CREMATION ASSOCIATION CONVENTION. 
The Cremation Association of America 
held its second annual convention at 
Indianapolis on September 3 and 4, 1914. 
The attendance covered the breadth of 
the continent, as delegates were in attend- 
ance from Boston, New York, Rochester, 
Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Detroit, 
Cincinnati, Chicago, St. Louis and Los 
Angeles. None responded from the 
South, as a line from Baltimore through 
Cincinnati and St. Louis to Los Angeles 
marks the southern location of crema- 
toriums. The sessions were held at the 
chapel of Flanner and Buchanan's Cre- 
matorium. Technical subjects as “Cre- 
matory Burners,” “Gas Incinerators,” 
“Cremation Propaganda,” “Columbari- 
ums,” “Funeral Urns,” etc., took preced- 
ence. 
E. H. Ford, of New York, represent- 
ing a firm of engineers in London, pre- 
sented quite a number of views of a very 
expensive cremation plant recently erected 
in Buenos Ayres. 
More subjects, however, of a general 
nature were considered than at the former 
convention. 
Rev. Lewis Brown conducted a special 
noon-day service in the chapel of St. 
Paul’s Church on Thursday, and that 
evening gave a lecture in the convention 
rooms, being a revision of a lecture on 
“Cremation” delivered some thirty years 
ago when cremation was scarcely to be 
thought of, and not by any means men- 
tioned save in such exceptional cases. 
Miss Anne S. Hall, of Cincinnati, gave 
Directors of the Rosehill Cemetery Co., 
of Chicago, recently declared a scrip divi- 
dend of $3,000,000 on the capital stock of 
5,000 shares of beneficial interest in the 
corporation, which has no par value. The 
resolution passed by the directors sets out 
that the assets now exceed $7,500,000 over 
and above its capital and other liabilities, 
and this is regarded as undivided profits. 
The dividend is at the rate of $600 a share, 
and is in scrip, bearing 5 per cent inter- 
est, payable only out of future yearly cash 
income at such times and in such amounts 
as may be convenient. The minority stock- 
holders regard the action as illegal. H. 
W. Huttig is president; F. L. Reynolds, 
vice-president ; Joseph O. Morris, secre- 
tary, and Frank G. Gardner, treasurer. 
The directors, in addition to these men, 
are Thomas Wallace, A. R. Marriott and 
J. M. Dali. The minority stockholders, 
through Attorney F. F. Norcross, on Au- 
gust 26 obtained from Superior Court 
Judge Hugo Pam an order restraining the 
directorial majority from raising money on 
PARK AND CEMETERY. 
an address on Friday in which she made 
use of correspondence with prominent 
women in Europe and America, giving 
their reasons for favoring cremation. 
A tablet in bronze, giving Frances 
Willard's beautiful tribute to cremation, 
was on exhibition, as were two exhibits 
of elaborate bronze urns. 
Hugo Erichsen, M.D., of Detroit, was 
elected president; G. S. Metcalfe, Buffalo, 
vice-president; Chas. C. Reynolds, Los 
Angeles, secretary; Frank L. Cobb, Bos- 
ton, treasurer. 
Buffalo was selected for the conven- 
tion in 1915. 
A special exhibit will be made at the 
Panama-Pacific Exposition at San Fran- 
cisco, space for which has been allotted. 
An agreement has also been made 
with the exposition management where- 
by 100 views illustrating cremation will 
be displayed daily by stereopticon. 
Following adjournment, a trip in auto- 
mobiles over Indianapolis boulevards and 
to parks and the speedway was engi- 
neered by Paul Buchanan and Frank 
Flanner. A banquet was provided in the 
evening at Das Deutsche Haus by C. J. 
Buchanan, president of the Fenner and 
Buchanan Company, funeral directors 
and cremationists. At the banquet the 
humorous poem of cremation in Alaska 
was very nicely and appropriately read 
by Mrs. Flanner. Mrs. C. J. Buchanan 
was presented with an armful of flow- 
ers in appreciation of the cordial treat- 
ment enjoyed by the delegates. 
the $3,000,000 worth of scrip issued by the 
company. The bill also asks for a receiver, 
but this, as well as the scrip matter, will be 
thrashed out in court at a later date. 
