THE MODERN CEMETERY. 
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THE YOUNGLOVE MONUMENT, LAKEVIEW CEMETERY, CLEVELAND, OHIO. 
the land and no notice given to the assessor that it 
had been platted for cemetery purposes. Judgment 
was affirmed and the company will pay the tax as- 
sessment of $500. The second case was taxes of 
1891, on the same land, amounting to $1,670. The 
County court gave the city a judgment for that 
amount. This order was reversed by the Supreme 
court on the showing of the cemetery company that 
burials had actually been made on the land during 
that year. 
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A visitor to a prominent Southern cemetery 
writes to the local paper as follows; “Truly a lovely 
city of the dead, with very costly monuments, but 
none of them has any special significance — simply 
an array of tall slabs that commemorate the wealth 
of the man.” This too common fault in monumen- 
tal work has done more to bring about the growing 
antipathy against memorials of this nature than 
any other. Unfortunately for cemeteries ostenta- 
tion and art do not go hand in hand. The former 
aims to show the measure of grief by quantity rath- 
er than quality. The beauty of simplicity in mem- 
orials has not yet been as fully appreciated by our 
people as it was by the Greeks but that there is a 
growing sentiment against the inartistic display of 
memorials as seen in our modern cemeteries is be- 
coming more and more apparent. With the devel- 
opment of artistic tastes and an appreciation of the 
beautiful in nature and in art among the masses our 
silent cities will reflect such characteristics in the 
same measure that they do the lack of them to-day. 
