinity 
thereof, or from other causes, any 
burial ground belonging to or in 
charge of any religious society or 
church directly or through trustees 
thereof or in charge of no persons, 
church or society, has ceased to be 
used for interments, or has become 
so neglected as in the opinion of the 
court to become a public nuisance, 
or that the remains of bodies interred 
in any such neglected or disused 
cemetery interfere with and hinder 
the improvements, extensions and 
general progressive interests of any 
city or borough, or when the land 
shall be desired by the municipality 
or in the school district thereof for 
the erection thereon of any municipal 
school or free public library building 
or for any other public purposes, the 
court, upon petition of the managers, 
officers or on the petition of fifty or 
more citizens or residents in the vi- 
cinity, in case where such cemetery 
or graveyard is not in charge of any 
person, persons, church or society, 
or trustees of such society or church, 
setting forth that the erection, exten- 
sion, improvements and general pro- 
gressive interests of such city or bor- 
ough are hampered and interfered 
with and the welfare of such city or 
borough is injured to the detriment 
thereof and of the public good, or 
upon the petition of the municipality 
or school district therefore, that the 
said land shall be desired by said 
municipality or the school district for 
public purposes, and after three weeks 
of advertisement or hearing in open 
court may, after a full hearing of the 
parties, authorize and direct the re- 
moval of the remains of the dead 
from such burial grounds. 
“No such application, however, 
shall be made by the managers, offi- 
cers or trustees of such society or 
church except in pursuance of the 
wishes of a majorit}^ of the members 
of the same expressed at a meeting 
held for that purpose after two weeks’ 
public notice.” 
Assistant Corporation Counsel Ste- 
phens of Washington, D. C., has 
given the district commissioners a 
draft of a bill to be submitted to 
Congress, authorizing a judge of the 
District Supreme Court to order the 
