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CEHETERY NOTES 
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The ]\Iassillon Cemetery Association 
of Massillon, O., has passed the follow- 
ing resolution for the control of auto- 
mobile traffic : “Resolved, That the mo- 
tion carried August 12, 1908, prohibiting 
automobiles from entering the cemetery 
be, and the same is hereby amended to 
read as follows : Automobiles shall be 
Xjrohibited from entering the cemeter}- 
except between the hours of 6 a. m. and 
10 a. m., and when in the cemetery they 
shall not run at a speed exceeding four 
miles per hour. They shall enter at the 
main gate.” 
The town of Wallingford, Conn., is 
having considerable trouble over the 
proposed changes at the Center Street 
Cemetery. The remains will have to 
be removed from several graves, and 
because of the age of the burials it is 
a practical impossibility to locate de- 
scendants who could give the required 
permission. Several assents have been 
obtained, but it is quite probable that a 
special act of the legislature will have 
to be obtained before it will be safe 
to disturb certain of the graves. 
The village board of cemetery com- 
missioners of Penn Yan, N. Y., has re- 
cently adopted a resolution which de- 
clares in effect that no automobiles will 
thereafter be allowed in the Lake View 
Cemetery. The penalty is $10. Narrow 
drives and roadways in the cemetery 
are said to have led to the passage of 
such a resolution. 
The question of permitting motor 
cars in the grounds of Maple Grove 
Cemetery, Findlay, O., was up for de- 
cision by the Public Service body of 
that city last month. It was considered 
improbable that the rules of the ceme- 
tery. which were last revised in 1893, 
would be changed, but the matter was 
postponed for investigation. 
On a tract of land in the city of Wil- 
mington, Del, desired for park pur- 
poses there are two small colored ceme- 
teries, one closed, the other in which 
burials are still made, although it is 
overcrowded. The Board of Health has 
had considerable trouble in connection 
with these burial grounds, and it is al- 
together probable that the authorities 
will resolve to abolish them. 
The “Boston Record,” in speaking of 
cremation, says : “It will not take an- 
other century in this country to force 
the public to consider it most seriously,” 
when the infinite gain in sanitation, eco- 
nomic use of land and a regard for pos- 
terity is realized. 
In spite of protests, the Board of Su- 
pervisors of Nassau Co., Long Island, 
N. Y., has granted permission to the 
Rockville Centre Cemetery Association 
to purchase eight acres of adjoining land 
for use for cemetery purposes. The 
addition will give the cemetery a total 
area of 20 acres. 
The photographers of Worcester, 
Mass., appear to have worked up quite 
a business in photographing corpses 
for sorrowing friends after the funeral 
had reached Hope Cemetery and before 
burial. The details connected with such 
gruesome work and the growing prac- 
tice led the superintendent to lay the 
matter before the commissioners, who 
unanimously voted to refuse permission 
for any more photography of that kind. 
Dr. Ira J. McCurdy, health officer of 
Frederick, Md., has recommended to 
the Mayor and Board of Aldermen of 
his city that the municipality establish 
a cemetery for animals. The Provi- 
dence, R. L, “Bulletin” eloquently en- 
dorses the idea as being a valuable one 
for many reasons. 
Application having been made to es- 
tablish an additional cemetery at Hill- 
side, Pleasantville, N. J., by the Cancer 
Hospital authorities, a mass meeting of 
citizens was held recently to discuss the 
proposition. The result was that the 
project was unanimously voted down. 
The control and management of the 
city cemetery of Lorain, O., which un- 
der legal opinion was said to come un- 
der the head of Service Department, 
was transferred from the hands of the 
Director of Public Service into those of 
the Director of Public Safety on Au- 
gust 1. 
While Omaha, Neb., claims an annual 
death rate of only eight per thousand, it 
maintains fourteen undertakers, nine 
monument dealers, twenty florists and 
one casket company to attend to the 
business of caring for the dead. It is 
possible that the city ranks among the 
foremost in the country for the sumptu- 
ousness of its burials, and a monument 
Imsiness is transacted amounting to over 
$175,000 per }mar. 
The “L^ndertakers’ Journal” gives an 
interesting note of a strike of stone cut- 
ters in the celebrated Pere la Chaise 
Cemetery, Paris, which might attain to 
very serious proportions considering 
that there are some 3,000 workmen em- 
ployed in and about the grounds. It 
began with the refusal of one firm’s 
men to work with a non-unionist. This 
developed into a lock-out by the employ- 
ers generally, and soldiers were sent in 
to do the necessary work and police to 
protect them. They apparently have the 
same difficulty which often occurs in 
this country— the breaking of agree- 
ments, for it is reported that the em- 
ployment of non-unionists, or “yel- 
low” workmen, was assented to last 
year on the part of the unions. 
The cityi authorities of Elkhart, Ind., 
have placed some $4,000 of delinquent 
notes, given for the purchase of lots in 
Grace Lawn Cemetery, into the hands 
of the City Attorney for collection. L^n- 
less paid the lots will be vacated under 
the provision of the city ordinance. 
The perpetual care fund of Rose Lawn 
Cemetery, of Pueblo, Colo., Cemetery 
Association, now amounts to $10,000. 
Except for a small single grave section 
the whole cemetery is conducted on 
the lawn plan, no niounds are permitted, 
and only one monument is allowed on a 
lot or section purchased. It was laid out 
in 1891, but has since been replatted by 
the secretar}', Mr. A. Sonneborn. It 
has an area of 100 acres. 
Samuel P. Brackett, an honored G. A. 
R. veteran, of Fitchburg, Mass., has pro- 
vided by will that $1,000 of his estate 
shall be deposited in trust, the interest 
to be used in restoring neglected and 
deserted graves in Evergreen Cemetery. 
CEMETERY IMPROVEMENTS 
Work is in progress on the improve- 
ments to the addition to Rose Hill Cem- 
etery, Mt. Carmel, 111. If it can be ar- 
ranged the cemetery association will co- 
operate with the city and Odd Fellows 
and build an attractive entrance. 
An imposing mortuary chapel is to be 
erected in Greewood cemetery, Brook- 
lyn, N. Y., preparations for which have 
been under way for some time. It is to 
be built near the receiving vault, some 
300 feet distant from the Fifth Avenue 
line. It will be a single story building, 
occupied by chancel, sacristy, chapel, 
men’s and women’s retiring rooms and 
organ space. It will have a 60-feet 
frontage and depth of 82 feet. It wdll 
be surmounted by a dome, giving a total 
height of 88 feet. The building will be 
of Gothic design throughout and among 
the decorative features will be many 
stained glass windows. 
A company has been organized to 
open a new city cemetery on the Dan- 
iel Ward farm, two miles east of Misha- 
waka, Ind. It is claimed that there is 
a rapidly growing need for more ceme- 
tery facilities. 
J. C. Bendon, Myersdale, Pa., has do- 
