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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
ANNUAL CONVENTION OF A. A. C. S. 
The preliminary program 
arranged by the Executive 
Committee for the 23rd an- 
nual convention of the Asso- 
ciation of American Ceme- 
tery Superintendents, to be 
held in New York City, Sept. 
14, 15 and 16, 1909, is as fol- 
lows : 
Tuesday, Sept. 14th. 
Opening session at Hotel Astor. 
10 a. m. — Invocation. 
Address of welcome by the Acting 
Mayor. 
Response by member of the A. A. 
C. S. 
Annual address of the President. 
Annual report of Secretary-Treas- 
urer. 
Appointing Committees. 
Informal discussion. 
Recess. 
2 p. m. — Business Session. Ad- 
dresses by Thomas White, John J. 
Stephens and John E. Miller. 
Wednesday, Sept. 15th. 
9:30 a. m. — Automobile ride through 
the park systems of New York to 
Woodlawn Cemetery. Luncheon will 
be served at Woodlawn and a busi- 
ness session held there during the 
afternoon, returning to Hotel Astor 
at 6 p. m. 
Thursday, Sept. 16th. 
9:30 a. m. — Automobile ride to 
Greenwood Cemetery and over the 
park systems of Brooklyn. Lunch- 
eon and final business session. 
Owing to the large area 
to be covered, and the time 
necessarily consumed in vis- 
iting the principal parks and 
cemeteries of Greater New 
York, the executive Commit- 
tee has deemed it advisable 
to omit evening sessions. 
W. C. Grassau, superintendent 
Greenwood Cemetery, is chairman, 
and F. R. Diering, superintendent 
Woodlawn Cemetery, 350 E. 234th 
street, is Secretary of the Executive 
Committee. The headquarters of the 
Association will be at the Hotel 
Astor. 
An attractive program for a sug- 
gested side trip to Philadelphia has 
been arranged by the West Laurel 
Hill Cemetery Co., 116 N. Broad 
street, Philadelphia. The city has 
about two hundred cemeteries and 
burying grounds, several of which 
date back to 1683. The most inter- 
esting of these are subdivided into 
four trips for the convenience of vis- 
itors. The folder advertising these 
trips gives much other information 
regarding hotels and places of inter- 
est in Philadelphia. 
George M. Painter, Secretary and 
Superintendent Westminster Ceme- 
tery, 1409 Arch street, Philadelphia, 
“invites the members of the A. A. C. 
S., their wives, sons, daughters, 
sweethearts and others to visit Phila- 
delphia before or after the Conven- 
tion,” and he will do his best to show 
them the city. 
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CtnETERY NOTES 
An amicable settlement of the suit 
of the Earlham Cemetery Association, 
Richm'ond, Ind., against the owners 
of the Smith farm, has been reached 
and the association secures the prop- 
erty, containing some 50 acres, for 
$15,875. The cemetery sought to se- 
cure the farm, but their offer was re- 
jected and condemnation proceedings 
were instituted, which were contested. 
The idea of forcing a sale of property 
by a private corporation under con- 
demnation is a novel idea, but fur- 
ther litigation was prevented by 
friendly intercession, which, with the 
aid of the court, resulted in an ad- 
justment of the differences. Exten- 
sive improvements are contemplated 
in the near future. 
* * * 
Proceedings have been begun 
through the New York State Board of 
Health in co-operation with the Board 
of Health of Aurelius, to compel the 
Greek Catholic church of St. Nicholas 
to remove the bodies in its cemetery 
to a new location. The state expert 
advises an injunction to prevent fur- 
ther burials because the stratum of 
rock upon which the graves lie drains 
into all wells on the south side of 
the cemetery in Aurelius. The ceme- 
tery was recently opened for improve- 
ment by a real estate speculator, and 
seven bodies will be removed by the 
town. A large number of people now 
depend on other wells for water. 
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An innovation in cemetery practice 
is that of The Forest Home Cemetery 
Association, Milwaukee, Wis., which 
has put into service a conveyance 
making regular trips through the 
cemetery from 8 a. m. to 5 p. m., 
which will give to people wishing to 
visit graves more comfortable and 
easier opportunities than at present. 
A small fee is charged, and the serv- 
ice will continue until November. 
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The validity of an ordinance re- 
cently passed by the village board of 
Forest Park in the suburban district 
of Chicago, imposing a tax of $1 for 
the burial of persons who lived out- 
side the corporate limits will be 
tested in a suit recently begun. H. J. 
W. Moeller, president of the Concor- 
dia Cemetery Association, was ar- 
rested charged with a violation of the 
ordinance, was found guilty and fined 
$5 and costs. Notice of appeal to the 
Circuit Court was given. 
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Cemetery leases are being sought 
by oil operators in all parts of Steu- 
ben county, Ohio. A big producer 
was struck at Pleasant Hill church in 
the cemetery lot. At Mt. Calvary 
Catholic cemetery west of Steuben- 
ville there are nine producers. Union 
cemetery at the edge of this city has 
several big gushers and others drill- 
ing. An old-time operator in the 
Pennsylvania fields says he never 
knew a dry hole to be drilled on a 
cemetery lot, hence the excitement. 
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The Lowell, Mass., cemetery em- 
ployes are maintaining a strong fight 
against the brown-tail and gypsy 
moths. The superintendent reports 
that he has found one of the para- 
sites recently let loose by the state 
authorities, and that evidence of its 
work was seen in its vicinity. It was 
shown to all the employes and has 
the freedom of the cemetery, with 
premiums thrown in. 
* * * 
By the refusal of a determined Cape 
Codder to permit the removal of the 
remains of departed ancestors from 
their present resting place to a 
strange cemetery, has brought about 
a crisis in the construction of the 
Cape Cod canal. A stoppage of the 
work is not only threatened, but spe- 
cial legislation may be needed to 
solve the problem. 
