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Show .H i f " I ' THE CEKXJOB. B, ' .ifc . i Ox Friday la?t we exhibited a flgl ; "W I I featrong facts and some pertinent MM ill ,doa,te,0ud,nSthe proposal emanat- R S i ing Jn the first place from the city 9k k! I Bsxton ana in tho second from 'IB; ill CoancI,men C0,,n and Karrlci to H I ill f I ,Djuce tIle C)uncil to pass ' an SI IK' f k amendment t the ordinance on 'M faV&iBf J cemetery- Tneobject.oftheneas. Half laV-MI J ure Is to take a width of 16 feet j (F'fl S I from the ln avenue running MM jP- I Sorth atd south in the city burying ) tv JIJ IBrounds, plat St into a tier of lots fMi (3mm I la'X,y in numbe0 and sell them: 9B I ifl H ft " to " tbe maxIaum price of LH 1 I H S ce:n''torylot8froai$29to$I25. lit We have already denounced the B IT proposition as an'outrage. further consideration or the subject deepens EVI t ' W F U18 conviction that our position is HJE fc emphatically proper. It U evident, 9M jjf anu has been for some time, that HH I P tns Prent management of the Hj ' fi& "CI'y of the dead," propose to work gM T itforall it is worth to. themselves, BK ( without reference to the public Um j gooJ. The pretense (hat the main JB .. i' - . venue should be cut Into in order Hj to obtain funds to improve the II grounds is a hollow pretense. It i ' could be as reasonably asserted out- right that beauty Is enhauced by 5-r; if v disfigurement. The revenue dt- PH : , " " rivedfromthecemeterywithoutany EH I " innovation of that kind, and with- WmWi j It out an enormous increase in the H ' price of lots over six times the m - former maximum price ought to be WM sufficient for every purpose of lm- 1 provement. B When the late Sexton Patrick K9 ' pressed the question of water supply ! for the cemetery he was told the city had no money to spare for that purpose. He thensbowed that in the Jast ten years of Sexton Taylor's mmmi ' administration not only had the 1 cemetery been self-supporting but H there had accumulated during that H 4t 0me' after V?laS all expenses, B I somewhere in the neighborhood of B I $4000, which had been paid Into the HH 1 treasury. It was then decided that K " um at Ica-'- should be exiend- K t-J on the grounds and the water- Hj ,, works was the result. This im- BB If) provement Itself Is a valuable facill- jpjl i ty in the process of beautifying the J grounds. The worlcs operate excei- JH lenUy.and as the sexton charges JpK J'-SO ftr the reason to eadi lot owner whose lot he waters, this is a KHE decided 6ourca of income. JHJj A large appropriation was mad. Jpjj someUme ago and placed to tbt BH Mxton's account for improvements. Abut $1,003 of the amount was BVJ expended in erecting a two-story JIB bull ding, in w hich he has taken u Wjl Ills residence, enabling him to rent MS his house in town for SSOamonU, HH In connection with this building J Mr. Djnn pre-ented certain blllsfor B P3nting,paperhangingand for office nj furniture. The Council never U authorized them, and there was J eonie demurring to their payment pai in open session. The amounts were' M however, sub-juenUy appropriafl Kfl We have already cited the fact tnatfc,rthe6aleoftheproptecdnew H , lots ou the man avenue aloce, the H J eexton's per centage for" stHIng I ' them would probably not be lets J than sm, for about thirty hours' nj wrk. Besides he receives 50 cents JH for each certificate issued to the H! purchaser. The price of grave dig- i ??' iy"S to size, raDgei from UK 3-to 31. The man who digs the Brave gets one half and the sexton ' Pkf to tb otber half, and he has fJS ,no1UliD5 to do will, collection, he U J?5.?1'1 "'"""italei.wlio I I order the graves. The cost of mak- jl ing -removals Is from $4 to o the l operator getting one half and the Kg sexton the other. He also geUM ft burial that occurs. Healsocharg.s fJl f " "onal time by UlL. dav fJi bile engaged on the cemetery. BU Fromthe9estatementsltwillbeeasv' KM to understand the nature of the bon- 1 - Z f 7xbn-'W the inexcus- 1 f,,on tfce ' to " the treasury with mean, to be lavishly K squandered-by placing the nux- H if of Iots at $1Zi ia p Si We,D the Proposed outrage come. BH1 "Pasa ? or tom we hope t H 1 W,th tn" d.eme to cut up the main mrmk vecue lots, that the pub, N! hre,rne,T,iaveai,iwnoi'p RIVI V by the Council aud that certificate. v i 1 of wnership have been issued iu jm conform.ty W,th the relaUve posl I Jo of the lots to each other anYto Ml Jhertieete. They should also take f l?toat';nt the fact there are H 1 nt acres of platted cemetery l Brohnd, ea,t of the main portion .1. B tencT In' "et "noccupieJ, and Vi ,enble aCrcase in thc Si condition on the nortlieast. ThN B r contraction of the malu ! ttref an invisible ntHy es. ceP' for purposes of "grab" We wi-h to ask Mr. Cohn, who fs M a Hebrew, how much the people cf TOM tinSnraceinf,,Uc"yia,Jtu f ""nfortheirburialground. inc. ,L, 'T""16 iBtcron in hi, "''Vraia nothing. The C"y Council, in behalf of th, prople' Bet " grounds apart ana TH SST tbem to "Jewish eternity, without asking or re- MBC ceivlng a dollar In r. ., , " en oi -appreciation of this hind t ArrrMa .De fthe beeficiari.s, f. -irCohn, turns around and reccm- 1 - S h1 "V " V of " for lou more than six times wba. l f?S rm to tA on Warrick "forpartnersinareel. fJunolT M ' the men in the J Council who were never elected BV consideration than the real memb I eTt,f,!:laboilr- Ij0als Cohnwa, I . a "oeral" candidate from the Kj Fourth- precincL The DUtrict R Court Judge Zine presiding, decid that th e canlldates 'of I "J6 People's party were elect- s " last February from the BBj fourth and .Second precincts. f ; ConisquenUy Mr. Cohn Is, in the -" . ryes ol tae ,aw and the people, a ' usunSf.-He jeems to be acting in confarmlty with that status when Bf ' he makes such n monstrous recom mt mendaHon In relatton to the eeme- v (cry as that which has colled forth V theee,commente. lf BBi The tame action tf the Council and people as that intheJeih, wasUkonln-relatlon to the Mount Olivet cemetery, In which it Is not Impossible Mr. Karrickmay expect tobeburied,shonld hehappento take a notion to elide out of mortal conditions. con-ditions. The grounds were set apart and presented to the protest-ant protest-ant denominations, or their rep reseiitatlves, free of cost. The only section of the religious part of the community which has .not a cemetery aside frpm the public burial grounds. Is that of the Latter-day Latter-day Saints. They were In the overwhelming over-whelming majority when the apor-tlonments apor-tlonments were made to the others, and the proposition under consideration consid-eration Is their reward. Shortly after the election in February Mayor Scott seemed, in the first flush of his official career, to have a disposition towards conservatism. con-servatism. We regret to have to observe that this inclination has largely evaporated. A gentleman of this city Informed the writer last spring that the sexton informed .him that tliemayorhad advised him (the sexton) to treat the "Mormon" people well. The cemetery was practically their burial ground and they .felt tender on the subject. Mr. Dann. volunteered the assurance assur-ance that he intended to act on Ihe suggestion. It appears, however, that his. desire to line his pockets has" overcome bis prompting to be decent, and Jt does not appear that the 'committee on cemeterj are very far iu-hls rear in that rejpeit. |