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basin.” The innocent little words, “just 
beyond the present basin,” were the seed 
from which litigation started, spreading 
through the county circuit court to the 
highest court of the state. 
Mrs. Eastin having no ownership or con- 
trol over the cemetery grounds, the will 
could not be carried out without the con- 
sent of the cemetery company, which was 
withheld pending designation of the pro- 
posed location for the chapel, proper ju- 
dicial approval thereof, and submission of 
proposed plans and specifications. In ju- 
dicial proceedings to determine the proper 
site, the heirs of the estate claimed that 
Will iam Crawford Barry, of Rochester, 
N. Y., one of the leading horticulturists 
and nurserymen of the coimtr\-, died De- 
cember 12 of pneumonia. He was 69 years 
of age. Although iMr. Barry devoted the 
greater part of his time to the nursery 
business of Ellwanger & Barry, he was 
one of the best known men in local finan- 
cial affairs and was active in civic work. 
Mr. Barry was a member of the original 
park board of the city and served until its 
dissolution a year ago. He was a party 
to the placing of the Ellwanger & Barry 
children’s memorial pavilion in Highland 
Park. The rapid development of Roch- 
ester’s park system is in a large measure 
due to the efforts of Mr. Barry. In 1887, 
the firm of Ellwanger & Barry gave to the 
city twenty acres which was named High- 
land Park. 
Mr. Barry was president of the Roch- 
ester Trust & Safe Deposit Company, vice- 
president of the Lincoln National Bank, 
and a trustee of the Montrose County Sav- 
ings Bank. He was president and treas- 
urer of Ellwanger & Barry, Inc. ; president 
and treasurer of the Ellwanger & Barry 
Realty Company, and also a director of 
the Rochester Electric Railroad Company 
and the Rochester & Suburban Railroad 
Company. 
The annual report of the Secretary of 
the Treasury presents some interesting sta- 
tistics of the national cemeteries. The to- 
tal expenditures for national cemeteries 
during the year was $297,857 ; the appro- 
priation for this year is $.364,020, and the 
estimates asked for the year ending June 
,30, 1918, are $352,320. One of the items 
for which an increase is shown this year 
is that of headstones for graves of soldiers, 
for which $50,000 was appropriated, as 
against an actual expenditure, last year, of 
$42,758. .A similar appropriation of $50,000 
is asked for next year. .Another increase 
is in that of monuments or tablets erect- 
ed in Cuba and China for which there is 
an appropriation of $1,000; the amount ex- 
pended for that purpose, in 1916, was 
$699.46. Seven thousand six dollars and 
the will required location at a certain point, 
whereas the executor and the cemetery 
company asserted that location might be 
made in compliance with the will at other 
points. 
The Court of Appeals holds that the di- 
rection for erection of the chapel ‘‘just be- 
yond” the basin means barel\' beyond, with 
the least practical space intervening, and 
that the meaning was so clearly expressed 
that it was improper for the lower court 
to receive testimony of testatrix's brother 
tending to show that testatrix had intended 
a location at variance with the designation 
made in the will. 
The intensity of his love for his native 
city is shown liy the gift by his firm of the 
twenty acres of land that now form High- 
land Park. His activity in the develop- 
ment of the park system of the city was 
one of the strong factors in making the 
system what it is, one of the finest city 
park systems in the country. His connec- 
tion with the Chamber of Commerce was 
not merely perfunctory, it was an ener- 
getic connection, and he was one of the 
most valued members of that organization. 
In the nursery industry, Mr. Barry was 
one of the leaders. His interest was not 
merely that of the nurseryman, selling to 
the public, it was that of the enthusiast 
for plants ami flowers, and he did much 
to make life more beautiful for all by his 
work in aiding in the development of new 
varieties of flowers. He was an authority 
on rose culture. He did not neglect the 
more practical side of the industry, and 
continually fostered the improvement of the 
more useful products of the land. His 
standing and his value to the industry are 
shown by the positions which he held in 
the organizations devoted to it, as well as 
in kindred organizations not concerned 
with the strictly business side of it, such 
as the Western New York Horticultural 
Society and the American Rose Society. 
fifty-nine cents was expended during the 
fiscal year ending June 30, last, for the 
marking of graves of Confederate soldiers 
and sailors who died in Northern prisons. 
