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PARK AND C EM ET ERY. 
Georgetown recently purchased by the 
District at a cost of $110,000. 
An ordinance regulating the exhum- 
ing of bodies from Fairview cemetery, 
Joplin, Mo., has been passed. The ordi- 
nance provides that no body can be 
taken from the cemetery without permit 
having been secured from the board of 
health and a deposit made to insure that 
the work of removal be properly done. 
The ordinance provides that bodies can- 
not be exhumed between April 1 and 
November 1, and cannot be removed 
until they have been buried three years. 
The Mount Hope Cemetery Commis- 
sion, Rochester, N. Y., have accepted 
plans and specifications for a crema- 
tory. The plans were prepared upon 
request of the commissioners, who had 
discussed the question of building a 
crematory for several years. The crem- 
atory will be erected at the north 
end of and connected with the 
old chapel near the main entrance 
to the cemetery. Later the old 
chapel will be torn down and a co- 
lumbarium constructed in connection 
with the crematory proper. Both the 
crematory and the columbarium will be 
built of Jamestown sandstone. The 
crematory section will be twenty by thir- 
ty-five feet, with a height of twenty-five 
feet. The building will have a chimney 
seventy-five feet high. The retorts will 
be constructed of steel, asbestos and 
fire brick and will be of modern type. 
The structure will cost in the neighbor- 
hood of $25,000. 
In order to equalize charges for the 
upkeep of lots in the city cemeteries of 
Bedford, Mass., the cemetery board has 
adopted a system charging a flat rate of 
one cent per square foot for the work 
on all lots ot 300 feet or under, and a 
half a cent a square foot for all area in 
excess of the stipulated 300 feet. 
The suit of Mrs. J. Reichelt against 
the St. Vincent de Paul Cemetery Asso- 
ciation, New Orleans, La., has been de- 
cided in favor of the cemetery. The 
complainant had asked for an order re- 
straining the association from removing 
the remains of her son from the tomb 
in which they had been interred and 
also asked for a judgment against the 
association for $1,020. The association 
answered that the two tombs which Mrs. 
Reichelt claimed to own were on its 
books in the name of another person as 
owner. 
According to the record of Sextons 
George W. Jones and Hawkins Clear, 9 
.persons have been buried in Mound Hill 
cemetery, Eaton, O., the past year and 
eleven the year previous. This ceme- 
tery is just 100 years old, the first grave 
of an infant, Ockerman, having been 
made in 1812. Since that time nearly 
6,200 have been interred there, and the 
population is now about twice that of 
the city. 
The cemetery committee of Hudson, 
Mass., has been considerably stirred up 
over the damage to trees and other 
property in Forestvale and Main street 
cemeteries. Twenty-four shade trees in 
the cemetery were found to have been 
hacked with an ax and it is thought that 
the damage was done by boys out of 
mischief or thoughtlessness. A short 
time ago two faucets were broken off 
the water pipes in Forestvale, and one 
of them was found in a desk in Broad 
street school. 
Two big cemetery propositions in 
Brooklyn, N. Y., the details for which 
are all but completed, are being held 
up by the C. S. Burr law, which pre- 
vents any corporation from getting 
property for cemeteries of more than 
a limited acreage. The site selected is 
in the neighborhood of Pine Lawn 
Cemetery. That which is sought for 
the use of the Catholics covers an area 
of 500 acres and that that is wanted 
by the Hebrew organization covers 300 
acres. 
Ralph B. Miller, County Treasurer, 
Springfield, O., has a cemetery on his 
hands, and he put the question of selling 
or not selling at the delinquent tax sale 
up to the auditor and prosecuting at- 
torney for an opinion. For several 
years no taxes have been paid on the 
Lagonda Avenue Cemetery improve- 
ment assessments, and the question has 
come up as to advertising the cemetery 
along with the delinquent tax list. 
If the spirit displayed in a note re- 
ceived from Wm. Barnes, Red Creek, 
N. Y., characterizes those who have 
anything to do with small cemeteries, 
a great change would soon be made in 
the majority of rural graveyards. Mr. 
Barnes says : “I don’t know what I 
take your paper for anyway, only I just 
like it. I am secretary of a little cem- 
etery just outside a small village- — a 
little green knoll of about two acres. 
While reading Park and Cemetery I 
have seen it change from briers, bushes 
and weeds to a smooth clipped lawn, 
and I would like to see a fund estab- 
lished and invested, the interest only to 
be used to maintain the cemetery. I 
studied ‘Perpetual Care,’ but things 
come too slow — there is so much pro- 
crastination.” They do not appear to 
be coming slow, and an excellent start 
has been made. The community will 
warm up to the results obtained and 
improvement will be more rapid in the 
future. 
The Catholic undertaking establish- 
ment, of South Bend, Ind., for more 
than three-quarters of a century oper- 
ated by the authorities at Notre Dame 
University, has been sold. This sale 
does not include Cedar Grove ceme- 
tery, which was founded by the Uni- 
versity authorities at the same time, 
and this will continue to be maintained 
as Catholic property. The Catholic 
Cemetery was the first established by 
white men in northern Indiana and 
for years was the only burying 
ground for miles, excepting an old 
Indian cemetery located nearby. 
When the cemetery was first estab- 
lished the early settlers came from 
points 50 miles distant to bury their 
dead. 
In reply to a communication asking 
for particulars regarding a low cost 
cemetery chapel and tomb, Mr. Bellett 
Lawson, Jr., River Grove, 111., made 
the following suggestions: “In modern 
receiving tombs it is essential that the 
receptacles for the bodies should each 
be built with a solid partition, preferably 
of concrete, which when finished would 
be in the form of large pigeon-holes, 
and are known as catacombs. This 
work can be very successfully done 
with concrete, even to the doors or 
openings for each catacomb. It is es- 
sential that these catacombs have air 
vents at the rear ends and built in such 
a way that there is a constant current 
of air passing through these vents. A 
number of successful tombs have been 
constructed along these lines. If con- 
crete blocks are properly made and tast- 
ily used, a good building can be made 
of concrete. 
The board of directors of 16 ceme- 
teries of St. Louis, Mo., and vicinity, in 
a meeting recently held at the office of 
St. Peter’s cemetery, resolved to abol- 
ish Sunday interments, except in cases 
of contagious disease when the board 
of health demands immediate burial. 
The agreement becomes effective March 
1st at the following cemeteries : Bel- 
thania, Bethlehem, Concordia, Friedens, 
Greenwood, New Pickers, St. Johns, St. 
Marcus, old and new, St. Peters, St. 
Matthews, St. Trinity, S. S. Peter & 
Paul, Valhalla, Wesleyan, Western 
Evangelical and Zions. It was also 
agreed to make the temporary associa- 
tion, the Missouri Cemetery Superin- 
tendents’ Association, permanent and to 
meet semi-annually. A. E. Todt, super- 
intendent S. S. Peter & Paul cemetery, 
acted as president, and J. Schmiemeyer, 
secretary. Calvary cemetery had al- 
ready abolished the Sunday funeral, the 
decision becoming effective this month. 
F. M. Jordan, superintendent of the 
Tulocay Cemetery association of Napa, 
Cal., has been accused of graft in 
charges preferred against him by an ex- 
pert employed by the board of directors 
