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The Missouri Cemetery Improvement 
Association has just issued a summary of 
its proceedings since and including its 
first meeting at Boonville, Mo., on April 8, 
1909. The association has had some ex- 
cellent meetings, not forgetting the one of 
recent date, in which some of the impor- 
tant probelms in cemetery practice were 
quite well thrashed out, and real practical 
information formulated for immediate ap- 
plication. Membership in the association 
is open to all officials connected with cem- 
eteries and the association's work should 
have the support of all the cemetery of- 
ficials of the state. 
St. Agnes Cemetery, Albany, N. Y., 
has completed plans for a handsome build- 
ing to be used as a combined office and 
.administration building and superintend- 
ent’s residence. It will be a modern fire- 
proof building and will cost $30,000. 
Aroused by the lack of care taken of 
Eastside Cemetery, Hutchinson, Kas., and 
the need of improvements there, lot own- 
ers of the cemetery have formally organ- 
ized. They discovered recently that they 
are really the same as stockholders in the 
cemetery association, and the new organi- 
zation will take charge of the cemetery 
and conduct it hereafter. 
The Board of Trade of Bristol, Tenn., 
is taking active steps to promote the wel- 
fare of the town. Among a number of im- 
portant recommendations is that for a new 
cemetery to be established at a suitable 
and convenient location and on such a plan 
that it will forever be properly cared for. 
Miss Ethel B. Gardiner, the recently ap- 
pointed superintendent of Elm Grove Cem- 
etery, Providence, R. I., defeated several 
male candidates for the position and is the 
only woman cemetery superintendent in 
New England. She has been a candidate 
for the appointment since the death of her 
father, the late Alonzo J. Gardiner, last 
winter, who had been superintendent of 
the ground for almost twelve years. For 
some time prior to his death she had been 
his assistant. With her knowledge and 
experience there is little doubt but that she 
will admirably fill the bill. 
Work is in progress on a new Catholic 
cemetery at Hayward=, Alameda county, 
Cal. The tract affords a beautiful site. 
It comprises 1S6 acres of rolling land with 
a range of hills for a background, and 
overlooking the bay. The plans for the 
grounds and necessary buildings were 
made by A. FI. Davidson and S. Sandelius, 
of San Francisco. Mr. Davidson has been 
commissioned by Archbishop Reardon to 
create a cemetery that will be a credit to 
the Catholic church, and no one who has 
seen what Mr. Davidson has accomplished 
at Cypress Lawn, Cal., will doubt his 
ability to make good. James P. Murphy 
is the superintendent. 
The heavy burden which a few prop- 
erty owners have to bear when assessed 
for a local improvement near a cemetery 
which is exempted under the law from 
bearing any portion of the cost, has been 
again called to the attention of the Board 
of Estimate of Queens, New York. A num- 
ber of property owners have requested 
relief from a portion of the assessment on 
this account. Queens has 2, C00 acres of 
cemetery lands exempt from taxation. 
Sentiment has defeated the Boynton 
cemetery bills in the California legislature. 
The defeat of the cemetery bills does not 
prevent the removal of the cemeteries. It 
does prevent the removal by the machinery 
worked out by the framers of the Boyn- 
ton bills: The object of the bills, it has 
been stated, was to place the responsibility 
for the removal of the bodies in the hands 
of the cemetery association trustees and the 
cemetery owners. 
During an electric storm in May at 
Denison, la., the recently erected barn and 
tool house at the cemetery were struck 
and burned to the ground. 
Trinity Cemetery, at Broadway and 
1 54th street, New York City, has assess- 
ments unpaid running back as far as 1876 
and amounting to $68,000. The total of 
unpaid assessments on cemeteries in all 
the New York boroughs amounts to $519,- 
725. and efforts are to be made to collect. 
Messrs. Clark & Pike, landscape archi- 
tects of Willoughby, O., have been award- 
ed the contract for the landscape and con- 
struction work for the new cemetery at 
Waco, Texas, to be opened by the Waco 
Cemetery Association. It is to be a mod- 
ern park plan cemetery, to include the 
up-to-date features in cemetery practice. 
The board of directors of the Lincoln 
Cemetery Association, Lincoln, 111., are 
working to create a oerpetual care fund. 
The local press is helping the cause. 
The Pennsylvania House Judiciary Soe- 
cial Committee reported the bill to prohibit 
cemetery companies from excluding gar- 
deners who have been engaged to look after 
plots bv lot holders, it being amended to 
exempt cemeteries conducted on the lawn 
clan. The penalty was also reduced from 
$500 to $50 fine. 
Improvements and Additions 
The new cemetery of St. Jean Baptiste 
Church, Lynn, Mass., a 12-acre tract pur- 
chased bv the church, is undergoing im- 
provement. A new entrance is to be con- 
structed also. 
The plans are ready for the improve- 
ment of the new cemetery Graceland, Ra- 
cine, Wis., for which Messrs. Flare & 
Hare, of Kansas City, were commissioned. 
It is not the intention to finish up the work 
over the whole area immediately, but to 
prepare some five acres at a time. 
Arrangements are under way for the 
building of a receiving vault in Riverside 
Cemetery, Union City, Mich., the voters 
of the township having recently appro- 
priated funds for this purpose. It will 
be an attractive structure. 
The contract for a fine mausoleum for 
Morris L. Sternberger, the dead banker 
and financier, at Jackson, O., was awarded 
to the Granite and Cut Stone Company, of 
Portsmouth, at a price of $22,000. 
Mrs. Henry Geymer has begun the erec- 
tion of a large private mausoleum on her 
lots in the Bloomington Cemetery, Bloom- 
ington, 111. The new structure will be of 
modern type and when completed will be 
one of the most attractive and elaborate 
buildings of this character in the cemetery. 
Rev. T. F. Bannon, pastor of St. Joseph’s 
Church, Willimantic, Conn., has mapped 
out a plan of improvement for the ceme- 
tery which will greatly improve its appear- 
ance. 
A handsome monument to the memory 
of the late Mayor Schmidt will be erected 
in Greenwood Cemetery, Wheeling, W. Va., 
this summer. The design was prepared by 
Edward C. Kreutzer, of that city, and is 
a heavy sarcophagus in style, with very 
simple and dignified outlines. The only 
inscription will be the name, ‘‘Charles C. 
Schmidt.” 
Improvements are to be made in the 
burying ground in Poquonoc, known as the 
Old Avery Cemetery, Groton, Conn. The 
cemetery is one of the historic features of 
Groton. James Avery, the original Avery, 
is buried there, as are over a score of Rev- 
olutionary heroes. The Smith Lake Cem- 
etery is to be moved to a location adja- 
cent to the old Avery burying ground. It 
is estimated that about $3,000 will be ex- 
pended in improving the old cemetery. 
Stones will be reset and cleaned and every- 
thing possible is to be done to preserve 
them. A wall will be built about the 
cemetery, and the grounds will be cleared 
and graded. 
A fine mausoleum is to be erected on 
the Char in lot in the Springfield Cemetery, 
Springfield, Mass., by Chester W. Chapin, 
of New York, in memory of his father, 
the late Chester W. Chapin, rio"eer in the 
development of Western New England 
transportation and builder of the Boston 
and Albany railroad. The Hans for the 
memorial are now in the hands of Tiffany 
in New York, and final acceptance will 
probably not be made until the trustees 
of the cemetery have been fully informed 
as to their nature. It will probably cost 
$50 000. 
