Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1898-07-07
THE GILRUTH MAUSOLEUn.
A Stately Sepulchral Monument
Erected to the rIem0ry of Emma
OosS Gilruth.


Out in Mount Hope cemetery a 0
be seen one of the most perfect pieces Q
masonry and marble work In the stat,
o. South Dakota. We refer to the
magnificent Gilruth mausoleum erected
to the memory OF Emma Goss Gilruth.
deceased wife oil A. G.. Gilruth OF this
city. The work was done under the
personal direction OF T. III. Pritchard,
proprietor of the Watertown Marble
Works. and ably assisted by his foreman
f. j. Archibald. The design, which is
entirely original, was drawn by Mr..
Pritchard himself. There is nothing III
the entire northwest that will at all
compare with it in the way Of grandeur
and artistic workmanshlp-nothing at
all SO stately and impressive in appear
anee.
The foundation OF the structure is
thirteen feet long, ten and a hall feet
wide, four feet deep and contains six
cords OF solid stone and eight barrels OF
cement. Upon this foundation is built
the mausolenm proper, being twelve feet
long, ten feet nine inches wide and eleven
feet four and a hall inches high above
the water table. The four walls and
tie roof are built entirely OF pink kas-
ota stone, cut and numbered at the
kasota quarries. The roof stones, ten
in number, are not pieced, but are each
beautiful specimens twelve feet long and
two feet wide.
The door, which weighs four hundred
pounds. is OF solid bronze, the outside Of
which Is decorated with a beautiful
wreath OF immortelles and a large palm
leaf. On either side OF the door are pol
is he'd marble pilasters, two feet six
inches hi gh, one foot eight inches wide,
and six inches thick, to be used for in
sc%riptions. On the pink stone plints
supporting the door cap is cut in large
raised letters the name "GiIruth." Inn
mediately above this, cut in stone, is the
inscription, Erected to the Memory OF
Emma Goss Gilruth."
The inside is composed entirely OF the
finest Sutherland Falls polished marble,
which was shipped direct from the Yer
mont quarries TO Watertown. On
either side are three beautiful cata-
combs, each seven feet long, two feet
four inches wide and twenty inches high,
the center one on the left side to be en-
closed with a plate glass twenty-one
inches high, eighty-tive inches long and
one eighth OF Sn inch thick, upon which
is ground the name Emma Goss Gil
ruth" This plate is to be securely seal
ed to the marble shelves by four solid
bronze nickle-plated clamps. The floor
is also OF polished marble with a black
marble border
The ventilation il most perfect-both
for the cataeombs and the vestibule--
there being m inch air space between
the outer aud inner walls and so con-
melted with each OF the catacombs that
it acts as a perfect drainage as well.
The vestibule is ventilated through the
large bronze ventilators in the gable
ends. Opposite the door is i bronze
window with "A marble jam, containing
a number oil small glass plates. which
serves 10 keep the interior well lighted.
Around the entire lot is a stone coping
twenty-five by thirty-eight Feet and two
securely Undecided in "A foundation
OF solid cement.
This work is indeed highly credltabIe
to Mr.. Pritehard, who is without doubt
OF the best and most skilled design
ers in the northwest.
When Mr.. Gilrnth went east last win
ter TO buy goods he took occasion to-
visit cemeteries at Minneapolis, st. Paul
and Chicago to get a better idea, if pos
sible, of what he would have erected
here. He saw many magnificent ma
usoleums in the east, got prices on the
and upon his return home careful
~ examined the design furnished by Mr..
Pritchard. Without ony hesitatioa Mr..
Gilruth pronounced the original design
by Mr.. Pritchard to be far more salts
factory than anything he had seen east.
The work was soon begun and carried
without delay, and how well
Mr.. Pritchard did his work is evinced by
the magnificent Gilruth ~mausoleum
which now adorns Mount Hope
cemetery.-Watertown Journal.
Base Ball.