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boil till clear. For use dilute with 4 parts water to 1 part 
stock solution and apply after a rain or at least after the 
drives have been well sprinkled, as it does not penetrate to 
the roots well when the roadway is dry. Materials should 
be purchased in quantity from wholesale druggists. The last 
lot bought here was at the rate of 2 cents per lb. for 60 per 
cent caustic soda and 4^2 cents for arsenic, thus making the 
cost of material less than 7-10 cent per gallon. 
As in many other cases, prevention is better than cure, and 
we find that if applied when the weeds are very small much 
less material and much less labor is needed. 
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In an address before the Ohio State Association of Cemetery 
Superintendents and Officials, Frederick Green, president of 
the association and secretary of Lakeview Cemetery, Cleveland, 
told of what had been accomplished in that city toward dis- 
couraging the Sunday funeral. He said in part : “In the 
city of Cleveland, by concerted action of all the cemeteries, 
we have practically abolished Sunday funerals. We have, 
except in case of contagious disease, abolished Sunday burials, 
and at Lakeview receive at the vault only by special arrange- 
ment, we being first satisfied that the funeral will be unosten- 
tatious, quiet and orderly. While it is true that in Cleveland 
the Sunday funeral has been abolished, I am nevertheless im- 
pressed with the great good sense which recommends not that 
it be prohibited, but that it be discouraged. In Cleveland 
we abolished Sunday funerals because our lot owners objected 
to them. The evils set forth by the Rev. G. F. Houck were 
real and apparent. The number of fools in a city may be 
no greater than in the country, but it is easier for them to 
get together. In the neighborhood of some of our cemeteries 
bands and a rabble did on Sunday very greatly disturb the 
quiet of the day, while within the gates a mob of two or three 
hundred morbid sightseers rushed from grave to grave as 
the funerals came in. Talk against the Sunday funeral if you 
believe it to be injurious to your cemetery, and charge double 
(do that anyway, for your workmen are entitled to double 
pay on Sunday), but don’t attempt to stop it entirely unless 
it is injurious to your cemetery.” 
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Reports made by Superintendent William Falconer, of the 
Allegheny Cemetery, Allegheny, Pa., at the annual meeting 
of the Cemetery Association last month, showed that the past 
year has been one of notable improvement. Nine acres have 
been graded as part of the general plan of “parking” the ceme- 
tery. Roadways haVe been improved, several hundred trees 
planted and many acres have been sown in grass. On this 
work 80 men have been employed regularly throughout the 
year. The contract was awarded for a new receiving vault, 
which will be behind the greenhouses near the Butler street 
entrance. The building will be constructed of blue sandstone 
in the pure Gothic style of architecture. It will contain 54 
crypts and will be completed by November 1. In the election 
of officers for the year Charles E. Speer was re-elected presi- 
dent and John A. Moore secretary and treasurer. A recent 
issue of the Pittsburg Gazette speaks as follows of the work 
accomplished by Superintendent Falconer since taking charge 
of the cemetery : “The Allegheny Cemetery Association is 
making a determined effort to lead in all that is beautiful, con- 
venient, progressive and modern in American cemeteries, and 
it is sparing neither brains nor money to accomplish this 
object. Its financial condition is solid as a rock. Aside from 
land, buildings, stock and materials on June 1 this year its 
assets in cash and securities were $657,314.45. During the 
past year its cash income was $80,098.03, and in the same 
time it spent for labor and improvements $78,292.72. There 
are 108 men on its payroll. The cemetery comprises 270 acres, 
and according to a recent survey about three-fifths of the 
land is yet unoccupied. There have been 46,882 interments, 
of which 1,126 were during the past year. There are 5,857 
lot owners. During the year large sections of new land, 
between nine and ten acres, have been graded and laid down 
to smooth grass lawn surface; toilet conveniences have been 
built through the grounds ; 3,638 feet of macadam roadway 
have been constructed, and a very extensive system of sewer 
and drainage introduced. The old dead trees have been cut 
out and hundreds of young trees and ornamental shrubs 
planted, and it is the intention of the management to plant 
thousands more of the young trees and shrubs next Fall. 
Last Spring the cemetery was gayer than the city parks with 
tulips, Narcissus and other spring flowers, tens of thousands 
of which were set out, and this is to be continued. The old 
and abandoned lakes are to be restored and their environment 
beautified in park-like effect, with marginal growth of trees, 
shrubs, flowers and vistas and walks. The ugliest and most 
meaningless things- in the cemetery, namely, the stone and iron 
curbings or fences that surround some of the lots in the older 
portions are gradually disappearing. Of these 38 stone curb- 
ings, measuring 4,532 lineal feet, and 14 iron fences, 1,255 feet, 
have been removed during the past year, and so eloquently 
have the changed conditions thus presented appealed to lot 
owners that several other proprietors have ordered their curb- 
ings and fences removed.” 
NEW CEMETERIES. 
Work on the new cemetery and crematory to be established 
five miles north of Colorado Springs, Col., near Monument 
Park, by a syndicate of Philadelphia capitalists, has been 
begun, and by fall the grounds are expected to be open. Rob- 
ert D. Patton, of Pittsburg, is in charge of the work. It is 
reported that $i,oco,ooo will be expended on the grounds. 
The Oklahoma Evergreen Cemetery Association, Oklahoma 
City, Ok., has purchased 160 acres of territory near that city, 
and will lay out the tract as a modern lawn plan cemetery 
at an expenditure of $40,000. Dr. R. H. Wilkin is president, 
and L. R. Curtis secretary and manager. 
The Berkeley Cemetery Association, Berkeley, Cal., has 
purchased 124 acres of land for $40,000, and is capitalized at 
$250,000. W. G. Witter of Berkeley is president, Ole C. Vin- 
zent secretary and R. E. Johnson, who plotted and laid out 
Cypress Lawn Cemetery in San Francisco, is engineer. 
A stock company has been formed to develop a new ceme- 
tery on the Lakewood Road near Jamestown, N. Y. It is 
planned to expend $100,000 on the tract, a new receiving vault 
to cost $30,000 being one of the improvements planned. James 
L. Weeks is president and Rev. Julius Lincoln treasurer. 
St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, Webster, Mass., has bought 
40 acres of land near the East Village to be used as a church 
cemetery. 
The Centerville Cemetery Association lias purchased twenty 
acres for $1,500. It is the intention of the association for the 
Catholics to occupy half and the Protestants half of the ceme- 
tery. 
The German Lutheran Church, of Danbury, Conn., has 
purchased twelve acres of land to be laid out as a cemetery. 
Rev. Edward H. Fischer is chairman of the cemetery com- 
mittee. 
The following cemetery associations have been incorporated : 
East Forks Cemetery Association, Parrish, 111 . ; incorporators, 
Ed. W. Nance, Albert Odle, Jr., Logan Safford. Mount Jack- 
son Cemetery Company Association, Woodstock, 111 .; capital, 
$1,000 to $5,000; Robert J. Walker, president; L. A. Snyder, 
secretary and treasurer. Rock Creek Cemetery Association 
of Hulent Township, Comanche County, Oklahoma. 
