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The following strange request was contained in the will of 
the late Mary A. Leamy of Philadelphia, says the Philadelphia 
Record: “I direct that I shall be laid out in a covered casket, 
provided with a mattress; that the casket shall be inclosed in a 
chestnut box, and that my body shall be interred in a grave 
alongside of my husband. The grave shall be eight feet deep, 
with brick sides laid in cement and mortar, having a brick bot- 
tom. The brickwork to be whitewashed, and grave to be cov- 
ered with slabs of stone. The inclosure rail shall be extended 
over the entrance to the lot. 1 desire that my late husband’s 
Masonic mark shall be hung around my neck and interred with 
me.” 
* * . * 
The committee of the Ministerial Association of York, Pa., 
recently read a report on the subject of Sunday Funerals, in 
which it was stated that they should be avoided whenever possi- 
ble, as pastors are necessarily engaged with their other duties; that 
Sunday funerals afford opportunity for public street parade, 
gathers crowds of aimless curiosity seekers anil disturbs Sunday 
school or other services from their solemnity; that Sunday fu- 
nerals require the services and attention of many persons who 
are thereby deprived ol rest and opportunity to worship on the 
Lord’s day, and urges the church members to make no arrange- 
ments for funerals on that day, except in cases of extreme neces- 
sity. A committee of the Ministers’ Association of Lynchburg, 
Va., in its report on this subject said: ‘‘There should be desira- 
ble changes in the length of funeral services that will not only 
preserve all due respect for the dead, but greatly relieve the 
strain on the relatives and friends, as well as the danger from 
exposure incident to funerals in bad weather. Especially do we 
hope to see this applied to the service at the grave. Not only do 
we think the minister should have regard to the comfort and 
sifety of the people in the length of the service he may conduct, 
but prudence requires that the custom of standing around the 
grave in bleak weather, gentlemen with uncovered heads, till 
the grave is filled and the flowers are placed, should be discour- 
aged, if not altogether abandoned. * * * Expensive flowers, 
crepe and equipage might, for the sake of living humanity, give 
place to less costly, but not less affectionate, tribute to the dead. 
We recommend that the family be expected to employ only 
carriages sufficient for themselves and for the bearers.” 
* * * 
The Board of Managers of Public Burial Places of Quincy, 
Mass., in their report for 1896 state that the cemeteries have 
never looked so well as this year, and due credit is given the su- 
perintendent. The report asserts that the “lawn system” has 
greatly improved parts of Mount Wollaston Cemetery, and that 
this plan will be further carried out. On the question of the em- 
ployment of labor the Board says: The employment of help in 
this department is placed entirely in the hands of the superin- 
tendent, and he employs only such men as are desirous and anx- 
ious to work. The appropriation is small, and the duty is to se- 
cure the most that can be had for the money. “Being a pub'ic 
burial place, no discrimination can be made in hiring labor, and 
the ride has feeen to keep during the whole season those men who 
show a willingness to render to the city full value for the wages 
they receive. Neither race, creed or politics enter into the em- 
ployment of the men. The one requirement is that they shall 
be citizens and residents of Quincy.” White stakes in single 
grave lots are being done away with and are being replaced by 
terra cotta markers. The Board suggests the construction of a 
chapel, a superintendent’s residence at the cemetery and suita- 
le greenhouses. During the year there were 192 burials and 5 
removals in the public cemeteries. The Perpetual Care Fund 
of Burial Places now amounts to $9,075. 
* * * 
The total number of interments in Wyuka Cemetery, Lin- 
coln, Neb. , up to January 1, 1895, amounted to 5,147. During 
1895 there were 351 burials and 294 in 1896, making a total up 
to December 31, 1896, of 5,792. The rules of the cemetery pro- 
hibit: Interference with or injury to flowers, shrubs or trees un- 
der penalty of arrest; the hitching of horses to trees or fences, or 
left untended; the admission of dogs under penalty of destruc- 
tion by employes; fast driving, or driving anywhere except on 
regular thoroughfares; lunches on the grounds, and the littering 
of the grounds by refuse flower boxes or wrappers. All founda- 
tions for monuments are constructed by Cemetery Association. 
No interments are made from the Receiving Vault on Sunday. 
* * * 
Clinton, Mass., is about to witness a series of funerals liable 
to occupy the entire year. This is caused by a decision of the 
Massachusetts State Metropolitan Water Commission condemn- 
ing the old cemetery of St. John’s parish, and requiring the re- 
moval of its occupants. The new site is three miles north of the 
old cemetery, and the route to it lies through the heart of Clin- 
ton. Five thousand bodies will have to be removed, together 
with numbers of monuments and headstones, and very many of 
the transfers will partake of the nature of regular funerals, with 
mourners and other details. A novelty in funeral customs in 
this wholesale exhumation will be that many of the bodies will 
be carried again to the grave accompanied by friends, and also 
by the headstone or marker. The work has been undertaken by 
contract at a cost of $20,000. 
* * * 
The Cemetery Board of New Bedford, Mass., at a recent 
meeting voted to purchase two of the private tombs in the Rural 
Cemetery, with a view ultimately of purchasing the entire row 
of private vaults in order to improve the appearance of the 
cemetery. 
* * * 
The report of Fairmount Cemetery Association, Newark, 
N. J., to March 1, 1897, gives the total receipts for the past year, 
$61,61022. This includes balance from previous year of $28,- 
070.29; fiorn sale of lots and graves, $22,678; from receiving 
tomb, $477. The expenditures include: Salaries, $5,200; labor, 
etc., $14,045.56. The balance carried over is, $37,079.57. The 
superintendent's report shows a very large amount of improve- 
ment carried out and new sections prepared, some 350 lots being 
made ready for sale. The work of laying the foundations for the 
Krueger mausoleum, which will be one of the finest structures of 
the kind in the State, was begun in the Fall. There are 1,847 
lots under perpetual care; 42 granite monuments were erected, 
and 55 granite headstones set. The interments for the year 
were 1,154, making a grand total in cemetery to December 30, 
1896, of 31,445. There were 76 lots sold in 1896, making a total 
of sales to January 31, 1897, of 3,154 lots. There were three iron 
railings removed and twenty hedges. 
* * * 
The report of the Board of Trustees of The Greenwood 
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N. Y., for 1896, shows that the general 
fund for the Improvement and Permanent Care of the cemetery 
was increased during the year by $72,0*00, making the total fund 
at present $1,920,833.77. The Trust Fund deposits for the 
special and permanent care of lots now amounts to $467, 411.45, 
an increase for the year of $30,236.65. Sales of lots realized 
$121,599.89; single graves $14,802; receiving tomb $95.32;open- 
ing graves and vaults $34,083.50. Among the disbursements 
there was expended for labor $138,627.99; improvements $18,- 
489-40; and maintenance $21,308.98. The total securities held 
by the cemetery Dec. 31st, 1896 amounted to $2,266,065. The 
