PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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the Appellate Division of the New York 
Supreme Court has just held that the fact 
that he and his family lived in a house 
furnished by the cemetery association did 
not make that his place of legal residence, 
ASKED AND 
Crematory Information, 
Editor Asked and Answered : I should 
like to get information on crematoriums, 
with columbariums attached (or under the 
same roof), and also information on retort 
and furnace rooms, etc., temperatures, and, 
in fact, any information on the subject 
which you might have. I shall very much 
appreciate any knowledge which you may 
have on this subject, or, in case you can 
do nothing in the matter, for the name of 
some firm from whom I may obtain it. 
Geo. a. Ferris, 
Reno, Nev. Architect. 
You can get a lot of data about crema- 
tion and crematories from Dr. Hugo Erich- 
sen, secretary of the National Cremation 
Society, Deroit, Mich. The Jarvis Engi- 
neering Co., of Boston, are builders of 
crematories and could give you any ad- 
vice you might want about the construction 
of crematories or crematory machinery. 
You would also do well to get data 
direct about such modern crematories as 
those in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Omaha, 
Neb.; Lakewood Cemetery, Alinneapolis, 
Minn., and the Bohemian National Ceme- 
tery, Chicago, where modern crematory 
plants have recently been eretced. 
Editor Park and Cemetery ; The city 
of Tyler has recently taken over the ceme- 
tery proposition and have bought and beau- 
tified ten acres of ground for this purpose, 
and we now propose to sell the ground for 
50 cents per square foot for the most de-_ 
sirable lots and 25 cents for other portions 
not so desirable, and we have a job on 
our hands to convince the people that this 
price is not excessive. Of course, we ex- 
pect and guarantee perpetual upkeep of the 
property, but as most people are inex- 
perienced in this line of thought and never 
investigate it until they have to, we have 
only to appeal to those who are experienced, 
and will certainly appreciate it if you will 
give us the benefit of a letter from you 
setting forth your views on this line. 
Clay Hight, 
Tyler, Tex. City Manager. 
From what we know of the experience 
of other cemeteries, we can say positively 
that your price of 50 cents a square foot 
for perpetual care lots is certainly low 
enough. In fact, we doubt if you could 
find an instance of where perpetual care 
lots were sold for less than this figure. In 
most cemeteries perpetual care lots bring a 
it appearing that he owned a residence in 
another district where he had voted for 
many years, and regarded that as his fixed 
domicile. (In re Rooney, 159 New York 
Supplement, 132.) 
ANSWERED 
dollar or a dollar and a half a square foot. 
You should certainly insist on getting not 
less than 50 cents, and in some sections 
you ought to have more than that. You 
could get definite figures to aid you by 
writing to any number of cemeteries that 
you might want to correspond with. We 
reprint as follows some data on the price 
of lots that appeared in Park and Ceme- 
tery some years ago : 
Editor Asked and Answered: We are 
trying to get a lodge here to make a con- 
tract with our cemetery to use a certain 
block as their burial plot, but some of the 
lodge members, think that our price, 50 
cents per square foot, is too high. Please 
quote us prices of different cemetery lots 
that you may be familiar with. — M. B., Tex. 
We would not sell a lodge or secret so- 
ciety a lot in Crown Hill Cemetery, large 
or small, for any less than the individual 
at the minimum price of 50 cents, our max- 
imum being $2. At my old home, some 
three years ago, I sold the Order of Elks 
a lot 1,200 square feet at 60 cents per foot 
(that was at Columbus, Ohio). If the 
cemetery is a well-kept, modern one, I 
think that ground at 50 cents is very rea- 
sonable. J. J. Stephens, 
Supt., Crown Hill Cemetery. 
Indianapolis, Ind. 
Our lowest price for lots is 50 cents per 
foot. Our neighbor, Bellefontaine, charges 
$1 per foot as lowest price. In the eastern 
cemeteries the price is still higher. The 
price of ground in cemeteries depends a 
good deal on location and other circum- 
stances. M. P. Brazill, 
Supt., Calvary Cemetery. 
St. Louis, Mo. 
There are certain conditions governing 
all cemetery lots, whether for lodges or 
private use, that should be considered. One 
of these conditions, which is the most im- 
portant of all, is the future care of the lot. 
This future general care does not neces- 
sarily mean special care, such as watering, 
planting flowers, etc., but only such items 
as cutting and trimming the grass and 
keeping the lot in a clean and respectable 
appearance, the filling and resodding of 
graves, etc. A purchase price of 50 cents 
per square foot will not permit this. Some 
years ago Cave Hill Cemetery sold lots at 
50 cents per square foot, but experience 
has forced up our minimum priced lots to 
$1 per foot, and 20 per cent of this is laid 
aside in a sinking fund. We now sell 
lodges lots on the same basis as private 
purchasers, the Elks purchasing a lot of 
2,306 square feet recently at $1.10 per 
square foot. This price insures perpetual 
general care for this plot, just as all private 
lots receive. Such institutions as are of a 
purely eleemosynary character are given a 
special low price on lots and nothing is 
charged for interments. We see no reason 
why a fellow member of a lodge should be 
buried in a cheap lot any more than a 
member of one's family. All lots should 
receive perpetual general care, and if your 
correspondent can give this for 50 cents 
per square foot he must be located in an 
ideal place, as Cave Hill Cemetery could 
not do it. However, the price of labor will 
have a decided bearing on the cost of care. 
Our lots are sold for $1, $1.10, $1.25 and 
$1.75 per square foot, and this we con- 
sider a reasonable price for Louisville, Ky. 
Robt. Campbell, 
Louisville, Ky. Supt., Cave Hill Cemetery. 
Removing Body from Unpaid-for Lot. 
Editor Asked and Answered : A party 
lost his wife and seletced a lot, but had 
only $5 to pay on same, leaving a balance 
of $30. He did not pay for the opening 
of the grave nor has he paid anything 
more for over three years. He has no 
title or receipt. Can we remove this body 
so that we can dispose of the lot? — C. A., 
S. C. 
The body cannot be removed without the 
husband’s cortsent, and your cemetery’s only 
legal remedy against him is an ordinary 
suit for the amount due, which claim, un- 
der the laws of your state, will outlaw six 
years after it became due, unless revived 
by part payment or new written promise 
to pay. 
By permitting an interment to be made 
in a lot without payment of the cemetery’s 
charges, a mere open account against the 
purchaser arises, just the same as in the 
case of a sale of anything else without 
taking some form of security for payment. 
The fact that no written evidence of title 
to the lot has been issued does not affect 
the question, for there are numerous court 
decisions of authority to the effect that 
oral permission for the making of an in- 
terment is all that is required to perfect 
the right to have remains permanently pre- 
served in a lot. 
A special reason recognized by the law 
for forbidding removals in cases of this 
kind is shown in the following statement 
taken from a decision of the United States 
District Court for California: proper 
respect for the memory of the dead, a re- 
gard for the tender sensibilities of the liv- 
ing, and a due preservation of the public 
to place, except under extreme circum- 
health require that the eorpses should not 
be disinterred or transported from place 
to place, excei)t under extreme cirenm- 
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