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THE MODERN CEMETERY. 
The McKay Mausoleum, Pittsfield, Hass. 
The fine mausoleum, of which we give 
an illustration, has recently been completed for the 
McKay family, in the Pittsfield Cemetery, Pittsfield, 
Mass., at a cost of over $20,000. It stands on 
slightly rising ground in the western portion of the 
cemetery and is built of white Lee marble. It is 
hexagon in shape with each corner ornamented with 
a round pilaster or column surmounted by a deli- 
cately carved capital. It is 22 feet 6 inches in 
diameter and 2o feet 6 inches high from the base to 
the marble ball from which a small white cross rises 
at the summit of its stone-arched roof. Its walls 
THE MCKAY MAUSOLEUM, PITTSFIELD, MASS. 
are 15 inches thick and it is supplied with modern 
fixtures for ventilation. Over its bronze doors 
above the portal is a marble tablet with inscription. 
The inner door posts, door arch and catacombs 
are of Numidian marble. The floor has a center 
circular block of marble 18 inches in diameter, 
which is surrounded by a mosaic setting of half-inch 
colored tile of handsome design. 
Rockland Cemetery, New York. 
A new cemetery association has been formed in 
New York City, with Andros B. Stone president, 
and a purchase has been made of a large tract of 
historic land on the Hudson, involving it is said 
$1,000,000. The purchase includes the old Rock- 
land Cemetery, near Sparkill, Rockland County, 
overlooking the river. 
Besides the 200 acres included in the original 
purchase, it is expected that within a short time ad- 
joining plots will be bought, making Rockland 
Cemetery one of the largest and most beautiful in 
the world. The entrances to the burying-ground 
are near the little villages of Sparkill and Piermont, 
on the west side of the Hudson, about twenty miles 
from New Y ork. Four broad plateaus rise by gen- 
tle slopes to the summit, 700 feet above the Hud- 
son. Each plateau has its hills and dales and its 
woodlands. The cemetery, as a whole, was a 
camping ground in the Revolutionary War, and as 
a battle-ground it is historic. Several miles of it 
front, and in fact, touch the Hudson River. From 
the third plateau can be seen the Tappan Zee, and 
across the water on the eastern bank lies Tarry- 
town, the summer home of wealthy and well-known 
New-Yorkers, with the Sleepy Hollow Church and 
the old home of Washington Irving in plain sight. 
From the summit of the highest plateau can be 
plainly seen the land of seven states. New York, 
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Connec- 
ticut, Vermont and New Hampshire. Miles of the 
winding Hudson can be seen northward, ending in 
the hazy outlines of the Catskills and Highlands. 
From another portion of the cemetery can be plain- 
ly seen, only a short distance away, the little old- 
fashioned Dutch Church where Major Andre was 
tried and condemned, and a short distance away the 
clump of trees which mark the place where he was 
executed. 
In the old Rockland Cemetery, which was 
founded many years ago by Eleazer Lord, the 
former president of the Erie Railroad, much money 
has been expended in improvements. The new 
syndicate, however, will immediately begin im- 
provements on a larger scale, in landscape garden- 
ing, and the cost of these changes will probably ex- 
ceed the purchase price of the tract of land. Three 
thousand burials have already been made in the old 
cemetery. In the receiving vault lies the body of 
General John C. Eremont. A handsome mausole- 
um will be built to his memory as soon as sufficient 
funds can be raised. Among the other prominent 
persons buried there are Commander Gorringe, H. 
C. Seymour, Henry Shipman, Thomas Lippincott 
and Jerome B. Stillson. In case the cemeteries 
now within the limits of New York are ordered re- 
moved, it is probable the bodies will be removed to 
Rockland Cemetery, where the old cemeteries will 
be reproduced in detail. 
Andros B. Stone, is well known both as a philan- 
thropist, and as president of the Cleveland Rolling 
Mill when it turned out the first Bessemer steel 
rails. It is believed that this cemetery has been 
evolved from his charitable instincts, and it is stated 
that the charges will be very much less than the 
other prominent New York Cemeteries, — being de- 
