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earnest workers along kindred lines of improvement 
work can hardly be realized, and the Boston meeting 
of 1902 should mark the beginning in earnest of a 
new phase of American civilization. Mr. Warren H. 
Manning, secretary of the A. P. & O. A. A., in an 
article in the Chicago Tribune on the “Science and 
Art of Modern City Making,” says of this joint meet- 
ing: “Such a meeting will not alone accomplish the 
object for which the various earnest men and women 
who attend are working. The results of their delibera- 
tions and experiences must be placed before the public 
in such a simple, direct and forcible way as to attract 
the attention of every one, lead them to comprehend 
the purposes in view clearly, and so interest them that 
thy will act upon the suggestions thus received upon 
their return home.” We would suggest that this does 
not altogether convey the idea of what should be ex- 
pected of such a meeting, for it applies to any meet- 
ing of the particular individual associations. But 
more than this should and will result from such co- 
operation. It should bring into harmonious relations 
the theoretical and practical phase of the general, ques- 
tion of improvement, a most important and vital point 
in the campaign of education, and it should also estab- 
lish a common base upon which all workers in the 
cause could stand for mutual support, encouragement 
and enlightenment in the adoption of ways and means 
for the succesesful prosecution of the reform. In union 
there is strength, and that on a broader basis. 
SUNDAY 
FUNERALS. 
With good reason the Sunday funeral 
again came up for discussion at the re- 
cent convention of the Association of 
American Cemetery Superintendents held at Pitts- 
burgh, and the following resolution was passed: “It 
is the sense of this convention that its members rec- 
ommend to their trustees and managers the advisa- 
bility of discouraging Sunday funerals and of making 
an extra charge for services held on that day.” The 
objections to the Sunday funeral have been frequently 
referred to in these columns, and the more the ques- 
tion is considered the more force do these objections 
obtain. The opinion that the making of extra charges 
for Sunday services was the only way to discourage 
the custom was concurred in by many present, and 
tiiat this would result in decreasing ihe number of 
such funerals there can be no doubt. But after all, it 
is only begging the question, for all who found it de- 
sirable or expedient to bury their dead on Sunday 
would not be deterred by extra fees, while the ceme- 
tery force would have to be regularly maintained in 
expectation of Sunday work. There is really no neces- 
sity of discussing the matter of extra Sunday charges, 
which from one point of view would call into question 
the motives of the cemetery management, for it is 
within the province of every cemetery board to regu- 
late this objectionable feature of cemetery practice. 
The authorities of Calvary Cemetery, Cleveland, O. ; 
Woodland Cemetery, Dayton, O. ; Oakland Cemetery, 
St. Paul, Minn., and doubtless many others, have 
adopted rules prohibiting funerals on Sunday, unless 
by compulsory edict of boards of health, and these 
rules are enforced. It is the duty of cemetery officials 
to take similar action, and where they are apathetic 
the superintendent should agitate the subject until such 
action is taken. It is a needed reform and one that 
enlists the sympathy and support of all thinking- 
people. 
MODERN CITY MAKING In our September issue we 
<AT THE ST. LOUIS warmly endorsed the resolution 
EXPOSITION. adopted at the Buffalo conven- 
tion of the American League for Civic Improvement 
which advocated an exhibit of municipal art and the 
science of modern city making at the forthcoming 
Louisiana Purchase exhibition at St. Louis, and it is 
gnatifying to note the very general endorsement of the 
I'csolution by both press and public. Such an exhibit 
will undoubtedly form a most important step in the 
improvement of our cities and towns. No surer indi- 
cation of the trend of public sentiment in the cause of 
outdoor improvement could be hoped for than the very 
general accord with the purposes of the resolution ex- 
pressed from so many different sources. The Boston 
Herald, in a very favorable editorial, uses the term 
“a magnificent idea” ; the Philadelphia Press, in a 
lengthy article, discusses possible developments of the 
plan, and the Chicago Tribune says “it would con- 
tribute great intellectual stimulus to a pre-eminently 
important line of our social development.” Mr. Albert 
Kelsey, a prominent Philadelphia architect, and the 
introducer of the resolution, says “the purpose of the 
project is to bring about an exhibition upon a scale 
large enough to illustrate modern city making in all 
countries and in all its phases.” The plan, to carry it 
out to its most useful proportions, will require con- 
siderable space, wise and liberal co-operation of the 
exposition authorities in the project, a large amount 
of enthusiastic energy to secure the wide range of ma- 
terials necessary to give as nearly as possible a com- 
plete representation of the status of modern city build- 
ing, and the harmonious and disinterested assistance 
of all desirous of aiding a scheme fraught with so 
much promise of helpful education for the general 
welfare. The fact that it will undoubtedly give 
an impetus to the municipal development of the coun- 
try should be of sufficient importance to practically in- 
terest all officialdom, and it can hardly be doubted but; 
that the authorities of the St. Louis Exposition will 
give the matter that consideration which its importance 
demands, in view of the fact that the success of the 
project will mean an enduring credit for St. Louis. 
