PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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GROWTH of the COMMUNITY MAUSOLEUM BUSINESS 
Ihe business of erecting the public mausoleums of 
concrete, commonly known as community mausoleums, 
has evidently proven profitable enough to warrant an 
expansion of the original company and has recently brought 
some competitors into the field. 
The original patent for this construction was issued 
to W. I. Hood of Shelby, O., who organized the National 
Mausoleum Co. This concern, after selling local rights 
and erecting a number of these structures in the central 
West and organizing the Iowa Mausoleum Co., which has 
recently secured from the city of Des Moines permission 
to erect a large mausoleum in that city, has expanded 
into the International Mausoleum. Co., with a capital of 
$1,000,000, and offices in the First National Bank Build- 
ing in Chicago. 
Another evidence of the profitable nature of the en- 
terprise is that competitors have appeared in the field. 
The American Mausoleum Co., of Clyde, O., of which 
mausoleums for their cemetery are to be constructed under rights 
granted by this company, otherwise it will become necessary for us 
to prohibit the use of such a building for the purpose for which it is 
intended. 
This is a splendid business proposition for uadertakers. Full infor- 
mation will be given upon request. 
The patents for the structure of the American Mauso- 
leum Co. are issued as No. 949,771 to James B. King and 
William E. Hughes, of Clyde, O., and Frank W. Hall, of 
Detroit, Mich. The accompanying illustrations and de- 
scriptions of their process will be interesting to any one 
familiar with mausoleum construction. 
In the drawings, Fig. 1 is a front elevation of the 
Hughes mausoleum. Fig. 2 an end elevation. Fig. 3 a 
partial transverse section on lines IlI-III and IIF-IIF, 
lines IV-IV and IV'-IV’. 
The general structure of tlie mausoleum includes a 
front wall 1, a rear wall 2, side walls 3. and a roof 4. 
Interiorly the structure is provided with one or more 
W. E. Hughes, of the Hughes Granite and Marble Co., 
is president, has lately been organized and is endeavoring 
to interest cemetery officials in Salem and other Ohio 
towns in the erection of public mausoleums. The 
methods of promoting these structures, of selling the lo- 
cal rights, and erecting the buildings either in the local 
cemetery or where this is not permitted, on purchased 
property, has already been described in these pages. 
The International Mausoleum Co., has lately taken up 
a campaign for the purpose of interesting undertakers in 
promoting the erection of these structures, and in one 
of their recent advertisements in an undertakers’ trade 
journal they take notice of possible competition in these 
words : 
So popular has become this mode of caring- for the dead that 
mausoleums will be constructed in several hundred cemeteries In the 
United States during the year of 1910. As might be expected with a 
movement so popular there has sprung up a number of infringers 
of the patents under -w'hich these palaces for the dead have been 
constructed. Some have obtained patents covering a certain feature, 
or plan, of structure. In every case -we have stopped them from 
such infringement. We will reward anyone notifying us of any at- 
tempt of .such infringement in their vicinity. These mausoleums are 
absolutely sanitary. While they ane an ornament to every cemetery, 
a.s w-ell as a source of profit, it behooves cemetery authorities and 
others approached on this proposition, to be sure that any proposed 
parallel lobbies or corridors .5 witli which door.s 6 com- 
municate. 
A foundation 7 of concrete is provided and forms a sup- 
port for a horizontal bed of hollow tile which extend 
under the receiving crj'pts R longitudinally of the liuild- 
ing, transversely of the crypts, and form horizontal pas- 
pages 8, which also act as air spaces. Tiers of crypts, 
forming superimposed rows and laterally adjacent col- 
umns, are built over the bed of tiles, as is illustrated in 
Fig. 3. These passages are open at one end to the air 
as at 0, Fig. 4. The passages 8’ formed by the hollow- 
tiles beneath the lobby of the building may be left open 
at both ends so as to afford a free passage of the air beneath 
the floor from end to end of the building, as shown in I'ig. 
1, or may be closed at such ends, as shown in Fig. 4. The 
lobby floor is preferably formed by laying a bed of concrete 
or other suitable material 10 upon the hollow tiles and then 
providing the same with a suitable facing 11. 
The sides , and rear ends of the receiving cr\ pts are 
formed of hollow tiles built so as to form vertical pass- 
ages, and the tiles forming the backs of all of the re- 
ceiving crypts and the tiles forming the front sides and 
rear sides respective!}" of the end columns of receiving 
