The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-05-22
AIAUsoLEUrIs OF THE LIV-
How Busy. BustIins, Active Men HaNe
Prepdzed 1or Death with Costly
s4ruees.aa M Fl

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How Busy. BstIins. Active Men Have
Prepdzed fbr Death with Costly
struetares. s.
No riaias asp earg on the most ccssly
and striking mausoaeum in sWoodlawn
cemetery. The structure is in Central
avenue. on the highest elevation in the
grounds, and commands view of the
entire four hundred acres of the GEM
etery. The circular plot, $50 feet in
diameter, it which it stands. cost $6O..
600. The mausoleum, exclusive of the
ground. cost $50, 200. It is 8 model,
exteriorly. of the Pantheon, the most
famous of the wonderful buildings that
once stood In the Acropolis at Athens.
It is thirty-seVen feet in length and
nineteen feet in width. It is con-
structed of Westerly granite, sur
solid bronze door cost 5000. The
roof is composed of five pieces of solid
granite. each piece thirty feet in
length and six feet in width-rare pro-
ducts of the quarry. The total amount
of stone used was eight hundred tons.
The opened door reveals an aisle ten
feet in width, at the end of which is an
ornate stained-glass window, repre-
senting the heavenly choir, through
which soft, mellow light pours upon
| the interior like the subdued light of
cathedral. There are twelve cata-
combs. six on each side of the aisle,
arranged for the reception of one body
each. Each catacomb is eight feet in
length and two feet and q half in
depth. The face of each catacomb
is q heavy slab of polished marble.
The colors of the slabs vary. Some
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all very costly. Heavy bronze handles
ceiling of the vault is of polished mar
BILE. The owner positively refused to
have his name appear anywhere on the
exterior of the building. This is the
elaborate provision which has been
| made by JAY Gould for the disposition
of his body after his death.
That mausoleum is only one of very
many instances where Well-knoWn iv-
ing men have made careful provision
for death. Indeed, there is not one of
the many beautiful cemeteries of New
York and vicinity that does notcontain
evidence that the busiest men have
thought of death, and have made am
pie preparations. SO as to be certain
that their wishes in the matter shall be
carried out, even going so far as to, in
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cemetery authorities in trust, to be
used for the care of their places OF
burial. Very near to Jay Gould's plot
is that of his business associate and
friend, Washington E. Conner. Next
to that is the mausoleum plot of H. II.
, Cook, the millionaire, who owns the
striking granite mansion at Seventy
eighth street and Fifth avenue and 8
residence at Newport. Mr.. Cook paid
$4,000 for his plot, and has con
tracted for his mausoleum. On Chape.
hill, close by the receiving tomb, is the
mausoleum of Henry A. Hurlburt, the
weIl-known banker and financier, ont
of the directors of the Equitable Life
Assurance society. Mr.. Hurlbut'i
| mausoleum is a more modest structure
i than Mr.. Gould's, but similar in STYLE
{ of architecture. 1t has two columns
q on each side of the massive doors. 1
! | is of white Italian polished marble
e and the interior is lighted, like MIR
Gould's, with stained-glass windows
D 1t is near the burial-place of De Long
e William T. Havemeyer, after holding
: beautiful plot in Greenwood man,
r years, finally removed the family plO
e TO Woodlawn, where there is plot Sc
e apart on Beech lawn. In the center o
e the plot is a f-urc of Hope. eight fee
in height, mounted On a pedestal rising
l, thirty feet high from a base nine fee
. square. Several family plots hav
been removed to Woodlawn from othe
r cemeteries.
e Although the late Commodore Van
a derbilt made no preparation for hi
< grave except TO own very modest 10
e in the small cemetery at New Dorp
b Staten Island, some of his descendant
e will have prominent places among tn
It noted parsons who have bought 9
10 Woodlawn. His grandson, CorneliU
il Vanderbilt, has q very snowy plot {
n avenues. His daughter, Mrs. HoraC
. F Clarke, has plot near the recei'
70 ing vault. His sons-in law, Geore
Osgood and d. b. Allen, also own plo
- in the cemetery. Opposite Cornelir
! Vanderbilt's lot is one owned by Wi
Il liam II. Appleton, the publisher. Az
q joining it, is the plot of A. II. Barne,
,e who lives in Park avenue. The lat
Frederick Butterfield. long before b
death, expended $4,000 in the pu
chase of lot and the building of
? mausoleum at Woodlawn. Christia
Be Herter, of Herter Brothers, has a MAJ
N solemn of Westerly granite.
Of One of the most remarkable maust
leums in the cemetery will be that
t. Coils p. Huntington, the president
the Central Pacific railroad and one
eff the best known of Wall street ma;
rs mates. Mr.. Huntington, in the mid
Is of many duties, has found time to la
IS some curious plans for his grave. Z
or proposes to have a mausoleum of mol
g massive proportions than any yet CO..
structed. He proposes to have the stone
= of such immense weight that no ordinal
. car can carry them. The stones are to
brought by boat as near as possible
the cemetery, and thence transporte
by rollers over country roads. Ar
40 bridges over which these stones pa
=. must be strengthened for the purpos
&c The most noticeable structure from Il
D. railroad is that of Mr.. H. NJ. Flagie
to of the Standard Oil company. II
at mausoleum is emphatically set on
10 hill where it can not be hid. The Ia
te Marshall o. Roberts had a splend
r. mausoleum prepared for himself,
Is. which was displayed tho same Apr
of citation of art that marked his lif
Ill And SO, as one strolls throughout Il
8. walks and drives of this city of Il
ed dead, the names of thriving, acti'
to men may be seen, men who wou
RI seem to be too busy to have any tin
to think of death, too much engrosst
in the duties of life to give n thong
h. to a sarcophagus. Among the nam
rst thus noticed in a few hours strC
ne were those of Macy, Colgate, Crime
il. j. H V. Arnold, James Flanagan, t
h brewer; William A. Wheelock, KuntZ
IL Del Monte, Hollister, Adrian Iseli
ly William H. Webb, w. A. Booth. al
IN others who are particularly live me
ed Among the founders of the cemete
ne who have choice plots are August
nd Schelil, Caleb B. Knevals. James
Ite Smith, and Charles S. Smith. Th
1s' are men who in time of life have pI
er pared for death, and who have Dor
" in mind the words of Gray:
u The boast of heraldry, the pomp OF power,
And all that beauty, all that wealth I
gave,
Await alike the inevitable hour;
of The paths of glory lead but to the grave
-NetO York Sun.
it'll Reporters as Detectives.