The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-08-10
THE SILENT CITIES.

Ono Hundred and Fifty Thousand
People Buried in Chicago Cometer-
les
Let us pass out for time from the
confusion of the great city into the
hush OF that other great city-the city
of the dead Here are builders now at
peace. View with respect and lighted
tread, hut let us not have too solemn
thoughts nor let awakened grief
turn calm reflections TO less
philosophic tears, This faded
wreath but marks memory.
The present lives. These nodding
flowers are emblems Of pulslng life;
these singing birds are yoicing pres
ent joyousness. Death, the iconoclast,
hath bargained with old Mother Earth
for oblivion for all buried here. What
ostentatious grief can compensate the
pretty strife, tho narrow, selfish mode
of life? Ills here among our fellows
where upright lives make guaranty OF
blessed eternity. A simple slab TO
mark the place whence wo return to
dust, q pile TO blazOn fame and stand
a witness Of good doeds for all pos.
terity to emulate, This is enough,
without dirRe or p@ln, pomp or shall
low vanity, or ta%dY parade.
Mark yon cold, enduring stone,
like truth, its purity prOfaned
with 'fulsome lies. This iron-ribOed
vault shields on empty tomb. What
Srinning mannikin behind some doc
tor'a door may not nave been its oeCu.
pant? This stately monument but
tells widows worldly pride Happy
is she and careless now, in satin gown
and diamond.decked, floating the
mazes with livelier cavalier. There
are 10000 buried here. Like te9lling
ants within hill, they lived and
delved aud toiled to builu up tho great
city that now spreads out and fast On.
croaches upon their moldering bones.
The 10000 people buried in cemeteries
adjacent 20 Chicago builded better
than they know.
If Gabrielg trump's
Awakening tones
should move these bones
To stir their stumps,
and al the entOmbed most should
arise, with what surprise and wonder
would many gaze upon this m5gnih'
cent city OF hVefOid az many people as
all that are buriedrOund about 10. Told
of by cemeteries, the dead Of Chicago
number as follows:
Graceland. 10000; Rose Hill, $4,000;
Cavalry, 100000 Oakwoods, 1900;
Waidheim, 1900; Fores. Home and
Concordia, 10000; smaller cemeteries
belonging to churches, societies aud
orders, l6, 600 The first burials in Chi
cago were made on the north side, east
OF the old Kinzio homestead and near
the lake. Tho dead from Fort Dear
born were buried there The SOL
diers VINO died OF cholera in
1882 were buried along the
lake shore at the foot OF Ran
dolph, Washington and Madison
bones were washed out by tho en-
croachmonts OF the lake. In 1885 the
town authorities direcCed two csme-
teries 20 be laid out, one on the North
Side, extending from Schiller street
beyond North avenue, and tho other
between Seventeenth and Twenty
third streets, near tho lake, on the
South Side. In 1917 most Of the bodies
we're removed from the latter Oeme-
terry and reinterred in the Chicago
Cemetery, which was the name of tho
North Side Cemetery. From here tho
bodies we're, by order of the Common
Council, In 1866, removed TO OakwoOds,
Rose Hill aud Graceladd. The
city now owns plant at
Oakwoods, where 200 OF the
bodies we're reiuterred, Rose Hill
was opened in 1859, Gr0celaud in 1861,
and Oakwoods was founded In 1864.
Thomas b. Brywp purchased the
Eighteenth atreot tract and laid
it out in lots. All deeds Tor
Calumet avenue property
contained n clause that tho houses
must be built 100 feet back from tho
street line. This explains the hand
some appearance Of Calumet avenue
at the present time. Phe first regular
grave-digger In Chicago WAC Horny
Gherkin, who followed his calling IN
1886. He wGs also q market gardener,
and raised and sold vegetables to vas.
sells entering the port. Hediodin 1877,
at the green old age Of 90 years. Joseph
Ernst, who lives at al North avenue,
was the sexton OF the Chicago GENE.
terry, and was tho ovsrseer of tho dis.
interment and removal OF tho bodice
from the south end OF Lincoln Park in
1870 --fEhinQVn MoWg