PARK AND CEMETERY 
CEMETERY NOTES. 
A country cemetery has the following notice over the gate; 
“Only the dead who live in the parish are buried here.” 
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The directors of Lindenwood Cemetery, Fort Wayne, Ind., 
have decided to build a crematory. This has been under dis- 
cussion for some years and is now decided upon. 
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Mr. T. Streatfeild Clarkson has donated the sum of $10,000 
which is to be invested and the proceeds applied towards the 
maintenance and improvement of Bayside Ceuietery, Potsdam, 
N. Y. Mr. Clarkson is now president of the association and 
there is a gratifying interest displayed in the welfare of the 
cemetery. 
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The general fund for the improvement and permanent care 
of Green-wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, according to the last report 
amounts to $1,716,802.06; the trust fund for the special and 
permanent care of lots to $402,257 41. Two hundred and thirty 
lot enclosures have been removed resulting m general satisfac- 
tion among lot owners. 
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An act has been passed recently by the Pennsylvania legis- 
lature amending the bill of 1891 as amended in 1893, and “pro- 
viding for the removal of bodies from single graves to other 
places of interment, where the relatives of the deceased or the 
holders of lots cannot be found, and the sale of the ground where- 
in the said bodies were interred, and also for the sale of lots 
where the owners thereof cannot be found.” 
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The authorities of Prospect Hill Cemetery, Omaha, Neb., 
became involved in legal proceedings owing to their having un- 
dertaken to enlarge their boundaries, the same being inside the 
city limits and governed by an ordinance. This was the first 
complaint under the ordinance, and resulted in the president 
and secretary being fined $25 dollars each “for making an 
effort to extend a cemetery inside the city limits.” 
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Surgeon-General Hamilton has been advising the health 
commissioners of Chicago to communicate with the officials of 
cemeteries concerning the sale of floral frames to florists by 
cemetery employes. The practice has been in some of the 
cemeteries for the attaches to remove the flowers from the floral 
pieces. The moss was left in the frames, and it is thought con- 
tagious diseases were transmitted when the frames were refilled 
by the floristst. 
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The officials of Edgewood Cemetery, Nashua, N. H., have 
adopted the suggestions frequently made in Park and 
Cemetery of including in cemetery reports such selections from 
current periodicals and other sources as may tend to educate 
their lot owners and others in cemetery matters. In their last 
report considerable matter of the kind is incorpoiated with it, 
which will undoubtedly serve a wise purpose and cultivate re- 
newed interest and taste in the direction desired. 
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A pertinent remark and one affording much food for re- 
flection occurs in the superintendent’s communication con- 
tained in the report of the Allegheny Cemetery. He says: At 
a low estimate, two millions of dollars have been expended by 
lot owners, for monuments and other forms of memorials. If 
this sum had been equally divided, each grave m the cemetery 
could have been provided with headmarks or other memorials 
costing fifty four dollars. At present, but twenty-five per cent 
of the number are thus marked. 
Vienna, Austria, is about to dedicate a fine monument to 
the memory of Mozart, but no one in all that city can tell 
where to put it, for the composer’s grave is absolutely unknown. 
When he died there a hundred and four years ago his “Magic 
Flute” was being sung nightly at the opera, but he was suffering 
in dire poverty in an obscure dwelling. His widow was too ill 
to follow the coffin to the grave, and the friend who arrang- 
ed the funeral is said to have exercised economy by having the 
composer’s body buried in a ditch with forty others with no cross 
or mark of any kind. 
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A noteworthy step was taken by the Altoona Fairview Cem- 
etery Association, Pa., last year in its petition to the Judges of 
the Court of Common Pleas to amend the articles and conditions 
of its charter, the object being “to forever prevent said associa- 
tion from becoming an institution for profit to its stockholders; 
to remove the restrictions for the accumulation of the perman- 
ent improvement fund, and remove the restrictions as to the a- 
mount to be expended annually for the improving and beautify- 
ing said cemetery.” This was a progressive step and one that 
should lead to a constantly increasing interest in the property. 
The management is alive to the practice of today as well as en- 
deavoring to anticipate the methods of the future. In their 
latest pamphlet, the following has the true ring: “Simplicity, 
solidity and durability are essential in cemetery improvements, 
and if to these are added an air of subdued beauty, a harmonious 
blending of light, shade and color, together with neatness and 
perfection in keeping, little more can be sought or desired. It 
may be added that the president has served since 1880, the sec- 
retary since 1864 and the superintendent 24 years.” 
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A correspondent in the Palmyra, N. Y., Courier gives 
some excellent advice to the cemetery officials of that town, 
which would redound to their good sense if heeded, for the 
writer seems to know what he is talking about. In his com- 
munication he states that from a common standpoint some gen. 
eral system of improvement should be adopted, which only one 
of cultivated taste can devise. Such improvements can only 
be put in successful form by a skilled landscape gardener. He 
suggests that the village officials employ a thoroughly compet- 
ent landscape gardener for a time, or at several different times, 
to direct and aid their young superintendent in reference to 
such changes as should be made, and best how to make them 
to add to the attractive beauty of the cemetery generally. Such 
an artist can tell not only what ought to be done, but how most 
readily and economically to accomplish any desired result, and 
can foresee the beauty that will be accomplished by any pro- 
posed change. A judicious expenditure in this direction 
would be an object lesson that would not only be beneficial to 
Palmyra, whose citizens would carry to their homes useful hints 
learned there, but would tend to cause improvement in other 
neighboring cemeteries of less importance. Such advice is 
admirable and can be appropriated to advantage by many local 
cemeteries. 
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A cyclone swept over East New York, L. I., on the 13th 
inst. It played considerable havoc in Cypress Hills Cemetery, 
wrecking some handsome and costly monuments. It tore down 
trees for about 200 feet and then turned into Jamaica avenue 
at Crescent St., and went up Jamaica ave. for about half a mile. 
Trees were torn down and telephone and trolley wires demolish- 
ed. 
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Harrisburg, Pa., is one of the latest cities to adopt the elec- 
tric funeral car. A special car has been constructed for this 
purpose which can be rented for funerals and run direct to the 
cemetery. 
