STAMFORD ADVERTISEMENT xv 



A Mausoleum in Woodland Cemetery 



On the opposite page is shown an illustration of the mausoleum to be 

 erected in Woodland Cemetery by the Eastern Mausoleum Company, which 

 has offices at Ellicott Square, Buffalo, New York, and 452 Fifth Avenue, New 

 York City. This company owns the patent rights necessary for the con- 

 struction of a sanitary mausoleum and operates in various states. The men 

 at the head of this organization and its board of directors are well-known in 

 the commercial world and have been in close touch with the ever increasing 

 public demand for above ground entombment. 



This elaborate building will undoubtedly be a great improvement to 

 Woodland Cemetery. Those of our readers who wish to obtain full particulars 

 regarding it may do so by calling on or corresponding with Lyman Hoyt's 

 Son & Company, Stamford, Connecticut. 



Some Suggestions 



To those who object to being placed in the earth after life departs; to 

 those who desire a permanent home for the bodies of their loved ones, and to 

 all who are interested in the most recent developments toward sanitary burial 

 and insurance against desecration, this information will be much appreciated. 



The idea of above-ground entombment is not new. The people of today, 

 in adopting the mausoleum method of disposing of the dead, are reviving a 

 practice as old as history itself. All nations, during their most advanced 

 stages of civilization, have erected tombs or hewn vaults out of solid rock 

 for the final resting places of their loved ones. The abhorrence of the ground 

 as a burial place has always been common among most enlightened peoples 



Earth burial is a custom which has been inherited from the middle ages. 

 During the last decade public sentiment has been demanding the abolition of 

 this practice. Only the more wealthy have been able to satisfy themselves in 

 this respect, as they alone conld afford the expense of constructing mauso- 

 leums. 



Recently the inventive genius of man has devised a method of entomb- 

 ment to satisfy the demands of the public. Modern construction and sanita- 

 tion have made possible the erection of beautiful buildings for the dead, where 

 every man can provide for himself and family, that which heretofore only 

 the few have been able to provide. 



Endowment Fund 



A very important feature one must consider in weighing the merits oi 

 mausoleum entombment, is the endowment fund. Every building constructed 

 by this company is provided with a fund amply sufficient to guarantee its 

 upkeep for all time. This fund is placed in the hands of trustees, acceptable 

 to the compartment owners, and is invested in approved securities. The 

 original cost of compartments embodies this endowment feature, and there 

 is 110 future assessment. 



Earth burial is merely temporary. Cemeteries come and go with the 

 passing generations. Hamlets grow into towns, and towns into cities. The 

 once revered burial spot passes in the growth, and is enveloped by the onward 

 march of the city. Had our forefathers forseen the future, they would have 

 hesitated about burying their loved ones in the lots adjoining their homes and 

 churches. But that was impossible. Today we can profit by the experiences 

 "I" the past. Future generations cannot obliterate these above-ground resting 

 places of our dead. Today the traveler visits ancient tombs which have with- 

 stood the ravages of many centuries, but he is unable to locate many cemeter- 

 ies which were in existence not more that 100 years ago. 



