The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1870-05-27
CHtPPiANNOCK.
THE oxrx OF run DEAD.
A SUBURBAN PARADISE.

/ popular writer gives an enhancing de-
scription of the beautiful spot covered by
trees and waving with fragrant grasses and
darkliug N moist aromatic shade, sacred to
therest of departed New Zeaanders. These
wild uncouth savages are also possessors OF
that human instinct that leads men TO divest
death of it's terrors by surrounding 1t with
beauty. The ancients wreathed skull with
flowers and filled it with sparkling wine.
Lord Byron and his wild companions at
Newstead Abby did likewise in one of their
impish bouts, and we all would hob and
mob with the megrim genius of the scytne'
as mice playing under the cats re'f"'Ds
paw. In no part of the world as
done more to beaaufy the to"o' 'hAn !"
1T, uCity of the Dead
The cleaning marble wrinkles through the
green, long vistss, beautiful winding
drives, with pretty names redolent of the
romance OF life. Little lockwood hedges
surrounding sodded mounds, shafts broken
BY the art of the sculptor and monuments
surmounted by flaming urns, and the sod
around them sprinkled with fragrant f9wers
planted in enhancing shapes by loving
hands. And the less pretentious lots with
/ their plain slabs and tasteful embossed de-
signs with as many flowers and as much
! tasteful sdorument as the small enclosure
/ will permit, all indicate not only the instinct
that impels US to the seeming duty Of OBJ
securing the deaths head and cross bones
with mortal beauty, but a worthy emulation
in performance of the same. Sixty acres OF
paradise is the synonym of our Chippisn-
ock, for in that sixty acres every tree,
shrub, flower and plant that grows 10 the
/ North temperate zone may be found flourish
ing Iuxurisntly. Thousands of young trees,
many Of them of rare and besutiful kinds,
have been planted out since the establish
ment of the cemetery in 1855. The prop
er;y was purchased and improvements made
at that time costing $1,000, and stock
issued. The stock has since then all been
paid up and the Ia ursl beauties been
increased by the appliances OF art I'LL new,
ton is in a situation TO make az annual
sinking fund OF from $500 to $1,000 in
autici patton Of all the lots being sold, as
means TO keep 1t constantly improved.
/ This sinking fund will be over aud above
the extensive Improvements made each year,
out of lhe receipts. The lots are being
rapidly sold every year, and the varieties oi
the surface viii enable every body to choose
a spo, in accordance with their
taste. There are ROW buried
il Chippiannock about 1900 bodies,
a careful register of the names. place aud
time of birth ana death beng kept By the
Warden of TIE cemetery. A Poiter's Field,
or general burYiac ground, is provided for
strangers ard people who are unable TO Pay
for their last resting place, and from tie
registry, their friends are often enabled to
trace their last resting place and to erect q
decent and durable memorial. Some very
pretty and tasteful marble slabs are to be
thus seen in the Potters Field. But the
price OF the ground only II! cents per SO mare
/ foot, will enable nearly every body TO pur-
chase lot OF their own, aud when once pur-
chased it is certain to be in proved and en-
bell,sbed. The Cemetery is thus constantly
being beAuuhed without cost to the associa
zion, although the money thus received, is
AL or nesriy alt devoted to that purpose
This healthy state Of financial az
fairs is due mainly to the msussemeut
Of ? l. Mitchell, ESQ secretary and treas
urer OF me association. S!uce Mr. NJ took
hold Of it several ears ago, and devoted his
time TO u, up TO the present time ChippiAn
nok has Increased 10 beauty, and the asso
citation becom solvent and prosperous Il
: vas laid off into squares blocks and avenues
by the architect Of Greenwood Cemetery
New York, who paid /; the compliment o.
trGuseending 10 natural beauty any GENE
= terry he had ever seen ! dav spent il
: Chippiannock one feels lEe MARKING with a
5 white stone The quiet city OF the dead
5 bliss, and degtb seems not death in tie
midst Of such enhancing lie and fragrant
bloom
Since the death Of Mr. ShaughuessY Mr.
Duu.bsrck, formerly German Instructor in
IN this city has taken charge, and since be
is an accomplished landscape gardener the
cemetery will undoubtedly daily improve IL
appearance under his supervision.