Religion: Sentimental Institution

"We are not too much interested in the business end of our jobs. . . . The cemetery must be considered as a sentimental institution, and can never be handled in a cold, businesslike way."

Thus warmly in Manhattan last week did Vice President & General Manager Crawford T. Perkinson of Mount Hope Cemetery Association keynote before the seventh annual convention of the New York State Association of Cemeteries, whose 900 member institutions bury 150,000 people a year at an estimated cost of $15,000,000. Superintendent John C. Plumb of Woodlawn Cemetery drove this...

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