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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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CEHETERY NOTES 
A. A. CS. CONVENTION 1912 
The executive committee for the 
1912 convention of the Association of 
American Cemetery Superintendents 
has been appointed by President John 
J. Stephens, of “Greenlawn,’’ Colum- 
bus, O., as follows: 
James Currie, “Forest Home,” Mil- 
waukee, chairman: W. S. Pirie, “For- 
est Home,” Milwaukee; J. Roder, of 
Milwaukee; E. G. Carter, “Oak 
Woods,” Chicago,, and George L, Til- 
ton, “Graceland,” Chicago. 
The committee will organize at an 
early date in order that they can ask 
the members on the program to pre- 
pare papers during the coming win- 
ter. Any further information can be 
had from the committee or from Sec- 
retary Rellett Lawson, Jr., “Elm- 
wood,” River Grove, Til. 
The work of removing 3,000 bodies 
in St. Vincent’s Cemetery, Plymouth, 
Pa., which is gradually falling into the 
mine workings beneath it, to the new 
cemetery just purchased by the congre- 
gation of St. Vincent’s Church, has be- 
gun, The work will cost $30,000 and 
will be under the supervision of the 
State and borough health authorities. 
The Loveland, Colo., authorities are 
planning to purchase the Lakeview cem- 
etery. now owned by Judge Osborn, 
for a municipal cemetery, carry the 
city water on to the grounds, and make 
many needed improvements. 
The recent contention over the man- 
agement of Walnut Ridge Cemetery, 
at Jeffersonville, Ky., has been settled 
by the election of three trustees, Louis 
C. Baird, Bailee L. Burtt and Adolph 
1. Frank, The board reorganized as 
follows; Bailee L. Burtt, president; 
Louis C. Baird, secretary; Adolph 1. 
Frank, treasurer. 
For the work of removing the 600 
bodies found within the flow line area 
of the reservoir at Delta, N. Y., on the 
barge canal route, the lowest proposal 
of eight was from Joseph Kalk and 
Alfred Brown of Taberg, Oneida coun- 
ty, for $7,409, engineer's estimate $8,190. 
Only one bid was received for the re- 
moval of the 30 bodies found along 
the shores of the Mohawk river, that 
of Thomas F. Riley, of Troy, for 
$723.60. 
The committee on Cemeteries of Ra- 
cine, Wis., has decided that, instead of 
leasing the Osborne farm, recently pur- 
chased for a future addition to Mound 
Cemetery, to a farmer the city shall 
farm the area, and in such a way that 
the ,51-acre tract shall be improved in 
the line of a future cemetery develop- 
ment. 
Both Mt. Washington and Elmwood 
Cemeteries, Kansas City, Mo., have 
been sued in the courts for damages, 
the former in $25,000 for alleged mis- 
placement of a body in a vault, and 
the latter for injury sustained by an 
attendant at a funeral stepping into an 
open sewer manhole on the grounds. 
A large granite stone of boulder 
shape, w'ill soon be set in the center of 
the Fishermen’s Rest at Beechbrook 
Cemetery, West Gloucester, Mass., 
through the generosity of John Hays 
Hammond, who bought a tract of land 
in the cemetery a year ago, for the 
burial of indigent Gloucester fisher- 
men and sailors. The stone will have 
a five-foot base, will be three feet in 
width and five and one-half feet high. 
It will have a smooth face, with a 
conspicuous anchor chiseled on it, while 
on a polished tablet there will be a 
scriptural quotation. The stone is be- 
ing cut by Kavanagh Bros., of Quincy, 
and will be set up probably in January. 
St. Mary’s Cemetery Association, 
Syracuse, N. Y., has opened an office 
in the rectory of the Cathedral of the 
Immaculate Conception for business in 
relation to the removal of bodies from 
the old St, Mary’s Cemetery to the new 
one near Orville. The work of re- 
moval has begun and there are more 
than 5,000 bodies to be removed. 
The trustees of the Lutheran Evan- 
gelical church at Honeytown, O., are 
much relieved since they have made 
good their claim to a clear title to the 
land occupied by the cemetery. This 
cemetery is one of the prettiest in the 
county, but some years ago there was 
a question as to title which a thorough 
investigation has cleared up. 
Chairman Fawcett and associates of 
St. Louis, Mo., on the Outside Pauper 
Relief Committee appointed by the St. 
Clair county supervisors made an in- 
spection recently of the county ceme- 
tery on the Rock road. They report 
the condition of the cemetery as de- 
plorable. 
A new situation lias developed in the 
efforts of the Conley sisters, descend- 
ants of the Wyandotte tribe of Indians, 
to prevent the sale of Huron Cemetery 
in Kansas City, Kas. The tribe has 
gone back on them and wants the gov- 
ernment to sell the cemetery to Kan- 
sas City, Kas., and have it preserved as 
a park. They wish the remains of their 
forefathers to be transferred to one 
section of the plot and a monument 
erected to them. 
A contract has been let for the im- 
mediate erection of a $30,000 marble 
and bronze winter chapel and receiving 
vault at the Graceland Park Cemetery, 
Sioux City, la. The outside dimensions 
of the chapel and vaults will be 48 by 
50 ft. and 43 ft. high. Accommoda- 
tions for fifty bodies will be provided, 
and room for any ordinary funeral as- 
semblage. The idea of the chapel is 
based on the Canadian burial system, 
by which winter interments are abol- 
ished. The services ordinarily con- 
ducted at the grave will be held in the 
chapel instead, and the body will be 
deposited in one of the receiving vaults 
till spring permits a transfer to the 
grave. White marble will be the main 
material of construction both within 
and without, with bronze doors and 
copper outside metal work. The roof 
will be of glazed green Spanish tiling, 
and cathedral art glass will be set in 
the big front window of the chapel. 
The woodwork will be of mahogany. 
In design the structure will be Gothic; 
it will be lighted by electricity and 
heated by water, and will be fireproof. 
An overheated furnace 'in the office 
Pine Grove Cemetery, Lynn, Mass., on 
the morning of October 18, caused 
damage of $100 before it was extin- 
guished. 
A claim has been made by Arthur E. 
Sandford, a local contractor, that he 
is the owner of the Wesley Methodist 
Episcopal Church burying ground in 
Belleville, N. J., and to prove his own- 
ership Mr. Sandford recently filed in 
the county clerk’s office a deed for the 
property executed in 1845. The church 
trustees assert that they own the prop- 
erty, and, through their counsel have 
filed a bill in the Court of Chancery to 
establish such ownership. The burying 
ground is south of John street and 
north of New Bridge street. For the 
last sixty-six years it has been exempt 
from taxation because it was understood 
that the church had undisputed right 
to the land. This year, however, the 
Belleville officials levied a tax upon the 
land, 
A leak in the city water mains in 
Fernhill Cemetery, St. Johns, N. B., is 
giving the directors of that cemetery 
some anxiety. It has been a trouble 
for three years and is doing damage to 
a number of lots. 
The use of automobiles in funerals 
and for other purposes in St. Louis, 
