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PARK AND CCAETERY 
CEMETERY NOTES. 
A receiving vault is to be constructed in Oak Ridge Ceme- 
tery, Altoona, Pa. 
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Bills to create State Boards of Embalming are being rapid- 
ly introduced to the legislatures now the ball has been set roll- 
ing. Undertaker’s license bills are also being pushed in many 
states. 
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Land for a new cemetery for Waverly, N. Y., to be called 
“Glenwood,” has been purchased. The site is claimed to be a 
most desirable as well as a beautiful one, and contains some 65 
acres. Work of improvement will be commenced at once and 
pushed vigorously. 
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A bill is pending in the California legislature prohibiting 
burials within city limits of towns of 100,000 or over. It is to 
take effect January 1st, 1900, but will only trouble San Francisco. 
All its prominent cemeteries are within the bounds and these 
corporations may be expected to offer vigorous opposition. 
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The National Casket Company has put Aluminum to a new 
use. The company has put two styles of casket, constructed 
principally of this metal, on the market, entirely different in de- 
sign to what we are accustomed to see. The characteristics of 
the metal are claimed to be greatly in its favor for the purpose- 
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A prisoner was arraigned for assault recently in a Philadel- 
phia police court and after giving his name was asked where he 
resided. In response he replied, ‘‘my home is in Mount Peace 
Cemetery.” “Why, that's a place where dead people live,” sug- 
gested the magistrate. “That don’t make any difference,” re 
plied the prisoner, “I live there and I am a pretty lively dead 
man.” 
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The Board of Riverside Cemetery Association, Moline, 111 . 
gave instructions to provide a set of blanks for the perpetual 
care of lots under an ordinance passed August 5th 1889, by 
which any lot owner paying |2o for the first 400 square feet, and 
at the same rate beyond that amount, will have the obligation 
of the city to forever take care of the lot. There is now quite a 
demand for lots upon this basis. Mr. George Oklefest was chos- 
en Superintendent. 
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A bill introduced into the Pennsylvania legislature provides 
that wheie a cemetery is located partly within a city and partly 
within one or more boroughs or townships of the Commonwealth, 
such cemetery shall be subject to the rulesof the Board of Health 
or ordinances of the city within which part of the cemetery is lo- 
cated, and shall not be subject to obey the ordinance of any bor- 
ough or township, if it has complied with the ordinances of the 
city. This is an effort to settle some of the cemetery difficul- 
ties which Philadelphia has had to wrestle with. 
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Forest Hill Cemetery, Kansas City, Mo., is rapidly assum- 
ing the beauties accompanying the modern ideas. Of its 320 
acres some 80 had over $40,000 expended upon improvements, 
and another 80 is laid out for improvement and work is going 
on. A nursery has been established in which nearly 100 varie- 
ties of trees are being grown for transplanting as required. It has 
a lovely lake centrally located, and over seven and a half miles 
of road graded and three and a half miles of driveways macada- 
mized. A receiving vault, costing $11,000, has just been com- 
pleted, modeled after that of Woodlawn. There are already 
several fine private vaults and monuments, and the cemetery 
management is adopting a liberal policy ta assure attractive re- 
sults after the most approved modern practice. 
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Plans and specifications have been drawn and accepted fora 
family mausoleum to be erected in Springdale Cemetery, Clin 
ton, Iowa, by Mr. W. J. Young. It will occupy a commanding 
position on a beautiful knoll in the center of the cemetei'y, and 
will be built of Barre granite. It will be 20' 4" long and 15' 6" 
wide at the base and 16' 6 " high. The capstone to cover the 
tomb will be a single block of granite, weighing over 20 tons. 
The interior will contain 20 crypts — 10 on each side — and two 
additional crypts will be built in the floor, making receptacles 
for 22 bodies in all. The floor will be of Italian marble and the 
broad hallway will be amply lighted by a window in the rear end. 
Particular attention has been paid to the ventilation. The ves- 
tibule with its polished granite pillars will be guarded by an 
outer gate of bronze and the tomb proper with a swinging door 
of solid granite. This door may be left open, thus admitting of 
perfect ventilation. J. E. Harrison & Son, of Adrian, Mich., 
are the designers and builders. The foundation will be of na- 
tive material. Work will begin as soon as the weather will per- 
mit. Cost, about $15,000. 
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Attention is drawn to the following from Mr. 
Geo. T. Angell, President of the American Hu- 
mane Society. 
On this January 22 we received a letter from the editor of 
the New Yurk World in regard to our American Hnmane Ed- 
ucation Society petitioning the legislatures of the various states 
this winter to pass an act authorizing the inspection of the dead 
before burial . 
We have at various times written and published a good deal, 
on this subject, and would respectfully ask the editors of the 
about 20 poo American publications, including all north of Mex- 
ico, to whom we send a marked copy of this article, to kindly 
bring this important subject, through editorials and otherwise 
before the legislaUires of their respective states . 
Our ov/n father came near being buried alive, having been 
pronounced dead by his physician, and we shall be happy to render 
every assistance in our power to aid in obtaining laws through- 
out our entire country requiring competent and careful inspec- 
tion of the supposed dead before burial. Geo. T. Angell. 
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One of the most interesting of the old historic burying 
grounds in Connecticut is that at the back of the Centre Church 
at Hartford, largely on account of its singular table monuments. 
The remains of Thomas Hooker, “The Light of the Western 
Churches,” who led the Connecticut colonists from Concord in 
Massachusetts through the wilderness to Hartford in 1639, and 
died there ten years afterward, rest here. Several of the monu- 
ments and gravestones bear the date of 1660 and thereafter un- 
til 1700, says a writer in the Ney York Times. Near the en- 
trance to the grounds is a broken column erected to the memo- 
ry of Jeremiah Wadsworth, the Connecticut adviser of General 
Washington during the Revolutionary war. One of the most 
notable of the table monuments was erected to the memory of 
John Ledyard, the ancester of Colonel William Ledyard, who 
was killed by an English officer after surrendering his sword, 
Sept. 7, 1781, at Fort Ledyard, in New London Harbor. The 
chivalric light dragoon, Thomas Y. Seymour, who figured in 
Trumbull’s paintings of Burgoyne’s Surrender and The African 
Traveler, John Ledyard, are buried in these ancient grounds 
that have been consecrated by the dust of Hooker and the found, 
ers of the colony! Several governors are also buried in the in- 
closure. The town of Hartford is the owner of the historic spot, 
and the care bestowed upon it does not aggregate $100 a year. 
