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CEMETERY. 
olic and Parsees, each standing in their respective 
grounds. No charge is made for the use of the 
chapels. 
There is a section of the cemetery devoted to each 
of these sects and one for Mohammedans, as well as 
many grounds exclusively reserved for guilds and so- 
cieties, such as Foresters, Oddfellows, Actors, Com- 
missionaires, Chelsea Hospital, St. Albans Holborn, 
St. Mary’s Maybury, etc. 
The crematorium is a thirteenth century Gothic 
building, including a hall or chapel 48 by 24 feet. 
Communicating with this are the crematorium, wait- 
ing and retiring rooms. 
Many lot owners pay a lump sum for the mainten- 
ance of their lots “in perpetuity,” and these sums are 
invested in the names of trustees, and so handed on 
from generation to generation. The company also 
places a certain sum every year in reserve for this 
purpose. 
The annual average of interments is about 3,500, 
and there have been a total to date of 156,470. Mr. 
John B. Walker is general manager of the company. 
ADAPTATION OF L’ART NOUVEAU TO MAUSOLEUM DESIGN 
The Whitney mausoleum, in Woodlawn cemetery, 
Detroit, Mich., is the first application of L’Art Nouveau 
to cemetery structures that has come to our notice. It 
is a style, so to speak, recently adopted by French arch- 
itects, which, in the mausoleum illustrated herewith, 
appears to have been quite effectively worked out. The 
peculiar type of ornament is well accentuated in the 
hammered and carved work about the roof, corners 
and entrance. The scheme of ornament is also carried 
out in the design of the bronze doors, the panel and 
name above them, and the vases at each side of tlu 
entrance. The idea is also seen in the granite en- 
closure for flowers on either side of the base. 
Woodlawn Cemetery, in which this fine mausoleum 
is placed, has already a number of costly tombs in 
memory of Detroit’s first families, and so far there has 
been considerable diversity in design, a fact creditable 
alike to the owners, the contractors and the cemetery. 
The structure has been finely executed in Barre 
granite by the Harrison Granite Company, and is a 
marked departure from the conventional lines followed 
.so religiously in most costly mausoleums. 
'WHITNEY MAUSOLEUM 
Woodlawn Cemetery, Detroit 
