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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
DATES OF A. A. C. S. CONVENTION 
Editor Park and Cemetery : The local 
committee in charge of the 1913 conven- 
tion of the A. A. C. S. at Buffalo got 
together on April 3, 1913, and decided 
upon the following : 
Headquarters will be at Statler Hotel. 
Date, September 17, 18 and 19. Pro- 
gram : 
First Day — Morning Session. 
Mayor’s address of welcome. 
President’s address. 
Reception of new members and roll- 
call. 
Report of secretary and treasurer. 
Appointment of committees. 
Afternoon Session. 
Papers and discussions. 
Second Day. 
Automobile trip, starting at 9 :30 a. m. 
Run out Delaware avenue to Elmlawn 
Cemetery ; return to Forest Lawn Cem- 
Improvements and Additions. 
After several years’ fighting in the 
courts, the Square Lake Burial Associa- 
tion, of Cole Station, Mich., is utilizing 
part of the money left it in the will of 
the late Noah Tyler. Mr. Tyler left the 
association the bulk of his property to be 
used in the erection of a burial vault in 
the cemetery and an iron fence around it. 
A contract has been made for a granite 
receiving vault costing $6,500, to be 
erected as soon as possible. The struc- 
ture will be of Barre granite, 12 by 18 
feet, with bronze entrance gates and tile 
flooring. Colonial columns will ornament 
the front The contract was awarded the 
Sheldon Granite Company. 
Work on the Hubbard Memorial Chapel, 
Meriden Cemetery, Meriden, Conn., will 
be started about May 1. 
The cemetery at El Dorado, Ark., is 
being considerably improved. The Rev. 
John Stanly Thomas has raised and ex- 
pended some $1,700 in the grounds and 
the approach road, and will make an effort 
to continue the good work. 
Plans for decided improvements in 
B’nai Israel Cemetery, Salt Lake City, 
Utah, were filed with the city commission 
recently and were approved. An orna- 
mental iron and concrete fence will be 
built on a line with the city cemetery in- 
closure and a parking strip will be made 
along the fence. A large greenhouse will 
also be erected. 
The Quinnipiac Cemetery Association, 
Southington, Conn., voted to accept the 
offer of Mrs. Clark, widow of Senator 
etery, where a session will be held and 
light luncheon served. Proceed to Pine 
Hill Cemeteries and Public Mausoleum; 
thence to South Park and Conservatory 
there, and return to headquarters. 
Third Day. 
Trip to Niagara Falls, starting from 
Buffalo by boat to Schlosser's Dock ; 
thence by trolley to Falls and around by 
way of Gorge Route, stopping at Vic- 
toria Park for luncheon, with stops at 
other points of interest. 
Papers and other details to be decided 
later. Bellett Lawson, Jr. 
Secy, and Treas. 
“Elmwood,” Chicago. 
The convention committee is composed 
as follows : 
F. W. Werick, “Ridge Lawn,” Buf- 
falo. 
Jno. W. Keller, “Mt. Hope,” Rochester. 
F. Sheard, “Riverside,” Rochester. 
William J. Clark, of Stony Creek, of 
$1,000 in addition to the $500 previously 
given by her toward a fund to provide 
for the erection in the cemetery of a 
mortuary chapel. In addition to the $1,000 
given by Mr. Clark the association has 
about $500 which will be added to the 
chapel fund. 
A general meeting of the lot owners of 
Eastside Cemetery, Hutchinson, Kan., was 
recently held to discuss plans for the im- 
provement of the cemetery. General con- 
ditions are to be improved and the grounds 
will be made more attractive. 
The city cemetery committee of Waits- 
burg, Wash., lias employed a landscape 
architect to plat and lay out the grounds 
for permanent improvements. This has 
been made possible by the generosity of 
William G. Preston, who offered to dupli- 
cate every dollar of voluntary contribu- 
tions from the citizens. As a result the 
committee has over $4,000 to work with. 
Several acres lying below the hill have 
been acquired to enlarge the cemetery. 
The Center Street Cemetery Association, 
of Wallingford, Conn., is striving to raise 
$500 this spring for beautifying their 
grounds. 
The Home of Peace Cemetery, Porters- 
ville, Cal., will have upwards of $500 ex- 
pended upon it this spring to make it a 
beaut}' spot. 
The Mansfield Center, Conn., Cemetery 
Association is gathering funds for im- 
provement, which will include a new foun- 
tain. 
Largely under the care of the ladies, 
Miss Charlotte L. Buck, secretary ; Miss 
Novella J. Trott, treasurer, and Mrs. 
Maud S. Ham, auditor, the Riverside 
Cemetery Association, of Woolwich, Me., 
is under constant improvement, the work 
of the superintendent, Edward H. Carle- 
ton, whose plans will be completed this 
summer, being highly complimented. 
New Cemeteries. 
Plaza, Wash., has decided to have a 
cemetery of its own. An association will 
be incorporated. 
The Board of Health of Leicester, 
Mass., at a hearing on the matter of 
granting land of the Harvey Wilson farm, 
Rochdale, to the Lithuanian speaking 
people of Worcester, for cemetery pur- 
poses, decided in favor of allowing Wor- 
cester church people the right to have the 
land. 
Joseph Sawatskie, of South Deerfield, 
Mass., better known as Joseph Roche, has 
given four acres of land to St. Stanis- 
laus Society for a Polish cemetery. This 
land is adjoining the South Main Street 
Cemetery on the east. 
At a recent meeting of the City Council 
of Lake Charles, La., an ordinance was 
passed providing that the Catholic cem- 
etery at Common and Iris streets be closed 
within sixty days. It is understood that 
the church has purchased another tract 
of . land east of the city to be used as a 
burial ground. The Catholic cemetery is 
the last one in use within the city limits. 
A real estate transaction of interest to 
Cedar Rapids, la., took place recently, 
when the Evergreen Cemetery Association 
purchased the Stone homestead, which lies 
just north of the present cemetery. It 
is a beautiful spot consisting of twelve 
acres, and the consideration was $8,000. 
It has long been understood that when 
the site was for sale the association should 
have the privilege of buying it, as it is 
the logical site for addition. A landscape 
gardener will be secured to lay it out. 
At a meeting of the township board of 
health at Comstock, Mich., a committee 
from the Civic Improvement League pre- 
sented plans for a new cemetery, which 
met with the approval of the board. The 
cemetery here is one of the oldest in 
Kalamazoo county and has gotten into 
such condition that a storm of protest 
against its further use has been inaugu- 
rated. 
The Farragut, Iowa, Cemetery Associa- 
tion has adopted a constitution and by- 
laws and elected officers and is now regu- 
larly organized. The women of the com- 
munity will be the active members, and 
all men desiring may be honorary mem- 
bers. A permanent sexton will be secured 
at once, who will devote his entire time 
to the cemetery. 
CEMETERY NOTES 
{Concluded on pgae V/) 
