The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-11-12

TRUSTEE TANNING DENIES THE CHARGES AGAINST
To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD
In reply to the article headed above In the Sun
day HERALD OF the 5th inst, positively assert tna
although have been member OF the congregation
OF st. Patrck's Cathedral for upwards OF quarter
merchandise to said Cathedral, nor have ever re.
celved 81 or any greater sum Tor the same either
aeeI a% or 70 H ar a
NOVEMBER II, 1871.
THE SURVEYOR OF The CEMETERY SENDS A
HUMOROUS sArIRrCAL AND ORIGINAL LETTER.
FOR WHICH HE Is PERSONALLY REsPONsIBLE''-
HE DEnoLIsHEs THE HERALD COMMISSIONERS.
To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD
In your issue Of sunday. 9Th INST, there appeared
q three column article, with the following appalling
title In large capitalist
CALVARY CEMETERY.
Looss MANAGEMENT AND DIsdEAoErgL CONDITION.
HERALD COMMISSIONER MAKES AN INVESTIGATION,
30, 10.
So much for the heading; now for the commis-
nameS, or Is it the tabled sNonkey with the lion's
skny" 1t must be something dreadful; Its lang uage
Il 80 coarse ana las Kn0weaee OF veracy SO ni.ea
little consequence. 1t Is only when the creature
uses the columns OF a powerful journal to spread
abroad its false utterances that It becomes SUBJ
deserving OF any NOTICE.
As the selfstyed commissioner begins with i, .
quotation from Shakespeare, he cannot possibly OBJ
ject TO the following from Byron:-
skilled by q touch to deepen scandals tints,
WIN s al inc kad 1 w hn with smiles
A thread OF candor with web Of wles
IL Is not my intention to follow the commissioner
all his inaccurate statements or his mean insnu-
atoms Will SIMPLY content miSelr by ganclng at
MS errors and correcting Us meet with them
through the cemetery" &c. | should think that a
.'crcuiar road" should wind round the cemetery
| ana not through 1t. Instead Of road there are
eleven roads, the ave age width Of each Is twenty
! five feet. Tney are all macadamzed in the most
through manner and are always kept IN excellent
| condition There are spaces or i've lcet In Wldth
lett each side Of these roads for grass andrees
Most OF these spaces have been planted with shade
by the trustees In The Older part OF the ceme
terry there is rather excess OF foliage. In the
newer part the trees IN some instances have not
as yet been planted and in others they have not
mad time to develop. it is untrue that boxes are
left by The open graves with bodies in theIn-lr
often hapCens however that the undertakes leave
the empty pine boxes alongside the graves while
the burial services are taking place IN the M0rtuary
it is evidently The object Of the writer rather to
excite feeling OF dstrust and hatred against the
Trustees for some private reason OF his own than
He Insinuates that the trustees have themselves
elected for the purpose OF making money out Of The
cemetery, which is certainly untrue
In order to show clearly that am not mistaken l
shall be obliged to copy rer6at,n. "a tuterates an
ELEGANT extracts r9 e6er
eight of the trustees, he delivers himself
iollows:-"Dmes Caroiin. TINS Is the treasurer !,
las Fremont used to call Zagonyp OF Sal-
vary Cemetery Dimes Is placsa last IN Tits
| ne is not Dv any means the least or the angels
OF night. Dimes has decidedly lat thing on Cal.
vary. He was formerly In the naberdasnery line In
| cedar stress, and Is now comfortably located In
East Twelfth street, where he Is always at nome 10
see HIS friends and tender them bread and lay and
whata hign-toned gentleman must he be who
exquisely delicate his satire That "Sread ana IA,
ana poteen ga0fen cannot be excelled. That Is asC
neat touch ABOUT Fremont and Zagonyi, Tor the
me war, consequently he is brave man
and a sodier-perhaps. In TACT the above extract
lanLsn lv nr,aa tn In 0nhft nf In
lrutn-an article with which our warrior Commls-
sloner does not seem to be oyerburdened.
now, nor never has been Treasurer Mr. Caroiin Is
neither an angel OF hight nor Of darkness, but an
old gentleman OF nearly seventy years. VINO Is up
right and straightforward IN all his dealings. His
age and unblemlshed life entitle him 10 immunity
from the nipertinence OF your name correspondent
Mr.. Caronn belongs to no ring either IN or out OF
Calvary; neither IS ne nor was he in the ''naber.
trade and was what Is known in that trade as a
dry goods jODDer He acquired handsome compe
purchased the house IN East fwerth street where
he now resides In the general crash OF 1867 Mr..
Carolln failed. not from any fault oil his own, but
because others could not pay him what they
Dwell INN. He, however, paid his deots In full by
sacrificing property which less honest men would
Caron mas not been IN business but has devoted
his time TO matters connected with the Catnonc
Church. Among other institutions to winch he de-
voted mis- energy was the establishment OF the
Sisters OF the Good Shepherd, an order OF nuns de-
voted to the reformation OF fallen women and the
education OF children Their convent Is at the foot
OF NINETEEN street, East river. The attack on Mr..
Caroin's character Is most wanton, gross anu coll
temptibie.
One more quotation from your correspondent and
have done. AS the paragraph refers to myself,
Will be very brief. II is as iolows =" the Gene.
terry has, OF course, an Official called surveyor
connected with It's stalr at good salary. The for
tunae holder OF the sinecure Is Mr.. Edward Boyle"
My modesty prevents my quoting further, as the
paragraph ends In ,iusome ompliment-intcnded,
] presume, 10 be satirtcal.
the knight OF the quil Is again in error. | have
never received a salary from Calvary Cemetery and
never either desire or expect to receive one. There
no sucn otficer a. surveyor to the cemetery.
whenever the trustees require my professional
else, and wnen Ihave finished they pay my bills. Ia
order that any one who reads TINS may Judge VI
wnat NICE "snecure,' nave got, need only state
that my Bills rendered and paid by the trustees
from January /, 1862 TO November . Is7l-a period
OF nearly eleven years-amount In the aggregate TO
Calvary Cemetery was originally laid out in 1sts
BY Mr.. Maypother, and It has not been thoueht
expedent to materially alter the OrlSlnal system.
In the years 1885, lsi9 anu 1850 was professionally
engaged at Greenwood Cemetery. Io wna a., extent
my services tended to the Development Of nat GENE
terry Is not for me 10 say.
Inold myself personally responsible for the truth
my best thanks for your eoartess and believe me 70
~ 'SN''' EDWARD BOYD.
From the Freeman's Journal and Catholic Register,
Nov. H.
CALVARY CEMETERY.
very well educated gentleman, In professional
Catholic, writes Us, on reading something In daily
paper, asking to state II 1t not true That the
revenues coming from calvary Cemetery are faith I
fully applied to the building OF the new cathedral.
We Will, IN reply, say two thlngs-the second OF
which may somewhat astonish our respected
friend.
F,rst-we 10 not know and have no wish to
know anything about the disposition OF the revenues
coming from Calvary Cemetery. We have insisted
on not hearing, or instantly forgetting, what we
have been told, even by ex-trustccs.
SecoWt-We fervehtly hope that not one stone IN
the new cathedral owes It's place TO any revenues
coming from this consecrated cemetery. IL
Ihere were even one stone In that grand
cathedral building purchased by money OF
tins kind we do not believe that when II Is finally
copsecrated, either the prayers OF conservation or
the holy water or the Oil or conservation or the pres
ence OF o dozen venerable prelates would keep
NASTY devil sitting on that stone from assuming the
figure OF monkey II ne wanted to do IT, and grinnng
vlSihlY at the celebrants and twLddnR MS nnRer9