THE MODERN CEMETERY. 
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DICKSON MEMORIAL CHAPEL AND CONSERVATORY, GREENLAWN CEMETERY, SALEM, MASS. 
signed to cover expenses for support and improve- 
ments. It is an established idea that some of the 
grave yards in New York City will have to be 
moved and the present project offers a solution. 
Rockland Cemetery is within an hour over the 
Erie and the West Shore railroads, while from For- 
ty-second Street it is a drive of only nineteen miles 
over a good roadbed. Within a short time desira- 
ble locations will probably be given to certain de- 
serving charitable organizations. 
Dickson Memorial Chapel and Conservatory, Qreenlawn 
Cemetery, Salem, Mass. 
The accompanying sketch represents a Chapel 
and Conservatory recently dedicated in Greenlawn 
Cemetery, Salem, Mass., erected in memory ofMrs. 
Georgia L. Dickson, by herhusband Mr. Walter S. 
Dickson, and by him presented to the city. 
The chapel is of sap-face granite with brown 
stone trimmings. It is 20 x 40 feet, and about 35 
feet high. The interior is walled with bevelled 
terra cotta bricks and Cleveland sandstone trim- 
mings. There are six stained glass windows in the 
body of the chapel, and six dormer windows. The 
ceiling is sheathed with hard wood and the hammer 
beams are carved by hand. 
Five marble panels adorn the back of the pulpit 
which is of oak and is raised above the floor, with 
a settee at the back. Behind the settee there is a 
gothic screen, containing five tablets of polished 
Knoxville marble, set in oak frames. On the cen- 
tre one, the following inscription has been cut: 
“Erected to the memory 
of Georgia L. Dickson 
by her husband. 
1894.” 
On the right, as one faces the altar, are three 
arches of Cleveland sandstone, which lead into a 
small corridor. These arches are supported by 
large pillars of sandstone. 
The conservatory 35 x 50 feet and 20 feet high, 
is connected with the corridor by similar arches of 
iron and glass. The corridor and vestibule are tiled. 
The conservatory is of iron construction and 
wood trimmings. 
The work and materials throughout are of the 
best and the whole forms a handsome and useful gift 
to the city as well as an endearing tribute to the 
departed. 
Mr. George F. Meachem of Newton, was the 
architect. 
Messrs. Thos. W. Weathered’s Sons, of New 
York City, built the conservatory and heated both 
the chapel and conservatory. The chapel is warmed 
by the indirect hot water system, and the conserva- 
tory with 10 lines of 4 in. outside diameter cast iron 
pipes on each side of the house. 
Memorial Trees. 
On Arbor Day, in the state of Pennsylvania 
says Garden and Forest, a number of prominent 
Philadelphians connected with the Pennsylvania 
Forestry Association planted, with appropriate cere- 
monies, at the south end of the Centennial Concourse, 
in Fairmount Park, nine saplings; a sugar-maple in 
memory of Rev. J. P. Lundy, D. D., the first Presi- 
dent of the American Forestry Association; an 
American Elm in memory of Dr. D. Hayes Agnew; 
an Oak in memory of General Meade; an Ash in 
memory of George W. Childs; another Ash in mem- 
ory of Furman Sheppard; a Sugar-maple in mem- 
ory of Governor Hartranft; a Linden in memory of 
Dr. Joseph Leidy; another Linden in memory of 
John Welsh, and a Sweet-gum in honor of Thomas 
Meehan, who will live, let us hope, to watch its 
growth for many years. Memorial plantings of 
this sort are certainly a very appropriate way of ob- 
serving, this holiday, and the trees, if properly cared 
for, will be invested with an affectionate interest 
which will increase with coming years. 