The appropriations for the present year 
inclufled the sum of ,$200, for the reinter- 
ment of the remains of Orman K, Osburne, 
in the National Cemetery at .San Francisco, 
anrl of $1,500 for the erection of a Lodge 
at the National Cemetery. Salishury, N. C. 
The amounts expenrled during the year 
included $53, 862. .50. for the Chickamauga 
and Chattanooga National Park; $25,874.32 
for the .Shiloh National Military Park; 
$37,860.21 for the Gettysburg National 
Park; and $36,000 for the Vicksburg Park. 
There was an expenditure of $3.3,000 dur 
ing the year on the memorial to General 
H. .S. Grant; $1,000 for the Memorial Arch 
at Valley Forge, Pa. ; $7,000 for a Alemo- 
rial Monument at Germantown, Pa. ; $3,000 
on the monument to Francis Scott Key 
and others at Fort McHenry; and $1,500 
on the MacDonough Memorial at Lake 
Champlain. The sum of $289,556.60 is still 
on hand for further e.xpenditures on these 
and other memorials. The expenditures, 
during the year, for national cemeteries, 
under the supervision of the Quartermaster 
Corps, amounted to $300,104.38, There 
was also an expenditure of $13,352.21, for 
the care of the Washington Monument 
during the year, and an appropriation for 
the present fiscal year of $13,820. A like 
sum is asked for the fiscal year ending 
June 30, 1918. The sum of $45,475 was 
expended for the erection of monuments 
during the year ending June 30, 1916. 
H' ork of Cremation dissociation 
.At tlie Cincinnati convention of the 
Cremation Association of America, last 
year, ex-President Dr. Hugo Erichsen was 
commissioned to compile a symposium of 
opinions in favor of incineration that will 
be used as a means of propaganda. He has 
l)een at work at this task since the conven- 
tion closed and reports good progress. 
.Among the famous men and women who 
have thus far contributed to the symposium 
are: Ex-President Eliot, of Harvard Uni- 
versity ; General George W. Goethals, of 
Panama Canal fame ; President David Starr 
Jordan, of Leland Stanford Lhiiversity ; 
Jack London, Maud Ballington Bpoth, E. 
Burton Holmes, George Ade, Mary John- 
ston, .Arlo Bates, Clara Louise Burnham, 
Rev. Charles M. Sheldon, General A. W. 
Greeley, W’illiam Elliott Griffith, Norman 
Hapgood, Florence Morse Kingsley, Rob- 
ert Grant, Charles Rann Kennedy, IDaniel 
Chester French, Prof. E. .A. Ross, Lorado 
Taft and others. 
It is expected that the symposium will be 
ready for the press in the spring of the 
coming }'car. In the meantime a title will 
be chosen. Suggestions arc in order and 
will be welcomed l)y the compiler. Dr. Hugo 
Erichsen, 240 Chandler avenue, Detroit, 
Mich. “.A Symposium of Opinions on Cre- 
mation” will be the sub-title. 
.\s the booklet will be copyri.ghted by the 
association and its sale entirely restricted to 
the members thereof, the organization is 
desirous of extending its membership so 
as to include all of the crematoria on this 
continent. The booklet will be published 
at cost, plus 20 per cent, the latter going, 
of course, to the association. 
E. P. Sampson, 433 Sixth avenue, Pitts- 
burgh, Pa., is secretary of the association. 
The ( jover I Hiistration 
The illustration on the cover of this is- 
‘^ue shows a very attractive form of the 
massive pf)St tyi)e of gateway that has been 
given a touch of distinction by the use of 
surmounting crosses. This style is, of 
course, adapted to a wide varietv of differ- 
The Late William C. Barry 
Statistics of National Cemeteries 
