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BUFFALO CONVENTION. 
The dates of the Buffalo convention of 
the A. A. C. S., September 17, 18 and 19, 
fall so close to our press day that mem- 
bers will be either on their way or at 
Buffalo before this issue reaches them. 
The program was printed in our August 
issue and a complete report of the meet- 
ing will apear next month. 
MISSOURI CEMETERY ASSOCIA- 
TION MEETING. 
The sixth annual meeting of the Mis- 
souri Cemetery Improvement Association 
was held in Carthage, Mo., August 25 and 
26, with the usual attendance. 
These meetings are always very interest- 
ing and instructive and plans for increasing 
the membership have been made. So far 
it has been difficult to obtain the names of 
those at the head of the cemetery boards 
in the smaller towns, and during the com- 
ing year an endeavor will be made to do 
this through the commercial clubs or busi- 
ness men’s leagues of the different towns. 
A representative of the mausoleum com- 
pany that is contemplating the erection of 
a mausoleum in the cemetery at Carthage 
was present and went into the details of 
their plans with the members present. 
J. A. Hardy, Sr., of Webb City, presi- 
dent of the Mount Hope Cemetery Asso- 
ciation, read a very interesting paper on 
Mount Hope Cemetery since its begin- 
ning, April 27, 1905. On Tuesday a very 
profitable half day was spent in inspecting 
this cemetery. The new superintendent, 
Mr. O. A. Bruce, will probably become a 
member of the state association in another 
year. 
Henry Phelps, of Joplin, told of the ef- 
forts of some of their citizens to improve 
and beautify the old city cemetery, Fair- 
view. 
A general discussion on the best corner 
markers for lots, community mausoleums, 
cemetery lawns, etc., followed. 
Oscar McNear, of Columbia, succeeded 
to the presidency, F. C. Stille, superin- 
tendent of Bethania Cemetery, St. Louis, 
was elected vice-president, and Mrs. Bess 
R. Parker, Carthage, was re-elected secre- 
tary-treasurer. 
West Pittston Cemetery, Pittston, Pa., 
has been making many improvements with- 
in the past few years to bring the grounds 
up to modern standards in every respect. 
What has made possible the extensive im- 
provements that have been accomplished 
in recent years was the action of the man- 
agers in selling a portion of the coal under- 
lying the cemetery, the money received 
from which, placed in a trust fund, pro- 
vides an annual income that has been used 
to maintain the system of perpetual care 
of lots and to make permanent improve- 
ments. The most important improvements 
made under the present management is the 
construction of the stone retaining wall 
along the river side of the cemetery prop- 
erty. The steep bank leading to the river 
for many years made it impossible to use 
considerable ground north of the Susque- 
hanna avenue drive. For the purpose of 
reclaiming this strip of land the manage- 
gers six years ago decided to build a re- 
taining wall along the north side of the 
cemetery, and this work has just been com- 
pleted. 
Washington Cemetery, Washington, Pa., 
has recently revised rules and regulations 
from which we quote as follows : 
All vehicles of visitors must be confined to the 
avenues laid out and open for their use, without 
getting beyond the outside line of the water-table. 
No vehicle shall be turned about in any avenue, 
but every vehicle (whether a horse-drawn vehicle 
or an automobile) shall continue onward upon any 
avenue it may be traversing, to the end thereof, or 
until it turns into an intersecting or connecting 
avenue. Automobiles must not traverse such of 
the avenues as shall have thereon signs stating 
that automobiles are forbidden thereon. 
The speed of all vehicles, while in the cemetery, 
must not exceed six (6) miles per hour. Automo- 
biles, when turning or approaching bends or cor- 
ners, must slow down, as persons may be hidden 
from view by shrubbery. That the sorrows of 
heart-sore relatives and friends of the dead, who 
shall be in the cemetery, may be respected, the 
horn must not be sounded unless abolutely neces- 
sary. 
Automobiles, when meeting a horse or horses, 
must be kept close to the right-hand side of the 
avenue; and if the horse or horses indicate fright, 
the automobile driver must stop and cease chug- 
ging until the horse or horses are well past. 
