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PARK AND CEMETERY 
Alex. MacPhail, Asst. Supt. Lake View, Cleveland, O. ; For- 
rest McCoy, Asst. Supt. Lake View, Cleveland; Henry Wohl- 
gemuth, President Oak Ridge, Springfield, 111.; W. S. Pirie, 
Sec. Forest Home, Milwaukee ; Dr. R. N. Kesterson, Sec. and 
Supt. Greenwood, Knoxville, Tenn. ; Chas. H. Foster, Fair- 
view, Council Bluffs, la. ; J. H. Doswell, Lindenwood, Ft. 
Wayne, Ind. ; A. H. Plant, Mound City, Kankakee, 111.; Wm. 
Driscoll, Supt. Hollyhood, Brookline, Mass.; Geo. C. Thomas, 
Supt. Forest Home, Oak Park, Chicago, 111.; Frederick K. 
Rexford, Asst. Secretary and Treasurer Mt. Greenwood, Chi- 
cago; Chas. M. Baker, Supt. Oak Lawn, Dwight, 111.; John 
H. Stanton, Chariton, Chariton, la.; William F. Haase, Presi- 
dent Forest Home, Oak Park, Chicago; Crebillion Jacobs, 
Supt. Oaklawn, Sturgis, Mich. 
Those in attendance who registered were as follows ; 
A. E. Silcott, Washington Court House, O. ; L. L. Mason, 
Jamestown, N. Y. ; F. Sheard, John B. Meisch, Rochester, 
N. Y. ; John R. Hooper, Richmond, Va. ; David Woods, Pitts- 
burg; Jas. C. Parkinson, Baltimore; John Applebee, Ashta- 
bula, O. ; G. L. Kelly, New Albany, Ind. ; O. W. Crabbs, 
Muncie, Ind.; A. K. McMahon, Newport, R. I.; Arthur W. 
Plobert, E. A. Merriam, Minneapolis; J. C. Cline & Son, 
Dayton, O. ; C. Jacobs; H. H. Goresch, Pittsburg; Geo. A. 
Harvey, Belleville, 111.; James Currie, W. S. Pirie, Milwaukee; 
Perry W. Goodwin and wife, Jamestown, N. Y. ; E. A. Sloan, 
R. Mather, Ironton, O. ; J. S. Medary, LaCrosse, Wis.; Frank 
Enrich and wife, Detroit ; S. C. Penrose and wife, Chas. E. 
Sparks and wife, Wilmington, Del. ; William Halbrooks and 
wife, Evansville, Ind.; Dr. H. Wohlgemuth, John M. Gaupp, 
Springfield, 111.; John Reid, Detroit; W. Ormiston Roy, 
Montreal, Quebec; E. L. Kimes and wife, Toledo, O. ; Mrs. H. 
W. McClure, Mrs. A. E. Church, Atlanta, 111. ; F. R. Diering, 
wife and daughter, New York City; C. W. Foster, Council 
Bluffs, la.; J. Y. Craig and wife, Omaha, Neb.; William Cros- 
bie, Washington, Pa.; Albert Marckhoff, Elgin, 111.; John J. 
Stephens and wife, Columbus, O. ; Richard Gohlke and wife, 
Findlay, O. ; F. W. Bornemann, Philadelphia; John W. Keller, 
Rochester, N. Y. ; George Gossard and wife, Washington C. H., 
O. ; G. Scherzinger, Fond du Lac, Wis.; L. B. Root and wife, 
Kansas City, Mo. ; Arthur J. Graves, Bloomington, 111. ; R. D. 
Boice, Geneseo, 111.; Miss Lillian Richardson, Geneseo, 111.; 
Stanley M. Hyer and wife, Kansas City, Mo. ; William Stone, 
Lynn, Mass.; W. F. Jewson, Mankato, Minn.; John M. Boxell, 
St. Paul; Frederick Green, Alex McPhail, Forrest McCoy, 
Cleveland, O. ; S. W. Rubee, wife and children, Marshalltown, 
la. ; Miss M. A. Smith, Geo. M. Painter, Philadelphia ; T. E. 
Anderson, Danville, 111.; Bellett Lawson, Jr., and wife, Buf- 
falo, N. Y. ; Charles M. Baker, Dwight, 111.; J. C. Dix and 
wife, Cleveland, O. ; George Ruff and wife, Lincoln, Neb.; R. 
