Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-02-02
q Great Eausoleum

the New Meuaoleun company Intends to
eroct 10 Greenwood cemetery, Brooklyn,
bsve been completed by Mes.rs. Csrrere
and Ras!pgs, the architects and 1t is stated
that the work OF construction will be In
progress before The c!ces Of the present year.
The mausoleum will be huiding of impos-
lag siz, and stately propor'ion6. Gnd it will
bs devoted to the preservation of the dead
,fer the method of the Nsw MeusoIeum
.Iupany, which. although original, is yet,
In q sense, but return TO the ancient GUS
toms of E 4ypt, Rcme snd Greecc.
The general form OF tUe nauso'eum viii
be that Of so1ase exceeding $50 feet in
esch direction L. vii sisnd Oh :he slope
of bill iu that part OF Greenwood Cemetery
adj icept to Ninth Avenue aud Twentieth
street, and will command "a view Of the
county for milgs around. The style will be
that of the Italian rensisasnce, aud ia ere
will ts three stories below the gr, und. Mer-
bic aud concrete ere .he only materials 10
be used in iie construct n. From The centre
will rise tower to the height CT l6O fee :.
On its ground floor will be q memorial hall
snd In the centre ca;afalque on which will
res, the coffin during whatever services may
occur previous to i's removal to its final
resting place 10 the sapuchre.
La this iIn "a eEse mausoleurn, which Is to
cost $3.50, ,OCG, there will be 80 COO sspulchrez.
Chapels o; various sizea @ill open on the
maio ercades, which run around tho faur
s:des of the square and also eeroas the court
st right angles, separatir g 1t inso four email.
er courts. The largest chapss, or chambers,
will contain Is sepuiohses. in three tisre OF 6
nh rrtl
contain only IL sepuichrse, while there 7Tiil
be, in less favorable locations on the srcadss,
chsmbers 10 which single bodies can be
placed. The sepulohres are to be OF con-
crete, formed over a mold, in one piece spd
Dir sight. Tbs preservation of the body ie
be accom- plished by a simple proceea of des-
location & current cf dry cir will DO cis-
cuiated through tie sepulcbga FOR q period
OF four to eight nlocthe. and thus the body
will be gradually dried TO stats where it
will keep forever the air wlsl be fret pre-.
pared hy passing 1t over sulphuric acid,
The largo chapels will be left for the
adornmeut of those who purchase them. 4
millionaire can decorate bis burial chamber
10 gold and silver. Opposite tbs chapels,
90 the other side OF the arcade, sac ncbe,
for statuary. When coffin is placed 10 its
sepulohre It vii: be opened so "a to disclose
the features and the upper part OF the boGy,
sna gass plate will be sesled over the so-
pulchre so that the features can be seen at
sny time. In cases whero thsye s possi-
biiisy of resuscitation the coffiC will be
placed 10 sepuIchre connected By sys-
ten of wires With tbs Office CT the director
CT the mauaoleuu. Rgd the si:g6ssh move
nieat of the body will he icsfantly detected
The f7ors &; the srcsdcs will be ;i!ed in
,nosaic pgtterns. There will be four grand
etaircsaes, four ser7ics staiTSsys aud four
elevators. TIE receiving vaults. to contain
500 bodies will be under the terraces In front
OF the mausoieun. At each OF the four
corners OF the building will be g eqnare
chamber With q domed ceiIing. Ali CT the
ceilings will be srched. The cost OF the
chapels will vary fro@ 500 TO 81. 900. When
the mausoleUm Is fuil-whioh will be In
shout seven years, II the ordinary rate OF
intermept at Greenwood is mnintained-an-
other mausoleum will bs built. Ooe acre
of mausoleum has the capacity of thirty
acres of cemetery.
Ground has been broken at KenSico, the
large new cemetery above White Plains, for
a mausoeum somewhat emRler In sizs than
she one prof scted for Greenwood, but sim-
ssr TO It 10 shape. Il will cost $500, 600
Work on the receiving vaults isin progress.
Mausoleums are also 10 he built ct Roohes-
ter, New Orleans, st. Pau, aud Detroit
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