Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1912-09-14
WHAT IT MEANS
To SALEM TO HAVE
A MAUSOLEUM
oWho hath Tho true Love

When fond hearts remove,
In spirit from God-fashloned clay,
Sees light through the gloom
In the Masters stone tomb
And owns II The Better Way"
First, It will make the City View
cemetery a more permanent institu-
tlon. 1t will give a better legal status
TO any burial ground by adding to II
permanent stone buildings which al
ways have a more lasting and perma-
nent legal tenure than do common
graves or tombstone memorials. The
CoLch Mausoleum, the only evidence
Of the fact that Lincoln Park, Chicago,
was once the site Of three cemeteries,
still standing In defiance Of the park
board and the city Of Chicago, both of
which did their utmost to remove II,
is living, lndisputable testimonial Of
the truth that Mausoleum Is the only
permanent burial place, and that such
a building, II sufficiently large, has a
tendency to preserve all other things
Of like sacredness around and about It.
Second, 1t will give to the patrons Of
City View cemetery, Chapel and Re-
ceiying vault advantages, which means
that the living relatives and friends
Of the dead shall not be exposed to in
clement weather, to the storms and
colds of winter, when attending funey-
al services and laying away the dead
either In the grave or the Mausoleum.
Third, II Will increase and concen
trate at once, larger interest in and
patronage Of Salem cemeteries, be-
cause It will increase the accommoda-
tions and advantages for both burial
and entombment In the cemetery, and
will bring people from still greater
and greater distances And where
families lay away their dead, they are
more and more inclined to establish
their permanent trade relations.
Fourth, a Community Mausoleum
provides sufficiently large chapel
and corridor space to enable fraternal
orders to practice their rltualistlc bur-
ial service within doors, and, therefore
enables all societies TO conduct their
funeral services at the tomb during
the most inclement weather, and not
least, but possibly more than any
thing else, attracts fraternal orders to
make their burial place where such
accommodation is assured.
Fifth, a Community Mausoleum
guarantees b safe, sanitary burial to
whomsoeyer will seek absolute i'm
munlty from the shocking anticipation
OF grave burial. Tho dread of the
grave too often shortens if II docs not
embitter and make burdensome, the
life of old people, while the stone tomb
the snow white tomb Of the Mausoleum
robs the grave II It's terror and encOur-
ages, If II does not inspire and prolong
life.
Sixth, the Community Mausoleum
provides permanent family memorial
SO essential sometimes in establishing
a just claim in law to right title or
fortune even to fame itself And no
man or woman knows what blessing
they are comforting upon humanity,
relatives or their own descendants by
the erection Of an enduring memorial
that will hand down their names
through many generations, sometimes
to prevent counterfelts, and again to
give to his or her own what Of fortune
and fame Justly belong to either
Seventh Il brings greater human
happiness and consolation to the living
than burial In the earth 1t intensifles
human tenderness for the memory of
the dead and awakens larger sympa-
thy among the living It's massiveness
and beauty grows in saoredness as the
years bo by because 1t is a building
dedicated to love and sacred memory
while the attractiveness OF the open
cemetery is only a deluslon and al
Ways passing into the realm OF neglect
and forgetfulness