PARK AND CEMETERY. 
416 - 
north BURIAL GROUND RECEIVING VAULT, PROVIDENCE, R. I. 
ranged so as to be thoroughly flushed when necessary. 
A portion of the old receiving tomb is to be retained 
and can be entered from a doorway at the end of the 
corridors in the catacombs. Careful attention has been 
given to ventilation and sanitary conditions. The floors 
are of granolithic slightly inclined and draining to- 
ward outlets, and the interior construction is of stone, 
brick and cement, so that the entire structure can be 
thoroughly flushed. In the receiving room and at the 
end of each corridor in the catacombs is a large ven- 
tilating flue arranged for the burning of logs so that 
fires can be built for drying and ventilation. The dome 
lights are arranged for removal in summer, their place 
being taken by metal grilles. 
The catacombs are lined with hard red brick laid in 
cement, and the ends of the receptacles are of red 
Knoxville marble with divisions of blue slate. 
The receiving room walls are wainscoted to the 
height of six feet with polished Knoxville marble pan- 
eled in two colors, and abov.e that to the ceiling line 
will be constructed of hard but¥ colored face brick. 
Across the front of the building stretches a granite 
arched colonnade or shelter. The exterior construction 
will be of fine cut white granite, and English ivy will be 
planted and grown over the exposed walls. Martin & 
Hall, of Providence, were the architects, and Hartwell, 
Williams & Kingston, of Providence, were the con- 
tractors. The structure cost about $30,000. 
Montiments for Small Lots. 
The passing of the old style burying ground, and 
the rapid introduction of the lawn plan for modern 
cemeteries and the improvement of earlier ones, makes 
the question of cemetery memorials for the smaller 
places one of special importance. The gospel of na- 
ture is being preached throughout the land; it is being 
incorporated into the curricula of the educational in- 
stitutions of many states, and the result will be an 
enlargement of view, refinement of taste and a broader 
appreciation of landscape beauty among the people 
' everywhere. And it will mean radical reform in ceme- 
' tery memorials. Where the sections in the smaller 
' cemeteries are limited in area and the lots necessarily 
small, the new order of things demands fewer memo- 
rials and more refined designs. The day of the stock 
monument is on the decline and manufacturers should 
keep alive to future requirements. Monuments for 
small lots must be less obtrusive in form and more 
definite in character and design, so as not to detract 
from the beauty of the lawn and the planting of the 
cemetery. It looks as though the ledger form of me- 
morial will be in greater demand and that memorials, 
where permitted by cemetery authorities, must con- 
form more and more in the future to the enlightened 
taste of the officials in charge. This is an educational 
feature now being impressed upon the lot owner. 
