PARK AND CEMETERY 
VII 
erecting a new stone structure. Superintendent O’Brien 
is using a tent as temporary quarters. 
The Grove Cemetery Association, Naugatuck, Conn., 
has purchased 20 acres of adjoining territory. 
Riverside Cemetery, Moline, 111 ., is soon to erect a new 
arched entrance gate. 
A new waiting room is in process of construction at 
Blossom Hill Cemetery, Concord, N. H. It will be of 
granite with broken ashlar exterior, 18x20 feet and 13 
feet high, with toilets 8 feet square. The interior is to 
be of Carolina pine and roof of green slate; total cost, 
$3,000. The structure is to be completed by October. 
WIDTH OF CEMETERY WALKS. 
A correspondent writes: “We are just laying out our 
cemetery in lots, which are to be 20x20, and all upon the 
lawn plan. We are undecided, however, as to the width 
we should reserve between the lots for access to the in- 
dividual lots from the avenues. What is the usual width 
allowed?” 
* * * 
Our practice is to make walks 4 feet wide. If it is 
intended to traverse the walks with horse and cart, a 
minimum width of 6 feet will be advisable. We do not 
approve of this practice, however, as the use of carts in 
the walks renders them unsightly and increases the 
expense of care. The 4 foot walk materially increases 
the salable area and reduces the unsalable area, which 
must be cared for, to a minimum. W. N. RUDD. 
NOTES ON CEMETERY LAW. 
The New York correspondent of the Rochester Chronicle 
tells of an interesting cemetery legal decision : A Mrs. Cohen 
had died in 1890 and been interred in the cemetery of the 
Portuguese-Spanish Congregation at Cypress Hills, but since 
then her son purchased a lot in another Hebrew cemetery 
and desired to remove his mother’s remains there. The 
authorities of the cemetery in which the body lay refused 
permission for its disinterment, on the ground that, by the 
tenets of the Hebrew faith, bodies once interred must re- 
main in their original resting-place. Suit was brought to 
compel the cemetery corporation to permit the removal of 
Mrs. Cohen’s remains. Judgement was given in favor of the 
plaintiff, and the defendant carried the case to the Appellate 
Division, which affirms the judgment, declaring that a ceme- 
tery corporation exists under the laws of the state, and that, 
as there is no regulation which determines the right of re- 
moval, such right can be argued before a court of equity upon 
equity grounds only, and not upon a Jewish law. Mr. Co- 
hen, therefore, cannot be prevented from removing the body 
of his mother to its new resting-place. 
An act recently passed by the legislature of New Jersey 
provides that it shall not be lawful tO' locate any new ceme- 
tery or burying ground or to enlarge any cemetery in that 
state without the consent of the municipal authorities and 
boards of health of the municipality. It is provided, how- 
ever, that if the local authorities refuse to grant the per- 
mission, application may be made to, the State Board of 
Health, which shall have power to reverse the decision of the 
local authorities and grant the application. 
The Supreme Court of Indiana has decided that a railroad 
may not be built through any graveyard or cemetery, whether 
there are any graves in the part to be" crossed and without 
regard to whether the ground is owned by a cemetery associa- 
tion, by trustees or by an individual, says the Indianapolis 
News. A judgment of the Monroe Circuit Coifrt forbidding 
the construction of the Indianapolis Southern railroad across 
a corner of the Mt. Gilead cemetery was affirmed. 
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