BONES OF 43,000 MOVED

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17951, 1 December 1932, Page 9

BONES OF 43,000 MOVED

HISTORIC SAN FRANCISCO CEMETERY SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 22. • Ghouls made high carnival hero and in their Make was a vast hillside of smashed tombs, vaults and graves tis 150 determined grave-diggers, continued their work of exhuming 43,1)00 San Francisco pioneers. Because progress grilled it and the courts decreed .it, that dim old garden of the dead on 1 the slopes of Long Mountain—Oddfellows and Masonic' cemeteries, where many an adventurer made his last camp—is part shambles to-day. Eight thousand of these pioneers had been aroused from their slumbors of three-quarters of a century and carried 18 miles away to Greenlatvn Cemetery, where a chiselled piece of stone would again tell the world ( tlwt they “rest in peace." Because the United States' Supreme Court, after 12 years’ litigation, had I ruled against the pioneers ’ children ili America’s most famous “cemetery case," the pioneers were ‘going west" again. The spot where they looked down on the city for many years will be turned into a college football field and a residential subdivision. Removal of the great, the neavgreat and the lesser lights who toiled and gave their life-blood to produce an empire from a western wilderness will be completed hi <W cjayß,