The St. Boniface Cemetery Associa- 
tion of Quincy, 111., is the name of an or- 
ganization that has just been chartered by 
the state. It is not for pecuniary profit 
The directors elected Rev. Father Degen- 
hardt as president, Edward Sohm as vice 
president, Alfred Kurz as secretary, and 
George Fischer as treasurer. 
Saint Joseph’s Cemetery Company at 
Rock Springs, Wyoming, incorporates .to 
acquire the old Roman Catholic cemetery. 
The membership is limited to five, as fol- 
lows : Rev. Patrick A. McGovern, of 
Cheyenne, bishop of the Roman Catholic 
diocese : Rev. Anton Schiffrer, rector of 
the Parish of our Lady of Sorrows ; Rev. 
John F. Sugrue, rector of the Parish of 
Saints Cyril and Methodius church; and 
Laymen Dr. Edward S. Murray and Math 
Ferlic. 
The ladies of the East Fox Lake (111.) 
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Cemetery Society held their yearly elec- 
tion of officers at the school house June 
17. The officers elected for the coming 
year ; President, Miss Mary Wilson ; 
re-elect vice president, Mrs. Zelma Hucker ; 
treasurer, Mrs. Blanche Richards ; new 
trustee, Mrs. Mary Douglas; secretary, 
Mrs. Laura Culver. 
A meeting of citizens of the vicinity of 
Sand Creek, Iowa, was held recently and 
an organization formed, to be known as the 
Sand Creek Cemetery Association. Officers 
were elected and plans discussed for beau- 
tifying the cemetery. The officers are : 
President, Allen Schoffner ; secretary, H. 
E. Bushnell, and treasurer, Arthur Ludley. 
The contract has been let for grading 
Rose Hill Cemetery at Macon, Ga. 
Oakwood Cemetery, Austin, Tex., has 
recently placed a contract for the building 
of a mortuary chapel to cost about $5,000. 
Myrtle Hill Cemetery, of Rome, Ga., 
recently purchased some property for an 
addition to the old cemetery. 
Work has been started on the lodge gate 
entrance to the new Forest Hill Cemetery 
on the St. Charles rock road, St. Louis, 
Mo. The lodge will contain a large recep- 
tion room and two offices, with other con- 
veniences. It will be of Carthage stone and 
tiled roof. 
The Center Church Cemetery Associa- 
tion of Wells Township, Jefferson County, 
O., was recently incorporated by O. J. S. 
Dougherty and others. 
Extensive improvements are being made 
at the Catholic Cemetery in Antigo, Wis. 
The work is being carried on under the 
direction of the Ladies' Aid Society of the 
Catholic Church. 
The bids for the placing of a fence 
around the city cemetery of Freeport, 111., 
were opened recently, but the contract for 
the work was not awarded. 
A cemetery association was formed at 
Franklin, 111., recently by Samuel Yetter 
and others. The object of this association 
is to create a sinking fund, the interest of 
which may be used for the perpetual care 
and upkeep of the cemetery. Temporary 
officers were elected as follows : C. W. 
Goodrich, president ; A. H. Perry, secre- 
tary. 
The cemetery board which has charge of 
Hillside Cemetery, of Marshfield, Wis., 
will advertise soon for bids for the erection 
of a building 26x30 feet on the cemetery 
grounds, which will be used as a rest house, 
comfort station and a storehouse for cem- 
etery tools. 
The County Board of Lawrenceville, 111., 
has donated $300 toward defraying the ex- 
pense of fencing White House Cemetery. 
At a recent meeting of the local cemetery 
association of Beeville, Tex., the members 
decided to solicit subscriptions for the gen- 
eral upkeep and improvement of this cem- 
etery. 
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