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Three State Cemetery Associations Meet. 
Notice to Michigan Cemeteries, 
A meeting to organize a State Association will be held at 
Grand Rapids, Mich., on Wednesday, July 26th, 1905. 
The meeting will be called to order at the Pantlind Hotel, 
which has been selected for the place of meeting, at 10 a. m. 
While no definite program has been outlined, assurance is 
given that discussions of subjects and questions of interest 
and importance to cemetery work will occupy the time allotted 
for the meeting; besides which cemeteries and other places 
of interest will be visited. 
It is hoped that representatives of Michigan Cemeteries will 
report in large numbers. 
FR.^NK Eurich, 
Superintendent Woodlawn Cemetery, Detroit, Mich. 
Illinois Association of Cemeteries. 
The second annual convention of the Illinois Association 
of Cemeteries will be held at Dwight, Livingston County, 111 ., 
June 21 and 22. An interesting and varied program has been 
prepared and cemeteries of the state are urged to send repre- 
sentatives to the meeting. 
The program is as follows : 
Wednesday, June 21. 
The first day’s session will be called at 2 p. m., and after 
the regular business has been disposed of the following pro- 
gram will be given : 
Paper — Cemetery Management from a Woman’s Standpoint. 
Mrs. Mary C. Hoblit, Atlanta Cemetery Association. 
Discussion on Perpetual Care as Applied to Our Smaller 
Cemeteries, led liy John E. Miller, Secretary Asso- 
ciation, Mattoon, 111 . 
Question Box. 
7:30 p. m. 
Paper — The Use of Shrubs and Trees in Our Smaller Ceme- 
teries. O. C. Simonds, Graceland Cemetery, Chicago. 
Paper — Interment Methods. R. D. Boice, Geneseo, 111 . 
Paper — Cemetery Records. E. G. Carter, Oak Woods Ceme- 
tery. Chicago, 111 . 
Election of Officers. 
Closing Address. Dr. Wohlgemuth, Springfield, 111 , 
Thursday, June 22. 
Vhsit Local Cemeteries and points of interest. 
Ohio Cemetery Officials at Cleveland. 
The Ohio State Association of Cemetery Superintendents 
and Officials met at Cleveland, June 14 and 15, and a very- 
interesting and profitable meeting was expected by the officers. 
'I'he sessions were held at the Hotel Euclid beginning at 
one o'clock, June 14th, and closing at al)out three o'clock the 
ne.xt day. 
One of the especially interesting features of the meeting 
was the visit to Lake V’iew Cemetery on the morning of the 
second day, where the Superintendents were the guests of 
Secretary Frederick Green of that cemetery, who is presi- 
dent of the Association. 
Perpetual Care in American Cemeteries. 
(Continued.) 
A Syinposiian of Methods of 
Some of the Leading Cemeteries. 
Began in the May issue. 
Lake ‘Dielv Cemetery, Cleveland, 0. 
The amount set aside for perpetual care should be per foot, 
not per cent, and it should be 30c, 40c or 50c, or more or less, 
according to local conditions. In Lake View Cemetery it is 
50 cents. 
The proportion applied to general care of the cemetery as 
a whole, and to the individual contributing lot, depends upon 
the construction of the roads and whether they run up hill 
and down dale ; how many lakes and lily ponds, and how 
much unavailable land. 
When a portion of the cemetery has been sold without 
special care contract, adjustment can be made looking toward 
general care of the cemetery as provided in the following 
contract : 
1.. V. C. A. 
Extra Ciire-Endowiiieiit. No 
TRUST AGREEMENT. 
This Memoranduni o£ Agreement made by and between the 
undersigned at Cleveland, O., on the day of 
190.. , AVitnessetli : 
AVliereas, 
has this day delivered to the l.ake View Cemetery As.soeia- 
tion the sum of 
Dollars, ($ ) in good and lawful money of the 
United States of America, and 
AVlierea.s, it is understood and agreed by and between 
said 
and the Uake A’lew Cemetery Assoeiatiou, that said money 
is so delivered for the following uses and purposes and for 
no other, to-wit: 
Out of the Income, derived from said money to furnish 
funds for the extra preservation and care of 
lot No of section No of Lake View 
Cemetery, of record in the name of 
in the following manner, to-wit: 
square feet 
of said lot by frequent cutting, watering, weeding, top- 
dressing and seeding, and also in the special care of all 
headstones and monuments by washing and cleaning, and 
Whereas, it is the hope and expectation of the Associa- 
tion that in the course of time sufficient sums will be se- 
cured from special endowments, supplemented by contribu- 
tions from the Association, to permit giving the same care to 
the entire section and ultimately to the entire Cemetery, 
therefore 
It I.S Expressly understood that if by reason of numerous 
endowments, or otherwise, an excess of income may accrue; 
the same may, at the discretion of the trustees, be applied to 
the care of the grass on the entire section, and when the 
annual expenditure for the care of grass shall equal one 
cent per square foot for the entire Cemetery, said excess 
may in like manner be applied to the entire Cemetery 
grounds. 
Now, Therefore, The Uake A'iew Cemetery Association ac- 
knowledges the receipt of said money for the uses and 
purposes and upon the conditions above named, and said 
hereby authorizes said Association to hold and manage said 
money, and in its discretion, to invest and re-invest the 
same. 
It Is Expressly understood by and between the under- 
signed, that if any portion of the principal or income of the 
money above described shall be used for purposes other 
than those herein specified, such user shall work a forfeit- 
ure of this trust, whereupon the principal shall revert to 
and vest in the legal representativ-es of said 
AA'ituess our hands on the day first above written. 
N. B. — The following prices have been fixed: 
Endowment deposit for each square foot of grass. . . .50 cents 
Endowment deposit for each ivy-covered grave $ 75.00 
Endowment deposit for each bed or vase of flowers. . 250.00 
Trustees may be organized as follows : A board of 20, 
a president, vice-president, executive committee of five, Sec- 
retary, treasurer and manager. President should not be re- 
elected after two years’ service and no member of executive 
committee re-elected after ten years. This would bring a 
For the special care of the grass upon 
