Superintendent John C. Plumb of Woodlawn (N. Y.) Cemetery was delighted. With a professional eye he inspected the plot of real grass, the border of daffodils, the flowering dogwood blossoms, the background of evergreens and the three tombstones that they set off. To Ernest Leland, No. I tombstone designer in the U. S., he cried:
"Ernest, it's perfect! You're quite right, I'm glad we left out the mounds."
The occasion last week was the 30th annual convention of the Memorial Craftsmen of America, an exposition only slightly disturbed by the fact that...
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