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PARK AND CE/AETERY. 
CEMETERY NOTES. 
Jacob Klein, who. says the Carson City, Nev., Appeal, is a 
man of advanced ideas, is now arranging to build a crematory 
furnace in that city to incendc 7 'ate the dead. This is a sudden 
advance! 
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When paving is carried out by the town of Canton, Hi., on 
a certain street leading to the cemetery entrance, a public 
spirited citizen has offered to put up a $i ,000 entrance to the 
cemetery. Let the paving be done! 
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The trustees of Elmwood cemetery, Detroit, Mich , have 
decided to build a public mausoleum with 190 crypts, to be the 
largest of the kind in the country and also different from all 
others, in respect to being underground. The entrance will 
be on the side of a hill. 
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Lakeview Cemetery, Bridgeport, Conn., is being improved 
by a new entrance and other works. Mr. B. F. Hathaway, of 
Stamford, has been engaged to lay out and supervise the im- 
provement of a further 16 acres of the grounds. The cemetery 
now comprises over 35 acres. 
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According to a Russian story: A young widow put up a costly 
monument to her late husband, and inscribed upon it: “My grief 
is so great that I cannot bear it.” A year or so later, however, 
she married again, and, feeling a little awkwardness about the 
inscription, she solved the difficulty by adding one word to it, 
“Alone.” 
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The Electric Railroad Co. of Kansas City, Mo., is extend- 
ing its lines so as to reach Mount Muncie Cemetery. This 
will be a great boon to the poorer classes. It proposes to run 
regular funeral trains to the cemetery and a design for a fun- 
eral car has been prepared. When the car reaches the gates of 
the cemetery the casket will be carried to a car having pneumatic 
wheels by the pall bearers and taken to the grave. In the city 
the remains will be conveyed in a hearse to the railway station. 
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The burial ground adjoining the Congregational Church in 
West Haven, Conn., contains some old grave stones, many of 
the legible dates being as early as 171 1. In this ground there are 
several marked with dates thus: 1745-6, 1738-9, etc., which is ex- 
plained by the fact of the uncertainty which prevailed in the 
Puritan time concerning the beginning of the year, which was 
variously given to several months in different countries. The 
Greek custom of burial with the head to the west is fully carried 
out in this old burial plot. 
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A fine mausoleum is to be erected in Bellefontaine Ceme- 
tery, St. Louis, Mo., by Mr. Samuel Cupples in memory of his 
wife It will be 25 feet long, 17 feet wide and 25 feet high, and 
be constructed of Barre granite. The architecture will be of the 
Greek order. The ornate interior will be of Italian marble. It 
will contain 12 crypts. At the far end a group of statuary of 
three figures will represent three departed children. There will 
be a handsome stained glass window on each side; the floor will 
be tesselated marble and the doors of bronze. 
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At Uagadah, in Upper Egypt, Mr. Petrie has discovered a 
curious and very ancient cemetery. The people buried there 
are not Egyptians, for their bodies are systematically mutilated ; 
the heads are taken off and buried after the bodies, and the 
larger bones are broken off at the narrow end and gnawed. The 
articles found belong to the latest stone age; there are stone and 
alabaster vases, beads, beautifully worked flints, ivory and bone 
hairpins and combs, and a great variety of pots, many of them 
decorated, but no iron or bronze. Some papyri have also been 
found, one of which for the first time gives the complete list of 
the first ten Ptolemies in Greek. 
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Maple Grove Cemetery, Wichita, Kas. , has distributed a 
leaflet of extracts from its By-laws and Rules and Regulations, 
wi th many good suggestions to lot owners. It suggests in one 
instance, that occasional summer houies, seats or fountains with 
handsome tablet and inscription to the memory of the dead, are 
far more appreciative monuments than the many common and 
costly stones. It is also hoped to see at some time a memorial 
chapel erected in the grounds where funeral services can be held 
in bad weather, and far better than in crowded houses. Such 
things should be provided for by will. It closes with a rec- 
ommendation to Its lot owners to subscribe to this Journal as 
its pages contain much useful information and valuable sugges- 
tions. 
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The annual meeting of the Rural Cemetery Co. of St. John, 
N. B., shows a marked advance in cemetery ideas. The president 
in his report to the proprietors dilated upon the modern ceme- 
tery, Its necessities and government, paid a tribute to the ceme- 
teries of the United States, and made a strong appeal for per- 
petual care of lots, a matter that has already made a fair start. 
In support of these progressive intentions, new by-laws had been 
enacted, based upon the best practice of American cemeteries, 
and although the gross receipts of the cemetery are comparative- 
ly small, a great deal had been accomplished. This association 
is taking active steps in the improvement of its property. Its 
superintendent was sent last year to the annual convention of 
cemetery superintendents at Philadelphia, and made visits to 
prominent cemeteries to gather information. The local press 
has been wisely induced to take interest in its affairs and the 
coming summer will witness further progress. 
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At the annual meeting of the Marion Cemetery Association, 
Marion, O., total receipts from April i, 1894, to April i, 1895 
$8,071.41 were reported with expenditures of $3,631.62. Of these 
lots were sold to amount of $2,147.51 and lot endowments were 
$2,941.99. There was a gain of $4,439.79 in available assets dur- 
ing the year. In every way satisfactory conditions were reported _ 
Resolutions in opposition to Sunday funerals and expens- 
ive funerals were adopted. Marion is a city of 10,000 
inhabitants, and the above report shows what can be 
accomplished where the people are disposed to back up 
their cemetery management, and also where the officers de- 
vote themselves to the work Long tenure of office has also 
been of great advantage here. Mr. P. O. Sharpless, one of the 
trustees, has held office for 30 years, and the other officers range 
with long records behind him. Enlargement of greenhouse and 
extensive planting of flowering shrubs and ornamental trees are 
now in progress. In a former issue we gave some views of this 
beautiful cemetery. 
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The organization of a new cemetery association at Quincy, 
111., with the design of purchasing 175 acres of land, found itself 
confronted with a law passed in 1891, by the legislature of Illi- 
nois, limiting the quantity of land that could be used by ceme- 
tery companies or organizations to twenty acres. This law was 
of the class of special legislation and with an object in view was 
rushed through in the year named. An amendment was neces- 
sary to remove the obstacle, so a bill was introduced February 13 
last to remove the 20 acre limitation, entitled: “A bill for an act 
to amend Section I of an act in relation to cemeteries, ” The 
section amended now reads as follows: 
Section i. That all cemetery associations, or companies in- 
corporated for cemetery purposes, by any general or special law 
of this state, may acquire by purchase, gift or demise, and may 
hold, own and convey for burial purposes only, so much land as 
