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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
Captain Wilson, superintendent of the 
National Cemetery in Mobile, Ala., for the 
past five years, has been transferred to 
Marietta, Ga., and J. B. Erion was elected 
by Mobile Post No. 2, G. A. R., as his 
successor. 
The Supreme Court recently handed 
down an opinion confirming the judgment 
of the County Court in the case of the 
Bloomington Cemetery Association vs. P. 
M. Stubblefield, county collector, of 
Bloomington, 111., that the cemetery must 
pay taxes for sewer. 
At the annual meeting of the St. Vin- 
cent’s Cemetery Association, of La Salle, 
111., it was decided to plant 100 more trees 
■in the cemetery, and the organization is 
considering the advisability of planting a 
hedge about the grounds. 
The biggest judgment ever recorded in 
the state courts was given by Common 
Pleas Judge Gorman in Cincinnati. O., re- 
cently, for $200,946.40 to the Glendale Cem- 
etery Co. against Charles F. Heinig, who 
promoted the cemetery company in 1909. 
Early in 1909 Heinig established himself 
as a promoter and interested a number of 
persons in the establishment of the Glen- 
dale Cemetery. He represented that he had 
purchased 160 acres of land from the 
Cochran family for $149,960, and induced 
the company to take the land, he taking 
stock of that face value in payment of 
$22,000 of bonds for his services. Two 
years later the company discovered that 
Heinig had merely an option to buy the 
property. The judgment is for unpaid sub- 
scription on the stock Heinig took, with 
interest. The stock and bonds taken by 
Heinig are subject to the judgment. Their 
value depends on the value of the com- 
pany, which consists of its 31-acre ceme- 
tery at Glendale. The company recently 
made an assignment. 
The Carbo Steel Post Co., of Chicago, 
is sending out a very interesting book de- 
scribing and illustrating in detail the vari- 
ous unique constructional features of the 
Carbo steel posts and explaining various 
forms of tests for fence posts. It illus- 
trates graphically many interesting points in 
fence construction. 
New Cemeteries and Improvements. 
The city of Selma, Ala., is planning to 
build across Valley Creek, at the foot of 
Dallas street, a bridge by which the city 
would acquire a large tract of land just 
west of the cemetery. 
A new cemetery, to be opened in the 
spring, was recently incorporated at Co- 
lumbus, O., by J. H. Van Fossen, E. L. 
Rickets, B. C. Fletcher, J. J. Edgar and T. 
H. Fletcher, with a capital stock of $75,000. 
The name of the cemetery will be Wood- 
land Park. 
Under the direction of Captain E. L. 
Ford, superintendent of the Milford Cem- 
etery, Milford, Conn., the property re- 
cently purchased by the Milford Cemetery 
Association is being cleaned up and other- 
wise improved. 
The Jordon Cemetery Corporation was 
recently incorporated at Waterford, Mass., 
with a capital of $10,000 by John I. Chap- 
pell, Nellie Chappell Rose and Frank B. 
Rose. 
The Riverside Park Cemetery Associa- 
tion, of Spokane, Wash., will soon start 
development work on its 69-acre cemetery. 
The grounds will be laid out by an expert 
landscape architect and a chapel, crematory 
and receiving vault are to be built at an 
estimated cost of $25,000. The officers of 
the company are : J. D. Sherwood, presi- 
dent; A. W. Witherspoon, vice-president; 
A. A. Corey, secretary, and M. B. Connelly, 
treasurer. 
The Hope Cemetery Association, of Sa- 
lem, O., has purchased about two acres of 
ground located at the northwest corner of 
the burial park, which will be fenced and 
leveled off for lots. 
At a recent meeting of the Board of Su- 
pervisors of Mineola (L. I.), N. Y., it 
was suggested by representatives of St. 
John's Episcopal Church that another acre 
be added to their cemetery. 
The new cemetery movement recently in- 
augurated at Robinson, 111., is making rapid 
progress and in all probability this city will 
soon have a new burial ground. 
• A CORRECTION. 
On page 304, November issue of Park 
and Cemetery I referred to the silence of 
Portland, Oregon, as regards repeating the 
invitation of the year before to us to have 
our 1915 convention in that city. Under 
date of Nov. 17 the Secretary wrote me: 
“You say that we did not get an invitation 
from Portland. This was sent in due form 
and turned over to the Location Commit- 
tee, who did not find very many spon- 
sors for it and did not recommend it.” 
Under date of Nov. 24 Mr. Theo. E. 
Anderson, Superintendent of River View 
Cemetery Association, Portland, Oregon, 
who presented the invitation, wrote me to 
the effect that the invitation extended by 
him to the association at Buffalo last year 
to have the Cemetery Superintendents’ 
convention meet at Portland next year 
(1915), was again urged by him this year 
in a letter to the Secretary under date of 
Sept. 16; and again in an official way under 
date of Sept. 30 the invitation was ad- 
dressed “To the Officers and Members of 
the Association, of American Cemetery Su- 
perintendents, Planters’ Hotel, St. Louis, 
Mo.,” warmly inviting and strongly urging 
us to come to Portland in 1915. I have 
copies of these letters. 
These letters are the only information or 
knowledge I have had that Portland did, 
this year, repeat its invitation of a year 
ago. And as this invitation was not read 
before the association in convention assem- 
bled nor submitted to its Phantom Execu- 
tive Committee, how were the members to 
know anything about it? 
In view of the prominence and publicity 
given to this invitation a year ago (see 
page 35 of last year’s Proceedings), in 
justice to Mr. Anderson, who so cordially 
invited us, and to Portland, and in common 
courtesy to the members of the Associa- 
tion, I believe Mr. Anderson’s official invi- 
tation, dated Sept. 30 last, should have been 
read before the convention at St. Louis, 
and then referred, with the other invita- 
tions, to the Location Committee. 
Pittsburgh, Pa. William Falconer. 
THE COVER ILLUSTRATION. 
The entrance to South Mound Cemetery 
at New Castle, Ind., is shown on the front 
cover of this issue. The ornamental iron 
drive and walk gates, as well as several 
hundred feet of fence, were made and 
erected by The Stewart Iron Works Co., 
Cincinnati, O. 
The drive gates are 15 feet 4 inches 
wide, 7 feet high at hinge sides, tapering 
gracefully to 4 feet 6 inches at center. 
Hinge bars are 2 inches square; front 
bar, 2x54 inches ; cover bar, inches. 
All rails 2x54 inches, solid; braces, 1)4 x tk 
inches ; long and short pickets, 54 inch 
square, with forged points ; long pickets 
spaced approximately 5 inches on centers; 
scrolls and rings, inches. Gates are 
fitted with first-class non-corrosive flat 
tumbler locks,, and hinges have the Stew- 
art patent oiling feature. Walk gates are 
of the same design as drive gates, 5 feet 
wide, 7 feet high at hinge side, 4 feet 6 
inches high at latch side. Hinge bar, 2x1 
inches; front bar, 2x^4 inches; all rails, 
2x54 inches solid; brace, 1)4 X A inches, se- 
curely riveted to pickets ; long and short 
pickets, 54 inch square, with forged points ; 
long pickets spaced approximately 5 inches 
on centers ; scrolls and rings, inches. 
Walk gates are also equipped with first- 
class non-corrosive flat tumbler locks. 
This fine entrance undoubtedly makes a 
wonderful improvement in the already 
beautiful South Mound Cemetery and 
much credit for the splendid condition of 
this home for the dead is due to the su- 
perintendent, John S. Beyer, and other of- 
ficers and members of the cemetery asso- 
ciation. 
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