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the opinion that the work would have been 
done more economically if a better fore- 
man at a higher price had been employed. 
This gang of sixteen men erected 280 feet 
of fence per day at a cost of 15 cents per 
foot, making the total cost of the fence 43 
cents per foot — erecting the five and one- 
half miles for $12,487.20. 
“Posts were set 38 inches in the ground 
and filled in around the base with a con- 
crete mixture of gravel and sand, using 
one-third of a bag of cement in setting 
one post. Mr. Wightman calls attention 
to one error in construction. In putting 
in spacers after setting the rails in the 
slots, wooden spacers were left in and 
plastered over instead of putting in wood- 
An association of grave gardeners has 
been organized in Philadelphia. The rea- 
son for its organization seems to lie in 
the action of the management of Mount 
Peace Cemetery barring from the burial 
grounds some fifty men who for years had 
been employed by plot owners to take 
care of certain graves. The men are said 
to be backed in their fight by more than 
300 families who are not in sympathy with 
the management. Injunction proceedings 
have been commenced in the Common 
Pleas Court. 
The Lithuanian speaking people of 
Worcester, Mass., have asked of the Se- 
lectmen what steps they will have to take 
to establish a Lithuanian cemetery within 
the limits of Worcester. If permission to 
establish the cemetery is granted, about 
fifty acres of land will be bought for the 
purpose. 
Plans looking toward a permanent en- 
dowment fund for the perpetual care of 
Oak Hill Cemetery, Birmingham, Ala., were 
recently made at a meeting of the Oak Hill 
Memorial Association. The proposition is 
for an organization of men and women in- 
terested in Oak Hill to raise an endow- 
ment fund to be administered by a board 
of trustees in the best way possible to 
maintain Oak Hill Cemetery. 
The following are some or the rules re- 
cently adopted by the St. Joseph’s Cem- 
etery Association of Appleton, Wis. : Per- 
sons buying a single grave in the cemetery 
cannot erect a headstone or marker larger 
than eight inches in thickness and project- 
ing not more than twelve inches from the 
ground, and the marker must not be placed- 
in a socket. Two persons buying a lot 
together will not be allowed to erect more 
than one monument. No stone can be 
erected in the cemetery without first get- 
en spacers temporarily, and filling the slot 
with concrete mortar. A cross-section of 
a post is like the letter ‘H,’ which is 8 
inches across the top and base and 10 
inches in height. The 10-inch dimension 
of the post lies in the direction of the 
fence. In each corner, or in the end of 
each arm of the ‘LI,’ forming slots on each 
side, is a bar of %-inch twisted steel. The 
fence, as erected, is 5 feet 2 inches high. 
The uppermost of the four rails, which are 
6^2 feet apart, projects above the post, and 
the concrete caps have slots in them which 
fit over the projecting edge of the rail. 
In going up and down grades, posts were 
set erect. The rails were mitered at the 
ends to conform to the angle at which the 
fence lay on the slope.” 
ting a permit from the superintendent or 
secretary of the association. 
In the civil section of the District Court, 
Shreveport, La., an injunction without 
damages was denied against the city of 
Shreveport, which was filed by St. Jo- 
seph’s Catholic Cemetery Association. The 
injunction suit was filed with a view of 
preventing the sale of a part of the cem- 
etery property by the city in satisfaction 
of the paving assessment levied against 
same. Judgment was rendered for the city 
enforcing the lien and ordering the sale 
of the property. The cemetery association 
claimed that the property was exempt from 
taxation, mortgage and sale and seizure. 
A petition was recently filed in the 
County Court on behalf of the city of Ed- 
wardsville, 111 ., praying that proper steps 
may be taken for the purpose of acquiring 
the Lusk Cemetery tract for a public ceme- 
tery park. The petition recited that the tract 
of ground known as the Lusk Cemetery was 
the first public burial ground in this vi- 
cinity, and that nearly all of the old set- 
tlers and original inhabitants were buried 
there, and that by reason of this historical 
and sentimental association the public is 
interested in this tract of ground. No 
burials have been made in it for twenty 
years. 
With the acquiring of Druid Ridge 
Cemetery, Baltimore, Md., which has been 
purchased by Frank Primrose and others 
on behalf of the Loudon Park Cemetery 
Co., the latter will have under its man- 
agement the largest cemetery property in 
the United States. Druid Ridge contains 
200 acres and Loudon Park 320 acres. 
Druid Ridge was sold by the receivers and 
was purchased by the Loudon Park Co. 
for $220,000. The property -is subject to a 
mortgage of $15,000. According to the or- 
der of the Circuit Court for Baltimore 
County, $40,000 of the purchase price is 
to be set aside for taking care of the lots 
sold before the receivership was declared. 
It is said that improvements will at once 
start on Druid Ridge. 
The total valuation of the Swedish Cem- 
etery, of Worcester, Mass., is $33,872.30. 
During the twenty-five years the ceme- 
tery has been in existence 4,105 Scandi- 
navians have been buried there. 
A corporation has been formed and plans 
filed with the Secretary of State at Al- 
bany for the control and management of 
one of the oldest cemeteries in the state. 
It consists of one-half acre of land, two 
miles northeast of Castile, N. Y., and is 
known as the Gardeau burying ground. The 
last transfer of this property was made by 
Henry Goodrich to trustees on May 2, 
1837. At that time the property was lo- 
cated in Genesee County, as Wyoming 
County was not formed until a later date. 
A hamlet known as Gardeau, on the old 
Indian reservation, was a half mile from 
the cemetery, and at that time was one of 
the leading trading posts for the early 
settlers along the Genesee River. Burials 
were made in the plot as early as 1825 
and have continued until the present time. 
The association will take charge of this 
historic cemetery and carry out some im- 
provements. 
The trustees of the Union Cemetery, 
Hackettstown, N. J., will make many im- 
provements. The fourteen acres added 
some years ago will be laid out by a land- 
scape architect. It is proposed to rebuild 
the bridge across Musconetcong Creek. 
In November last the trustees of the 
Camp Creek Cemetery, Macomb, 111., de- 
cided to raise a fund, to be held in trust, 
the proceeds of which are to be used for 
the upkeep of the cemetery. The appeal 
to lot holders resulted in a subscription of 
some $1,730, a great satisfaction to the 
trustees. 
The Mt. Calvary Cemetery Association 
of Cedar Rapids,, la., has decided to open 
a downtown office for the accommodation 
of those desiring to transact business. 
Since the year of the association’s incor- 
poration, 1909, great improvements have 
been made in the cemetery and in its 
business arrangements. 
Under the care of its Board of Trus- 
tees, some of them ladies, Oakwood Cem- 
etery, Somers, Wis., considerable improve- 
ment work was done last year. At its last 
meeting an assessment of a dollar a lot 
was made for the care and improvement 
fund of the cemetery. 
Plans and specifications for a new chapel 
to be erected in the city cemetery have 
been prepared by F. H. Kemp, architect. 
Work on the cemetery at El Dorado, 
Ark., is progressing favorably. 
Since George Tod’s death, work has 
been going steadily forward on his project 
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