The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-06-19

~" wgfhfl the past twenty-five
years. Il r. with Greenwood
esfpetery tlaa. tire rnorfGsry feature q tae
great esfy &. always associated Green
good &c fyl4feTs p and avs aye all bs seH
York's pere la chasss- IL II there thar ali
Ssos8c rsean01 - services are uso@t inrpres-
r.yes faere that the beautiful sa!em8stIss
OF Memorial day Teach faesr touching G..-
max.
In ysars gone by, say forty. when IN 'hs
little togns Of what then ~as the Nest.
Jb!o Indiana Michigan. tAs man Who hai
been TO Se~ FORK wa a person %
mark In tie community. IL stamped aiEn
with certain distinction. And always No
rsetsnBosg asked BIN when he returned
ibid you Wait Greenwood cemetery
Not that there @as the rsgnotest doubt
about IL. IL vas only conventional fern
Of general inquiry.
y{xf.ns Greenwood cemetery VAS par,
Of golag 20 New ToFs. II Il du'y
which every substantial American eli!x~S
who went 20 the metropolis owed 10 hin
self ard his family. il fixed his status
among cosfncoolstans. The returned tFa.-
eier from New York In ti4oSe days would
no more have confessed that s4e had failed
10 visit Greenwood than he would that no
had failed 60 hear Henry Ward Beecter
preach or ira. he had missed seeing Bar
NUNS museum. "A matter NJ fact ne
never would have confessed Ia either, Ha
would have lied iirsi~aad doubtless very
often hg G.a lie
Tsose days have gore by nov. Barnun
and his gtssteriug glcrtes only palsy salu-
mine dim corners ln the memory o. a gen.
Grafton all ba: passed away Poor Eeecher
himself went 20 Greenwood 10 sleep shefe
forever. more than d decade ago.
T'ifasa have changed and manners have
changed. The itinerary Of pleasure travel
does not take ia cemeteries quite 30 rlgor-
ouay az II did Ia days gone by, NeE q
vel ordered :sses DO not 20 much as they
did once fee that part Of such Ese Is
70 look upon the tombg OF tbs great and
have every emotion Of en%y dis withla
them.
f3ut the country visitors are Etiii faithful
70 Greenwood They take tho carriages at
the gate as their fathers did before them.
they might Ice the same carriages and the
same drivers. for any change there is In
them. And. Indeed. there are drivers there
who have been going the rounds sor TWEEN
ty~Hve years or more Thsy stu auto
natieally fec.ts their guide book piece"
as they Jog along. They know every re-
uaarkabie epiiaph By heart and 40 as yet
discovered Influence has ever induced one
Of then: 10 stop when once hc got started
on couplet Of mortnary verses, He gall
iops through tIcFe gay.y. as though they
were topical songs IN Il vaudeville. Your
wood driver OF today the moment he heard
ifs flow OF language begin
Hat the route through the w.nd nE
drives and the hAits before the tonlhs are
net quite the same Another generation
81 iiiasisious dead has taken up Is abode
In Greenwood since the citizen OF forty
years ago made his decorous tour % the
beautiful metropolis. Tho paths lead ia
groves more newly made. and the names
carved upon the tomhs now most fire.
ousntiy visited are those which & seems
hat Yesterday were upon the lips Of the
living names that only SO short "A time
ago were part az the world and Of life.
Tie driver is alert 20 these changes. lie
knows the latest popular :aneies IN NOR
tuary rankings. There are fads IN grave
yard visiting. a. In other thiags. II Ia now
this grave and now that which holds frs,
place In popular favor. The driver pas.
ton,x.ngiy guides you Alright Ia these ne
csnTolis fashions
And where does he take you asstF II
used TO be straight 10 Charlotte Landa's
tomb Now he turns 20 che teft. afier you
pass through the stately entrance. and
through a winding drive ana mp a gentle
ascent. reaches = pot whore curviug bor-
der comes down 20 tire very edge Of TIE
driveway a massive square block of poi
tsied granite sufnIaunted by heavy gran
81 cross - III The cegteF Of the lot. on
the granite Is carved the name Gorilla"
ana a, the foot Of the monument and a.
little to ;he righg Of St. you face -
front thef, II a grave all ahlo3Wlng w!th
fresh flowers <ot merely growing flowers
bur fFesli wreaths n roses sat T.olots and
ra0slea which evidently have heeE hut r.
Gently hr3uEAi laere TIE name Eoaiin
tells sen aothng. doWa OF the a;,.e post