Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-09-02
FOX MAUSOLEUM
TOBE VERY FINE
RICH ADoRNMENT UNDER WAY
THAT WILL BEAuTlFY CALVARY
CEMETERY.
TO cost $4,000.
sepulchre Will Be Built of Vermont
Granite and Marble by Topeka
Firm - Foundation Is
Completed.

With a view to building sepulchre
that will for al time or at least for
such length of time that the present |
and many other generations to come |
may not witness Is decay, and that |
he and his family ill have as rest. |
ing place until time will have erased |
them from the tablets of memory, j. j |
Fox, corner of Fourth and Jefferson
streets, is having erected In the Cal
vary cemetery mausoleum that will
cost when completed $4,000. This mag
niicent pile, when completed, bids fair
to eclipse anything of its kind in this
section Of the state and equals per-
haps any such monument in the entire
state, for It's beauty and grandeur.
Exterior Barre Granite.
The stone. to build this elegant
sepulchre is to be the best Barrie
granite, from the granite quarries of
Barre, Vermont Marble from the
same state will be used for the entire
interior BANTER & Thompson, con-
tractors of Topeka, Kansas, have the
contract for the erection of the maus-
oleum and lne firm is one of the lar
ger concerns a the stone building bus
mess in the west. The foundation
has already been built and the work
was done by Keefe Brothers Of this
city, who spent some two weeks IN
the immense job, which took forty
barrels of the best cement and twenty
yards Of crushed stone. Some idea OF
the immense weight of this magnifi-
cent pile Of masonry may be cleaned
from the knowledge that the founda-
ton will average a depth of seven
| feet. This work has been completed
by the Keefe Brothers and the actual
work of erecting the mausoleum will
! be begun within the next two weeks.
| Eight Cataconbs
The elaborate house for the dead
will have beautiful setting on two
lots thrown into one and will have
the dimensions of % by AZ feet. This
will be handsomely parked and beauti-
fed to make the prope- setting tor
the mausoleum, the exterior of
which will be entirely of
Barre granite. The size Of the
. sepulchre will be 12.4 by 1876 and -
feet in height. Eight catacombs will
be provided for the resting. place OF
4 the members of the family after Their
4 death.
\ Expect to Finish October IS.
The front wall of the mausoleum
will have a thickness of three feet and
will be very elaborate. The sides, OF
course will contain the catacombs and
the rear wall will be Of great thick
ness. The various catacombs will be
sealed with Vermont marble, with
which the interior is to be lined. The
floor will be one solid flag of granite
that will weigh more than six tons
and beneath this there will be an all
chamber of two inches that will insure
dryness, while beneath the air cham
Der will be layer of concrete a foot
in thickness. Three flags of granite
will comprise the roof and large flags
of the stone will feature the build
ling. The most of the blocks used Il
the construction of the exterior vii
be 10 feet inches long, 2 feet twt
inches high and 10 inches thick. BAN
ter & Thompson expect to begin with
in the next two weeks to build the
mausoleum, and the contract calls fol
the work to be complete by October
Is, when the remains Of the departed
of the Fox family will be disinterret
and removed to the r. lsoleum fo
their final resting place.