PARK AND CEMETERY 
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The rumpus in art circles last year 
over the unauthorized copying of St. 
Gauden’s magnificent figure in the 
Adams lot at Rock Creek Cemetery, 
Washington, D. C., has culminated in a 
suit for $5,000 in the U. S. Circuit 
Court in Connecticut against J. Frank 
Salter, a monument man of New Lon- 
don, Conn. The plaintiff, Gen. Felix 
Angus, a prominent Baltimorean, claims 
that the defendant secured from him a 
commission to furnish him with a repli- 
ca of the figure for his own lot in Bal- 
timore, on representation that he had 
full authority from Saint Gaudens to 
make a certain number of copies. Gen. 
Angus avers that the bronze figure he 
set up was a spurious and fraudulent 
imitation of the figure in the Adams 
Memorial, , and he asks that Salter be 
compelled to remove the monument and 
refund the monej' paid him for it. 
A bill has been introduced into the 
legislature at Albany, N. Y., to create 
a commission of one senator and two 
representatives to investigate and report 
to the legislature in 1911 on cemeteries, 
cemetery corporations and cemetery 
trust funds. It is to serve without com- 
pensation and the bill carries $.5,000 for 
expenses. 
The trustees of Charles Evans Ceme- 
tery, Reading, Pa., have placed them- 
selves on record as endorsing the stand- 
ing rule that a murderer cannot be bur- 
ied in the cemetery unless he is a lot 
owner. They declined to permit the 
funeral of Elery J. Leavitt, who killed 
his sweetheart and himself. The burial 
rvas made elsewhere under the care of 
the Eagles, whose chaplain found some- 
thing kindly to say of the subject. It 
would seem that the trustees might well 
eliminate 'the inconsistency centering in 
its standing rule, whereby a murderer 
may be buried on their grounds pro- 
vided he was a lot owner, but burial 
can be refused such a man otherwise. 
We are living in a new century now. 
It is expected that the interpretation 
of the new Ohio law governing munici- 
palities by which the director of Public 
Safety is charged with the care of the 
cemeteries, will result in their favor. 
The Director of Public Safety, not be- 
ing so entirely absorbed in other duties 
as was the Board of Public Service, 
will be in better position to give more 
especial attention to the matter of ceme- 
tery development and care. 
The Marion Cemetery Association, 
Marion, O., do quite a business in pro- 
viding plants and flowers for their lot 
owners. The greenhouse plant consists 
of houses 56 feet x 12 feet ; one house 
56 feet by 18 feet, and one 18 feet b\' 
20 feet. Bedding stock is mostly raised 
to be used in the grounds. The plant- 
ing of beds and care of them through 
the season is supplied for $1.50 per 
dozen of geraniums, and for border 
stuff’, 50 cents per dozen. Over 10,000 
plants were thus used in the grounds 
last year. Considerable business is done 
in cut flowers but nearly all this stock 
is purchased. Both the office and con- 
servatory are heated by steam, natural 
gas being used under the boilers. 
The Fourth Annual Flower Day of 
Greenwood Cemetery, Knoxville, Tenn., 
was held June 9, and an interesting pro- 
gram w'as provided. A perpetual care 
fund is being accumulated from 25 per 
cent of the lot sales, and improvements 
now under way promise very attract- 
ive results. Greenwood is beautifully 
located and the con)oration has acquired 
some 150 acres of land. 
The Boston “Post” recently gave an 
illustrated account of Mr. Leonard W. 
Ross’, general superintendent of the 
Boston City Cemeteries, tame fish. The 
Post detailed how the fish would rise 
to the surface at Mr. Ross’ wdiistle, and 
howi even individual fish would show- 
considerable sense. Mr. Ross writes to 
us and says in the main the story is 
true, and he does not think much of it, 
as an accomplishment. Any _ one can 
so train fish ; feed them and then wdiistle 
he says, and they wdll soon learn to 
answer the call. While with the Knoll- 
wood Cemetery near Boston, he had 
in a small lake a number of trout, and 
a lot of “shiners,” the latter would come 
when called, and even the trout soon 
learned to do so. 
Mount Olivet Cemetery, San Francis- 
co, Calif., uses a card for advertising 
purposes, not much larger than a visit- 
ing card. On one side is a view of its 
ivy-covered chapel, etc., with the ad- 
dress, and on the reverse a price list 
of its single graves, openings, boxes, 
and receiving vault charges. 
Capt. William M. Terry of Bridge- 
port, Conn., formerly a resident of 
Wading River, N. Y., left in his will a 
bequest of $500 for the Wading River 
Cemetery. 
Improvement in design and in the 
laying out of cemetery grounds is evi- 
denced now-a-days by the greater at- 
tention given to the planting of en- 
trances. There has generally been quite 
a lack of appreciation of the appropri- 
ateness of such planting. In the plan 
of the grounds of Graceland Park Cem- 
etery, iioux City, low-a, designed by 
Mr. S. W. Rubee, of Marshalltown, la., 
the change is especially noticeable, and 
the result, even on paper, with sweep- 
ing road curves and libera! shrubberies 
carefully distril)Uted, promises an at- 
tractive cemetery. The ground is very 
rolling and the roads have been laid 
out with a view- to easy grades and 
thorough drainage. The contour eleva- 
tions in this tract of some 44 acres, 
vary 69.2 feet. 
The’ Texas Cemetery Superintendents’ 
Association meets in Ennis, Tex., July 
4. Papers on Cemetery Law-, Road 
Making and Street Grading are prom- 
ised. The officers are: S. J. Westlake, 
of Ennis, president W. R. Eppinger, of 
Gainesville, vice-president, and J. J. 
Hartsell, of Farmersville, secretary and 
treasurer, ft numbers at present 13 
members, with several more promised 
at the coming meeting. 
A proposition has come up in Cleve- 
land, O., to tax mausoleums and ceme- 
tery lots. When the trustees of one of 
the large cemeteries of that city applied 
for exemption from taxation on the plea 
that by law it was free from that bur- 
den, some of the appraisers declared 
themselves in favor of the above prop- 
osition. The point made was this: “If 
a magnificent palace is built to receive 
the dead, why should not taxes be col- 
lected on that expenditure as well as 
on the house occupied by the living? 
Land used for cemetery purposes sells 
for a great deal more than adjacent 
property used for residence or mercan- 
tile purposes. Cemeteries conducted on 
a revenue producing basis should pay 
a tax. Just what it is to be we will 
have to determine.” 
George H. Tilton has added to his 
list of benefactions in Littleton, N. H., 
by presenting the Glenwood Cemetery 
Association wdth a check for $1,000 as 
a foundation for an endownnent fund 
for the maintenance of the cemetery. 
The Bryn Mawr, Pa., "Record” cites 
a deplorable condition of affairs con- 
cerning the Merion Cemetery, w-herein 
it has been discovered that in some in- 
stances a dozen bodies had been depos- 
ited in one grave, the caskets piled one 
on the other to within three feet of the 
surface. The Merion Cemetery Com- 
pany was brought into the Justice Court 
and fined $200 and costs for failing to 
