Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-08-26

AFNAAAAN 1s3s
thoughtful and sensitive turn ~ mind
and rare taste f1r the beautiful lu
plants and flowers. lie and His wife arc
refined and courteous persons. who
answered with readiness every inqulN.
Air Joseph Simmons has been sexton
for over year and the improvement
N the cemetery has been "a marked Que
during bile administration
You bury good many people here.
I auppoHo3" querlcd the reporter.
"slnco I have been here" answered
Mt simmons. the average huriula per
month have been fufty-nyo. or about
three ln every two DAYS one month last
year there were over sixty That was
90 February 1888, the first month Z got
here. The highest number " buritis in
any ONE day was seven. which occurred
ln that month. The last two months
have been very qul0t months iu burlnlH.
showing that our summer IL "a honlthful
time. There have been only fDrty-nno
hurl1ls this June. ana forty.uuc To July
These months have been corresponding.
ly hrnlthful. and August DIS much the
same
From Jan. lot. TO June aoth Of this
year there have been 2ii burl1la. AN
average of less than forty-ihroo per
month. Before the watorwurlgs system
was IN operation. the mortality go the
summer months. was much higher. but
the rate has abntCd IN recent years.
we have more hurlnlH on sundays
than ON any other day of the week
There IL g'0i deal Of miaundcr-
standing about the care ~ lots iu tho
cemetery. and many people nave com-
plants 60 omcr who cannot be- helped by
as. Some of the lots are In bad cuudl-
ton. Some that were seeded or Epdded
years ago. may have the soil completely
washed away By this time, leaving
nothing but u gravel bed on which the
grass cannot thrive The soil iH pN-
hnuaiod by continuous erase growing
unless II ~ fertlllzed anew hut people
often wonder why the grass docs not
thrive ON "a gravel bed from which the
toll ana nutrimcut have long since been
taken away
People are at liberty TO employ whom
they please 20 ilN up their lots, and per-
sons often do this work who do not uii.
dotstund how u should be- done. Thin
sod ana thin soil are laid over the
graves ana the grass and flowers viii
not do We'll. no matter how much water
iH applied
"thpr" ought 90 be n separation N the
functions " sexton and tho person who
attends TO bcHutifylng the graves. From
April 20 October. the care of the grave
lots should be- the business N some one
else than the HcNtuu-suy ~ a foreman.
who could devote his whole time 10 II
ana sec 10 the details " an Improve
montH made In the cemetery"
one every day ana every third day
two-whut q procession OF funcrals'
Ana IN Few years at most 10 Join that
procession YOURSELF Can you not now
anorl the time Tor q Few brief hours
among those with whom you soon shall
rest 20 long, T. II lost time to think of
the dend, 20 visit their silent tumba and
10 ponder their mcmorlos' Yet few
years and thee tho AN -hehulling sun
shan see no more IN an his course: thou
shalt llc down" with these in this calm
city OF silence. this peaceful republic or
the dead. They arr unseen. Yet near.
sweet Inspirations NJ the pure and fair
who arr gone are shed upon N1ur heart
when you think ~ them. they seem to
dwell yet with you ana bring q heaven
~ sphere ~ influence around, nllurlug
from wrong, NJ n they stood waiting 10
welcome you 10 them.
Think ever or the dead
When sprlng Il beautiful when summer
When tho soft skies. rosc-mlngled lus-
TIRE shed.
when autumn sunbeams kiss the pur-
And when the snow-stars gllsten-to
them wing
Thy contest thought; they filled thy
ne with spring.
\ NEW MADE GRAVE.
The city grave dlggcr Mr.. Geo. Cole.
was found spade In hand. lie had Just
finished grave for Mr.. Henry Me
Evan. The reporters lady friend knew
about this grave. and n tale NJ unuHs
uul sorrow attaches tu u, At the very
time NJ the death of this citizen. the
father M n family, the news had ar
hviiuthvd lover Ia fhr-un Germany,
The young man, JOS Hogan, Jr., aged
%, WnH On q mission there and was
u short time ago accidentally drowned
In the river Rhine Florence, of the
Same age az home In this city mournH
The loss OF a father and n sweetheart
at the same time,
MI cole has been the Fruyc-dlggrr
for twenty years at the cemetery. Near
~ every old-timc family In the city
hus had some dealings with him. lie
has, BY the way, son recently rec
turned from the volunteer army In Cu-
Ia. lie has prepared tho narrow
cells" for the dead almost daily during
an these years He says that Ton former
years before tho city water system was
In use and before II had been extended
to the various parts Of the city, the
summers were marked by the numcr-
Gus funerals u the little ones, Infants
especially. and those under three
years would die IN the summer. This
may have been due "a 10 the heat Of
the summer sun untcmpurpd by tho
shade on many bare lots M the city. (2l
to the drinking M the warm ditch
water brought for miles in small
streams over tho dry benches. CD 20
the drinking NJ polluted we'll Water 90
Co the dry atmosphere unm9lstonci MS
II now De- by the ynpur from the
sprlnklcd streets and the water foun-
tulus ON lawns, etc,
Bodies Of adults are usually buried
iu trenches six feet long ana Ave ana a
half feet deep; those ~ Infants are
four feet long ana four and half feet
deep, The grave digger knows most "
the people whom he has received nR
uvlghbors Tor many years past and
points out their graves with readiness
The growth Ut the cemetery from a dry
hlll side 90 lovely garden has been ale
most lmperceptlhle a. him. but o. very
noticeable 10 others The old dead.
house Htlll stands az the western gate,
and the original records NJ the first
are Hull in existence Below
o. "a transcript M the ilrst hurials IN
the city cemetery from the pale blue
paper u the ancient blank boOka'
RECORD or THE DEAD.
Compiled ana Arranged by
Jesse G., Little. sexton
No. 1. Wallace, Mary NJ dnu htcr
OF Geo. - aud Melissa. born
Juny s.. lNT. Winter QrH. In
dian Territory, died Sept
a.