PARK A X D C E M ETERY. 
144 
made for the care of the costly tomb he 
had built for his last resting place. The 
necessity for some form of perpetual 
care of mausoleums is as important as 
is the care of lots, but the question is, 
how shall it be provided for? It was 
suggested that the sum provided for 
perpetual care should be proportionate to 
the cost of the structure, but this seems 
unfair, because in man}^ cases the more 
a memorial costs the less care it will 
require to keep it in good condition. 
A properly placed granite shaft or 
sarcophagus would last perhaps for cen- 
turies, while a mausoleum of equal cost, 
cheaply built, of poor material, might 
require constant attention and repairs. 
Then there is another problem : What 
would be covered by perpetual care? 
Would it only cover the removal of iron 
rust and the general cleaning of the 
surroundings, and perhaps painting of 
the iron work, if there was any, or 
would it insure against the falling in 
of the cap stones, the sinking of founda- 
tion or the cracking of stones or con- 
crete work? 
Is it not true that no hard and fast 
general rule can be laid down, and that 
the officials of each cemetery must be 
a law unto themselves? The tendency 
is toward a more rigid inspection of 
the plans for mausoleums and monu- 
ments by cemetery officials. It is prob- 
ably the wisest plan to insist upon per- 
petual care and to make a definite con- 
tract suited to the conditions in each in- 
dividual case. The contract to specify 
the exact amount of responsibility and 
work assumed by the cemetery associa- 
tion, whether insurance against earth- 
quake, lightning, blasting and vandals, 
or just ordinary care, such as is given 
a burial lot. 
J. H. G. 
THE CEMETERIES OF GREAT- 
ER NEW YORK 
Within a radius of twenty miles 
from New York’s City Hall there are 
111 public cemeteries that are regu- 
larly incorporated companies. They 
cover more than 10,000 acres in all, 
and represent an investment of many 
millions of dollars. Within their 
gates are buried more people than 
make up the present population of 
Greater New York. Most of these 
cemeteries are, in the last analysis, 
huge real estate companies, which 
operate in New York under a special 
enactment of the legislature, says 
the New York Press. This provides, 
in substance, that one-half of the pro- 
ceeds derived from the sale of lots 
may go to the stockholders of the 
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