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which is Baltimore’s large landscape cemetery. Here 
the visitors saw the work of constructing the new elec- 
tric railroad which is to run entirely through the 
grounds to the receiving vault, passing through a 
beautiful wooded ravine, which separates the newer 
portion of the cemetery from the old. 
An invitation was received to visit West Laurel 
Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia, and a number of the 
members took advantage of this opportunity and also 
visited New York. 
The following is a list of the new members pre- 
sented by the Committee on Credentials : 
William Eurich, Supt. “Hillside,” Minneapolis; W. S. 
Cornell, Supt. “Asheville.” Asheville, N. C. ; T. H. Little, Ass’t 
Secretary “Mt. Hope,” Chicago; George C. Rich, “Prospect 
Hill,” Washington, D. C. ; Anthony .A.mbrosini, Supt. “For- 
est,” St. Paul, Minn.; John P. O’Connor, Secretary and 
Treasurer, “Calvary and St. Mary’s,” St. Paul, Minn.; 
Charles H. Cole, “Rosedale and Linden Park,” Elizabeth, 
N. J. ; Walter M. Richardson, Supt. Evergreen Cemetery, 
Leominster, Mass. ; J. L. Halstead, Supt. Nyack Cemetery, 
Nyack, N. Y. ; W. H. Isaac, Supt. Monongahela Cemetery, 
Monongahela, Pa.; James H. Nicoll, Supt. Lexington Cem- 
etery, Lexington, Ky. ; Edward R. Longstreth, secretary 
“West Laurel Hill,” Philadelphia; J. P. Bodfish, Resident Man- 
ager St. John’s Cemetery, Canton, Mass.; John M. Burns, 
“Mt. Olivet,” Washington, D. C. ; J. E. Trent, Supt. “Canarsie,” 
Brooklyn, N. Y. ; Fred. 1. Sloan, Ass’t Supt. “Woodland,” 
Ironton, Ohio ; L. L. Farley, Supt. “Greenlawn,” Adams- 
town, W. Va. ; Thomas L. H. Wiltberger, Supt. “Rock Creek,” 
Washington, D. C. ; Robert D. Howell, Secretary and Treas- 
urer, “Rock Creek,” Washington, D. C. ; J. I. DeHaven, Sec- 
retary “Mt. Olivet,” San Francisco, Cal.; Horace A Derry, 
Supt. “Glenwood,” Everett, Mass ; Robert Gilchrist, Supt. 
“Wyoming,” West Pittston, Pa. ; J. T. Earnshaw, Supt. “Con- 
gressional,” Washington, D. C. ; Lewis Ehlers, Supt. “Loudon 
Park,” Baltimore, Md. ; Edw. Woods, Supt. “Bonnie Brae,” 
Baltimore, Md. ; Frank Primrose, Secretary and Treasurer, 
“Loudon Park,” Baltimore, Md. ; J. A. Hepler, Ass’t Supt. 
“Charles Evans,” Reading, Pa. ; H. M. Swartz, Milton, Pa. ; 
L. G. Turner, President Lorraine Cemetery, Bethlehem, Pa.; 
L. H. Brenton, President “Wyoming,” West Pittson, Pa. ; 
Rev. V. P. Langley, St. John’s Church Cemetery, Conlon, 
Mass. ; William Harris, Supt. “Woodlawn,” Wilkensburg, 
Pa.; William TayLr, Supt. “Forest Hills,” Chattanooga, 
Tenn. ; Robert Schivener, Ass’t Supt. “Cedar Hill.” Hartford, 
Conn.; J. A. Schmiemeier, Supt. “St. Mathews,” St. Louis. 
Those registered at the convention were as follows : 
James Currie and wife, Mrs. N. 0. Slater, W. S. Pirie, 
Milw'aukee; L. L. Farley, Adam.son, W. Va. ; Edward G. Car- 
ter and wife, W. N. Rudd and wife. Geo. L. Tilton and wife, 
Chicago; John R. Hooper and A. Bargamin, Richmond, Va. ; 
A. E. Silcott, Washington Court House, O. ; Mrs. S. Binder, 
Alleghany, Pa. ; J. H. Erskine, Manchester, N. H. ; U. T. 
Dubel, Glenna Dubel, and Mrs. Preston, Canandaigua, N. Y. ; 
J. R. Florence, Circleville, O. ; O. W. Crabbs and wife, Mun- 
cie, Ind. ; S. C. Penrose and daughter, S. C. Palmer, Frances 
Palmer, Edith Sweeney, Wilmington, Del.; P. L. King, But- 
ler, Pa.; George Van Atta and wife and Mrs. A. J. Bald- 
win, Newark, O. ; Chas. E. Sparks, Jr., wife and sister; J. C. 
Scorgie and wife, Cambridge, Mass.; H. N. Schwartz, Milton, 
Pa. ; J. L. Bodfish, Canton, Mass. ; Geo. W. Creesy and wife, 
Salem, Mass. ; John C. Dix and wife, Cleveland, O. ; Jas. H. 
Nicoll and wife, Lexington, Ky. ; William H. Isaac, Monon- 
gahela, Pa. ; Sid J. Hare, wife and two children, Kansas City, 
Mo.; George W. Voorhees and wife, Norwalk, Conn.; R. D. 
