The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-02-14

this matter serious consideration and then
act IN the best interest of the town, all
things considered. In the meantime we
express our convictions as in favor of water
works.
During a stroll out of town the other
day and onto the road leading toward
Salem we were impressed with the con-
v~enience and beauty of location of the
Clawson farm, and also OF the farm of the
late John z. Wallace, for a cemetery.
That portion of the Clawson farm not oc-
cupied by the West Jersey Agricultural
and Horticultural Association and also
the late Wallace farm, front on public
roads on two sides aud are easy Of access.
Both of these farms are high and undu-
lating. affording pleasing natural scenery
and insuring perfect drainage. Either of
these sites would afford ample room for
burial purposes for all the churches of the
Borough and vicinity. Artistically laid
out and beautified. either site would make
a beautiful s'citY of the dead, " where the
living would love to go at times to cherish
the memory of departed loved ones. A
cemetery located here would never in all
probability be encroached upon by future
growth of the town, as the tendency in
growth is eastward of the town, where are
unlimited facilities for expansion. If all
our churches would unite to purchase and
beautify one of these sites for burial pur-
poses. We could at a cost that would not be
oppressive have one of the prettiest eeme-
teries in this part of the State. We now
have within the Borough some six grave
yards"-we call them grayeyards because
none of them at present measure up to the
popular idea Of a cemetery. These yards,
comparatively speaking, are poorly kept
and are devoid of artistic beauty and land
scape adornment. There is nothing pleas
ing associated with the thought of sleep
ing the unbroken sleep Of death in these
crowded and too much neglected places
where the sound Of the hurry and seurry
of the living break on the solemnities Of
death. Too often the bramble and broom
sedge tell the sad story that the silent
sleeper no longer has place in the memory
of the living. We cherish our loved ones
while they are with us and foster ties and
affections we hope will be as golden chords
TO bind rs together in the world beyond.
Then why neglect those loved ones when
We have laid them away in the silent tomb?
10 us there is something m~ournfully sad
about a neglected graveyard. On the
other hand we know no place more sacred
than the ..silent city, when all its sur
.rcundings are pleasing to the eye, and
where amid its stiffness We can cultivate
those affections that bind US to the better
world. Who woulG not prefer, TO the vii
lage graveyard, to be laid away in some
Laurel Hill amid the romantic beauty
and picturesque lawns and flowery dells of
the Schuylkill, or in some Greenwood
over which wooded palisades keep eternal
vigil and where ocean surges chant unend-
ing requiem? While we cannot all sleep
u long sleep in those charming Gene
teries we can, if we SO will, have a beauti-
fnl resting place on the sites we have
named. Let us have a public cemetery,
where we can all. of whatever church or
creed, sleep side by side waiting the morn
ing of the general resurrection.