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MEETING OF OHIO CEMETERY SUPERINTENDENTS. 
The Association of Ohio Cemetery Superintendents and 
Officials has prepared an interesting program for the fifth 
annual convention to be held at Columbus, June 12 and 13,, 
and at Washington Court House June 14. 
The headquarters will be at the Neil House, and the meet- 
ing is expected to be the largest yet held. All members are 
urged to come and cemetery officials who are not members are 
cordially invited to be present. The program announces that 
ladies are especially welcome. 
The program is as follows : 
Tuesday, June 12th. 
Afternoon Session, 1 130 o’clock. 
Prayer. by the Rev. John Hewitt 
Address of Welcome Mayor Badger 
Response • • . .George Van Atta 
President’s Address. Report of Secretary and Treasurer. 
Roll call, and Reception of New Members. 
Communications. Appointment of Committees. 
Secretary’s Half Hour : 
Payment of Dues. 
Applications for Membership. 
Paper — “Tree and Shrub Planting in Cemetery,” H. A. Church 
Evening Session, 8 o’clock. 
Paper — “Some Requisites of an Efficient Cemetery” 
Superintendent E. A. Sloan 
Report of Delegate to National Convention at Washington, 
D. C John J. Stephens 
Question Box. Nomination of Officers. 
During this session the ladies will be in charge of Mr.s. 
Stephens. 
Wednesday, June 13th. 
Morning Session, 9 o’clock. 
The members will assemble in front of hotel to take carriages 
for the Ohio State University Grounds, Franklin Park 
and Green Lawn Cemetery. 
Luncheon at Cemetery Grounds. Organ Recital in the Chapel. 
Visit Cemetery Grounds. 
Return by electric cars to city, 5 o’clock. 
Evening Session, 8 o’clock. 
Paper — “Starting a Cemetery” D. E. Whitaker 
Report of Committees. 
Paper — “What is Most Required to Make Cemetery Work a 
Success’ W. W. Disbro 
Unfinished Business. 
Thursday, June 14th. 
Morning Session, 6 :45 o’clock. 
The members will assemble in front of hotel to take street 
cars for union station and there take special car for 
Washington C. H. On reaching Washington, there will be 
carriages waiting at the B. & O. station to take the vis- 
itors for a drive through the city and out to Washington 
Cemetery, where luncheon will be served. 
Afternoon Session, i o’clock. 
Meeting will convene in the new Memorial Chapel. 
Prayer by the Rev. D. J. Jones 
Address of Welcome- • Mayor G. F. Robinson 
Response John J. Stephens 
Address •• by Hon. Mills Gardner 
Election of Officers. Unfinished Business. Adjournment. 
Return to Columbia by special car at 4 o’clock. 
The officers for 1906 are ; 
President, George Gossard, Washington C. H. 
Vice-president, D. E. Whitaker, East Liverpool. 
Secretary and Treasurer, G. C. Anderson, Sidney. 
NOTES ON CEMETERY LAW. 
Unless the lot of land in which a body is buried is owned 
beneficially by the relatives, the body, which according to law 
becomes a part of the ground in which it is interred, is the 
property of the owner of the land so far as an action of tres- 
pass is concerned, according to a decision sent down by the 
full bench of the supreme court of Massachusetts in the case- 
of Edward T. Feeley against William Andrews, superinten- 
dent of the Catholic cemetery at Mt. Auburn. The plaintiffs- 
claim that he was liable for trespassing upon their lot, and! 
that he opened a grave in so negligent a manner as to injure 
a casket containing the body of the plaintiff’s mother. The- 
defendant denied that the plaintiffs were owners of the lot, 
and that he had committed any trespass. The court below 
ruled that the plaintiffs were not entitled to recover, and in- 
overruling the exceptions of the plaintiffs, the full bench 
says ; “When the plaintiffs’ father committed the bodies of 
his child and his wife to the earth they became part of the 
land of another and the only person who could maintain an^ 
action for interfering with the bodies is the owner of the 
land of v/hich these bodies became a part when they were 
committed to it. That a licensee even when his license is un- 
revoked has no such interest in the land as will support an 
action of trespass as settled.” 
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Assemblyman Winters, of Tioga county. New York, has 
introduced into the Legislature of that state a bill which- 
amends the cemetery laws so as to provide that all of the 
lands held by a cemetery association as an association shall 
continue to be exempt from taxation, but where an individual 
holds more than four lots aggregating more than one-quarter 
of an acre, such lots shall not be exempt from taxation. The 
purpose of the bill is to prevent individuals purchasing 
abandoned or cemetery land now in use and holding them 
free from taxation for speculative purposes. Several bills are 
now before the Legislature regarding the use of cemetery 
lands and it is claimed that in some cases the lots are held 
for speculative purposes. Regarding the bill Mr. Winters- 
says; “The original cemetery law by Section 10 provides 
for the exemption of lots from taxation, not only those held 
by the association, but those held by individuals, no matter 
how many they may have, provides that no street shall be 
laid out through the lands without special permission from- 
the Legislature. This section makes it possible for the trus- 
tees to sell to themselves as individuals tracts of land, un- 
limited in extent and to hold the same free from taxation and' 
even prevent their use for cemetery purposes, for which the 
law intended they should be used. 
NEW CEMETERIES. 
A new Catholic cemetery of ten acres, owned by St. Cecelias- 
Church, Wyoming, Pa., was consecrated on May 13th. 
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The Greenwood Cemetery Co., of Tarboro, N. C., has been- 
incorporated with a capital of $10,000. 
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Fairview Cemetery has been incorporated at North Ber- 
wick, Me., with a capital stock of $9,000. John H. Nowell is- 
president. 
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The work of development is in progress on Grand View 
Cemetery on the Byron Road near Batavia, N. Y. Bellett 
Lawson, Jr., of The Buffalo Burial Park .\ssociation, has pre- 
pared the plans for the development of the tract. It will be 
divided into 12 sections, and will have an artificial lake as one 
of its features. W. C. Buchholtz is superintendent. 
