THE MODERN CEMETERY. 
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SECTIONAL PLAN. 
front, constructed of a rockfaced and clean cut Ohio 
stone. The framework is of open timber work 
covered with green slate, finished with a neat 
terra-cotta cresting. 
The main wall is of the Romanesque type with 
a wide flank wall on either side; the base of main 
and flank walls is of clean cut Ohio stone, the bal- 
lance of walls is constructed of rock-faced stone 
laid in uniform courses, finished with a wide coping 
of clean cut stone; the main wall is finished at top 
with stone cupola 4 feet square and about nine feet 
high. This cupola is connected with inside air 
chambers affording an excellant ventilating shaft. 
At the end of each flank wall a square base 
carries a large vase. 
I VAULT, CANTON. O. 
The main entrance is a Gothic arched door-way 
with two heavy open iron day gates, above which 
is an enriched grill, and a pair of heavy solid steel 
burglar proof doors on the inside of the day gates. 
Both vestibule and vault floors are of flagging; 
the vault floor has a fall from all the outer walls to 
LONGITUDINAL SECTION. 
the center whence the drainage is carried through 
a grating to a small gravel bottom cesspool. 
The arch or crown is constructed of hard vitri- 
fied brick beginning with a 20 inch wall at base to 
a height of 4 feet above vault floor; then 12 inches 
is the thickness adopted. Inside of this wall is a 4 
inch air chamber and inside that is another 4 inch 
