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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
NEW BOULDER CHAPEL for MUNCIE, IND., CEMETERY 
Beech Grove Cemetery, Miincie, Ind., 
has nearly completed this handsome 
modern chapel and receiving vault. The 
building is of early Gothic architecture, 
with exterior of split boulders in varie- 
gated colors, pointed in black and 
trimmed with Bedford stone. The size 
of the chapel is 36 x 56 feet, with a 
porte-cochere 26 x 32 feet, and a tower 
56 feet high. The roof is of red semi- 
glazed Spanish tile, and the flashing 
and gutters are of copper. The main 
entrances leading to the chapel are 
through the arched door to the tower 
and through a loggia connecting the 
main huilding with the porte-cochere. 
The floor of the loggia and tower is of 
black and white marble. 
Directly over the main entrance is the 
choir gallery, and to the left is the 
chancel. In front of the chancel is a 
lowering device to carry the casket to 
the receiving vault in the basement. 
The interior finish throughout is in 
Flemish oak, with beam ceilings, and 
the pews are all in old mission, and 
will seat 200 persons with ample room 
for chairs for additional seating if nec- 
essary. The windows contain beautiful 
memorial designs executed in art glass 
and the walls are decorated in harmo- 
nious colors with good effect. 
Beneath the chapel is a basement ex- 
tending under the full area of the build- 
ing, a portion of which is used for the 
heating apparatus, storing of fuel, and 
lavatory ; and the remainder is used for 
a receiving vault, which is built of slate 
with Italian marble fronts and marble 
ceilings and floors. The receiving vault 
contains 56 crypts, and they, as well as 
the receiving room, are thoroughly ven- 
tilated to prevent any possible odors 
from arising. 
The building throughout is built of 
the best material and cost $40,000 and 
was designed by Cuno Kibele, architect, 
of Muncie. O. W. Crabbs is superin- 
tendent of Beech Grove. 
SOME STATISTICS 
OF CREMATION 
IN 
EUROPE 
CREMATIONS IN GREAT 
BRITAIN TO 
DECEM- 
Canada 1 
50 
BER 31st, 
1907. 
Norway 1 
10 
Onened 
1905 
1906 
1907 
Total 
Sweden 2 
1,152 
1885 
Woking 
. . 95 
140 
108 
2,996 
Switzerland 4 
3,129 
1902 
Golder’s Green, London... 
. .252 
298 
290 
1,223 
India (Calcutta) 1 
? 
1892 
Manchester 
. . 97 
90 
96 
1,124 
Australia (Adelaide) . . 1 
1 
1896 
Liverpool 
. . 35 
46 
34 
386 
Great Britain 13 
1 
6 468 
1895 
Glasgow 
. . 35 
44 
30 
265 
1901 
Hull 
. . 15 
17 
29 
129 
1901 
Darlington 
. . 4 
13 
8 
36 
104 
2 157,428 
1902 
Leicester 
. . 16 
12 
12 
54 
Consul Thomas H. Norton 
reports 
from Chemnitz that 
1903 
Birmingham 
. . 22 
25 
33 
100 
Germany has now fifteen crematories, in 
as many cities, all in 
1905 
Leeds 
. . 16 
15 
16 
47 
active use. There seems to be 
a growing disposition to make 
1905 
Ilford (City of London).. 
. . 9 
23 
18 
50 
■ use of this method of disposing of the 
dead, as the number 
1905 
Bradford 
, . 1 
13 
13 
27 
of cremations in 1908 shows an 
. increase of 40 per cent, over 
1905 
Sheffield 
. . 7 
6 
18 
31 
those for the same period of 
1907. ' 
The total number of 
— 
— 

cremations during the four months, January-April, 1908, was 
604 
742 
705 
6,468 
1,441, against 1,028 for the same period last year. 
CREMATIONS IN OTHER COUNTRIES. 
Number of 
Contemplated 
Tot.Crema- 
Crematoria 
or in 
tions carried 
Existing 
Construction 
out to 
Sept. 1907 
Germany . . . . 
14 
13,614 
Denmark . . . . 
1 
508 
Italy 
28 
6,513 
France 
5 
86,984 
U. S. A 
33 
(App 
rox.) 39,000 
Cremation is reported to have received quite a set-back 
in the Prussian Empire, where several crematories have al- 
ready been in operation for several years. The highest court 
of Prussia has decided that the practice of cremation is with- 
out foundation or sanction of Prussian or imperial laws, and 
may be forbidden by the police power of any locality. Crema- 
tion has recently been brought into practice by the thickly 
populated countries, for the reason that places for the burial 
of the dead were becoming exceedingly scarce, and the prices 
for burial lots were exceeding the amounts that the poorer 
and middle classes could afford to pay. 
