PARK AND CEMETERY. 
1 6o 
CEMETERY NOTES. 
The Mountain View Cemetery Association, of San Francisco, 
Cal., has suffered a loss said to amount to over $8,000, by the 
defalcation of an absconding Secretary, Edward P. Outram, 
who had enjoyed the confidence of the corporation for some ten 
years. 
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The vandal has reached Minnesota, considerable damage 
having been done in the two cemeteries of Carlton. Some of 
the hoodlums of the town are adjudged the guilty parties. Since 
■“hoodlumism” has taken to itself the privilege of despoiling our 
•cemeteries, no mercy should be shown the delinquents; a sud- 
den and effective punishment should be meted out without 
•delay. 
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An aboriginal cemetery of large dimensions has recently 
been discovered at Milford, O. W. K. Moorehead, Curator, of 
the State Museum, has been making excavations. A large num- 
ber of human skeletons have been exhumed. In the graves are 
found a great and diverse variety of weapons, trinkets, utensils, 
ornaments and religious symbols, in stone, bronze and silver. 
It is not only a fund of curiosities, shedding light on the prehis- 
toric past, but an invaluable acquisition to ethnological science. 
The question of perpetual care has engrossed the attention 
of the trustees of the Manchester, N. H., cemetery, for some 
time, and has at last been definitely settled, and a new line of 
policy adopted. Hereafter the trustees will accept donations of 
|[oo for perpetual care of lots not exceeding 250 square feet with 
40 cents per additional foot; this will bring it within reach of 
citizens of moderate means. The perpetual care fund now 
amo ints to $40,000 which is invested at 5 per cent, and the 
trustees believe that the above policy will secure the desired 
result. 
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Cemetery superintendents have several busy times during 
the year, not the least being the work incumbent upon them due 
to preparing for winter and incidentally for next spring. The 
veiy dry summerexperienced nearly everywhere, w’hile itenabled 
a large force of cemetery employes to be turned over to the work 
of improvement and extension, nevertheless has to be conpen- 
sated for by the considerations involved in making good the rav- 
ages of the drought and the rehabilitation of the sunburned spots. 
A beautiful fall has done much to help build up natures’ consti- 
tution again, and with man’s intelligence next spring will un- 
doubtedly see improvement all along the line. 
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War is being made in earnest in San Francisco against cem- 
eteries within the city limits. The cemeteries in that city are 
mostly placed on high eminences, and a scare has taken hold of 
the inhabitants, on the presumption of unhealthy conditions 
arising therefrom, — the idea prevailing that the seepage from the 
cemetery reaches the lower levels to the imiment danger of 
the public health. This is largely discredited in the leading pa- 
pers, but they do present two good reasons why cemeteries 
should be located outside the city — the Check they present to the 
growth of the city and the menace to subterranean water supply. 
There is talk of condemning the existing interiirban cemeteries 
and compelling their removal. 
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During the fiscal year, 1894-1895. 7,340 white marble head- 
stones were provided to mark the graves of soldiers, sailors and 
marines buried in national, post, city, and village cemeteries. 
and the sum of $19,454.88 was expended in necessary repairs to 
roadways to national cemeteries, which were constructed by 
special authority of Congress. An examination of the records 
shows that the appropriation made by Congress for the establish- 
ment, maintai nance, and improvement of national cemeteries, 
including pay of superintendents, head-stones, monuments, pur- 
chase of sitC'^, and construction and repair of road-ways, from 
their inception to June 30, 1895, amounted in the aggregate to 
$8,165,636.47. 
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A remarkable condition of affairs has occured at Reynolds- 
burg, O. , by which for a time they had no place to bury their 
dead. Some time ago the town concluded that no more burials 
must take place in their little cemetery on the outskirts of the 
place and laid out a new one beyond the corporation line. There 
was no way conveniently reaching it, so a petition was sent to 
the County Commissioners to build a road to the new cemetery. 
It was granted and a road was begun at the further end of the 
new cemetery to run around it and reach town. The fork had 
been completed about half way, when a halt was called on ac- 
count of the cost and work was stopped. At last accounts the 
two ends of the fork were inviting the towns people to come 
across lots to make use of them, and people began talking about 
building a crematory. 
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The Supreme Court of Illinois has just rendered a decision 
in the case of Bourland and others vs. the Springdale Cemetery 
Association of Peoria. The main contention was the diversion 
of large amounts of money to the personal use of the members of 
the Association. The defendants admitted all the allegations 
and comforted the promotors of the suit by assuring them of an 
intention to continue in the same line. The judicial opinion 
holds that the Cemetery Association has the right to appropriate 
the proceeds of the lots sold, to the individual members for their 
own private use, and that the lot owners are without remedy. 
On the face of it, this is evidently the result of a very defective 
charter. 
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The American cemetery in Mexico, is situated on the south- 
western boundary line of the capital. It is American in the full- 
est sense of the word, for the full and perfect title therein is vest- 
ed in the United States, and its management and control are in 
the hands of the War Department at Washington. It occupies 
two acres of ground, and in it repose, side by side, the American 
and Mexican, the German and the Frenchman, as well as other 
foreigners, for only of late years the right of burial within its 
walls has been restricted to natives of the United States. In 
1873 it became subject to the rules and regulations affecting 
United States national cemeteries, and by act of Congress, Sep- 
tember 28, 1880, the sum of |io,ooo was appropriated “for the 
purchase, walling and ditching of a piece of land near the city 
of Mexico for a cemetery or burial ground for such of the officers 
and soldiers of the United States Army in the war with Mexico 
as fell in battle or died in and around said city and for the inter- 
ment of American citizens who have died or may die in said 
city.” The property was conveyed to the United States in 1851 
by Manuel Lopez in fee-simple for the consideration of $3,000, 
and since then it has always been the object of much solicitude 
on the part of the American residents of Mexico. 'I'he site is in 
the shape of an oblong square, and is entirely surrounded by 
substantial walls, along whose western sides runs the Consulado.,or 
San Cosme river. The grounds are attractively laid out. At 
the northeast corner is the iron entrance gate. Inside the en- 
trance to the right, is the lodge, the first story of which is of 
stone, with a double archway and portico, the residence of 
Capt. John Ayres, the United States superintendent. There 
