209 
PARK AND CEMETERY. 
ROCK-FACED WORK IN MAUSOLEUM CONSTRUCTION 
Rock face, properly and consistently used is a legitimate 
expression of the desire for simplicity and massive dignity. 
When so used and carefully executed in mausoleum con- 
struction it is a relief from the over-decorated and badly 
WETHERBEE MAUSOLEUM. 
Great Barrington. Mass. 
proportioned imitations of the classic too often seen in these 
difficult structures. 
• The Wetherbee mausoleum shown here, is a good example 
of the consistent use of rock-face throughout. Both the 
finish and the tapering, solid, pyramidal lines of the struc- 
ture, give a massiveness to its architecture that suggests 
an enduring stability . that should be the dominating feeling 
in mausoleum design. It was recently erected in Mahaiwe 
Cemetery, Great Barrington, Mass., for Charles L. Weth- 
erbee, a wealthy New Yorker, who is a native of that town. 
The exterior is of Berkshire blue dolomite stone, native to 
that locality, and is sixteen feet square with wide projecting 
buttresses at either side that give additional space and lend 
strength to the exterior. The construction of the overlap- 
ping roof-stones may be seen in the picture. 
There are four catacombs and the interior is faced in 
highly polished Rutland marble separated from the exterior 
walls by an air space. The entire end of the tomb is one 
piece of marble, into which the opening for the stained 
glass window has been cut. Provision has been made for 
carrying away any water which might come from the sweat- 
ing of the stones during warm weather. The fresh air enters 
at the bottom of the corners through bronze pipes, and is 
circulated around the catacombs to mingle with the air 
which comes through openings of perforated bronze in the 
gables. The ceiling and floor are each of three pieces of 
marble. 
The structure was designed and erected by M. Lux, of 
Great Barrington, who is to copyright some of the details. 
NEW CEMETERIES, IMPROVEMENTS AND EXTENSIONS 
The Allen County Cemetery Cor- 
poration has been incorporated by 
citizens of Gas City and lola, Kans. 
The incorporators, are; J. H. Camp- 
bell, S. R. Swan, C. S. Culbert, of 
Gas City. 
Plans are being made to add seven- 
teen acres to Fairview Cemetery, 
Rocky River, O. 
Mt. Hope Cemetery, Topeka, Kan., 
is a new tract of 160 acres of which 
forty have been improved. A hand- 
some entrance gate and public service 
buildings have been erected and a 
nursery established. A. B. Whiting is 
president and superintendent, and L. 
H. Greenwood, secretary. 
A new tract including about 120 
acres adjoining Jefferson Cemetery, 
Jefferson, la., is now being graded 
and improved. 
The city council of Ardmore, I. T., 
has made an appropriation for the 
care and improvement of Oak Lawn 
Cemetery, a new tract of forty acres. 
Woodlawn Cemetery, Farmland, 
Ind., has acquired by condemnation 
an addition of two acres adjoining 
the cemetery. 
The Gorham Cemetery Association, 
Gorham. Me., has appointed Henry 
W. Sweetsir superintendent of the 
cemeteries of that town. 
The Tucson Cemetery Association, 
Tucson, Ariz., has been incorporated 
by J. H. Corbett, Herbert E. Tenney 
and J. M. Ormsby. 
Estimates are being secured on 
property adjoining the National Mili- 
tary Park at Vicksburg, Miss., with a 
view to making an addition to the 
grounds. 
A, forty acre addition to the ceme- 
tery at Independence, Kans., has been 
purchased by that city. 
The Board of Control of the State 
Soldiers’ Home at Ording, Wash., has 
purchased four acres for a new ceme- 
tery and is to improve and beautify 
the grounds. 
Important landscape improvements 
are to be made in the cemeter}^ at 
Macomb, 111., this season. 
The Greenwood Annex Cemetery 
Company, of Ocala, Ela., has secured 
a tract of land adjoining the old 
Greenwood Cemetery and will im- 
prove it as an addition to the grounds. 
Woodbine Cemetery, Puyallup, 
Wash., is improving a new addition of 
about four acres. 
The Township trustees of Eaton, 
O., have bought thirty-five acres for 
a new cemetery. 
The Calvary Cemetery Association 
of Dallas, Tex., is planning to erect 
a new iron fence and entrance gate 
at a cost of about $5,000. Dallas has 
also recently opened a new city ceme- 
tery of six acres. 
The Elmhurst Cemetery Associa- 
tion of Chicago has been incorporated 
with a capital of $150,000. The in- 
corporators are Henry J. Erzinger, 
Lewis Tillotson and Wm. Banguth. 
The City of Independence, Kan., 
has bought a forty acre tract on 
which it will establish a new city 
cemetery. 
The Cemetery Committee of lola, 
Kan., is considering the purchase of 
a sixty acre site, two miles south of 
town, for' a new cemetery. 
The Sunset Hill Cemetery Associa- 
tion has been incorporated at Red 
Bluff, Cal. The directors are: R. N. 
Ewen, W. M. Kettles, E. P. Case and 
J. L. Luken. 
Glenwood Cemetery, Cortland. N. 
Y., has awarded the contract for the 
erection of a new receiving vault. 
A tract of ten acres near Clayton, 
New. Mexico, has been purchased for 
a cemetery. 
The German Catholic Cemetery 
Association of Cincinnati has leased 
a twenty acre tract for twenty years 
with privilege of purchasing at the 
end of that time for $34,000. 
