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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
THE MELVIN MEMORIAL 
Daniel C. French has added one 
more to his highest imaginative works, 
to the “Dr. Gallaudet” and the “Death 
and the Sculptor.” In his recently com- 
pleted Melvin Memorial in Sleepy Hol- 
low cemetery at Concord, Mass., where 
lie a goodly fellowship of sleepers who 
in their lives wrought well — Emerson, 
Hawthorne, Thoreau, Miss Louisa Al- 
cott, Bronson Alcott, and others — he has 
erected a monument to the unknown 
dead, three private soldiers of the Civil 
war. Fortune favored him both in his 
conception and in the opportunity of- 
fered him, a single figure watching over 
a tomb on a lonely hillside. A work of 
art depends so much upon the absence 
of disturbing influences to make its due 
appeal that this opportunity is but sel- 
dom found. In ’this case, the monument 
is backed by a low, wood-covered hill 
into which it is built, with retaining 
walls on the back and sides; it consists 
of a central shaft, about twenty feet in 
height, resting on a platform twenty- 
five feet by eight feet. At either end 
is a low seat, and steps extend across 
the front, the whole being carried out in 
the pinkish gray Knoxville marble. On 
the central shaft, in relief and in intag- 
lio, as though emerging from the stone, 
appears a floating figure, a mourning 
Victory; with her right hand she lifts 
the heavy folds of the American flag 
which partly envelop her, and the left, 
extended at arm’s length, holds a laurel 
branch. 
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LEGAL NOTES 
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named in the deed and now seeks to 
recover the land in ejectment. 
Congregation Shaari Zedick of San 
Francisco, has protested to the board 
of supervisors against the order re- 
quiring the removal of all bodies in- 
terred in the former Golden Gate 
cemetery. The petition set forth that 
the interments had been made sub- 
ject to an individual tax of $3.50 paid 
to the city and claimed that the board 
had no right to order the removal. If 
it was insisted upon the petitioners 
5aid the municipality should assume 
the necessary expense. 
In the County Court, Chester, Pa., 
an opinion was handed down in the 
matter of the action of Archbishop 
Ryan, of Philadelphia, against the 
Borough Council of Phoenixville to 
restrain the authorities from enforcing 
an ordinance forbidding the burial of 
bodies in any but the cemeteries that 
heretofore existed in that town. The 
Gardeners 
and 
Superintendents 
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