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PARK AND CEMETERY 
of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, as a cemetery, 
has been reported back to the senate with a slight amend- 
ment, but with the recommendation that it shall be passed. 
* * * 
Bayonne, N. J., with a population of 45,000, has no 'ceme- 
tery at present in use. Constable Hook Cemetery, the only 
one in the city, has not been used for some time. Inter- 
ments from that town are made in the cemeteries of Jersey 
City, Elizabeth, Staten Island, N. Y., or Brooklyn, N. Y. 
* * * 
The City of New York recently sold at auction the monu- 
ments, headstones, grave rails, coping, etc., in the old ceme- 
tery of St. Peter’s Protestant Episcopal Church in West 
Chester, Bronx, which is to be abandoned, and the bodies 
removed to permit the widening of Westchester avenue. A 
commission has awarded damages to the families whose rela- 
tives are interred there and given the city title to the monu- 
mental work, etc. The church is 250 years old, the oldest 
edifice in the Borough of Bronx, and the cemetery con- 
tains the remains of representatives of some of the oldest 
families in New York. 
* * * 
St. Mark’s Cemetery, a burying ground 200 years old at 
Orange, N. J., suffered considerable damage from a fire 
started by boys in an adjoining lot. The blaze spread over 
the whole cemetery where many of the heroes of the Revo- 
lutionary and Civil Wars are buried. Hundreds of the old 
headstones were cracked and ruined, while the more pre- 
tentious columns were seriously damaged, entailing a heavy 
loss. * * The Catholic Cemetery at Lowell, Mass., was 
also visited by a recent fire which burned over a large area 
of the grounds. 
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It is interesting to note that some of the cemetery superin- 
tendents are active in other directions. W. Ormiston Roy, of 
“Mt. Royal,” Montreal, Que., has been elected president of 
the Montreal Canine Club, and J. C. Scorgie of “Mount Au- 
burn,” Cambridge, Mass., has been elected thirteenth vice- 
president of the New England Collie Club. W. N. Rudd, of 
“Mt. Greenwood,” Chicago, is president of the Chicago Flor- 
ists’ Club, and O. C. Simonds, of “Graceland,” Chicago, is 
president of the newly formed Chicago Tree Planting Society. 
* * * 
Oak Lawn Cemetery, Baltimore, Md., was recently dedi- 
cated with elaborate exercises. It is situated on a tract known 
as Elsinore Heights, on the Eastern avenue road, one of the 
most picturesque spots in Baltimore county, and embraces 75 
acres. It is well elevated, and commands a panoramic view 
of the Patapsco Valley and river, and of the bay. It is to 
be improved as a modern lawn cemetery. The officers are : 
President, James Young; vice-president, Dr. Herbert Harlan; 
secretary and treasurer, Frank W. Darling. 
* * * 
A case is before the Court of Common Pleas at New Lon- 
don, Conn., to decide whether a cemetery has the right to for- 
bid outsiders to do work on the grounds for lot owners. Ben- 
jamin F. Scoville was prosecuted by the New London Ceme- 
tery Association for working in Beech Grove Cemetery in 
violation of the rule which forbids any one but cemetery 
employes from working on lots. He was found guilty and 
fined $5 in the police court and has appealed the case, which is 
now before the criminal court of Common Pleas. The deed 
of conveyance of lots stipulates that their care shall be under 
the direction of the cemetery association. Mr. Scoville’s 
claim is that the owners of lots have the right to hire whom 
they wish to work upon them. 
TOMB IN A FRENCH CEMETERY. 
Fair Plains Cemetery, Grand Rapids, Mich., has purchased 
3 % acres of adjoining land and will remodel a dwelling on 
the new tract for a sexton’s residence and office. Among their 
other improvements will be the setting of trees and shrubs, 
the building of a new fence and laying of 1,500 feet of water 
pipe. A committee has been appointed to arrange for a 
“Flower Day,” which the association proposes to make a per- 
manent feature. Secretary Charles H. Winchester would like 
to hear from any one having suggestions to offer for a program 
for this occasion. 
* * * 
FROM THE ANNUAL REPORTS, 
At the recent annual meeting of the stockholders of Wash- 
ington Cemetery, Washington, Pa., the treasurer’s report 
showed receipts by treasurer and superintendent of $4,445.21, 
and expenditures of $5,290.33, being $845.12 in excess of re- 
ceipts. The granite receiving vault, which has been in course 
of erection for some months, has been completed at a cost 
of $25,000. It was illustrated in Park and Cemetery in June, 
1903. 
At the annual meeting of the Pine Grove Cemetery Asso- 
ciation, Ansonia, Ct., the report of the secretary-treasurer 
showed receipts of $8,508.45 for the general fund, and expendi- 
tures of $7,560.41. The legacy fund now amounts to $4,500, 
$850 having been received during the year. The perpetuity 
fund was also increased $176.07 and now amounts to $1,106.97. 
An addition of several acres was purchased during the year. 
The old officers were re-elected. 
SUNDAY FUNERALS. 
All the Protestant ministers of Oswego, N. Y., have adopted 
resolutions protesting against Sunday funerals. They will 
refuse to attend them except in cases of absolute necessity. 
* * * The ministers of Louisville, Ky., have complained 
to the undertakers about the large number of funerals that 
have been taking place on Sunday and have suggested that 
Monday funerals be arranged instead. They are so occupied 
with their church work that they have little time for funeral 
