The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-12-09

CEMETERY RESTRICTIONS
Granite and Marble Work
ers Preparing TO Fight
the Catholic Autho-
rites.
MILLION DOLLARS AT STAKE
Legal Redress Sought Against Rules
Concerning Grayestones-
Bankruptcy Feared.
DOLLARS AT STAKE

The regular monthly meeting of the
Granite and Marble Industry Employers
Association of Hudson County, was held
Saturday night at their rooms, Newark
and Oakland The committee OF
five which was appointed six months ago
to wait Upon the trustees of the Hudson
County Catholic Cemetery for the pur-
pose of having h trustees revise GER
tain rules regarding the erection of head
stones and monuments in the cemetery.
reported hat all their efforts to secure
an audience with the trustees had been
in vain and that their communications
had been entirely ignored. The commit
tee was then instructed to get legal ad-
vice in regard to the matter.
The association. which comprises every
grave stone dealer In the county. Is much
put out by the action of the cemetery
trustees. who. they claim. have made
a set of rules which. if allowed to con-
tinue. will eventually drive every dealer
into bankruptcy.
The rules referred to were put into
force last May, and the association has
been trying ever since to get them al
tered: even appealing to Bishop Wigger,
but aid to no effect. The new rules
prohibit the erecting of any monument
or headstone in certain sections of the
cemetery. which is over four feet high,
including the bass. and all stones must
be eight inches thick. A solid founda-
ton must also be built for the work, and
the trustees reserve the right to build
the foundation at their own price.
To those not familiar with the grave
stone business. these rules seem very
trifiing for any one to object to. but
they mean a great e to the stone
dealers. The finst rule especially, +
thousands of dollars worth of stone
upon their hand which they will never
garding foundations. in man Dig
8 and In every small job, will eat ur
all the profit.
mands a deposit of Sis. for every piece
of work done. which as kept by the trus-
tees if they thing the cemetery has beer
think there has been any damage done
the association says, it makes no DIFFER.
ence what the dealer thinks. he loses
other. rules Just as bad. several of the
member OF he association said to 9
Jersey City News reporter yesterday
were driving all thed dealers In the count
nearly crazy
".Haye. o amy idea of the amount in,
volved in all this?o said q rogmninnnei n
deaieps in the county. no? We'll, III
tell you. 1t is nearly a million dollars
So you can see why we are SO anxnous
to have the rules changed. We hays
sent a communication to every, single
trustee. and to Bishop .Wigger; 6eggine
them to quaint us a hearing. and the only
reply that we ever got to any OF oul
letters was that they sent for Secretary
Riley and told him they couldn't re:
ceive the committee as it was constructed
but gave no reason why they could not dc
80. We could see nothing the mater
with the committee. nor with any one OF
the individual members Of IT, n we Re.
fused to change 1t, and at hast nights
meeting the committee was instructed e
SECURE the advice of counse in regard te
taking further steps. This is how the
matter stands nov and # We rave the
same success as the dealers did In thedi
light with The trustees of Greenwood
Cemetery. who tried to pass rules similar
we will be all o. K. The court in theil
case decided that the cemetery authord-
ties could make no rules detrimental to
any one having work to do in the GENE
terry
At the next meeting of the association,
the dealers will probably decide to take
legal steps to compel the trustees to con-
cede their