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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
getber with all reasonable amendments and addi- 
tions thereto which may be hereafter made. 
I hereby agree, that in case I default any pay- 
ment, or any portion of any payment, as above set 
forth, and shall continue in such default for the 
period of sixty days, the said Association may at 
its option, declare any agreement of sale entered 
into by it, together with any and all payments 
made by me in pursuance of such agreement, for- 
feited, and said Association may enter upon said 
lot and remove any bodies interred thereon, to 
other graves in said Cemetery, at my expense. 
I further agree, that any such forefeiture and re- 
moval shall not be construed as a waiver by said 
Association, of any claim against me, except for 
the amount remaining unpaid on the purchase price 
of said lot. 
Name 
P. O. Address 
S. B. Fol Cards Plat 
P. B C. B Checked 
One monument, to cover not over square 
feet, will be permitted on this Lot. 
No monument will be permitted on this lot. 
Mt. Greenwood Cemetery Assn. 
W. N. Rudd, President. 
Morgan Park, Chicago, 111. 
* * * 
Following is a copy of our contract for 
lot sales on credit : 
This Agreement, made the day of 
A. D. 19...., between the Paxtang Cemetery As- 
sociation, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and 
Witnesseth: That the said hereby 
agrees to purchase the right of interment or sepul- 
ture in a certain burial lot vested in said Corpora- 
tion, subject to the regulations, conditions and re- 
strictions for the government of lot-holders and the 
burial of the dead, said lot being marked in the 
map or plan of said Cemetery with the number 
in Lawn, on the 
register map of said lawn on file in the office of 
said Corporation, for the price or sum of 
Dollars. 
It is Agreed by and between the said parties that 
the sum of 
Dollars has been paid on account of said lot, and 
the said purchaser agrees to pay the balance in 
monthly instalments of Dollars 
each, on the days of each 
month until the sum is fully paid; and also agrees 
to the following conditions: If any instalment shall 
become in arrears, interest at the rate of six per 
cent per annum shall be paid from the time the 
said instalment shall be due and payable; said in- 
terest to be paid at the time that final settlement 
is made. No interments shall be made on said lot 
without the consent of the Paxtang Cemetery As- 
sociation. 
In case of the failure to pay any instalment as 
above mentioned within six months from the time 
the same shall become due and payable, the lot 
then shall revert to the said Paxtang Cemetery 
Association, and the payments made on account of 
said purchase shall become the property of the said 
Paxtang Cemetery Association without any claim 
whatever on behalf of the purchaser. Should the 
said lot revert to the Paxtang Cemetery Associ- 
ation, the said Association shall have the right to 
remove any bodies buried in said lot to such por- 
tion of the said Cemetery that the said Association 
shall designate. Any improvements or grave marks 
may also be removed by the said Association. The 
purchaser also agrees to pay the sum of One Dollar, 
cost of deed, to be executed and delivered when all 
instalments are paid. 
Witness the hands and seals of said parties the 
day and year aforesaid. 
For the Paxtang Cemetery Association. 
Paxtang Cemetery Assn. 
Harrisburg, Pa. 
Our lots are sold on payments of one- 
third down at time of purchase, one-third 
in six months and one-third at end of year. 
The purchaser of a lot must sign up a 
copy of the enclosed contract for any de- 
ferred payment after first one-third pay- 
ment has been made. Our lot holders gen- 
erally meet their payments under this sys- 
tem. Should they lapse at any time, we 
send them a notice and inform them if 
they do not meet their payments within a 
given time we will remove body or bodies 
from their lot, as per agreement of signed 
contract, which reads as follows: 
OFFICE OF FERNCLIFF CEMETERY. 
Springfield, Ohio, 19.. 
