The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-04-08
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Everybody has commenced going to 10
lywood now, and with the coming ofsprin
the dry and mud. crusted street-cars Of win
ter are blooming with,fresh, charming look
ing girls in all conceivable stages Of beauty
and dressed In oil the colors that the cum
niHgest flower ever adopted as its own
There are several ways Of getting to Hol
lyWood; but to man who has waded on,
the mud-extension Of Grace street. or STUN,
bled along the shilling pavements Of Frank,
lin street until life BECAME burden, the
streetcar Is haven Of rest. It.maybe true
that al the end Of the line you are dumped
Into the mud on rainy days and into the
dust on dry days, and that you have stood
up all the way to give seat to some tender
girl, old enough to be your aunt; but afler
| all you have gotten there, and these light
Affections, which are but for a moment,
make the charming stroll before you twice
as enjoyable.
The best way to take Hollywood is from
| the Keepers gate, and when visitors enter
at the car gate they have only to keep we'll
to the left and make fresh start from the
superindent's. house. They viii be espe-
clally fortunate if they are accompanied
as our reporter was-by Mr.. James O'Keefe,
the superintendent, who knows every foot
of turf and every tree in the grounds.
Starting on our walk from the main en-
trance, where SO many whose walk is ended
are brought to their rest, the first thing that
strikes the stroller is the new fashion of
turing the graves. They are no longer
ND Iol IN hut 1v f1o I'll
are turfed, and the tops are levelled off to
receive flowers planted by thoughtfnl
friends. The fashion is becoming quite
general in the cemetery, and Is a,
pretty one. The improvements COM
mence in the first valley, through which
the stream that is one Of the chief beauties
of the cemetery runs. TO the right, as you
cross the arch over it, are planted clumps-
after the English Style-composed of mag
nolias, Norway spruces, and jumpers. just
below the arch, still following the winding
of the valley, will in q few days be lake,
the water falling into 1t from shelf Of rock
about ten feet high. In this there is min
iaturc island, from the centre of which
springs weeping willow. Still in the val
ley, and on the edge Of the serpentine walk
skirtiDg it, there will be q rustic fountain
throwing water twenty feet up into the To-
Emerging from the vale to a little higher
ground, we come to the tomb of Bishop
Meade, located under an immense oak, just
where the second valley Of the cemetery
debouches into the main one. It Is sarco-
phagus OF white marble, eight feet ten
inches in length, and five feet in width,
with Gaping two feet eight inches high,
the whole resting on a granite base two feet
high. On one side is inscribed, directed
as u Memorial of Love and Veneration by
the Protestant Episcopal Church of Virgil
MIA" On another, IS 1t. Rev. VIM. Meade,
D, D., third Bishop of Virginia. Born in
Clarke county, Va, November 18th, 1889.
Died, in the city Of Richmond, March 18th,
1862" On another, Gle lived for Christ,
died in Christ, and, we believe, is with
Christ !; and on the last, -" Prominent in
the revival of the Church after the Revolt
tionary war, he was the Jealous defender
of its purity, and the founder and liberal
ginia." The royal old oak is good type of
the old man who sleeps beneath its shade.
As 4 bishop and ruler of his church, he
was steadtast against all the winds Of strange
doctrines; ana rs L pastor and friend, many
tried and weary lab0rers in the vineyard
have taken refuge from The heat Of the day
beneath the shadow OF his wise counsel and
loving advice.
III This second valley there is to be an
! other lake and another fountain, and rum
ming along the sides are avenues lined with
elms, which though planted only two years
ago are now twenty feet high. These ave-
nues, lined Ivy trees of one description,
will serve as guides by. which to find locali-
ties. There is TO be Elm avenue, Ash ave-
hue, and Magnolia avenue. Due north,
hn ti~r voff
terry, there is to be handsome drive
sweeping out Of the northern gate and ex-
| tending to Monroe Park; and due south
there is to be vestibule, through which
may be seen the bridges on the river and
much beautiful scenery shut out now when
| the trees are in leaf.
| In the soldiers cemetery preparations are
making for the reception OF three hundred
bodies Of Confederate soldiers who fell ant
were buried at Gettysburg.
| This season the superintendent has Sc
out 800 trees, mostly elms and ash. Alon
the principal walks there are flower bed
with every variety of plants in them, which
will present charming appearance as tn
spring rlpens.
| Twenty-siX years superintendent Of Hol
| lywood, SO he told us, this cheerful, polit
Mr.. O'keefe; twenty-six years hearin
the dismal crllnching. of the hearse-whee
Through the gravelled roads; twenty-si,
years seeing the sun light up the little ten
ements where all is dark within-a life tim
in il graveyard. lie had been there so lon
| that he had almost come to regard the dea,
as living, and he spoke of the occupant
lfamiliarly and tenderly as if they were no
altogether gone, and rs il there was some
thing yet TO do for them, something tina
they were as much entitled to as if the,
could claim it in words from their COLI
| lips. That is the sort OF man, we think, Il
have at n cemetery. Having about all tn
information to be gotten just now, our re
porter sauntered. along to the car-gate
passing every dozen steps the laborers turf
ing and renewing old graves, and COINS
through shady little grove dotted witt
flowers and watered by q glittering LITTLE
stream, where it seemed that man coult
be resigned almost without tear to lay tn
loved remains OF his-mother-in-law.