The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-10
READ MEMORIAL CHAPEL WILL BE ORNATE EOIFICE Handsome Structure Is Being Reared in Mountain Grove
 Cemetery SPIRE OF 90 FEET
 WILL SUPPORT CROSS Granite. Exterior and Marble, Bronze and Quarted White
 Oak Interior

The David Farnum Read Memorial chapel, for which the deceased left $55,0o0 to be expended on a structure similar to the present gateway at Mountain Grove cemetery. has already been planned, specified and bid upon, and erection of the building has pro- gressed beyond the foundation work. It Is expected to be finished in the early spring and will be one of the hu- est edihces Of it's kind in this city. Not only is it a mortuary chapel but a complete church of the most mag nidcent character that granite exte- rtor, and marble, bronze and quar- tered white oak interior can make it.
 The plans drawn by Dom Barber, of New York city, are being carried out to the letter by the Norcross Brothers company of Worcester and show a building two stories in height, nearly eross-shaped, fronted by q beautiful porte-cochere and adorned with spife 90 feet high, of what might be termed Italian renaissance bearing a handsome iron cross.
 The interior of the church of a mor- tuary chapel in the basement. with storage rooms, mourners' chambers, a mechanical ecatafaIque to raise and lower bodies from the chapel proper on the. floor above is most sumptuous-
 
 services as well as comfort. The pan cling and carving throughout the building while not ornate is consid- cred by experts to be both refined and elegant in the extreme.
 On the main floor as one enters from the porte-cochere 'bordered by a circular driveway from the main to be a sloping lawn and flower beds, there is an elevation of a few steps to the vestibule. on either side of which are reception and waiting rooms. Through leather covered doors one enters nave of white marble floor ing, on both sides of which are panel led white quartered oak pews, before which kneeling benches lined with cork will set.
 Directly in the forward center of the nave rests the bronze mechanical catafa1Que to hold the coffin, which may later be electrically lowered into tffe basement of tile and terra-cotta. To the left of the chance1 is a lofty organ with white oak screen for the choir and bronze trimmings A choir room lies behind and abreast of the altar of marble. To the right of the chaneeI is a mourner's room adjotn- ing zvestry room leading directly to the sanctuary.
 A series of arched and mu1ioned windows on either side will cast their stained glass glow upon the interior. A bronze rail with gateway divides the e1ance1 from the sanctuary and alter which has been equipped with a lecturn to make the other prone decorations.
 In the second story front, facing to- wards the south are storage rooms beneath the belfry of the tower which resting upon a square base gracefully rises upwards upon pillars and columns until it tapers to a cross.
 The length of the building is 50 feet, it's width across the nave being 28 feet, while the front width will be 45 feet and the rear 3 3 feet. The main roof s1oping east and west will be Of slate with lead roofs over the penthouses leading to the vestry and waiting rooms.