Howell and wife, Washington, D. C. ; R. N. Kesterson and 
Son, Knoxville, Tenn; David Woods and daughter, Pitts- 
burg; T. E. Anderson, Danville, 111.; H. L. Foy, Winston- 
Salem, N. C. ; H. Wilson Ross and wife, Newton Center, 
Mass. ; R. E. Scrivener and friend, Hartford, Conn. ; George 
Gossard, wife and daughter, Washington Court House, O. ; 
John M. Burns, Washington, D. C. ; John E. Miller and wife 
and Mrs. W. H. Hancock, Mattoon, 111. ; Thomas White, 
Fairhaven, Mass.; Chas. B. Jefferson and wife, Philadelphia; 
P. W. Goodwin and wife, Jamestown, N. Y. ; William Fal- 
coner and daughter, Pittsburg; F. S. Newcomb and E. Row- 
ley, New London, Conn. ; F. 1. Sloan, Ironton, O. ; H. A. 
Derry, Everett, Mass.; F. S. Gilberts, Waynesboro, Pa. ; John 
Bidelman, lAlbion, N. Y. ; T. H. Little, Chicago ; A. Rein- 
hardt and wife. Orange, N. J. ; William Taylor, Chattanooga, 
Tenn.; T. H. Wright, Covington, Ky. ; William Stone, Lynn, 
Mass. ; R. A. Leavitt, Melrose, Mass. ; John W. Keller and 
wife, Rochester, N. Y. ; W. S. Cornell, Asheville, N. C. ; 
F. Sheard, Rochester, N. Y. ; L. B. Root and wife, Kansas 
City, Mo.; John M. Boxell, St. Paul, Minn.; C. H. Cole, 
Elizabeth, N. J. ; John Gunn, Whitinsville, Mass.; T. L. 
Wiltberger, Washington, D. C. ; William Salway and wife, 
Cincinnati; Frank Primrose, Lewis Ehlers, Baltimore; Jas. 
H. Morton, Boston; John J. Stephens and wife, Columbus, 
O.; Alex. McKerichar, Washington, D. C. ; Misses M. A., 
A. N. and Lillian E. Smith and George M. Painter, Philadel- 
phia; Fred R. Diering, wife and daughter, New York; Bel- 
lett Lawson and wife, Paxtang, Pa.; Bellett Lawson, Jr., and 
wife, Buffalo, N. Y. ; Chas. M. Chamberlain, Maspeth, N. Y. ; 
Ed. L. Kimes, Toledo, O. ; W. H. Druckemiller, Sunbury, 
Pa. ; R. D. Boice, Geneseo, 111. ; Edw. R. Longstreth, Phila- 
delphia; G. L. Kelly and wife. New Albany, Ind.; Mrs. Mc- 
Bride, Mrs. E. E. Hay, Erie, Pa. ; G. Scherzinger and niece. 
Fond du Lac, Wis. ; Richard Gohlke and wife, Findlay, 0.; 
Henry Bresser, Toledo, O. ; Frank Eurich and wife, Detroit, 
Mich. ; O. H. Sample, Park and Cemetery, Chicago. 
Perpetual Care. 
Paper by U\ S. Pirie^ Sec, Forest Home Cemetery^ Mihvaukee^ at the Convention of Cemetery Superintendents. 
“The proper and legal methods of applying this principle.” 
Such was the wording used in notifying me of my selection 
by the Executive Committee, to prepare a paper for the nine- 
teenth annual meeting of the Association of American Ceme- 
tery Superintendents. 
On examination of annual statements of cemeteries as 
published in Park and Cemetery and Landscape Gardening, 
there seem to be two kinds of Perpetual Care funds: 
First, and the most general, are the funds given for the 
perpetual care of individual lots. Such funds, it seems to me, 
should be called “Funds for perpetual care of Lots.” 
Second, sums set aside by the cemetery officials for the 
perpetual care of the whole cemetery. We will call such 
funds “General Reserve or General Care of Cemetery Funds.” 
The existence of either or both of these funds, assumes that 
the location of the cemetery is permanent and that no change 
in environment will necessitate abandoning the land as 
a burial place. Before any cemetery officials give a contract 
or receipt binding the corporation forever, has proper pre- 
caution been taken, through legislative action or otherwise, 
to assure the permanency of the location of the Cemetery 
grounds, and their perpetual use as a burial place? We all 
know of many instances where cemeteries have been con- 
demned, the interments ordered removed to a different location 
and often the identification of those interred completely lost. 
Suppose perpetual care had been provided for on lots in such 
cemeteries, how are the officials to carry out the binding 
contracts of their predecessors? Is it not paramount to all 
other considerations that the greatest caution be exercised 
to insure the permanency of location? 
Next to the permanency of location, the permanency of the 
organization must be considered. Are our cemetery com- 
panies or associations so organized that provision is made 
so that they can carry out the contracts for all time them- 
selves, or turn such funds or obligation over to some organi- 
zation of an unending nature, which will bind itself and its 
successors to carry out the original agreement? If per- 
manency in these two vital points has been provided for we 
