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ers are privileged to place hydrants on their plots and 
pay monthly water tax of $1.00 from May to Novem- 
ber for this convenience. 
Single graves are confined to the “old” cemetery. 
Some two acres at the gates are maintained on the 
lawn plan ; there are, however, no restrictions regarding 
the artistic character of monuments, but a concrete 
foundation is required for stones of all sizes. Lots 
are chiefly 18x18 feet in size. There is no perpetual 
that time, too, owing to neglect and poor management, 
there was an indebtedness of $3,650. Now there are 
neatly kept, attractive grounds, and money drawing in- 
terest. 
While it is not possible to give the number of in- 
terments from the inception of the original plot, 1,399 
were recorded from January, 1890, to January, 1904, 
and with the improvements outlined above, St. Ste- 
phen’s certainly compares more than favorably with the 
average Protestant cemetery of its size. 
It is encouraging to note such an example, for while 
ONE OF THE EN- 
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TERY. HAMILTON, 
OHIO. 
care fund although an article of the constitution has 
direct bearing on this point. 
The cemetery lies so near the town, the old ground 
being inside the corporation limits, that many lots are 
cared for by their owners. 
Previous to 1890 this cemetery was no better than 
the all too common “graveyard” that lies barren and 
neglected on many a bleak hillside and lonely plain, 
protesting against the indifference and forgetfulness 
of men, but in that year the present superintendent, 
Mr. Jos. H. Marr, made a careful plot of the old 
ground, locating all of the graves and fixing the 
names of occupants as far as it was possible to do so 
from the meager data supplied by the insufficient and 
partly missing records, from which it is possible to 
locate graves of all whose names are known ; and also 
began a systematic effort to bring up the grounds under 
his care to a plane more consistent with the age. At 
VIEW IN THE OLD SECTION. 
Catholic cemeteries of large cities have a standard of 
excellence in the splendid work of Mr. John Reid, 
“Mount Olive,” Detroit ; Mr. Matthew P. Bra- 
zill, “Calvary,” St. Louis ; Bishop McQuaid, 
“Holy Sepulchre,” Rochester, N. Y., and Rev. 
G. F. Houck, “Calvary,” Cleveland, O., there are but 
few of the smaller that may be cited as anything but 
horrible examples of what places of interment should 
not be. For this very reason, St. Stephen’s shines 
with a clearer light as seen against a somber back- 
ground of crowding, dishevelled stones, neglected turf, 
barren mounds and treeless or wildly “cluttered” in- 
closures, scattered up and down the country, in proof 
of a national neglect of ancestors that would justify 
reasonable doubts of vaunted western civilization in 
the mind of a self-respecting Chinaman. 
Frances Copley Seavey. 
VIEWS IN ST. STEPHEN'S 
CEMETERY, HAMILTON, O. 
A VIEW OF LAWN AND AVENUES 
IN THE NEWER SECTION. 
