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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
FLORAL EMBLEMS AT BURIAL OF L. B. ROOT. 
SHOWING WREATH FROM A. A. C. S. 
ROOT MONUMENT. MOUNT WASHINGTON 
CEMETERY. KANSAS CITY. WITH FLORAL 
BLANKET AT FUNERAL SERVICE OF L. B. ROOT. 
LOUIS B. ROOT 
Mr. Louis B. Root, superintendent of 
Mount Washington Cemetery, Kansas 
City, Mo., member of the A. A. C. S., 
died at St. Mary’s hospital on the morn- 
ing of November' 21. Born in Cayuga 
county. New York, January 26, 1853, 
he finished his education and was grad- 
uated from Cornell University; and af- 
ter marriage in 1875, came to Kansas 
City in 1887 and took up his work as a 
civil engineer. He was appointed super- 
intendent of parks in 1893, and contin- 
ued for some years in park work until 
in 1901 he was made superintendent of 
the above cemetery. He became a mem- 
ber of the Association of American 
S. F. Honnold has filed a petition 
in the Circuit Court at Paris, 111., for 
an injunction, restraining the Har- 
mony Methodist Episcopal Church 
officials from constructing a drain 
from the church lot and cemetery into 
an open creek from which he obtains 
water and ice for domestic purposes. 
He claims the drainage would con- 
taminate the water and make it unfit 
for use and that another outlet is at 
the disposal of the church officials. 
A temporary injunction has been 
granted. 
* * * 
Surrogate Thomas of New York 
recently decided that the burial plot 
in which Simon Ratkowsky is buried 
cannot be sold to pay his debts, on 
the ground that the whole plot, being 
part of a cemetery and actually in 
use as a place for the interment of 
the dead, is exempt from sale for the 
purpose of being applied to the pay- 
ment of the decedent’s debts so long 
Cemetery Superintendents the same year 
and took an active part in its conven- 
tions. There were many beautiful flow- 
ers at the grave, the floral blanket 
draped over the monument covered the 
casket, and the tribute sent by the A. A. 
C. S. was in the form of the emblem 
used at the Kansas City convention of 
the cemtery superintendents. Mr. Root 
leaves a widow and one son and was 
buried from his superintendent’s resi- 
dence, in Mount Washington Cemetery. 
All with whom he had been associated 
will hear with sincere regret of his 
death. He will be especially missed in 
the ranks of the A. A. C. S. 
as it continues to be used for ceme- 
tery purposes. 
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A public hearing is to be afforded 
those interested in graves, in the 
nev/ Union Field Cemetery, the 
Machpelah Cemetery, the Mount 
Neboh Cemetery and the Cypress 
Hills Cemetery, which are likely to 
be disturbed if the proposed road 
improvements in Queens Borough, 
Brooklyn, N. Y., are carried out. 
Some 300 graves are in jeopardy from 
these highway improvements and the 
board finally consented to lay the 
proposition over until a public hear- 
ing could be called. 
* * * 
Burial lots in the City Cemetery 
of Walla Walla, Wash., have risen 
in value from $15 to $80, caused by 
the overcrowding of the grounds. 
The city council has been asked to 
buy additional land. 
By the terms of the will of the late 
Albert T. Whiting, of Boston, the 
High Street Cemetery Association of 
South Hingham, Mass., will event- 
ually receive a bequest of $38,000. 
Liberty Plain Cemetery Association, 
also of South Hingham, is bequeathed 
$ 1 , 000 . * * * 
The price for the perpetual care 
of lots in Pine Grove Cemetery, 
Lynn, Mass., has been advanced from 
33 cents to 50 cents per square foot, 
and the date of going into effect of 
this increase was postponed a short 
time because a number of lot 
owners desired an extension of time 
to make their arrangements. The ef- 
forts of the commissioners to interest 
the lot owners in perpetual care have 
been very successful. 
* * * 
The Missouri Cemetery Improve- 
ment Association has found it neces- 
sary to use more stringent measures 
than the ordinary rules to prevent 
minor vandalism on the grounds. The 
association has officially adopted a 
sign 11x12 inches, printed on cloth, 
bearing an extract from the statutes 
calling attention to the fact that the 
law is violated by petty and thought- 
less acts of vandalism, such as prun- 
ing shrubs and trees, climbing fences, 
etc. The sign reads: 
WARNING 
Section 2233, Revised Statutes of Missouri, 
1909. Misusing Burial Grounds. 
Every person who shall willfully and 
maliciously destroy, disfigure or injure any 
wall, fence, hedge, monument, tombstone, 
tree, shrubbery, or any part thereof, around 
or within any cemetery. graveyard or 
burying ground, or shall use such cemetery, 
graveyard or burying ground for any other 
purpose than a burying ground, shall be ad- 
judged guilty of a felony, and shall, upon 
conviction, be punished by Imprisonment in 
the penitentiary not more than five years, 
or by imprisonment in the county jail not 
less than thirty days, or by a fine not less 
than twenty-five dollars. 
Approved April 7, 1909. 
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In connection with a bankruptcy 
case in which the bankrupt owned ten 
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