The evening world., 1903-06-17
Wife Of Financier Is Busy with
Designs for $4,000 Mauso-
leum and for New Fifth Ave-
nue. House.
FORMER TO BE BUILT SOON.
mrs. Gage Believes Erection Of Tomb
Before Death, by Keeping the
Mind on Questions Of Spiritual
Welfare, Is Conducive to a Better
Life.

erected on the Russell Sage lot in beaux
tful lakewood Cemetery at Troy. Fash
ioned after the style Of the Greek
Parthenon. It will furnish, besides the
granite shaft that marks the grave of
the financier's first wife. a resting place
Of classic style for Mr.. and Mrs. Sage.
While inITroy a few days ago attend
ing the graduating ceremonies OF the
Emma willard Seminary Mrs. Sage
placed the order for the erection OF the
mausoleum.
ITS true that the plans have been
accepted and the order given" said Mrs.
Bage to an Evening World reporter this
morning.
II have always wanted a mausoleum,
but I never knew that Mr.. Sage shared
my views until a few years ago. Then
So talked 1t over and began to consider
plans.
Not Like GouId's.
"It has been said, and I do not know
how tho story arose. that our maui
soleum will be an imitation OF Jay
Gould's. This is not SO. 1t is in the
Greek style, OF course, and both Mr..
eage's ideas and my own are embodied
b the architects plans.
For a time we put Off having the
mausoleum erected because Mr.. Sage
did not like to have the granite shaft
which marks the grave OF his first wife
removed, but now 1t has been found
possible to raise the mausoleum without
necessitating the removal OF the shaft.
Tho tomb will be of Westerly granite,
though marble will be used in the in
terror. We have not decided whether
the columns will be smooth or futed.
The width OF the mausoleum will be
twenty feet and the length proper
donate.
1T seems a tribe homogeneous. my
making arrangements to move into Our
new house and planning a tomb all at
the same time" said Mrs. Sage. but It
is always wise to think Of the future.
/ approve as thoroughly OF mausoleums
as I ~disapprove OF cremation. Crema-
uon offers a veil for crime. There Is
something distressing about the thought
at best. There Is no law In the Bible
whereby such a disposition of our bodies
IL recognized. Nature knows how to
attend to such matters, and unless pub
lie health is menaced l do not believe
in cremation at all.
IA for planning our own tombs while
we are In the midst OF life, I see in 1t
q e Of keeping our minds upon our
spiritual welfare. with a mausoleum
before me, the coming of death is not
allowed TO be put off as an uncertainty.
This Is conducive to the leading OF bet
ter lives.
at was a relief to me when I learned
that Mr.. Sage shared my views in the
erection OF a tomb, for / had hesitated
about mentioning the subject to him.
Even now; though we nave long plan,
given orders for its immediate erection
had 1t not been for the man with whom
We placed the order urging us to begin
work"
Water in Cellar.
Owing to the fact that water has ac-
the cellar of the Sage house, in Fifth
avenue near Forty-second street, Mrs.
Sage is perturbed over the effect it may
have on Mr.. Sage's health.
Something has zone wrong with the
pipes In one of the buildings next US,
i am afraid, said Mrs. Sage, "for our
cellar is flooded and the dampness in
the house may drive us out.
II do not like to move in a hurry,
though, but / cannot have Mr.. Sage re-
naming here when that water Is a
menace TO his health. The whole cellar
MI sage is greatly improved In
health. and ! do not want him 10 suffer
a backset. Init say Just how soon
Fiftieth street. though this water
trouble may hurry Us.
AFTER living IN, a house for fifty years
Il hi, IS R RerS t. far P'Gn up m and @Sys' Do %sS
6fty years ago when he moved here. and
I am afraid even the chairs will feel
strange to be moved. There IS so much
realize what a big task is before me.
p, To stay in City.
THE doctor does not want Mr.. Sage
to leave the city this summer. The trips
on the train every day consume too
much vitality. In our new home we will
have quiet. and the atmosphere opposltei
discomforts here are Increasing so thai
the flood of water into the cellar may
drive Us out. 1 do want +, a my time
ae sYau ms sss nv r nSesspf a'Isd nn 1t;
are Of q very diverse nature. planning
a home, on Fifth avenue and one in
Tor rested a beautifully painted portrait
Of a sixteen-year-rld girl Of nearly a
century ago.
miniature and I yha,l hang It In a place
of honor in our new home" said Mrs.
Sage. gazing. with affection upon the
With It's parted hair ' and pt the au ainf
ehort-waisted dress. ~
Margaret Piersop Jermain was my
mothers name. To be candid / am far
more pleased and happy to look at this
beautiful painting of my mother thar
am TO study plans for a mausoleum."
great bunch OF American Beauty roses,
the gift to Mrs. Sage by the Emma
'Wiutard Seminary senlors when she re-
GENTLY addressed them at their graduat-
ing exercises. Mrs. Sage has been much
pleased at receiving this evidence of