Received of 
the sum of Dollars, 
being a part payment on Lot No 
Section in Ferncliff Cemetery, the 
same having been contracted to be soid to said 
for the sum of Dollars, 
for burial purposes only, under the rules and regul- 
ations of said Association, the balance of said pur- 
chase money to be paid as follows: 
and in the event said 
shall fail to pay promptly any installment of the 
balance of said purchase money as herein provided, 
all interest in the lot hereby contracted 
to be sold, shall forthwith cease and determine and 
said association shall, at any time while such default 
continues, have the right to remove the body or 
bodies buried on said lot to one or more of the sin- 
gle burial lots in said Cemetery at any time after 
the expiration of thirty (30) days from the mailing 
to said purchaser or to one of next of 
kin, of a written notice of its intention so to do, 
addressed to at Springfield, Ohio, with 
postage prepaid; and if the next of kin be unknown 
to said Association, such notice may be given by 
one publication in a newspaper of general circula- 
tion in the City of Springfield, Ohio, addressed to 
the unknown heirs of such purchaser; and the 
amounts paid under this contract shall, in that 
event, be retained by said Association as compen- 
sation for said single burial lot or lots and the 
removal of said body or bodies; and the lot hereby 
contracted to be sold shall belong to said Associa- 
tion the same as though this contract had not been 
made. 
Executed in duplicate original, this 
day of 19 
THE SPRINGFIELD CEMETERY ASSOCIATION. 
By 
This has the desired effect, and rather 
than have bodies removed or be advertised 
before the public, they will meet their obli- 
gation. Since we have never had occasion 
to remove a body from an unpaid for lot, 
we have not had a chance to try the matter 
out in court. But should we have to go 
to law over a case of this kind, I think 
the laws of Ohio would give us judgment, 
as our contract could not be held other- 
wise than bona fide. Jas. F. Dick, 
Supt., Ferncliff Cemetery. 
Springfield, O. 
ASKED AND ANSWERED 
An exchange of experience on practical matters by our readers. You 
are invited to contribute questions and answers to this department 
Undertakers’ Journals. 
We shall be obliged to you if you will 
kindly give us the names of a number of 
undertakers' trade journals, as well as the 
name and location of the publishers. — 
- — Cem. Co., Cal. 
The leading journals representing the 
undertakers’ trade are: Embalmers’ Month- 
ly, Chicago; The Sunnyside, New York 
City; The Western Undertaker , Chicago; 
The Casket, New York. 
Removing Dirt from Grave. 
How do you remove the surplus dirt 
from the open grave, and when? — A. C., 
111 . 
In almost all parts of the cemetery we 
use a box as a container for dirt. These 
boxes are made so as to be easily knocked 
down and can be transported from one 
grave to another. The surplus of dirt we 
remove to the side of nearest driveway in 
wheelbarrows, where it is taken away in 
carts or dump wagons. Wherever possible 
the surplus is taken away before the box 
is filled; the amount put in the box is as 
near as possible to estimate, just enough 
to refill the grave. J. C. Cline, 
Supt., Woodland Cemetery. 
Dayton, O. 
Our system of removal of the surplus 
dirt from the open grave is followed on all 
single as well as lot graves, but the time 
of the removal of this dirt is governed by 
the kind of work to be ordered — that is, as 
to whether it is to be a regular interment 
or whether the grave is to be decorated at 
the time of the interment. 
We find that the simplest and most 
economical system is to wheel the dirt by 
means of a wheelbarrow from the open 
grave to a low wagon having wheels of 
about 24 inches in diameter, which con- 
veyance carries it to dumping place pro- 
vided. 
In case the grave is on a section level 
with the drive it does not make a very 
steep incline from the surface of the lawn 
to the top of the wagon, so that a man can 
conveniently wheel a full wheelbarrow of 
dirt up onto the wagon. In case the grave 
is located on a hilly section, a plank can 
be laid from the slope level with the top of 
the wagon, and the wheeling is a little 
easier than from the level of the drive. 
The time of the removal, as stated above, 
depends on the kind of work ordered — 
that is, in the case of an ordinary inter- 
ment the earth is all left at the open grave 
and immediately after the interment has 
taken place the surplus dirt is removed. 
In the case of a decorated grave all the 
dirt is removed before the interment and 
immediately after the services enough dirt to 
fill the grave is brought back and wheeled 
in. In ordinary weather all this work can 
be done without the laying of wheeling 
plank, but in the case of wet weather plank- 
ing is done from the grave to the wagon, 
so as not to mark the lawn. 
In the case of single graves all the sur- 
plus dirt is wheeled away as soon as grave 
has been filled, or shortly thereafter. This 
is done in all seasons except in the early 
spring when the frost is coming out of the 
ground and there is considerable settlement 
in some of the tiers. In that case quite a 
