PARK AND CEMETER 
THE COVER ILLUSTRATION 
The picture shown on the cover of 
this issue is a water view from the 
handsome illustrated book of Wood- 
lawn Cemetery, New York. It is a 
rare example of both photography 
and landscape art in picture making. 
The picture is completely framed in 
the foreground by the cluster of Rlio- 
dodendrons in bloom, .and the section 
of stone wall reaching into the scene 
at the left. The trees and other 
planting carry the frame all the way 
round the picture, with a break at the 
point of chief interest by the hand- 
some Chas. Watrous mausoleum. 
This square, tower-like structure of 
Vermont marble throws its shadow 
■on the sheet of water, whose glassy 
■surface makes the center of the pic- 
ture and contrasts with the character 
of the foliage around it. 
A. A. C. S. CONVENTION AT 
PHILADELPHIA 
George M. Painter, chairman of the 
Executive Committee for the Phila- 
delphia meeting of the A. A. C. S. 
September 12-15, writes that the pro- 
gramme is gradually assuming defi- 
nite form. Headquarters will be at 
the Continental Hotel, and four days 
will be devoted to the business of the 
convention and the customary out- 
ings at the local parks and cemeteries. 
One day will be devoted to a trip to 
Wilmington, Del., by request of the 
cemetery officials of that city. An 
invitation has also been received to 
visit Dreer’s Nurseries at Riverton, 
but that trip has not been definitely 
decided upon. “Motor Trucks for 
Cemetery Use,” “Community Mauso- 
leums,” “Cemetery Records” “Ceme- 
teries of Today and Those Twenty- 
five Years Ago” are among the sub- 
jects that will be discussed in formal 
papers and an address on ceme- 
tery improvements illustrated by 
stereopticon will be an interest- 
ing feature of the programme. 
Arrangements are being made to pro- 
vide for an exhibition at the Con- 
tinental Hotel of photographs, 
models, tools, records, etc. This 
is becoming an instructive fea- 
ture of the conventions and one that 
deserves to be made more of for the 
mutual benefit of both buyer and 
seller. The executive committee will 
welcome any suggestions that may be 
offered and they are particularly de- 
sirous of receiving questions for the 
“Question Box.” Mr. Painter’s ad- 
dress is Westminster cemetery and 
Chas. B. Jefferson, secretary of the 
commitee, may be addressed in care 
of West Laurel Hill Cemetery Phila- 
delphia, Pa. 
Mr. Herbert J. Kellaway, Boston, 
Mass., has recently made a report upon 
the cemetery of Antrim, N. H., its ex- 
isting conditions, and outlining methods 
for improvement. 
Nashville, Tenn., is to have a new 
cemetry, to be known as “Hollywood,” 
located just east of Mount Olivet. The 
tract of land acquired by the new com- 
pany comprises forty acres. The land- 
scape plan has been furnished by Mr. 
Max Reder, landscape gardener. 
Incorporation papers have been filed 
at Birmingham, Ala., by the Oakwood 
Cemetery Company. The company will 
have an authorized capital of $75,000, of 
which $72,000 is paid in. This company 
will establish and maintain cemeteries. 
W. K. Mun'roe is secretary. 
Mound cemetery, Racine, Wis., is fast 
filling up and the cemetery committee is 
about to open the new cemetery, former- 
ly known as the Osborn farm, north- 
west of the present grounds. The com- 
mittee has been visiting Forest Home 
Cemetery, Milwaukee, to obtain point- 
ers on up-to-date practice. 
The draft of the deed transferring 
the confederate cemetery of Springfield, 
Mo., to the U. S. government has been 
approved at Washington, and everything 
is in readiness for the transfer. The 
exercises will be held in September and 
it is proposed to make the day one to 
be remembered. 
Governor Dix of New York has signed 
the bill authorizing the trustees of the 
village of Brownville to convey to the 
Brownville Cemetery Association the 
cemeteries owned by the village. The 
transfer of the cemetery from the vil- 
lage of Brownsville will now be made 
to the Cemetery Association, directors 
will be elected and plans perfected for 
accumulating a perpetual care fund, etc. 
The federal court of appeals at St. 
Paul, Minn., has reversed the decision 
of the lower court in the case of W. J. 
Townsend against the Beatrice Ceme- 
tery Association, Beatrice, Neb., where- 
in the plaintiff sought to collect on a 
judgment against the defendant. By 
foreclosing a mortgage on the property' 
of the cemetery association, Townsend 
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secured a judgment against the associ- 
ation. The amount originally sued for 
was about $(i,t)0(), and the interest since 
1898, when the action was started, will 
make the claims amount to near $10,00(1. 
Up to this time the repeated efforts of 
the plaintiff to secure the funds of the 
cemetery association have failed. De- 
tails of the decision are not at hand. 
Articles of incorporation of the Red- 
lands Cemetery' Company, Redlands, 
Calif., were recently' recorded. The tract 
of land bought comprises 480 acres, 40 
of which will be improved for cemetery 
purposes. It is located in the San Timo- 
teo Canyon. Capital stock is placed at 
$25,000. 
Indignant protests are being hurled 
at the Nassau county board of super- 
visors at Mineola, L. I., to protest 
against the establishment of a cemetery 
at Central Park, a flourishing commun- 
ity just west of Farmingdale. The ap- 
plication for the new cemetery was 
made by the trustees of St. Patrick’s 
Cathedral of New York, in order to 
provide a new place of burial for those 
of the Catholic faith, and to establish 
an adjunct to Calvary Cemetery, in 
Long Island City, which latter burial 
place is filling up. The New York dio- 
cese owns 241 acres immediately north 
of the railroad at Central Park and 
adjacent to the land development of a 
suburban land company. The objec- 
tions to this proposed cemetery are non- 
sectarian and are based on the fact 
that cemeteries of any and every de- 
nomination are menaces to the gen- 
eral growth and progress of any com- 
munity. 
A tract of 156 acres, known as the 
Emery farm, in Montgomery county, 
N. Y., near Lawndale station, on the 
New York Short Line of the Philadel- 
phia & Reading Railway, has been sold 
by B. B. Lister for Dr. A. M. Davis 
and Walter E. Rex, to George T. Sale, 
whe represents a syndicate, for very 
dose to $100,000. The purchasers, it is 
said, intend to lay the land out for cem- 
etery purposes. 
In an effort to force the payment of 
$116,000.60, which he claims is due him 
from the Mount Tamalpais Cemetery 
Association, San Rafael, Calif., E. B. 
du Bois, son of the founder of the cem- 
etery, has instituted attachment pro- 
ceedings. 
Suit to compel the abandonment of a 
cemetery located about a mile north- 
east of phoenix, Ariz., has been brought 
against Rt. Rev. Henry Granjon, bish- 
op of Arizona, by property owners ad- 
jacent to the tract which comprises the 
cemetery. A restraining order has 
been granted. 
Complications appear clearly possible 
(Concluded on page X) 
