PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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PLAN OF OAKLAND CEMETERY GREENHOUSES. 
the basic plans were drawn by Super- 
intendent Frank D. Willis and the 
architectural features and detail 
drawings were furnished by the Lord 
& Burnham Co. The house is now 
in service and the men who do the 
work are satisfied that it meets the 
cemetery’s requirements in every re- 
spect. 
PATENTED SYSTEM OF MAUSOLEUM CONSTRUCTION 
The mausoleum construction recently patented by 
Thomas J. Moore, of New York City, has for its particu- 
lar objects improved ventilation, and the disinfection of 
the gases produced by decomposition. To each of the 
catacombs, as well as to the air space between, is sup- 
plied a disinfectant vapor with means for regulating the 
supply of the disinfectant. The floor slabs of the mau- 
soleum are laid upon ribs formed on the foundation, 
while the bottom slabs of the catacombs rest upon inter- 
mediate and slightly raised ribs on the foundation, thus 
raising the floor and bottom slabs of the catacombs above 
the surface of the foundation, leaving air spaces beneath 
both the floor and bottom of the catacombs which com- 
municate with an air space between the catacombs. This 
space may be provided at the top with a cover having 
openings which allow the air to escape and to communi- 
cate with the outside air through openings’ in the roof. 
There are air openings in the walls of the structure both 
below and above the floor slabs, thus providing for a 
complete circulation of the air within the mausoleum. 
In the accompanying drawings. Fig. 1 is a vertical sec- 
tion upon the dotted lines x, x, of Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a plan 
view partially in section upon the dotted lines y, y, of 
Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 is a broken perspective view in enlarged 
size of one of the tanks and its connections for holding 
and supplying the disinfectant. The catacombs are ar- 
ranged centrally within the mausoleum leaving a passage- 
way or aisle 35 on all sides between them and the walls 
of the mausoleum. A door 25 is provided in the front 
slabs 22 to give access to this, air space. This air space 
18 may be entirely open at the top, or have a cover 26, 
as shown. At or near the bottom of each back slab 23^ 
are air openings 30 which provide for a circulation of air 
within the catacombs, such openings communicating with 
the air space 18. 
MOORE PATENTED MAUSOLEUM CONSTRUCTION. 
