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CmtTERY NOTES 
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A. A. C. S., Philadelphia, Sept. 1 2 
The executive committee of the A. A. 
C. S. arranging for the annual meeting 
to be held in Philadelphia, September 
12, 13, 14 and 15, have decided on the 
Continental Hotel, at Ninth and Chest- 
nut streets, as headquarters. Rates and 
other details will be submitted later. 
The committee reports that matters 
are progressing nicely, and a very in- 
teresting program is promised. George 
M. Painter, Westminster Cemetery, is 
chairman of the committee, and Charles 
B. Jefferson, of West Laurel Hill, sec- 
retary. 
The government is very strict in 
its rules and regulations covering the 
National Cemetery at Arlington, 
Washington, D. C. It will not per- 
mit the use of any vases, urns, tubs, 
hanging baskets, or “other fixture in- 
tended for plants, or any chair, set 
tee, or other obstruction.” The order 
to this effect was made in October 
1908, and the removal of such ob 
structions published. This order fur- 
ther forbids the planting of “trees, 
shrubs, vines, or other plants of any 
character or description” on any 
burial lot. 
The Supreme Court of Minnesota 
has decide.d that the Oakland Ceme- 
tery company of St. Paul, Minn., may 
hold the land it bought a few years 
ago adjoining its burial ground free 
from taxation, but it must not use it 
for cemetery purposes until given 
permission by the city council of St. 
Paul. On the other hand the city can- 
not legally condemn and use any por- 
tion of the land for a thoroughfare. 
These findings are given in a decision 
of the Supreme Court handed down 
May 12. 
To regulate the automobile traffic 
in the groun.ds of the cemetery of 
Spring Grove, Cincinnati, O., automo- 
bile tickets are issued — white cards 
for single admissions to be given up 
on exit, and blue cards, lot owners’ 
tickets, the latter containing on the 
face lot owners’ and chauffeur's 
names, location of lot and license 
number. Upon the backs of these 
cards are printed the rules governing 
the admission of automobiles to the 
cemetery. The rules are necessarily 
restrictive, but suggest no arbitrari- 
ness beyond the positive regulation 
required by the circumstances. 
A “Floral Day” is slowly becoming 
1 stated observance in some ceme- 
teries, and it might be very profitably 
adopte.d in very many more. June 
8th was set apart at Greenwood Cem- 
etery, Knoxville, Tenn., and an appro- 
priate program was carried out and 
services held in a temporary chapel. 
Public interest in the cemetery is sure 
to be increased by such efforts. 
It is not often that professional 
safe-blowers make a raid upon the 
cemeteries, but we have to record 
that early on the morning of May 
31, the safes in the cemetery offices of 
Elmwood and Mount Olive suburban 
cemeteries of Chicago and two miles 
apart, were blown open with nitro- 
glycerine in one case, and the com- 
bination worked through a drill hole 
ill the other. The burglars secured 
$350 from Elmwood and over $200 
from Mount Olive. Mr. Bellett Law- 
son, Jr., superintendent of Elmwood, 
said: “They were experts. It was the 
slickest, cleanest piece of work im- 
aginable.” Nothing was known of it 
until morning. 
Investigations into the conditions 
of the city cemetery located one mile 
north of Krug Park, St. Joseph, Mo., 
has shown a deplorable condition of 
things. Lack of funds is no excuse, 
for money should be found somehow 
to keep municipal burial grounds at 
least decent. Gravestones almost hid- 
.den by sod, dirt and pine needles, 
many of them so shattered that it 
would be impossible to identify them, 
and stones torn down and used, near 
the spot where they were erected, 
as bases for juvenile baseball games 
which have been played so regularly 
in the past that the base paths be- 
tween two stones are well worn, are 
the shocking- evidences in view at the 
old Mulberry street burying ground, 
Brockton, Mass., cvhich have been 
brought to the attention of the au- 
thorities. Only three headstones re- 
main standing in the entire cemetery. 
The Davey Tree Expert Co., of 
Kent, O., were called in by the Wo- 
man’s Auxiliary of Greenwoo.d Ceme- 
tery, Galena, 111., to treat the trees 
of that cemetery of which there are 
some magnificent specimens. 
A real estate scheme to dispose of 
lots in a new cemetery is described 
in a St. Louis paper. Four thousand 
lots in Greenwood, East St. Louis, 
are to be disposed of on easy pay- 
ments, one dollar down and a dollai 
a month. The new cemetery to ht 
located on the bluff east of East St. 
Louis, about three-fourths of a mile 
north of Edgemont, is to be “The 
Greenwood.” An East St. Louis real 
estate firm has purchased the ground 
and it is being put in shape. There 
will be an ornamental main entrance, 
and each lot will be marked. The 
tract will be divided into 4,000 fam- 
ily lots, each containing 200 square 
feet, and they are to be sold at $25 
each. 
The injunction suit of C. P. Wilson 
against the city of Fort Smith, Ark., 
to restrain the completion of the pur- 
chase of the addition to Oak ceme- 
tery was heard May 8 on the city’s 
motion to revoke the temporary re- 
straining order. The motion was de- 
nied and the injunction made perma- 
nent. The city may take the case to 
the Supreme Court 
Forest fires raged on the outskirts 
of Great Barrington, Mass., and North 
Adams, Mass., the latter part of May. 
One fire on the outskirts of Great 
Barrington was started by an old man 
who was trimming and cleaning up 
about his wife’s grave. The poor old 
man perished in the fire he had 
started. 
NEW CEMETERIES 
The new burial ground of the con- 
gregation Jesuhat Israel in the Bra- 
man cemetery, Newport, R. L, was 
formally dedicated May 21 in the 
presence of a large number of people. 
The plat is set apart from the re- 
mainder of the cemetery by a hand- 
some iron fence, with stone posts, 
and the grounds are well kept. 
The Amish congregation at Mor- 
ton, 111., has recently opened a new 
cemetery at Morton. The cemetery 
is to be tiled, so that there will be 
no water settle above a depth of 
seven feet, the land being somewhat 
low. The cemetery is ten acres in 
extent and well laid out. 
A farm of about 200 acres in Fay- 
etteville, about five miles from Syra- 
cuse, N. Y., was presented to the 
Roman Catholic diocese of Syracuse 
by Rt. Rev. Bishop Patrick Ludden 
at a meeting of the bishop’s council 
held in Syracuse early in May. At 
his request it will be called St. Mary’s 
cemetery. It will be governed by a 
board of managers consisting of the 
clergy of the Roman Catholic 
churches of Syracuse and one lay- 
man from each city parish. 
Gary, Ind., the wonder steel city of 
the sand hills that recently sprung up 
with such rapidity as to get itself famous 
