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seen in Fig. 4. Here is a view taken from 
the report of the Cemetery at New Bed- 
ford, Massachusetts, showing some of the 
conditions there after a July thunder- 
storm. Fig. 5 is another view, with an 
extract from the report of the Cemetery 
Commissioners. 
But I desire to go a step further than 
the mere question of neglect of the owner, ■ 
or decay incident to time. This view. Fig. 
6, shows a condition which existed in * 
considerable cemetery a week after Memo- 
rial Day of the present year. American 
cities are extending their boundaries at 
an unprecedented rate, and when we have 
large cemeteries not in the outskirts of 
the citj’, as now, but, as our committee on 
resolutions puts it, “in our midst,” does 
anyone suppose that public opinion will 
tolerate the exi.stence of these monuments? 
The monumental man of the present day 
has made great advances in the character 
of the designs now being submitted; sim- 
plicity and taste, I am glad to say, are the 
keynote of their work, but of the horrors 
which we erected from the Civil War up 
to about ten or twelve years ago, there is 
not one stone in a hundred that has a line 
of beauty in it. or, unless the subject of 
the memorial has something of character, 
that will receive a second consideration 
when the various communities begin to 
clean up their back doors. My Irish neigh- 
bor objected to paying for a sewer large 
enough to take care of future develop- 
ments. He did not care, he said, to do so 
much for posterity as posterity had never 
done anything for him. With the condi- 
tion of the cemeteries I have just shown; 
posterity will in due time deal with, in the 
language of the small boy, “they won’t do 
a thing to it.” If, therefore, anyone is 
troubled with conscientious scruples, it 
would appear to be their duty to call the 
attention of their clients to “the mutability 
of human affairs” and the impossibility of 
any perpetual care contract preserving 
anything which offends public taste, or 
which is subject to the action of public 
opinion, legislation, or other like potent 
forces. 
One other misapprehension which I fre- 
quently come across is, that there is in 
some way a connection between the cost 
of the structure and the amount needed 
for its perpetual repair. You will notice 
that the question is put in that form at 
almost every convention of this Associa- 
tion, so I wish to impress upon the mem- 
bers the idea that the very fact that some 
structures are erected at low cost is the 
very reason why they require a larger in- 
come to provide for their care. In nearly 
every mausoleum which has been sub- 
mitted to me for consideration, the indi- 
vidual stones were altogether too small for 
permanency, and the suggestion of dimin- 
ishing the number of joints is uniformly 
met with the excuse that the expense 
would be too great. 
I have no sympathy with this state of 
mind. Under present day methods, granite 
■of the best character can be had in sizes 
only limited by the railroad facilities for 
transportation. 
FTG. 10. TWO MONUMENT.S OF NEAR- 
EY EQUAI. CO.ST THAT WOIIED RE- 
yUIRK WIHEHY V'AItYINO ENDOWMENT 
FUNDS. 
But even where the greatest possible 
care is used in construction, mausoleums 
and monuments are so vastly different that 
the cost has little or nothing to do with 
the cost for repairs. In Fig. 10 are seen 
a couple of monuments which I am in- 
formed cost substantially the sarne price. 
Both are well constructed, but it only re- 
quires a glance to show that in the wash- 
ing and caring for the joints of the one 
with the column, a considerable expense 
for staging is needed ; while the other, be- 
cause of its compactness, can be cared for 
with comparatively little effort. 
Here, again, in Fig. 11, are two mauso- 
leums ; the one with the columns costing 
more than four times the price paid for 
the other one, and yet, because of the 
larger number of joints, the pointing of 
the smaller structure has, up to date, been 
fully as much as that of the larger one. 
This whole question of perpetual care is 
so involved with considerations that do 
not appear and cannot be written in an 
instrument, that I doubt if a fair one can 
be made, other than that in the form of a 
donation in trust. The Mt. Auburn Ceme- 
tery, apart from the usual contract which 
is now written into all the deeds of sale, — 
covering the care and repair of the turfing 
— has three forms of contract: Perpetual 
Care with Guaranty; Perpetual Care with 
Renewal; and Donation in Trust. These 
forms read as follows: 
APPENDIX A 
[Contract for the PERPETUAL Repair of Ixits 
with Guaranty,] 
Know all Men by these Presents. 
That ' 
hereby give unto the Proprietors of the Cemetei-y 
of Mount Auburn the sum of 
Dollars 
for its sole use forever; in trust, nevertheless, 
that the said’ Corporation shall forever hereafter 
from the said sum and the income thereof, or from 
its other funds, from time to time, apply such 
an amount as may be necessary to keep in suitable 
condition and preservation the sodding or turfing up- 
on lot numbered ini the said Cemetery, 
situated upon 
and containing square feet; and to 
wash, point the joints, and keep plumb and in posi- 
tion the structures thereon; provided however, that 
should the renewal of such structures or any part 
or poidion thereof become necessary, the expense 
therefore, is not to be borne by the said Corpora- 
tion. This contract is not to he regarded as in 
any way modifying the laws and regulations of 
said Corporation in regard to structures, the condi- 
tion of which becomes such as to impair the gen- 
eral appearance of the Cemetery, and for that rea- 
son liable to removal. No work shall at any time 
be done upon or around the said lot by other per- 
sons than the proper officers or servants of the Cor- 
poration, except by vote of the Ti'ustees of said 
Corporation. 
this contract being intended to attach to said Lot 
and its appurtenances in the condition in which the 
same* are described in a report thereon made by 
the Sui>erintendent of the Cemetery, dated 
and which 
report Is entered upon the rc'cord.s of the Corpor- 
ation: it being understood and declared that the 
said Corporation shall not be t>ound to make any 
separate investment of the sum of n>oney hereby 
plven, but m-ay add the same to its Repair Fund, 
and may, by spe^'inl vote of the Hoard of Tiustcea, 
use any portion of the income accruing therefrom 
which may remain after the fulfilment of the obli- 
gations heixby assumed, for ornamenting and pre- 
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