PARK AND CEMETERY. 
By an act of Congress the United 
States government gave to the five 
protestant churches at Salt Lake City, 
Utah, sixty acres of land for cemetery 
purposes, which is controlled by a 
trustee from each church and the 
commanding officer of the Utah fort. 
The tract has been managed by R. L. 
Tracy, and after installing a water 
system and reservoir, they now have 
$55,000 as a perpetual care fund. 
A few weeks ago the Ministerial As- 
sociation of Danbury, Conn., publish- 
ed a resolution requesting that no 
more funerals be held on Sunday, ex- 
cept under conditions required by the 
Board of Health. This has brought 
about a general understanding on the 
matter and the public has practically 
complied with the request. Danbury 
Cemetery Association has purchased 
30 acres of adjoining land for future 
use, which was rapidly increasing to 
prohibitory values, and has also pur- 
chased a dwelling next to the main 
gate for the use of the sexton. 
Whether the association should pay 
taxes on this building or not has been 
brought before the court, but no de- 
cision is yet known, so Mr. N. T. 
Bulkley, superintendent and secretary, 
informs us. 
In order to bring to a head the agi- 
tation for the removal of the ceme- 
teries covering seventy acres of 
choice property in the Richmond dis- 
trict of San Francisco, Cal., a petition 
has been presented to the supervisors 
asking that an ordinance be passed 
ordering removal of the burying 
grounds. It was agreed to ask the 
board to exercise the right granted 
by the last legislature by which the 
removal of all cemeteries within city 
limits can be required. The law is 
as follows: “The governing or legis- 
lative body of any city in this state 
may, by ordinance duly passed and 
under such lawful rules and regula- 
tions as it may adopt, provide for the 
exhuming, taking up and removal 
from cemeteries within the boundary 
.lines of such city and that may have 
been located without its boundaries 
(and in which cemeteries no inter- 
ment of human remains , have been 
made within a period of not less than 
five years) of any or all the human 
remains interred in such cemeteries.” 
The Richmond Federation of Im- 
provement Clubs are invoking the aid 
of the Civic League of Improvement 
Clubs of the whole city in this effort 
to compel the vacation of every ceme- 
tery in the city and county of San 
Francisco and the removal of all 
bodies buried therein. 
A new cemetery is about to be estab- 
lished adjacent to the city of Reading, 
Pa., by the congregation of St. Mary’s 
Catholic church, Twelfth and Spruce 
streets, Rev. Father Malusecki, pastor. 
The cemetery trustees of Wood- 
ville, O., a small town near Toledo, 
have passed a resolution to charge 
for Sunday burials $1.50 more than 
for week day services. 
As a result of a vote taken re- 
cently at the annual meeting of the 
old Brockton Melrose Cemetery Cor- 
portion, Brockton, Mass., the prop- 
erty and money of that organization 
will be turned over to the city, pro- 
viding the city is willing to accept on 
the conditions mentioned. The mo- 
tion unanimously carried was as fol- 
lows: “That a committee of three 
be chosen to turn present holdings of 
property and money to the city, on 
condition that the cemetery be cared 
for under rules and regulations now 
governing the Melrose Cemetery, and 
under such rules and regulations as 
the city shall from time to time es- 
tablish, and also, as soon as this ac- 
tion shall have been consummated, 
this corporation shall be considered 
as dissolved.” 
The frequent and increasing use of 
the entrances to Walnut Grove Cem- 
etery, Danvers, Mass., by automobil- 
ists and horse vehicles as a thorough- 
fare from street to street, has made 
it necessary for the trustees to take 
steps to stop the practice. Begin- 
ning May 1 all entrances except that 
on Sylvan street will be closed to au- 
tomobile and carriage travel and all 
people desiring to enter the cemetery 
in vehicles must do so through this 
entrance, except during funerals, 
when the other entrances will be 
opened on application to the super- 
intendent. 
Two suits for $25,000 each, brought 
by the National Mausoleum Company 
and W. I. Hood, president of the cor- 
poration, respectively, against J. M. 
Reed, Louis Brucker.and J. M. Skales, 
in which the defendants were charged 
with having forcibly entered the of- 
fices of the Mausoleum company in 
the. Ferguson building,. Springfield, 
111., entailing a loss, claimed to be 
$50,000, and made away with books 
and papers of the company, were dis T 
missed in the circuit court, April 13. 
The death of Hood, the principal 
claimant in the suits,- -was the reason 
for the dismissal. The Mausoleum 
company erected the crypt at Oak 
Ridge Cemetery, over which much 
litigation arose. 
At the recent quarterly meeting of 
the trustees of the Bloomington 
Grove Cemetery Association, Bloom- 
ington, Ilk, several changes in the 
rules and by-laws which have been 
in effect for the last year were adopt- 
ed. This was done to meet present 
conditions, and while none were very 
radical yet they will make valid some 
changes that have been practiced for 
some time. 
A determined effort is being made 
by the new board of directors of Oak- 
wood Cemetery, Spartanburg, S. C., 
to bring about better conditions in 
that cemetery. The matter of per- 
petual care is on the program for the 
near -future. 
Miss Emily Tuckerman, of Wash- 
ington, D. C., who owns a country 
place in Stockbridge, Mass., claims 
ownership of the Stockbridge Indian 
burial ground. The selectmen have 
been investigating her claim and it is 
said have found nothing to sustain 
it so far. 
The old Church Street Cemetery in 
West Springfield, Mass., is in a dis- 
reputable condition, and a new move- 
ment has been started to do some- 
thing to reclaim it. It is one of the 
oldest cemeteries in the state . 
It is reported that Archbishop P. 
W. Riordan, of the Roman Catholic 
Church, has closed the deal and has 
purchased 130 acres of the Ziele 
ranch, a mile below Hayward. Cal., 
on the Niles road, to be used as a 
burying- ground. It will be known 
as St. Mary's Cemetery. The church 
purchased a tract of land on the 
boulevard a few years ago, and spent 
several thousand dollars in improving 
it for cemetery purposes. It is said 
that this property will be abandoned, 
owing to the hard rock formation and 
scarcity of water on the land. The 
Ziele property is considered excel- 
lent for cemetery purposes, being 
within easy access, and has immense 
water rights. The purchase includes 
the handsome Ziele home and gar- 
dens. 
The cemetery department of New 
Bedford, Mass., has again been un- 
successful in getting any bids this 
year for furnishing sod for the de- 
partment, and they will have to go 
scout in g-to find some, as at least 2,000 
square feet of it will be needed dur- 
ing the- -year. Superintendent George 
H. Nye says that last year the de- 
partment was unable to get bids on 
sod and had to go- out and buy it 
wherever they could. 
The Village Cemetery, Brockton, 
Mass., incorporated, was permanently 
reorganized recently and steps were 
