Show THE CEMETERY REPORT The report of the cemetery committee to the Council on the gossip in relation to the cemetery docs not seem to have disclosed anything very bad It Is more to the point of a certain laxity of management man-agement and contentions among the employees than any especial wrong to the public It is true Hint certain employees em-ployees seem to have taken contracts for odding graves the work of which I if theyhud t done it themselves would have come out of their time paid for by the city and the pay for the sod ding would properly in that case have i to be turned Into the city treasury But It is claimed that the work was not done by the city employees but by men they hired to fill these special contracts Nevertheless It is a reprehensible practice prac-tice to have city employees Interested In these private contracts and underlie under-lie new orders will be stopped It Is explained that the method complained of was a gradual growth and that insensibly in-sensibly It increased from small beginnings begin-nings until It cot to be so Important and presumably lucrative that the employees em-ployees quarreled about It among them clves It Is well that an end of it is made It is natural that theme should be a good deal of feeling aboul the matter as nothing Iso calculated to arouse animosity as a suspected abuse in connection con-nection with the disposal of the dead But In this case the offenFO compar itivcly trifling and the attempt to play upon the feellhgs of the public in connection con-nection with it unquestionably has a sinister purpose behind it Possibly that purpose may be partisan > or sectarian secta-rian But whatever it is the public will nol fail to note Unit it has scant jasls to rest upon |