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CEnETERY NOTES 
A cemetery association was recently 
organized in El Dorado, Kan. The fol- 
lowing officers were appointed : Mrs. A. 
G. Williams, president ; Mrs. R. N. Ben- 
son, vice-president; Mrs. Bebee, secre- 
tary; Mrs. Dixon, corresponding secre- 
tary; Miss Mary Armstrong, treasurer. 
The Meechem-Brittain Cemetery Com-i 
pany, of Mobile, Ala., have incorporated 
with a capital stock of $16,000 all paid 
in. The company will operate Lincoln 
cemetery in the Burden mill tract dis- 
trict, west of Spring Hill avenue. 
Waukegan, 111., appears to be rapidly 
approaching the time when some atten- 
tion must be paid to the question of cem- 
etery accommodations. The city has 
only two cemeteries within its limits, 
which are filling up quite fast, so that 
the question will become a serious one 
before very long. 
A bill was recently introduced in the 
New York Legislature authorizing Onei- 
da to acquire cemetery lands in that city 
for the purpose of a public playground. 
The city is to provide for the removal 
and reinterment of the bodies buried in 
the cemetery. The bill provides detailed 
procedure for the acquiring of the prop- 
erty. 
The ladies of the Federation of Wo- 
men’s Clubs, of Beloit, Wis., have taken 
the matter up of providing a more at- 
tractive name for the City Cemetery 
than the City Cemetery. The city pub- 
lic grounds committee are studying sug- 
gested names. 
Rev. W. M. Tippy, pastor of Ep- 
worth Memorial Church, Cleveland, O., 
recently suggested to the Johnson me- 
morial committee that Erie Street Cem- 
etery be made into a park to be known 
as Johnson park, as a memorial to Tom 
L. Johnson. 
The rumpus between the Union Cem- 
etery Association and the city authori- 
ties of Kanasas City, over the ordinance 
passed last summer by the council pro- 
hibiting further burials in that ceme- 
tery, and opening a street through it, 
was recently practically decided by 
Judge O. A. Lucas, of the Circuit 
Court, who denied the association’s ap- 
plication for a permanent injunction. 
The following occurs in the Judge’s 
decision : “Under the right of eminent 
domain, if it becomes necessary for the 
public good, the city may open a pas- 
sageway through this cemetery. It is 
purely a commercial proposition, such 
as a slaughter house or a powder mill. 
It was built in a sparsely populated dis- 
trict, but now that the city has grown 
up around it the city assumes the right 
to control it. It is not proper to im- 
pugn the motives of the city council in 
passing this ordinance. It was passed 
for the general good. It is just an- 
other case of the greatest good for the 
greatest number.” 
Acting under a decree of the court in 
the equity case in which Cardinal Gib- 
bons was made plaintiff, Walter D. 
Willson and Charles Alvey, trustees, 
sold the old Catholic graveyard on 
North Prospect street, Baltimore, Md., 
for $5,300. A total of 804 bodies were 
disinterred from the graveyard and re- 
buried in Rose Hill Cemetery. The 
court and other expenses, fees, cost of 
reburial of bodies, etc., amounted to $1,- 
466.20. 
Waukegan, 111 ., is being exploited by 
the American Mausoleum Co., with a 
view to erecting a community mauso- 
leum in that city. The Nebraska Mau- 
soleum Co. is figuring on a 1,000-crypt 
mausoleum for West Lawn Cemetery, 
Omaha. The Rochester Mausoleum 
Co., Rochester, N. Y., has been incor- 
porated with a capital stock of $10,000, 
for the purpose of constructing and 
selling mausoleums. Lincoln, 111 ., is be- 
ing interested in a $10,000 community 
mausoleum. The Glendale Cemetery 
Association is reported to have closed 
a contract for a $15,000 concrete struc- 
ture, to contain 124 crypts. Arrange- 
ments are consummating for the build- 
ing of a community mausoleum at Sun- 
bury. Pa., to cost not to exceed $28,000. 
The International Mausoleum Co., of 
Chicago, according to the Milwaukee 
“Sentinel,” has served legal notice on 
all parties or corporations having for 
their purpose the building of community 
or compartment mausoleums, that the 
International Company is the original 
inventor of this method of entombment, 
as well as the use of the community 
idea in this connection, and also a de- 
odorizing system, and that anyone pur- 
chasing tombs of any one else than the 
International Company, or its represent- 
atives, will be made a party to any and 
all suits at law resulting from infringe- 
ments on its patents. The Interna- 
tional Company claims to have complet- 
ed sixty mausoleums with 130 in proc- 
ess of erection. 
Under a new ordinance of the Kan- 
sas City council, no new cemeteries 
are to be opened within the city limits. 
Specifically the ordinance says it shall 
be unlawful for any person, firm or 
corporation to bury a human body with- 
in the city limits except in a cemetery 
now and at such time in use as a ceme- 
tery. It was explained that this will in 
no way prejudice the city’s efforts to 
prevent any further burials in ceme- 
teries now within the city that have be- 
come a menace and an impediment by 
reason of the city’s growth around 
them. 
Decree has been ordered by the Wor- 
cester county board of commissioners by 
which the tax levied by the Milford, 
Mass., assessors on certain personal 
property of the Pine Grove cemetery 
corporation is abated, the amount named 
in the abatement being $1,249.50. Ac- 
cording to this decree the proprietors 
of Pine Grove were assessed illegally 
on $75,000 of personal property. 
At the suggestion of Rev. Father 
Daniel Buckley, the trustees of the St. 
Raphael cemetery, Springfield, O., have 
taken up the project of improving the 
condition of the grounds. The ceme- 
tery is not as well kept at the present 
time as it should be, and after the im- 
provements are made, it is probable 
that a caretaker will be employed to 
keep the grounds in order. 
Since the city council of Pawtucket, 
R. L, provided that all payments for lot 
work in the city cemeteries should be 
made in advance, very little trouble is 
experienced in the collections ; but un- 
der the old plan of credit some $4,000 
still remains on the books. 
Pursuant to a recent call made by 
President Reese Carpenter, of the Druid 
Ridge Cemetery Company, Baltimore, 
Md., a large number of the unsecured 
creditors of the corporation attended a 
special meeting at which the consensus 
of opinion appeared to be that unless 
all of them act in unison against the 
plan of the receivers to sell the prop- 
erty at public auction, a number of law- 
suits would be precipitated. 
In a proposed ordinance drafted by 
the new commission of Racine, Wis., the 
following provisions on annual care and 
perpetual care are incorporated: “Every 
lot owner shall pay $1 per annum for 
the care of a full lot and 50 cents for 
half a lot and certain amounts for other 
fractions of lots ; that $30 be paid for 
the care of a whole lot ; $15 for half 
a lot and so on down for fractions of 
lots, and these amounts to forever ex- 
empt the lots from assessment and the 
lots shall be perpetually cared for by 
the city.” Experience shows this to be 
quite inadequate for the purpose in 
modern cemetery practice. 
