PARK AND CEMETERY 
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CEHETERY NOTES 
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The employees of Forest Cemetery, 
Toledo, O., walked out on strike one 
day last month, but walked in next day, 
deciding to await the action of council 
on salary ordinance. 
Superintendent William Falconer, of 
Allegheny cemetery, Pittsburg, recently 
met the first complaint against automo- 
biles since the cemetery was opened to 
them seven years ago. The rules are 
very strict : “The cemetery is not per- 
mitted to be used as a thoroughfare or 
short cut for motorists, and no auto- 
mobiles are admitted unless a ticket 
is first obtained. These tickets are giv- 
en to lot owners onl}^, and are can- 
celed if the rules are broken. No ma- 
chine is allowed to run faster than five 
miles an hour and no noise is allowed.” 
A compartment mausoleum of a 
capacity of 420 bodies has recently 
been completed at Fairview Cemetery, 
Waterloo, la. It is constructed of 
reinforced concrete faced with white 
enameled brick, trimmed with Bed- 
ford stone, and has a tile roof. The 
iiiside is lined with marble and has 
a mosaic floor. 
The sites of several old cemeteries 
in New York state are to be taken 
by the state for right of way or other 
purposes in the construction of the 
new barge canal, and some of these 
old cemeteries are in the neighbor- 
hood of Schenectady. The bodies 
tendent of Public W'orks. Ample 
provision for the protection of those 
who are legally entitled to direct the 
disposition of the bodies is made in 
the law. In some of the cemeteries 
are grave stones recording deaths in 
1803. 
A rumpus was created last month 
between the Grand Army veterans 
and the authorities of Uniondale Ceme- 
tery, Pittsburgh, Pa., over the removal 
of the flags from the graves of the sol- 
diers’ plot. It appears that the rains 
and hot sun had seriously impaired the 
appearance of the flags and, as has been 
customary, the superintendent ordered 
their removal. This action was resented 
by the G. A. R. post. 
The board of cemetery trustees of 
Boston has purchased an auto, cost- 
ing $685, for the department, to re- 
place the horses. The board has 3 
horses of an aggregate age of §3 years, 
and it concluded that an auto would 
be a better investment than three 
new horses. 
Under the recent law of New Jer- 
sey regarding the acquisition by cities 
of abandoned cemeteries, Paterson 
has secured two and is expecting 
deeds for the third. This has been 
done without any friction, and these 
old cemeteries, after the bodies have 
been transferred will be transformed 
into a park. It has taken many years 
to reach this result. 
The litigation between Kansas City, 
Mo., and the Union Cemetery of that 
city, has assumed larger proportions 
and the city authorities were tempo- 
rarily enjoined by the court against 
interfering with burials in that ceme- 
tery. However, a test case was pro- 
vided in the proposed interment of 
H. S. Millett, a pioneer who died 
July 16, but until further action by 
the courts the body was placed in the 
receiving vault. It is claimed that 
there were ulterior motives at the 
back of the ordinance passed July 14, 
in relation to making an unoccupied 
part of the cemetery subject to spe- 
cial taxes and public improvements. 
The fight on the part of specu- 
lators of one kind or another to 
provide more cemeteries in Queen’s 
County, N. Y., the Brooklyn district, 
was possibly effectually settled when 
Governor Hughes signed the bill 
“prohibiting the acquisition hereafter 
of lands in Queen’s County for ceme- 
tery purposes.” 
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court, 
sitting at Philadelphia, recently 
handed down an opinion affirming the 
decree of the lower court in the case 
of Pitcairn versus the Homewood 
Cemetery Co., which it will be re- 
membered was mentioned in these 
columns some time ago. The ceme- 
tery corporation appealed the case 
from the decision of the county court 
with the above result, and the costs 
were put on the appellant. Mrs. Pit- 
cairn desired be erect a mausoleum 
in memory of her husband, a well 
known citizen of Pittsburgh, on a cer- 
tain part of the family lot, a site to 
which the cemetery company objected 
as being opposed to the rules gov- 
erning such matters. Mrs. Pitcairn 
brought suit in the county court 
and a decision was given in her 
favor,' upholding the right to des- 
ignate the location of her memorial. 
A gateway has recently been erected 
at the entrance of St. Mary's cemetery, 
Montgomery, N. Y., by the rector of 
the parish, Rev. Francis C. Lenes, in 
memory of his mother. 
The agents of the National Mauso- 
leum Company have commenced nego- 
tiations for a 200 crypt concrete mau- 
soleum to be erected in Glenwood Cem- 
etery, Mankato, Minn. This is report- 
ed to be the first proposition in Minne- 
sota. 
The Supreme Court of Connecticut 
has reversed the decision of the lower 
court which gave a judgment in favor 
of the West Meriden Cemetery Asso- 
ciation in its fight against the city of 
Meriden on an assessment of $400 for 
curbing on Orange street. The Supreme 
Court has given the decision in favor 
of the city. 
The House committee on military 
affairs at Washington reported a bill to 
increase the salary of the superintend- 
ent of Arlington Cemetery from $75 to 
$100 per month, witli quarters and fuel, 
and the superintendents of other na- 
tional cemeteries from $60 to $75 per 
month, at the discretion of the Secre- 
tary of War. 
An amusing incident has arisen over 
the condemnation of cemetery land for 
the Ashokan dam of the New York 
water supply project. The cemeteries 
involved are the Evergreen and Ennist, 
a dozen miles out of Kingston, and ac- 
cording to a press report it took 45 ses- 
sions of the Board of Reviewers, at $50 
per session for each man, to show that 
the city ought to pay $4,517.50 for the 
139 graves taken. The three commis- 
sioners are likely to ask $6,750 for their 
services. 
IMPROVEMENTS, ADDITIONS, 
ETC. 
The Baltimore Cemetery Co., Balti- 
more, Md., has awarded a contract to 
R. J. Mooney, for the erection of a 
one-story brick office building, from de- 
sign of J. W. Farley, architect. Cost 
about $2,500. 
The township board of Rochester, 
Mich., have been investigating vaults 
with a view to the erection of a re- 
ceiving vault in the Rochester ceme- 
tery. Three thousand dollars has been 
appropriated and the work will be un- 
dertaken at once. 
A contract for the extension of the 
greenhouse at Oak Grove Cemetery. 
Fall River, Mass., was awarded last 
month to the Weathered Co., of Jer- 
sey City, N. J., at a cost of $2,850. 
Work is progressing rapidly on the 
new entrance and flanking buildings of 
Wyuka Cemetery, Lincoln, Neb. It is 
