Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-08
T0MBSAT GREENWOOD.
Memorials in the Largest
Cemetery in the World.
IT COVERS 478 ACRES
OVER A HUNDRED GARDENERS
NEEDED TO KEEP IT IN ORDER.
Not Place for Ostentation OF Extrava-
gance-Graves Of Many Eminent
Persons to Be Found There.
IT COVERS 478 ACRES

gance-GraveS OF Many Eminent
Persons to Be Found There.
BY WILLIAM f. CURTIS.
Correspondence Of The Star and the Chicago
Record Herald
NEW YORK. June Z, 1905.
Out at Woodlawn cemetery, of which ]
wrote you the other day, the plutocrats are
sleeping until judgment day. There is no.
body there but those who were distinguished
for their money, with few exceptions, Of
course. Occasionally common person crawls
In and lies down beside the millionaire, who
cannot prevent it. Any man who has the
price buy a lot by paying from $50
to $25 per square foot, and 1t only needs
twenty-one square feet for grave. If you
| will go over to Greenwood cemetery in
Brooklyn, however. you will find a striking
contrast. Greenwood is democratic pace.
1t Is the largest cemetery in the world. ". tn
Alb acres of area, including the site of
the revolutionary battle of Long Island,
and population of nearly half million.
The first grave was made in 1886. 1t is
cooperative affair. There Is no stock.
There are dividends. The money paid
to purchase lots is invested in fund which
is used to buy additional land and to keep
the cemetery in order. This fund now
amounts to about 100000 and Is con-
trolled by board Of trustees elected for
terms OF years, and every lot owner has
vote 1t costs about $150,00O a year to
keep the cemetery in order. More tnan
hundred gardeners are employed, and the
funerals average twenty-five a day.
There are very few fine tombs in Green
wood. 1t Is not a place for ostentation or
extravaganza. The most costly mausoleum
was erected by John w. Mackay the min
ing man, at cost of $3.50 600 and he lies
r G IN NINA
pile of granite, surmounted by a Maltese
cross and a figure of an angel pointing up
ward. There are four groups of statuary
In bronze.
Henry Georges Epitaph.
Near by Mr.. Mackay lies Henry George
whose burial place is marked by square
block of granite bearing the following In
scription:
1.-THE truth that I have tried to make
clear will not find easy acceptance If that
could be it would have been accepted long
been obscured. But it will find friends
| those who will toll for it, and If need be-
die for it, This IS the power Of truth"
| On the other side of the Mackay mauso-
| leum is a beautiful plot of turf surrounded
| by a circular coping covered with wisteria
| There Is no monument. not even a head
stone; not even mound The velvet turf
| lies even and somewhere under 1t sleep
| of his family. 1t was his wish that his
burial place should be an unmarked grave
There are dozen monuments In his honor
| throughout the city that he loved so much
This is in striking contrast with the osten-
tatious tombs at Woodawn.
Just beyond the Cooper plot Is the tomb
of John N. Genin, retail halter who
made his fortune by the purchase of the
Castle Garden, when she was brought to
America by P. T. Barnum. He paid $500
| for 1t at auction. and the act proved to
be great advertisement.
Death, like politics. makes strange bed
fellows. A few steps from the main drive
way on grassy slope is simple block of
marble, not more than three feet square,
bearing this inscription:
Henry Ward Beecher.
June "a. 1913. March s. 1887.
He thinketh evil.
Eunice White Beecher.
August %, 1872. March 8, 1897.
You will notice that Mrs. Beecher was
nearly year older than her husband. and
that she died on the tenth anniversary of
his death. On the other side of the stone
are the names of four of their children, in
scribed In a peculiar way: -.-,
George L. Katherine E.
Alfred B. Arthur H.
Suggesting indifference, or perhaps econ
omy; and you think that whoever was re-
sponsible for these Inscriptions might at
least have added the family name. They
may have been the children of Henry Ward
Beecher, but that Is only a matter of In
ference.
Charles T. Yerkes' Mausoleum.
Looking from Mr.. Beecher's lot toward
the city the eye is arrested by a massive
granite temple with beautiful portico sup
ported by a row of Corinthian columns. 1t
is stately. dignified and costly structure
| and engraven in large letters upon the pedi-
| ment is the name:
Charles T. Yerkes
This tomb seems very much out of place.
1t should have been erected at Woodlawn.
Immediately opposite is well-kept lot
with shaft of granite in the center, dedi-
Gated to the memory of William Beard. A
few feet away is row of five low head
stones. bearing the names of his five wives
Mary Ann. Sara. Maria L., Mary Jane
and Maria N.-"and In death they were not
divided"
The Roosevelt family plot lies upon the
side of a slope, surrounded by a thrifty
hedge. 1t has grown so high as to conceal
the modest headstones which mark the rest
| ing places of the Presidents father, mother
and first wife. The Scribner family of pub
fishers are near neighbours, with a simple
marble canopy In the center Of their lot,
and not far away is a rugged block OF gran
| lite several tons In weight, bearing the
name of T. Dewitt Talmage. There Is no
other inscription.
Where Noted Men Rest.
Marcus Daily. the Montana miner, is
buried In costly mausoleum. Matthews,
the man who invented soda fountains, has
the tomb of king, which is covered
with carving, including portraits of his
family and bas reliefs illustrating events
In his life. Niblo. theatrical manager has
beautiful Gothic tomb; and Commodore
Garrison. the steamship king. has a
stately tomb. The Havemeyer family.
the sugar people, own a beautiful
hill. upon which are several monuments;
and the Steinways. the piano manufac-
turers, have similar lot in which there
are 125 graves. Prof. Morse, the inventor
of the telegraph, rests at the top Of a
hill, with a conspicuous monument, and
Robert Bonner. Horace Greedy and James
Gordon Bennett, the three great editors,
are buried by. Their graves are
marked by simple stones. Mr.. Greeley's
headstone bears a bas relief In bronze rep
resenting type-setter, but his epitaph is
simply the name, the dates of his birth
and death, and the words, Founder of the
New York Tribune"
Mr. Benefits grave is marked by
marble block upon which Is carved an
angel with child IN her arms. and
woman kneeling in prayer. The only In
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