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A. A. C. S. Philadelphia September 1 2 
The Executive Committee for the 
25th annual convention of the Asso- 
ciation of American Cemetery Super- 
intendents in Philadelphia have fixed 
the dates and organized the work of 
getting ready. The dates are Septem- 
ber 12, 13 and 14, and the committee 
is composed as follows: 
Geo. M. Painter, Westminster 
Cemetery, Philadelphia, chairman; 
W. W. Kiefer, Ardsley Burial Park; 
J. G. Kline, Fernwood Cemetery; W. 
J. Proud, Laurel Hill; E. G. .Simon, 
Lawnview; Chas. B. Jefferson, West 
Laurel Hill, secretary of committee. 
The committee will be glad to re- 
ceive suggestions regarding the pro- 
gram, or any other matters concern- 
ing the meeting. Headquarters have 
been established at 1409 Arch St., the 
office of Westminster Cemetery, and 
either Mr. Painter or Mr. Jefferson 
may be addressed there. 
Following the election at the an- 
nual meeting of the Temple Mishkan 
Israel at New Haven, Conn., in 
December, it was announced that 
more land had been purchased adjoin- 
ing the cemetery and that the com- 
mittee would at once proceed to im- 
prove it and erect a handsome chapel 
thereon. It was at once voted to put 
it in charge of landscape experts for 
improvement and as soon as complete 
to erect the chapel. The cost of the 
latter will be $10,000 or $15,000. 
Improvements have been carried 
out in Beatrice Cemeteries, Beatrice, 
Neb., to the amount of $1,650 in 1910; 
two Vermont granite gate entrances 
were prominent features. The gate 
columns are 11 ft. 4 in. high includ- 
ing an 18 in. polished granite ball. 
The work was done by Chas. Neid- 
hart, monument dealer of Beatrice. 
Mr. Walter D. Hill is secretary of 
the Cemetery Association. 
Hare & Hare, landscape architects, 
Kansas City, Mo., have recently com- 
pleted plans for a 23 acre addition to 
Grand View Cemetery, Salem, O., 
which will be opened as a quiet park 
retreat for the Salem citizens. Two 
lakes, a system of drives and orna- 
mental plantings will be the only work 
at present; no lots will be staked out 
or sold. The firm has also just com- 
pleted plans for a 150 acre residential 
park at Houston, Te.x. It is a fine 
location with fine natural advantages 
for park effects, as well as residence 
necessities. 
The Woodlawn Cemetery officials, 
Edwardsville, 111., have barred auto- 
mobiles from the grounds. The de- 
cision was based on a recent serious 
runaway caused by an automobile. 
The Lehigh Valley Railroad Com- 
pany has decided to deed to Hazle- 
ton, Pa., the surface and mineral 
rights of the old Church street ceme- 
tery as a site for the erection of a 
$100,000 municipal building. The 
cemetery, which is near the main 
street, was abandoned some years 
ago. 
A community mausoleum is talked 
of for Columbia City, Ind. The pro- 
posed site is on the Linville addition 
to the Masonic Cemetery. 
The work of caring for the grounds 
of Evergreen Cemetery, Emmetsburg, 
la., belonging to the Emmetsburg 
Cemetery Association, is in charge of 
an Auxiliary Ladies Society, and the 
work has been so well done that the 
cemetery is receiving much attention 
in consequence. 
The grounds of the Mount Scott 
Park Cemetery Corporation, of Port- 
land, Oregon, comprise some 335 
acres of land located eight and a half 
miles from the center of the business 
district. Twenty-five acres have been 
graded, and the superintendent’s resi- 
dence and office building are in course 
of completion, and a combined chapel, 
crematorium, receiving vault, etc., will 
be started in the spring. It is ex- 
pected that the improved portion will 
be ready for the sale of lots the com- 
ing spring, and the company pro- 
poses to operate the cemetery exclu- 
sively on the park and lawn system. 
There is a movement in Salem, 
Mass., to transfer the care of the City 
Cemetery, Greenlawn, from the com- 
mittee on public property to a com- 
mission of lot owners. The uncer- 
tainty of proper attention to the needs 
of the cemetery due to changes in 
management on account of the pub- 
lic property committee being an elec- 
tive bod}' has aroused a demand for 
a change. 
The Minnesota house of representa- 
tives has passed the Campbell-Palmer 
bill under suspension of the rules, 
prohibiting the location of cemeteries 
within three-quarters of a mile of the 
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state university or the Soldiers’ Home. 
The court has handed down an 
opinion in the suit brought by Mary 
A. Chellis, against the Lakeside Cem- 
etery company, Erie, Pa., to recover 
on certificate of indebtedness issued 
by the defendant company, with no- 
tice to S. H. Drown, receiver of the 
said Lakeside cemetery. The court 
decided that these cemetery certifi- 
cates w'ere payable only from a cer- 
tain fund, that derived from the sale 
of lots, and it was instructed that the 
prothonotary enter judgment for the 
defendant. 
Mr. Frank Wise, Peterboro, On- 
tario, gives the following formula, in 
“The Canadian Florist,’’ for fertiliz- 
ing purposes in the 700 vases on the 
grounds of Little Lake Cemetery: 
He mixed a quantity of fertilizer, con- 
sisting of one part nitrate of soda 
“pulverized,” three parts bone flour 
and six parts Harris’s Blood and 
Bone, and applied a handful to each 
vase about the latter part of July. The 
plants did not /"equire any more dur- 
ing the season. In many instances 
the vases were completely covered 
with the vines. He’s tried this mix- 
ture, doubling the quantity of nitrate 
of soda, on pansy beds in the spring. 
These beds were the admiration of all 
visitors to the grounds. 
Articles of incorporation have been 
filed at Madison, Wis., by the Wis- 
consin ^Mausoleum Construction Com- 
pany of ^Milwaukee. Capital stock, 
$50,000. 
The streets committee of Marinette, 
Wis., has instructed the city attorney 
to begin proceedings for the condem- 
nation of the old cemetery adjoining 
the high school for municipal pur- 
poses. It is designed to use the old 
cemetery for park and playground 
purposes. 
The contract has been let for re- 
moving the bodies from the Baptist 
Cemetery, Paterson, N. J., under the 
law for making parks from old cem- 
eteries. According to the specifica- 
tions the bids were based on the 
square foot of soil to be excavated. 
Laurel Grove Cemetery company of- 
fered to do the work for fifty cents 
per square foot, provided the bodies 
were interred in that cemetery. An- 
other contractor offered to take up 
the work for twenty-eight cents a 
square foot, but by the last bid to be 
opened, that of Samuel G. iMcKiernan, 
it was shown that seven cents, a square 
foot was sufficient compensation for 
this kind of work. 
Sebring, O., is to have a new cem- 
etery. The Sebring Cemetery asso- 
