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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
ASKED AND ANSWERED 
An exchange of experience on practical matters by our readers. You 
are invited to contribute questions and answers to this department 
The Earth Cabinet. 
Has there ever been any practical de- 
vice made to hold the earth taken from 
the grave, same to be deposited in the 
grave after the body has been lowered? — 
S. B., Va. 
ful. The plain wooden handle, unprotect- 
ed, gives better satisfaction, as the wood, 
being softer than the stone, takes hold of 
it and sticks where the iron slipped. 
The handle is made of tough white oak 
or white ash, from a stick 214x134 inches, 
Mr. Frank Enrich, superintendent of 
Woodlawn Cemetery, Detroit, Mich., in- 
vented a device called “Earth Cabinet,” 
which we believe is just what you want. 
This was described in the July, 1911, issue 
of Park and Cemetery in sufficient detail 
for you to be able to construct one for 
yourself. Any further details you might 
want, no doubt, Mr. Enrich would be glad 
to give you. We do not know whether 
this device is for sale or not, but the deal- 
ers in cemetery supplies advertising in this 
issue might supply you with something sim- 
ilar. 
Cant Hook for Moving Stcn.es. 
Editor Asked and Answered : In your 
issue for March there was an article un- 
der the head of "Practical Tools for For- 
estry Work” in which a cant hook for 
moving heavy stones was described. Can 
you please send me the address of the 
man who manufactures the cant hooks, so 
that I may write him concerning the same? 
- — A. A. F., Wis. 
Harry J. Mueller, forester of the Union 
County Reserve, Route 2, Bellefonte, Pa, 
is the inventor of the device and gives us 
the following interesting description of it: 
“This tool has never been put up for sale 
and I don’t believe any other tools de- 
signed for use of our forest service have. 
About the stone hook, I would say it sug- 
gested itself to me while building a road 
over a rocky barrier where rocks weighing 
from one to twenty tons had to be dealt 
with. We first tried it with an iron plate 
under the lower part of the handle grip- 
ping the stone, but this proved unsuccess- 
50 inches long. Ten inches from one end 
and 1/a inch from the top side a ^4-inch 
hole is bored. Now on the top side a 3xj4 
inch mortise is made, the center of the hole 
being in the middle line of the mortise. 
The stick is then shaped to 134x134 inches 
at the front to \ l / 2 inches in diameter at 
the handle end. At the mortise and 3 
inches in front of the bolt the stick is left 
2i4xlj4 inches, giving it the greatest 
strength where the greatest strain is. 
The hook is made from lxR> inch tool 
steel, of good quality, 27 inches long. 
Eighteen inches from one end a curve 6 
inches in diameter is made. The end of 
the hook is then heated and placed in a 
vise. It is then twisted half around, mak- 
ing the broad bill of the hook stand at 
right angles with the rest of the hook. 
The bill should stand out slightly from the 
line of the semicircle, so that the inside 
edge of the bill and not the whole end of 
the steel bar comes in contact with the 
stone. This should be left soft; this is 
important, as soft steel catches the stone 
more readily and holds better. This edge 
should be sharpened repeatedly for good 
results. 
Five y 2 - inch holes, 2*4 inches apart, are 
punched or drilled in the long end of the 
bar to make the hook adjustable to dif- 
ferent sized stones. 
The hook is then inserted in the mortise 
and held with a 3x*4 inch bolt and nut. 
The handle can be made by a carpenter 
in a little time and any blacksmith can 
shape the hook. 
This with the drawing tells the story.” 
R. A. Leavitt, superintendent of Wyom- 
ing Cemetery, Melrose, Mass., sends us 
two very fine photographic post-card views 
of the cemetery that show some really 
beautiful natural scenery that is portrayed 
to good advantage in these excellent little 
photographs. 
William Pitkin, Jr., landscape architect, 
of Rochester, N. Y., has been retained to 
furnish plans for the development of a 
21-acre addition to Mount Zion Cemetery 
at Pottstown, Pa. 
At recent annual meetings of cemetery 
associations the following officers were 
elected : 
Woodhull Cemetery Association, Wood- 
hull, 111.: President, G. E. Swanson; sec- 
retary-treasurer and sexton, O. A. Sher- 
man. 
Vinton Cemetery Association, Vinton, 
la.: Superintendent, Steven Jewett. 
MORE OR LESS PERSONAL. 
Charlotte Cemetery Association, Char- 
lotte, Mich. : President, L. H. Shepard ; 
secretary, George H. Spencer. 
Oakland Cemetery Association, Clinton, 
la.: President, George Buechner; secre- 
tary, Gertrude M. Davis. 
Fremont Cemetery Association, Fre- 
mont, Neb.: President, Charles F. Dodge; 
secretary, James Donahue. 
Shiloh Cemetery Association, Barry, 111. : 
President, A. W. Larimore ; secretary, S. 
A. Baker. 
Oakwood Cemetery Association, Fort 
Worth, Tex.: President, Mrs. J. J. Nun- 
nally; secretary, Mrs. J. T. Burt. 
Riverside Cemetery Association, Three 
Rivers, Mich.: President, John Griffiths; 
secretary, W. E. Barnard; superintendent, 
W. H. Sloan. 
Le Mars Cemetery Association, Le Mars, 
la.: President, Caspar Huebsch ; secre- 
tary, R. J. Koehler. 
THE OBITUARY RECORD. 
U. T. Dubel, aged 55, for twenty-one 
years superintendent of Woodlawn Cem- 
etery, Canandaigua, N. Y., died at Me- 
morial Llospital there, January 10, of shock 
following the loss of a portion of his jaw, 
which was pulled out when a dentist at- 
tempted to extract a troublesome tooth. 
Mr. Dubel had been ill with diabetes for six 
years and this disease had affected the 
bone tissues. Mr. Dubel came from Day- 
ton, Ohio, to take charge of the cemetery. 
He was master of Canandaigua Grange 
and prominently identified with the Odd 
Fellows and other organizations. Surviving 
are his wife and two children, Morris Du- 
bel of Rochester and Glenna McMaster of 
Canandaigua, and nine brothers and sis- 
ters. 1 "J 
