1883-01-27 Letter: Oliver Moulton, Forest Hills Cemetery to J. W. Lovering about Sunday Passes, 2014.020.008-001

Subject: Sundays; Passes to Grounds 1 of 2

[letterhead: Oliver Moulton, Superintendent

P.O Address, Jamaica Plain, Mass.

Forest Hills Cemetery.]

Jany, 27 188 3

J.W. Lovering Esq.

Dear Sir: I wish to make some enquiry about your Sunday rule of admittance: I understood that last season you did not enforce it. Is it so?

Last spring I tried to get our trustees to consent to a trial of it for one season but could not bring it about but it was never brought before the full board. I mean to

try them again however. It is a rule that if you try to enforce you must use all alike and it has in many cases caused angry words and hard feelings. There are many times a gatekeeper would like to pass people in who have no ticket but perhaps there may be a dozen standing there who had no ticket and over hear all that is said and if the first party were passed why the others are if you at once Then again if no persons were overhearing, one

chance out of ten the party passed without a ticket tell their friends who come next Sunday and say when asked for a ticket "Oh we know you do pass people without" and it would simply make a farce of it. Some who were "airy" went to our trustees because they were refused admittance but I tell them no gate keeper can make "fish of one and fowl of another" Of course we should exercise some authority about gangs of children but I think with no more men than we now

1/27/1883 2 of 2

[letterhead: Oliver Moulton, Superintendent

P.O Address, Jamaica Plain, Mass.

Forest Hills Cemetery.

188]

have to have on Sunday we could regulate them and any one found committing any depreciation be arrested and fined. I think late years the rougher element frequent the seahsore resorts where there is more amusement whereas fifteen years ago no such resorts existed

Please let me hear from you on the subject

Yours truly Oliver Moulton [?]