On meeting a funeral, automobiles must stop and 
cease chugging until all the carriages shall have 
passed; and they must not pass near by a funeral 
whilst services are being held at the grave. 
Automobiles for what is commonly called “joy- 
riding” shall not be allowed in the cemetery. 
Harmony Grove Cemetery, Salem, Mass., 
has been bothered with some very unsightly 
specimens of organization flags on the 
grounds until it became necessary to make 
some regulation to abate the nuisance. 
Consequently, at a meeting of the trustees 
of the Cemetery, held July 16, 1913, it was 
unanimously voted that no flag or banner, 
except the American flag, shall be dis- 
played on lots in the Harmony Grove Cem- 
etery. 
From the Cemetery Reports. 
The report of the cemetery commission- 
ers of New Bedford, Mass., tells of the 
opening up and developing of the new Pine 
Grove Cemetery, and the special work of 
this department has been centered in this 
ground to such extent as what available 
finances would allow. With the opening of 
the season, the superintendent, George H. 
Nye, placed a large force of men in these 
grounds; an excavation was made for the 
pond; a drain laid for the overflow; water 
mains were laid from Acushnet avenue well 
into the grounds; the area leading from 
the Acushnet avenue entrance to the cem- 
etery proper was dug over its proper 
depth ; all stones removed and the surface 
partly graded; and to further facilitate 
the progress of the layout of the grounds, 
a stone crusher and a ten-ton steam road 
roller were purchased. One thousand two 
hundred and fifty-eight feet of macadam 
have been built during the year and the 
work of another season will show rapid 
progress in this line. 
In the annual report of Oakland Cem- 
etery, St. Paul, Superintendent F. D. Wil- 
lis gives the following statistics of the 
year’s work: Sales of lots, $17,214.40; 
sales of single graves, $1,582; special de- 
posits on lots and perpetual care, $328; on 
lot contract accounts, $3,896; perpetual care 
fund increased from sales of lots and sin- 
gle graves, $4,808. Expenditures : General 
improvement, $1,901.28; sewers and gut- 
ters, $674.19 ; perpetual care working fund, 
$6,749.48; miscellaneous labor, foundations, 
cases and vaults, $1,581.40; new land, 
graded and finished, square feet, 25,884; 
old land, regraded and finished, square 
feet, 9,062; interments to October 31, 1911, 
18,718; interments during year, 418. 
Improvements and Additions. 
Woodlawn Cemetery Association, Green 
Bay, Wis., has made extensive improve- 
ments this season, including surfacing of 
all the roads with crushed stone. A five 
crypt mausoleum to cost $25,000 is being 
erected by one of the lot owners. 
Forest Hills Cemetery, Chattanooga, 
Tenn.., is putting in an elaborate up-to- 
date greenhouse plant, in the process of 
getting ready for some of the needs of 
Easter. 
Forest Cemetery Association, Gadsden, 
Ala., has begun the work of parking the 
cemetery according to plans furnished by 
George E. Kessler, the landscape architect 
of St. Louis. 
The new entrance gate and driveway and 
two new granite sidewalks in Oakwood 
Cemetery, Upper Alton, 111., have been 
completed, and the entrance was thrown 
open recently. 
The commissioners of Oakland Ceme- 
tery, Little Rock, Ark., are contemplating 
many improvements at the cemetery, includ- 
ing the erection of a new entrance gate. 
Mrs. Linda M. Groh, widow of Prof. 
Andrew Groh, has made a donation for 
the construction of a chapel at the Onarga 
Cemetery, Watseka, 111. The chapel is to 
be a memorial to her husband. 
At a meeting last night at the Commer- 
cial Club of Albany, Ore., a number of cit- 
izens organized a cemetery association and 
elected a board of trustees. Those elected 
are : F. H. Pfeiffer, L. E. Blain, Fred C. 
Veal, Mrs. Mabel Simpson and D. P. 
Bodine. 
The Mt. Zion Cemetery Co., Pottstown, 
Pa., has acquired twenty-one additional 
acres. A new entrance will be constructed. 
