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Mr. Charles H. Frederick of Ardmore, Pa., has been 
awarded the contract for grading, macadam and masonry for the 
Chinese Cemetery on St. Mary’s Farm, at Wynnewood, Pa. 
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There are no undertakers in Japan. When a person dies it 
is the custom for his nearest relatives to put him into a coffin 
and bury him, and the mourning does not begin until after 
buaal. 
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Work has been begun on the enlargement of the cemetery 
connected with the P. E. Church of St. James the Less, at the 
Falls of Schuylkill, Philadelphia, Pa. The total cost of the im- 
provements will be about $12,000. 
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The Wilmington and Brandywine Cemetery Company of 
Wilmington, Del., are contemplating making extensive im- 
provements to their cemetery at an early date. Plans are being 
perfected for an entrance and a superintendent’s house. 
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The Union Cemetery Association, Kansas City, Mo., is de- 
fending a suit for $3,558 special tax bills for sewer construction. 
The defense is a clause in its charter exempting it from taxes. 
Judge Slover upheld this contention in a similar case recently, 
but a motion for a new trial is pending. 
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The mayor of Madison, Wis., recommends a large increase 
in the appropriation for Forest Hill Cemetery. The present 
labor force, the mayor thinks, is quite inadequate to the work ex- 
pected of it, and he believes that the city can well afford to 
spend a little more in the care of the cemetery, which, he says, 
would be only a slight testimony of the public’s regard for the 
last resting place of the dead. 
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The annual report of the Catholic Cemetery Association of 
St. Agnes, Utica, N. Y., has been printed and distributed in pam- 
phlet form. The receipts from sales of lots amounted to 
13,142.40, and from burial permits $1,266. There was paid for 
labor $1,809.75, salaries $1,100 and flowers, shrubs and trees 
$143.16. Additional land has been purchased, and the associa- 
tion is in good condition. 
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The care of St. Mary’s burial ground, Albany, N. Y., situ- 
ated on Washington avenue, has been placed in the hands of 
Supt. Judson of St. Agnes’ Cemetery. This change is an assur- 
ance that the grounds will be well cared for. Supt. Judson has 
put an assistant in charge, and will inaugurate improvements 
which will make the place attractive and in harmony with the 
modern ideas of cemeteries. 
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An action has recently been commenced in the Common 
Pleas Court, Philadelphia, Penna., for damages by a lotowner 
in a local cemetery, who, having purchased a lot in 1889 for 
$43 and having paid upon the same all but $6.50, went to deco- 
rate the grave in 1895 to find the body of his mother removed, 
since which time he has been unable to find it. What the out- 
come of the case will be is yet to be learned. 
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The State Cemetery at Austin, Tex., has finally been turned 
over to the ladies to improve and beautify, and it will not be 
long before this silent city of the dead, where repose the re- 
mains of Albert Sidney Johnston and other heroes of the “lost 
cause,’’ will present a far different aspect from that which it now 
presents. The ladies who have taken part in this work are the 
Albert Sidney Johnston Chapter, Daughters of the Confederacy, 
assisted by the Daughters of the Republic, throughout the State. 
Major Mobley, superintendent of public buildings and grounds, 
will advise them on the landscape details. 
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A very commendable act in connection with our smaller 
cemeteries was that of Mr. L. Wahle of Davenport, la., who sur- 
prised the members at the annual meeting of the West Daven- 
port Cemetery Association by offering to contribute $500 
towards a water supply for the cemetery. Water supply is one 
of the most important and yet most difficult of attainment in 
many small cemeteries owing to its costliness. In our latitude, 
however, it is absolutely necessary if the cemetery is to be kept 
up to a standard condition of appearance, and Mr. Wahle’s ex- 
ample is one of the most encouraging and suggestive in its use- 
ful nessr 
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The annual report of the trustees of the Canandaigua, N. Y., 
Cemetery Association on Woodlawn Cemetery gives the total 
receipts to June 1, 1897, including balance from last report, 
$4,129.63, and disbursements$4,oi2. 13. The receipts included: 
Sales of lots, $2,220: opening graves, $255.75, and foundations, 
$ 3 ' 3 - 75 - The disbursements included: Services and labor, 
$1,588.14; expenses, $385 32, and payment of indebtedness, 
$1,600. Total receipts since organization in 1884, $52,679.89. 
Total cost of cemetery grounds, improvements and personal 
property to June 1, 1897, $52,56 .39. 
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The vestry of the Episcopal Church at Benicia, Cal., refuses 
to permit the remains of the missionary, Dr. James Lloyd Breck, 
to be moved from that church without a money consideration. 
Before Dr. Breck died, Bishop Nicholson states, he made ar 
rangements for the burial of his body, and his will directs that the 
remains be buried under the chancel of a church to be built at 
Benicia. This church, Bishop Nicholson says, has never been 
built, and will not be. The church beneath which the remains 
lie was erected as a temporary edifice, sadly dilapidated and in 
need of repair, and the grave is neglected. The alumni of Nash- 
otah, Wis., have agreed to defray all the expenses attached to 
the removal of the remains to Nashotah, and will, after the rein- 
terment, erect a handsome monument over the grave, but will 
not contribute a cent to the thrifty vestrymen, who virtually are 
attempting to sell the remains of the missionary. 
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A memorial cross has recently been placed in Mount Au- 
burn, over the urn containing the ashes of Kate Field. The urn 
was committed to the earth by the side of the graves of her 
father and mother, and a brother who died in his childhood. 
The place is a beautiful one, on high ground, with overarching 
elms waving in the air. It has been my sad and sacred privilege, 
says Lilian Whiting in a Chicago exchange, to take charge of 
this last earthly tribute to the gifted and lovely woman whose 
ashes there repose, and I designed for it a cross of the purest 
white Italian marble, with the name, Kate Field, in raised let- 
ters on the short arm of the cross. It is placed on two pediments, 
and on the upper of these— of the same marble — there is in- 
scribed the lines: “Spirits are not finely touched but to live is- 
sues.” And on the reverse (all being in raised letters), “Pax 
Vobiscum.” There is nothing else on the memorial. Nothing- 
more is needed. In her biography, which I am to have ready 
for the publisher in the spring, all the details of that beautiful 
and noble life will be given, and many of the letters written to 
