Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-05-22


mausoleum is a more modest structure
than Mr.. Gould's. but similar in style
of architecture. 1t has two columns
on each side of the massive doors. II
is of white Italian polished marble,
and the interior is lighted, like Mr..
Gould's, with stained-glass windows.
/, is near the burial-place of De Long.
William Z. Havemeyer, after holding
beautiful plot in Greenwood many
years, finally removed the family plot
10 Woodlawn. where there is plot set
apart on Beech lawn. In the center of
the plot is a fi-ure Of Hope, eight feet
in height, mounted on pedestal rising
thirty feet high from base nine feet
square. Several family plots have
been removed to Woodlawn from other
cemeteries.
Although the late Commodore Van
derbilt made no preparation for his
grave except 10 own very modest lot
in tie small cemetery ut New Dorp,
Staten Island, some OF his descendants
will have prominent places among the
noted p,rsons who have bought at
Woodlawn. His grandson, Cornelius
| Vanderbilt, has very SNOWY plot at
the junction of Central and Poplar
avenues. His daughter, Mrs. Horace
F. Clarke, has plot near the receiv-
ing vault. His sons-in law, George
Osgood and ID. b. Allen, also own plots
in the cemetery. Opposite Cornelius
Vanderbilt's lot is one owned by Will
liam II. Appleton, the publisher. Ad-
| joining it, is the plot of A. II. Barney,
who lives in Park avenue. The late
Frederick Butterfeld, long before his
death. expended $4,000 in the pur-
chase Of lot and the building of a
mausoleum at Woodlawn. Christian
Herter, of Herter Brothers. has mau-
soleum of Westerly granite.
One of the most remarkable mauso-
leums in the cemetery will be that of
Coils P. Huntington, the president of
the Central Pacific railroad and one of
the best known of Wall street mag
mates. Mr.. Huntington. in the midst
of many duties, has found time to lay
some curious plans for his grave. He
proposes TO have a mausoleum of more
massive proportions than any vet con-
structed. He proposes to have the stones
of such immense weight that no ordinary
car can carry them. The stones are to be
brought by boat as near us possible to
the cemetery, and thence transported
by rollers over country roads. ANY
bridges over which these stones pass
must be strengthened for the purpose.
The most noticeable structure from the
railroad is that of Mr.. H. M. Flagler,
of the Standard Oil company. His
mausoleum is emphatically set on a
hill where it can not be hid. The late
Marshall o. Roberts had splendid
mausoleum prepared for himself, in
which was displayed the same appre-
citation of art that marked his life.
And so, as one strolls throughout the
walks and drives of this city of the
dead, the names of thriving, active
men may be seen, men who would
seem to be too busy to have any time
to think of death, too much engrossed
in the duties of life to give . thought
to sarcophagus. Among the names
thus noticed in few hours stroll
were those of Macy, Col gate, Grinnell.
j. H. V. Arnold, James Flanagan, tho
brewer; William A. Wheelock, Kuntze,
Del Monte, Hollister, Adrian Iselin,
William H. Webb, w. A. Booth, and
others who are particularly live men.
Among the founders of the cemetery
who have choice plots are Augustus
Schelil, Caleb B. Knevals, James d.
Smith, and Charles S. Smith. They
are men who in time of life have pre-
pared for death, and who have borne
in mind the words of Gray:
The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power,
And all that beauty, al that wealth ere
| give,
Await alike the inevitable hour;
The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
--NeU York San.