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organization was formed in 1887. 
These addresses and their speakers 
are as follows : 
The Origin, Progress and Present 
Condition of the A. A. C. S., George W. 
Creesy, Superintendent Harmony Grove 
Cemetery, Salem, Mass. 
A Few Thoughts, Retrospective and 
Prospective, H. A. Church, Superintend- 
ent Oakdale Cemetery, Urbana, O. 
Endowment of Private Mausoleums, 
Frank Enrich, Superintendent Wood- 
lawn Cemetery, Detroit, Mich. 
Art in the Modern Cemetery, O. C. 
Simonds, Graceland Cemetery, Chicago, 
111 . 
The Best Modern Dust Layer and 
Road Binder, J. C. Cline, Superintend- 
ent Woodlawn Cemetery, Dayton, O. 
Horticulture in the Cemetery, John 
Reid, Superintendent Mt. Elliott and 
Mt. Olivet Cemeteries, Detroit, Mich. 
Other addresses are : The Ideal Cem- 
etery, by William Falconer, Superin- 
tendent Allegheny Cemetery, Pitts- 
The Fairview Cemetery Association 
has been organized for the purpose of 
promoting the continuous improvement 
of all the cemeteries in Joplin, Mo. 
Owners of lots in any of the city’s bury- 
ing grounds are eligible to membership. 
The annual dues are one dollar. 
Union Cemetery, Kansas City, Mo., 
is still giving the authorities much to 
think about. The city plan runs up 
against it and it is now proposed that 
the city should purchase the property, 
and so obtain a site for a civic center. 
It is a barrier between the business 
part of Kansas City and the South resi- 
dence section. 
The joint committee from the Hope 
Cemetery association Galesburg, 111., 
appointed to work on the plan for se- 
curing a $25,000 endowment fund for 
the perpetual care of the cemetery re- 
port progress with the plan and half 
of the amount in sight. Dr. Standish 
has pledged the last thousand dollars 
of the amount needed and so but $24,- 
000 remains to be secured. Provision 
has been made through the generosity 
of a lot-owner for the erection of a 
beautiful entrance to the cemetery and 
this will be erected within a short time. 
Plans are also under consideration for 
the permanent improvement of all of 
the drives and roads about the ceme- 
tery. 
Damage to the amount of some $5,- 
burgh, Pa., and What is Required of a 
Cemetery Superintendent? by J. C. 
Scorgie, Superintendent Mt. Auburn 
Cemetery, Boston, Mass. 
These excellent papers and the dis- 
cussions brought out by the “Question 
Box,” combined with the visit to Forest 
Home Cemetery and other places of in- 
terest, give abundant promise of a pro- 
gramme of unusual interest and value 
to those in attendance. 
Headquarters will be at the Plankin- 
ton House, Grand avenue. James Cur- 
rie, Superintendent Forest Home Ceme- 
tery, is chairman of the convention com- 
mittee. 
Applications for membership in the 
association may be sent to Bellett Law- 
son, Jr., Superintendent Elmwood Cem- 
etery, River Grove, 111. Mr. Lawson 
will mail on request a copy of the con- 
stitution and by-laws and a circular 
setting forth the object of the Associa- 
tion of American Cemetery Superin- 
tendents. 
000 was done to the city cemetery, Salt 
Lake City, LTtah, by an unusually heavy 
rainstorm last month. 
An injunction to prevent the seizure 
of a cemetery was a peculiar order is- 
sued last month in the civil section of 
the district court, Shreveport, La., by 
Judge E. W. Sutherlin. The injunc- 
tion is the result of a squabble between 
the supervisors of the St. Joseph’s 
Catholic Cemetery and the city of 
Shreveport, the outgrowth of an at- 
tempt to make the cemetery pay alleged 
debts for paving. 
Plans are being made to carry the 
artistic ideas of Daniel H. Burnham to 
the last resting place of that lamented 
Chicago architect. A small wooded is- 
land in the midst of the lagoon of 
Graceland Cemetery is being considered 
by relatives and friends as a fitting 
place in which to bury his remains. 
An amendment recently was added 
to the constitution of the Woodland 
Cemetery association, Quincy, 111., 
whereby the perpetual care of the cem- 
etery is provided for and this plan is 
now to be put before the city council 
with certainty that it will be adopted. 
The Borough of Queens, in which 
are located most of New York City’s 
cemeteries, has decided to impose a 
tax of $1 on every funeral cortege that 
passes through its streets. The revenue, 
which is to be used for road improve- 
ment, is estimated at more than $150,- 
000 a year. 
The receivers of the Somerton Hills 
Cemetery Company, Philadelphia, filed 
a bill in equity in Common Pleas Court 
No. 4 recently against the Colonial 
Trust Company, as trustee, to obtain the 
cancellation of a mortgage executed 
by the cemetery company on January 31, 
1911, to secure a $300,000 bond issue. 
A resolution to abolish the four ceme- 
teries within the City limits of San 
Francisco, Calif., was approved on July 
11, by the Supervisors’ Committee on 
Streets and will be reported to the 
Board for adoption. The Board may 
not finally act on it until after the vaca- 
tion period of the Supervisors. The 
resolution calls for the removal of the 
remains within six months. 
Proceedings have been instituted to 
abandon the old Root Street cemetery 
in Aurora, 111., in which no burials have 
taken place for many years, and the 
burial ground has a very neglected ap- 
pearance. 
A favorable report has been made 
by the house committee on military af- 
fairs, Washington, D. C., on the bill 
providing for the United States to 
take over the Confederate cemetery 
at Little Rock, Ark., which adjoins 
the Federal cemetery. 
Fulton Street cemetery, the oldest in 
Grand Rapids, Mich., first set apart in 
1838, may be ordered vacated by the 
common council. In this burying 
ground lie the remains of some of 
Grand Rapids’ first families, and there 
are some very old tombstones stand- 
ing. It covers some twelve acres 
in the heart of the residence district of 
the city, and while very few burials now 
take place there, the proposition to va- 
cate it and restore the ground to the 
purposes of the living, has created con- 
siderable indignation and opposition. 
Some $10,000 dollars damage was done 
in Oak Ridge cemetery and Lincoln 
Park, Springfield, 111., by a record- 
breaking rainstorm which occurred on 
the afternoon of July 6. The stone piers 
supporting the entrance to the ceme- 
tery were undermined and toppled over. 
A Dayton, O., firm of undertakers, 
have been unable to use their new auto- 
mobile hearse because the boards of 
trustees of both Woodland and Calvary 
cemeteries have refused to abrogate 
their ruling that autos cannot enter the 
cemeteries. 
CEMETERY IMPROVEMENTS 
At a recent meeting of the board of 
trustees of the Belmont Park Cemetery 
association, Youngstown, O., the 
Youngstown Construction company was 
given a contract for making extensive 
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