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VOL. VII. CHICAGO, JAN., 1898. No. 11. 
CONTENTS. 
EDITORIAL— Sunday Funerals— An Eccentric Lot-Owner 
—The Control of Public Memorials 243 
RESIDENCE STREETS, V 244 
‘EVERGREENS FOR DOOR-YARDS AND WALLS 245 
‘THE CLAY MONUMENT, LEXINGTON, KY 247 
'THE PARKS OF OMAHA, NEB 248 
*FERNCLIFF CEMETERY, SPRINGFIELD, 0 250 
GRAVES OF THE WINNEBAGO INDIANS 251 
‘SOME RECENT MEMORIAL FOUNTAINS 2<2 
‘NATIONAL CEMETERY, ANTIETAM, MD 253 
‘GARDEN PLANTS-THEIR GEOGRAPHY, XXV 2S4 
*COLONEL WOOLDRIDGE AND HIS GRAVEYARD 255 
‘RECEIVING VAULT, NEW BEDFORD, MASS 2^6 
*THE PE1ERHOF PALACE, RUSSIA 256 
LEGAL 258 
PARK NOTES 259 
CEMETERY NOTES 260 
CORRESPONDENCE 261 
PUBLISHERS’ DEPARTMENT 262 
‘Illustrated. 
T HE course of events is rapidly determining 
that the Sunday funeral, except in dire 
necessity, shall be a thing of the past. The 
necessity of maintaining a working force at the 
cemetery on the Sabbath day, the increased respon- 
sibility resting upon the acting officials, and the ad- 
ditional labor involved, owing to the large number 
of visitors, in fact more exacting duties all round, 
are among the reasons for a change on the part of 
the cemetery. Thoughtless strangers intruding upon 
the privacy of the funeral, the damage and destruc- 
tion on adjoining lots; in a word the impracticabil- 
ity of restraining the curious many from outraging 
the exclusiveness of the bereaved few at the Sun- 
day funeral, has been leading to a sentiment in gen- 
eral against carrying out funeral ceremonies on that 
day. And it is gratifying to note that the Catholic 
clergy in the larger cities are joining in active sym- 
pathy in the movement, and have made rigid regu- 
lations to confine the practice to the limits of neces- 
sity. The benefits which this altered condition will 
confer on the cemeteries, should be considered in 
revised rules and regulations governing them, so as 
to afford all possible relief in such cases, which will 
be many, where serious inconvenience and expense 
may be imposed upon patrons by this radical but 
beneficial change in funeral customs. 
A STRIKING example of misplaced and ec- 
centric memorial effort is illustrated on 
another page. It is amusing only in its eccen- 
tricity, for it is well nigh impossible to conceive of 
a human mind, in this latter end of the nineteenth 
century, devoting time and money to caricaturing 
his departed human and animal friends in so lavish 
a fashion. The term caricaturing is used advisedly, 
for a perusal of the article in question will disclose 
that the lot contains no portrait statuary, even of so 
crude a production, but simply images to memor- 
ialize those who have gone before. To use the mat- 
ter as the text for a short dissertation on the pre- 
ferable beauties of the lawn plan, might in this case 
defeat itself, for it has become one of the “lions” of 
the place, and there is no knowing what might be 
the future intentions of the owner regarding its per- 
petuity, nor the general opinion as to its value in 
the development of the town. But the amusing 
features will, it is safe to say very soon disappear, 
and will give way to rational feelings; such a dis- 
play will then soon become an eyesore, and the 
cemetery containing it dishonored. And why? Be- 
cause while in the mind of the owner, the group 
impersonates beings whom he had known, it does 
not in the least memorialize character, virtues, or 
any of the higher attributes of man or beast, nor 
even was it ever intended to represent them either 
in form or feature, and there will be nothing to 
recommend it to the future except the history of 
the personal eccentricity which conceived the pro- 
ject. Cemeteries have long been recognized as 
places wherein to perpetuate individual peculiarities, 
but thanks to the progressive ideas prevailing, 
cemetery officials are being accorded the right to 
regulate both the character and number of memor 
ials erected on the grounds. 
