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OHIO CEMETERY MEN TO MEET 
The annual meeting of the Ohio 
Association of Cemetery Superintend- 
ents and Officials will be held at Can- 
ton, O., June 22 and 23. A good pro- 
gram has been prepared and this live 
organization expects a good meeting. 
G. E. Whitaker, Youngstown, O., is 
chairman of the executive committee. 
Following is the program: 
Wednesday, June 22nd. 
Call to order at 10 o’clock. 
Prayer. 
Welcome Address — Mayor of Canton. 
Response — G. E. Whitaker. 
Roll Call. 
Application and reception of new mem- 
bers. 
Address of President. 
Reading of Secretary’s report. 
Communications. 
Secretary one-half hour to receiving 
fees and dues. 
Paper by I. M. Smith, Greenville, Ohio. 
Value of Ideas — Discussions of Same. 
Appointing of Committees Auditing. 
Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Ky., 
expended some $30,000 in improvements 
last year— $25,000 for a 9-ft. vitrified 
brick wall, on concrete foundation, 2830 
ft. in length, and $5,000 on roads, grad- 
ing, sewers, etc. A new entrance was 
constructed on the north side, having 
double ornamental drive gates, and two 
smaller side gates. Some 550 barrels 
of cement were used. In the nursery 
there are growing 50,000 trees and 
shrubs. Good results are being obtained 
from the use of Tarvia and Asphaltoi- 
lene in dust prevention. 
Riverview Cemetery Association, Port- 
land, Ore., expended over $8,000 on 
roads and buildings last year. It is 
proposed to add two more miles of 
roads. The water is supplied from 
springs. The cemetery, owns its own 
rock crusher. 
Rocky Hill Cemetery, Rocky Hill, 
Conn., has been improved by an iron 
fence having field stone posts. This 
was contributed in part as a memorial 
from Mrs. Anna Bradford, of Lenox, 
Mass., for her husband, Mr. William H. 
Bradford, whose family were old resi- 
dents. Other contributors added to it. 
Coffeyville, Kas., expended $2,000 on 
roads and planting in its two city ceme- 
teries last year. A new entrance is 
among the improvements contemplated 
for this year. 
Calvary Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo., has 
installed a complete system of telephone 
service throughout the grounds, con- 
necting with the principal office at the 
gate entrances, after the style of the po- 
lice telephone system of the city. This 
facilitates prompt communication with 
the office and grounds. 
Appointing of Committee on Location. 
Appointing of Committee on Resolutions. 
Afternoon. 
At 1:30 o’clock take cars for Canton 
Cemetery. Meeting on grounds. Report 
of J. J. Stephens delegate to the National 
Convention at New York. Inspection of 
cemetery grounds, including the McKinley 
Memorial Lamb. 
Evening Session. 
Paper by C. C. Crain, Portsmouth, O. 
“Why I Became a Member of O. A. C. 
H. Officials.’’ 
Paper by J. J. Stephens, Columbus, O. 
Free Planting and Pruning — Discussion 
of same. 
Question Box — Nomniation of Officers. 
Thursday, June 23rd. 
Call to order at 9 o’clock a. m. 
Paper by H. A. Church, Urbana, Ohio. 
To do and not to do — Discussion of 
same. 
Report of Committees. 
Unfinished business. 
Election of officers. 
Afternoon. 
At close of morning session take cars 
to Myers Lake for dinner, after dinner 
bathing and boating on lake or attend 
Casina. 
Farewells. 
Headquarters — Hotel McKinley.. 
Marion Cemetery, Marion, O., does 
quite a flower business, having a conven- 
ient greenhouse plant. The superin- 
tendent, Mr. E. A. Sloan, says that 
this department pays a good percentage 
on the investment, as well as contrib- 
uting very much to the beauty of the 
grounds. Beds of flowering plants are 
set out for lot owners and cared for 
during the season at a very moderate 
price for the plants, which includes 
care. Some 10,000 plants were distrib- 
uted over the grounds last 3 rear. 
A photograph received from the Ot- 
tumwa Cemetery Association, Ottum- 
wa, la., showing a fine stone entrance, 
and chapel and office building inside, 
makes quite an attractive picture. An- 
other feature is the excellent planting 
near the entrance and about the build- 
ing, which is an improvement that 
should be undertaken by every up-to- 
date cemetery. A contract has recently 
been let for a superintendent’s residence 
to cost $3,000. 
Among the recent permanent improve- 
ments in Green Park Cemetery, Port- 
land, Indiana, is a substantial residence 
and office for the superintendent, and a 
public vault, constructed of hollow con- 
crete blocks. The board is now contem- 
plating a complete drainage system to 
take the place of the very imperfect 
scheme now used. 
Washington Cemetery, Washington 
County, Pa., expended some $5,000 in 
improvements last year, in general work. 
It now contains some 250 acres, with 
several miles of roads. Its receiving 
vault, to which is attached the chapel, 
is a granite structure which cost $25,000, 
and in the near future office buildings 
will be erected near the entrance. Some 
250 barrels of cement are annually con- 
sumed. It is customary here to trans- 
plant all material from other nurseries 
one or two years before planting in per- 
manent places. 
The Knoxville Cemetery Co., an in- 
corporated company, has just completed 
a cemetery at Knoxville, Pa., containing 
500 lots. 
The announcement by the Mount 
Hope Cemetery commissioners, Roches- 
ter, N. Y., that no grass cutting will be 
done during the current year unless 
paid for is bearing fruit. The resolu- 
tion is designed to secure uniformity in 
the cemetery without imposing an un- 
just burden on the commission. The an- 
nual cost of cutting the grass in Mount 
Hope is placed at $8,000, which is, how- 
ever, excessively high, and is accounted 
for by the prevalence of raised mounds 
and headstones. It is hoped by the com- 
mission that the resolution will induce 
a proper pride among the lot owners 
leading to the agreement to pay an 
equitable assessment for the care of the 
cemetery. 
A recent vote of the St. John’s ceme- 
tery association, Clinton, Mass., paves 
the way for the settlement of a contro- 
versy of some eleven years’ standing be- 
tween Bishop T. D. Beaven, of Spring- 
field, the owner in fee of the cemetery. 
Rev. John J. O’Keefe and Martin Mur- 
phy, undertaker. On July 1, 1898, the 
Metropolitan water board agreed to buy 
the old St. John’s cemetery, and by the 
terms of the agreement a new cemetery 
was to have been bought and all bodies 
transferred. The amount involved was 
$92,500, which was to be paid in install- 
ments. There is still about $17,000, with 
interest, to be paid to Mr. Murphy, and 
the state will pay over to the associa- 
tion' $32,000. 
One of the first rural cemeteries in 
Kansas is probably that at Lawrence, 
and whatever of beauty there is, is 
claimed to be due to a letter from 
Adolph Strauch, ■ about 1885. The 
ground was divided into 200-ft. trian- 
gles, and stations set for survey monu- 
ments. In improving it such obstacles 
as mounds, foot-stones, lot corners, etc., 
have to be contended with. 
The new addition to the North Belton 
Cemetery, Belton, Texas, has just been 
fenced by the Texas Wire Fence Co. 
The fence comprises l^-in. pipe railings 
with 2-in. uprights every 8 feet, set two 
feet in concrete. The height above the 
ground is 4 feet, and extra heavy gal- 
vanized wire stays are used ; a barb wire 
is run around above the rail to prevent 
cattle from reaching over. Its cost was 
55 cents per foot. 
CEMETERY IMPROVEMENTS 
