THE MODERN CEMETERY. 
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EX-PRESlDENT HARRISON’S EAMILY MONUMENT, CROWN HILL CEMETERY. 
ceiling of carved stone. The vaults arc wings on 
each side of the chapel and connected with it by 
heavy double sliding doors. The crypts are of 
heavy stone, each crypt holding one casket and are 
so arranged and ventilated as to be cool and dry at 
all seasons. The chapel has a seating capacity of 
over two hundred. The building cost about $40,- 
000. The monumental attractions are many and 
varied and include memorials to several distin- 
guished persons. A gray granite shaft twenty feet 
in height marks the last resting place of ex-President 
Thomas A. Hendricks, and not far from it is the 
family monument to Oliver P. Morton. This con- 
sists of an ornate marble pedestal surmounted by a 
life-size bust of the deceased statesman. The family 
lot of ex-President Harrison is in Crown Hill and 
will soon be marked by the monument illustrated 
on this page. Mr. Harrison was recently elected a 
director of the cemetery. There are over four ' 
thousand lot-owners and the total number of inte- 
ments exceeds fourteen thousand. 
A stone coffin weighing 1,500 pounds has been completed in 
Lexington, Ky., for Stephen Langford, an eighty-year-old land- 
owner, of Madison County . He is in the best of health, but 
says he wishes to preserve his body from polecats, minks, and 
other like animals. — Casket. 
In endeavoring to perpetuate the memory of the 
departed by the use of monuments, mausoleums or 
cemetery work of such character, care should 
alw'ays be exercised in regard to design, material 
and execution. A monument is not a thing for a 
day, but is expected to endure for years and that 
too in a spot fraught with fondest memories. Too 
many lots, even in our best cemeteries, are marked 
by inartistic specimens of the stonecutters’ art, 
simply because sufficient care has not been exer- 
cised in the selection of design or material, or too 
much confidence has been placed in the final out- 
come of a highly colored drawing. It has been the 
constant effort of many cemetery officials to im- 
prove the condition of their grounds by doing away 
with the hedges, fences and inclosures of whatever 
kind. Now cannot they take another step and ad- 
vise with their lot-owners in the selection of suit- 
able memorials. The interest of the lot-owner and 
the welfare of the cemetery are so closely allied that 
what is detrimental to one must prove so to both. 
In regulating the sizes of head-stones that shall be 
used, cemetery managers have conferred a favor 
upon lot-owners that they cannot fail to appreciate, 
and we believe that lot-owners would value the ad- 
vice and suggestions of cemetery officials in regard 
to larger memorials. 
