The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-09-27
CEMETERY IMPROVEMENTS
ATTACHMENTS BEAUTIFUL NEJy
 $25,OO CHAPEL.

Work Upon It Well Advanced-WnI
 Be Completed in a Few Weeks-some
 of the Most Notable New Monuments
 tn the Old and New Burial Grounds
 Old Cemetery Improvements.
 A great improvement at the Ever green cemetery is the beautiful new chapel which has just been completed and which is in every respect worthy of this beautiful city of the dead. Its location is in the central part of the cemetery where the fountain was for merly. It is slightly massive struc- ture of red East Haven sandstone, costing S25.000, of which amount $10,- 900 has been already contributed as donations in response to the circu- lars issued by the cemetery directors in appeal for funds for the project The new chapel has long been needed, the old chapel being inadequate for the uses required of it. The new chapel has a commodious audience room where funerals services can be held. It will seat about 200 people. There is also convenient office for the super intendent and very pleasant waiting room for ladies. The walls of the chapel are up and the roof is on. It Is ex- pected that it will be ready for occu- pancy in a couple of months. The in- ] terior work and furnishing are yet to be done. The architect of the building i is MT. Robinson.
 1 Among the new features at the Ever i green cemetery which are particularly noticeable as regards new monuments is
 . beautiful and stately cottage monu-
 ment of Egyptian design erected by ex-
 Lieutenant Governor Samuel E. Merwin
 in his family plot. Its base is five feet 1 square and it stands about ten <eer in
 height. It is beautifully adorned with
 mouldings and other carving of classic
 style, and the family name "MerWin' appears upon the base in raised letters. The MerWin plot is in near proximity to
 the new chapel.
 i The memory of Henry Stoddard John
 son is cherished by many of our citi-
 zens who long knew and valued the
 late MT. Johnson, who will be remem-
 bered as for many years a State street
 merchant. To his memory a beautiful
 sarcophagus has been erected in the
 family plot in Evergreen cemetery. It
 is of Egyptian style, chaste in design
 and handsomely carved. It is about
 seven feet long by five feet in width and
 is six feet in height. The family name Johnson" is inscribed upon the die and
 the mortuary inscription is cut upon a
 massive marker stone. 1t is a beautifuI
 tribute in memoriam.
 Another beautiful and massive sarcc-
 phagus monument in Evergreen ceme- ] tery stands in the family plot of Samuel , W. Hurlburt, the well known merchant } at Chapel street, corner or hign street.. It is Of Westerly granite and has two bases with a finely moulded die and cap } It is in memory Of MT. Hurlburt's wife, who died about year ago. leaving many trends and name honored ana ; beloved for her piety and usefulness. , Still another fine monument is one ; erected by the well-known mason build l CT. Wilbur Fisk Gillette, head of the firm of George M. Grant Ss Co. It is a family monument of Quincy granite $ This beautiful memorial consists of two . bases and die completely polished and 3 bearing the .amily name in raised let
 ters on the base. The monument Is g erected in memory of Mrs. Gillette, be- - loved wife of MT. Gillette, who died No I vennber Il, 1900, and is very tasteful in design.
 j. In the old or Grove street cemetery. among the most notable new nlonu- Il ments is that in the TroWbridge family plot erected to the memory or the late = Henry Trowbridge, brother of the late t Thomas R. TrowDridge and of Ruther- ford Trowbridge. This is fine sarco- s phagus monument, plain yet massive, and beautiful It is of Westerly granite : with base about seven feet in length ' and five feet in width. The height oi l. the monument is about six feet. The
 execution of the design embodied tht e highest art in stone carving and work
 manship, and the design is purely clas'
 sical in style. All ot the monument
 above described were executed n oul
 city by the historic firm of Thoma;
 Phillips & Son from whose works in tn ,s last forty years or more so many mon uments have been executed Whtcn ar' y now in our cemeteries.
 u The old cemetery grounds were neve G. in finer condition than they are to-day 7f and to the thoughtfulness and, taste 2 > Edward c. Beecher, the superintendent l. this improvement is largely due. beautiful wide grassy border adorne'
 with shrubs and Towering plants nos
 attracts the eye all along the ertir ,d Grove street edge of the cemetery jus of inside the iron fence. This change e greatly appreciated by all visitors [ v- the cemetery. The quite extensive 1Tae ;i- of land in the northwestern part of tn
 cemetery reclaimed by MT. Beecner
 handsomely turfed over and the addl
 tional burial plots afforded by tn
 change are among the finest in the cen ee etery and are being rapidly bought ul at Among those who have purchased an
 improved family plots in this ne it. ground are President Wilbur E. Day. .y, the National New Haven Bank, an IT, Henry c. Rowe, president of the Cof as necticut Oyster Growers association. ge