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Hastings, Mich.; Frank E. Wilbee, Adrian, Mich.; Frank 
Enrich and wife, Detroit, Mich. ; Perry W. Goodwin and 
wife, Jamestown, N. Y. ; Frank Sheard, Rochester, N. Y. ; 
W. Taylor, Chattanooga, Tenn. ; Mrs. E. E. Hay and niece, 
Erie, Pa. ; John J. Stephens, wife and son, Columbus, O. ; 
Geo. M. Painter and wife, Philadelphia, Pa. ; C. H. Weagley, 
Detroit, Mich. ; A. W. Plain and daughter, Detroit, Mich. ; 
D. D. England, Winnipeg, Man. ; John W. Keller, Roch- 
ester, N. Y. ; Frank Wise and wife, Peterboro, Ont. ; M. H. 
Winters, wife and daughter, Detroit, Mich. ; Bellett Lawson 
and wife, Harrisburg, Pa.; Bellett Lawson, Jr., and wife, 
Buffalo, N. Y. ; John Reid and daughter, Detroit, Mich. ; F. 
W. Higgins, Detroit, Mich.; J. C. Cline and wife, Dayton, 
O. ; R. J, Haight, Chicago, 111.; Fredk. Green and wife, 
Cleveland, O. ; M. P. Brazill, wife and son, St, Louis, Mo. ; 
J. M. Boxell and wife, St. Paul, Minn.; J. H. Lloyd, To- 
ledo, O. ; Jos. Roder, Milwaukee, Wis. ; F. A. Sherman and 
wife, New Haven, Conn.; James Emslie, Bluffton, Ind. ; W. 
A. Addicott, Sharon, Pa.; S. Bronson, Vernon, Mich.; J. M. 
Driscoll, Brookline, Mass. ; Thos. L. H. Wiltberger, Wash- 
ington, D. C. ; H. A. Derry, Everett, Mass. ; A. J. Graves, 
Bloomington, 111. ; L. B. Root and wife, Kansas City, Mo. ; 
P. E. Bunnell, New York; T. J. O’Flynn, Anthony Petz, 
Francis X. Petz, Joseph Schulte, Alexander Lemke, Trustees 
of Mt. Elliott Cemetery; R. W. Allen, Joseph Greusel, 
Directors of Woodmere, and Charles H. Campbell, Secretary 
of Woodlawn Cemetery Association. 
Convention Notes. 
The time has come when reduced rates should be obtained 
for those who attend the conventions of this association. 
The attendance for several years past has been sufficient to 
insure the fare and one-third allowed, where there are one 
hundred or more persons present, and we are assured this 
rate could have been arranged for the Detroit meeting had 
more of the members signified their intention of being pres- 
ent. Some one representing the organization applying for 
rates is obliged to guarantee the railroads an attendance of 
one hundred or make good the deficit, hence the necessity 
for knowing positively in advance the approximate attend- 
ance. This matter should receive careful attention. 
One of the local sensational newspapers published a garbled 
report of Mr. Green’s speech regarding undertakers, which 
was sent broadcast among the newspapers of the country 
by the Associated Press. Mr. Green took advantage of the 
opportunity offered by the convention of the National Funeral 
Directors’ Association, held in Chicago since the Detroit 
convention, to express his views on the subject, and thus 
bridge over an impending breach of harmony between the 
undertakers and the cemeteries. 
A permanent grave marker and cement corner post for 
graves was exhibited by Mr. Merriam of Crystal Lake Cem- 
etery, Minneapolis, Minn. Four posts are used at each 
grave, two at either end, to locate the grave to facilitate 
making removals. The posts are made 754 inches long, 2x2 
inches on top and wedge shaped. They are set level with 
the grave in a hole made with a pointed wooden mallet, 
and driven in with same. Rule i to 3 parts Portland cement 
and sand. It sets rapidly, made in wooden mould, tin lined. 
Release from mould as soon as packed. 
It is a source of satisfaction and encouragement to super- 
intendents to have their cemetery boards take the active in- 
terest in their work that was apparent at Detroit. The super- 
intendent may be ever so competent, but he needs and should 
have the constant co-operation of his board in order to ac- 
complish the best results. 
One of the most artistic memorials in Elmwood was en- 
tirely covered with a luxuriant growth of ampelopsis. In 
the words of a visitor, the monument was “out of sight." 
Annual 7’eports or extracts from the7ny historical sketcheSy 
descripth'e circiilarSy photographs of improvements or dis- 
tinctive features are requested for use in this department* 
Lake View cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio, has nine telephones 
distributed at the offices and throughout the grounds in di- 
rect communication with the city telephone system. 
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A heavy rain storm which visited Kansas City August 
23d did much damage to Elmwood Cemetery. Practically 
the entire grounds were flooded, and in the lower part a 
strong current formed that washed open about tw^o hun- 
dred graves. Many monuments were also wrecked and dam- 
aged. The board of public works has ordered the repairing 
of the sewer in the cemetery, which was damaged. 
* * * 
The attempt to abolish Sunday funerals took a new 
and unique form in Council Bluffs, la., says the Western 
Undertaker. Mayor McRae got after the ministers of the 
town with a sharp stick, claiming that in conducting Sun- 
day funerals they were disregarding the biblical command- 
ment to keep the Sabbath day holy. He asked the city 
council to adopt measures to compel the ministers to do 
all their work in six days and give the seventh wholly to 
the service of the Lord. 
* * * 
Judge George M. Bourquin, of Butte, Mont., has enjoined 
the parties who recently located a placer gold claim on part 
of the land of the Jewish Cemetery and Mount Moriah 
Cemetery from proceeding with any mining operations. The 
court held that the proposed operations of the miners would 
be a desecration of ground that had been dedicated to a 
sacred use, and the injunction upon mining upon the prem- 
ises was continued in force pending the trial of the case, 
which may not be ready to be presented to the court or a 
jury till some time next year. In rendering his decision 
Judge Bourquin said: “Possession of the land for twenty 
years is presumptive proof that the Hebrew Benevolent As- 
sociation has title to it, and even though a part of the in- 
closure is held in reserve and not used for burial purposes 
at present, an inj unction will lie against a trespasser who 
seeks to enter ffhereon and carry on mining operations. One 
who enters such an inclosure and makes a mining location, 
there being no evidence that the land belongs to the United 
States, and no proof that it is mineral land, except that 
colors of gold were found there, is such a trespasser. The 
fact that adjacent lands are held as mineral is not sufficient 
to establish the mineral character of that land. In such 
cases an injunction should be granted, even though no pe- 
cuniary damage results, upon the ground that a disturbance 
of land dedicated to the burial of the dead is a public nuis- 
ance and outrage upon decency. It is a sacrilege and dese- 
cration of holy ground, and an irreparable injury to the 
sensibilities of the living for which an action at law fur- 
nishes no adequate remedy.’’ R. L. Clinton is attorney for 
the Hebrew Benevolent Association, who applied for the 
injunction. 
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