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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
Twenty-seventh, Clay and Regent streets, 
for a public park, and the park board, 
at a special meeting, promptly adopted a 
resolution recommending to the city coun- 
cil that the plot be accepted. A resolu- 
tion of thanks to Mr. France also was 
adopted. 
Plans for the establishment of a state 
park along the banks of the Patapsco river 
in the neighborhood of Ellicott City, 
Ilchester and other towns in Maryland, are 
being rapidly matured, the proposal of 
REACTIONARY CEMETERY 
LEGISLATION FAILS. 
None of the bills to tax unoccupied 
portions of cemeteries that were before 
the New York Legislature, as noted in 
our last issue, were passed at the last 
session of the Legislature. That body 
having now adjourned, the subject can- 
not be revived until next January. 
Meanwhile the Allied Cemeteries Com- 
mittee will doubtless get together and 
devise ways and means for resisting 
such legislation, should it be reintro- 
duced. Richard T. Greene, attorney, 43 
Exchange Place, New York City, is 
chairman of the Cemeteries Committee. 
It is also gratifying to note that the bill 
before the Pennsylvania Legislature to for- 
bid cemeteries from preventing outside 
gardeners from working on lots has been 
defeated. 
NEW ENGLAND CEMETERY 
ASSOCIATION. 
The next meeting of the New England 
Cemetery Association will be held at Mt. 
Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass., June 
19. The committee has decided to make a 
trip to Concord and Lexington in the 
afternoon, and a very interesting meeting 
is in prospect. Horace A. Derry, Glen- 
wood Cemetery, Everett, Mass., is secre- 
tary. 
Coroner James C. Davis, Leavenworth, 
Kas., the father of the movement to estab- 
lish a cemetery in which unfortunate 
people who die friendless, or whose rela- 
tives are destitute, can be buried for the 
cost of digging and preparing the grave, 
instead of in a pauper’s field, says it only 
remains for the trustees of Mt. Muncie 
Cemetery to agree upon a price to be 
charged for digging graves, before the 
much-talked-of poor man’s cemetery be- 
comes a reality. He has been pledged 
support for his very worthy effort. 
Litigation between Mrs. Nicoll Ludlow, 
wife of Rear Admiral Ludlow, and the 
vestry of St. John’s Church, Oakdale, L. I., 
over the church’s right to the graveyard 
John M. Glenn to give nearly 100 acres 
of land for the purpose and of Robert 
Norris and Rollin Norris to give an addi- 
tional 60 acres, having done much, it is 
said, to encourage the project. 
The old cemetery grounds of Ludlow, 
Mass., are being graded and will be turned 
into a children’s playground by the town. 
Mr. Frederick Law Olmsted has recently 
been in Denver, Colo., conferring on the 
civic center plans and the mountain park 
system. 
rn the old Ludlow estate at Oakdale, now 
owned by F. G. Bourne, has been decided 
in favor of the vestry by the Court of Ap- 
peals. Suit was begun some four years 
ago by Mrs. Ludlow to prove ownership, 
which resulted in the first trial in her 
favor. 
From Waterloo, la., the news comes that 
the Standard Company, of Cleveland, O., 
has filed a petition in the District Court 
asking damages from the Iowa Mausoleum 
Company to the amount of $4,520 for bal- 
ances due for bronze and other fittings for 
the Glendale mausoleum, Des Moines, on 
a contract dated March 12, 1912. 
The trustees of McAfee Cemetery, 
Pridgeburg, Ont., the oldest cemetery in 
that section, are taking steps to preserve 
what is really a historic burying ground. 
A petition for a writ of injunction 
against the West Side city authorities of 
Texarkana, Tex., has been filed with the 
District Court of Bowie County, asking 
the court to restrain and enjoin the city 
from proceeding with its plans to estab- 
lish an extension of the Rose Hill Cem- 
etery, in the five acres of land recently 
purchased by the city. The plaintiffs claim 
that the topography of the plat will lead 
all its drainage water through their terri- 
tory. 
A cemetery association has been recently 
organized at Findley, 111., to secure a site 
and maintain a cemetery close to the city 
limits. 
Reorganization of the Greenwood Cem- 
etery Company, Knoxville, Tenn., has been 
perfected. The capital stock has been in- 
creased from $50,000 to $100,000, a new 
board of directors and new officers have 
been chosen and plans inaugurated for ex- 
tensive improvements in the beautiful bur- 
ial park north of the city, near Smith- 
wood, Beverly and Fountain City. The 
newly elected officers are: President and 
treasurer, Dr R. N. Kesterson ; vice-presi- 
dent, J. W. Hope; secretary, Thomas Kes- 
terson ; executive committee, H. W. Cur- 
tis, C. L. Baum, J. W. Hope, Dr. R. N. 
Kesterson and Thomas Kesterson. 
Among a number of community mau- 
soleums now under construction in various 
parts of the country are structures at Wa- 
terloo, la.; Cedar Falls, la.; Lisbon, O., 
and Paducah, Ky. Incorporations : The 
Greensburg Mausoleum Co., Pittsburgh, 
Pa.; the Hillsboro Mausoleum Co., Hills- 
boro, 111.; the Elgin (111.) Mausoleum As- 
sociation. Projected mausoleums: Padu- 
cah, Ky. : York, Pa.; Atlanta, Ga. ; West 
Lawn Cemetery, Omaha, Neb. Governor 
Sulzer criticised the mausoleum advocates 
of a structure in North Hempstead, L. I., 
and vetoed the bill passed by the New 
York legislature, and a decree enjoining 
the International Mausoleum Co., of Chi- 
cago, from erecting a mausoleum in Oak- 
land Cemetery, Princeton, 111., was granted 
by Judge Joe A. Davis in the Circuit 
Court. 
A fifteen-acre plot purchased nine years 
ago by the Sheerith Israel Cemetery Asso- 
ciation, St. Louis, Mo., has by a court 
decree been exempted from general taxes. 
Taxes for nine years had accumulated and 
suit was instituted to force collection. 
Owners of the cemetery, believing the 
property to be on the exemption list, had 
paid no attention to the assessments. 
At a recent meeting of the trustees of 
the Pine Hill Cemetery, Dover, N. H., the 
amounts required to be placed in trust for 
the perpetual care of lots was raised. 
Where hitherto $50 has been the sum ac- 
cepted for permanent care of a quarter lot, 
a deposit of $100 will be required, $200 for 
permanent care of a half lot, and $300 or 
more for permanent care of a full lot or 
square. The latter is the minimum charge. 
What may be paid in excess of that sum 
being optional and at the discretion of the 
other party to be devoted to the care of 
tombstones and monuments. 
Plans are being made by the City Coun- 
cil of Des Moines, la., to provide a sink- 
ing fund by setting aside a percentage of 
the revenue derived from the sale of lots, 
the income from which is to be applied to 
the future care of Laurel Hill and Glen- 
dale cemeteries. 
While, technically speaking, the body of 
J. Pierpont Morgan lies in the town of 
Wethersfield, to all intents and purposes 
it is in the town of Hartford, Conn., as 
special acts of the legislature incorporating 
Cedar Hill Cemetery provide for the regis- 
tering of all deeds of transfers of lots in 
the land records of Hartford. The Hart- 
ford police and police court also have 
jurisdiction over that part of the cemetery 
lying in Wethersfield. 
Improvements and Additions. 
There is a concerted movement among 
the fraternal orders at Deming, N. M., to 
beautify the cemetery. Among the antici- 
pated improvements is the installation of a 
well and pump for water supply, and the 
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