Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-04-26
Metallic Headstones for Graves.

stones for graves instead Of stone head
stones. that has been gradually gathering
Roadway over here for some years received
a push forward the other day when the
work Of removing about a Thousand bodies
from an old Brookand cemetery TO another
out-of-the-way plot. because the ground OF
he old graveyard is wanted for speculative
purposes. showed that not more than one
fifth of the headstones contained decipher
able lettering. Wind and water had crum-
bled the stones SO that some Of the inscrip-
lions, carved only half a century ago. were
all but illegible. One OF the big wholesale
undert aking supplies establishments of New
York has for a number of years been en-
deavoring to push the metallic headstones.
without much success. although that Ger
tain class of Americans who cherish more
| or less mythical family trees so assidupusly
have been won over TO the Idea. perhaps for
the purpose of cllnching their present
claims to family hood" for the benefit OF
their descendants.
To terminate this little grist of graveyard
news the Chinese of New York are mourn
ing the death of Sam Moy. the Millionaire
Chinese merchant of Chicago, who died in
Milwaukee the other day. Sam Moy was
an exceedingly amiable and well-educated
Chinaman. and during his life he did more
for his in this country than any other
celestial ever did. Among the things he did
was to overcome the prejudice of the Chi
namen in this country against hurying
their dead on foreign soil-that is to say,
on non-Chinese soil.
The New York Chinese bury their dead
in their own graveyard over on Long Island
For some time the. hoboes dnfesting Long
Island found that Chinese graveyard a pref
ty good thing on account Of the layouts OF
delicacies, such as turkeys. ducks and
on. which the Cinnamon placed over tho
graves of their dead in order that the de-
ceased might not go hungry to the other
world. Then the Chinese found out that
the tramps were waxing fat on these post
morten feeds. They Installed corps OF
Watchmen in the aft ba
watchmen had almost dubbed about half a
dozen of the hoboes to death the lesson
was taught. and now the deicacies placed
on the Chinese graves are never tempered
with.
Spiteful Brooklyn Man.
An extremely spfteful individual has
bobbed up in the somber borough Of Brook
Ign. He's a real estate Spectator. and
some time ago he bought block of vacant
ground in Brooklyn. having received a mis-
taken tip that the city would shortly be
wanting that piece of ground for a public
building. He paid 100000 for the piece of
property. and then found out that the city
had no Idea Of erecting a public building
on his ground. This information, of course
knocked the tar out Of his speculative hopes.
So he proceeded to have built a thirty foot
high fence all around the block. and he's
renting out space on this gigantic four
sided bill board for advertising purposes He
permits any old kind of ad. to be pasted
or painted on his huge fence. and the thing
has come to be one OF the sights of Brook
lyn. while the property owners who live in
their own houses on the four sides of the
about the big bill board, however. which
pays the owner of the fence a pretty good
revenue. His idea is to make them chip in
and buy the property from him at the figure
that he paid for It, and he's in a pretty
fair way to force them to this STEP accord
ing to Brooklyn chroniclers. c. L.