N. Kesterson, Knoxville, Tenn. ; W. N. Druckemiller and 
son, Sunbury, Pa.; James H. Morton, Boston, Mass.; Bel- 
lett Lawson and wife, Harrisburg, Pa.; John E. Miller and 
wife, Mattoon, 111.; D. D. England, Winnipeg, Man.; Frank 
A. Sherman and wife, New Haven, Conn.; Geo. L. Tilton and 
wife, W. N. Rudd and wife, John Thorpe, E. G. Carter and 
wife, H. A. Alspach, O. C. Simonds, R. J. Haight, IT. L. 
Pitcher, Fred M. Farwell, Jos. Fisher, Frederick K. Rexford, 
Chicago; George C. Thomas, Leo. G. Haase, William F. 
Haase, Oak Park, 111. ; A. H. Plant, Kankakee, 111. ; William 
Falconer and daughter, Pittsburg, Pa. ; J. A. Brewer and wife, 
Des Moines, la. ; Chas. M. Chamberlain, Maspeth, L. I., N. Y. ; 
P. E. Bunnell, New York; E. B. McPherson and wife, San 
Francisco, Cal.; Geo. W. Creesy, wife and son, Salem, Mass.; 
William Falconer and daughter, Pittsburg; Henry Bresser, 
Toledo, O. 
Convention of Illinois Association of Cemeteries. 
The Illinois Association of Cemeteries held its first 
annual convention at the Auditorium Hotel, Chicago, 
Monday, August 22 , immediately preceding that of the 
national association. As the national organization had 
invited the state association to take part in its proceed- 
ings and entertairment the program was very brief and 
devoted entirely to necessary business. 
President W. N. Rudd, of Chicago, called the meet- 
ing to order and after the secretary had read the report 
of the meeting for organization at Springfield, outlined 
the work of the association as follows : 
Covering, as our state does, so great an extent of terri- 
tory, such varying conditions of climate and soil, and such 
diverse social conditions; having within its confines ceme- 
teries of all classes from, perhaps, the finest in America, to 
the neglected country burying ground, it is evident that a 
wide range of work is open to us. It is also evident that too 
much specializing in our work will narrow its benefits and 
restrict its support to a small class. Your speaker has been 
able in a very short time to gather the names of over one thou- 
sand cemeteries in the state of Illinois and does not hesitate 
to estimate their total number at well over three thousand. 
There is hardly a cemetery in the state (in fact, in the whole 
United States) where, in the older sections, can not be seen 
pitiable exhibitions of how soon the dead are forgotten. The 
cemetery, which should be in its entirety— in every nook and 
corner of its grounds — a place of beauty, is defaced and dis- 
graced by decaying and falling stonework and neglected 
graves. Has it ever occurred to you, gentlemen, that if 
one-half the money expended for monuments and useless 
stonework were invested for the perpetual care of the lots, 
that funds would be available to convert every cemetery into 
a place of beauty and to keep it so forever? Selfishness and 
indifference have kept all but a comparatively few cemeteries 
from making provisions for perpetual care and, I fear, will 
continue to do so. 
There is a way to place every cemetery lot sold in the 
future under perpetual care, and in a few years to bring 
each of our cemeteries into such a condition that they shall 
be the admiration of all, and that we shall be envied by those 
in other and less enlightened states. Let the Association 
formulate and push to passage a statute requiring every ceme- 
tery to reserve a percentage from the price of every lot sold, 
and place the same in the hands of trustees for perpetual 
care, and give the state supervision over these funds, the same 
as it has over banks and loan associations. Push this to a 
favorable issue, gentlemen, and I care not if you then disband ; 
you will still have done a work of enlightened progress which 
will cause the name of this Association to be remembered 
by generations to come. It may be objected by some that 
their present prices are barely sufficient to maintain their 
cemeteries in proper condition. I say to them boldly, in- 
crease your prices to cover this added amount. Let the lot 
buyers pay the added prices, and if it results in the erection of 
fewer and plainer monuments, consider that another blessing 
not disguised. There is other legislation urgently needed, and 
which your legislation committee will later place before you. 
There is much educating for you to do among cemetery 
officials in regard to the laying out and adornment of their 
grounds, the systematic keeping of records and the making and 
enforcement of rules. There is also much to be done by 
