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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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THE CHAPMAN MONUMENT, FOREST HOME CEME- 
TERY, MILWAUKEE, WIS. 
Much has been said in these columns at various 
times on the subject of diversity of design and ar- 
tistic requirements in our cemetery memorials, and 
it is a subject to which too much attention cannot 
be paid, either by the monument designer or monu- 
ment dealer. No effort should be spared to edu- 
cate all concerned in the manifest obligation of pro- 
viding the most artistic memorials possible to per- 
petuate the memory of our dead, whether of low or 
be far less costly, yet the idea is still important 
enough to present itself as a pertinent issue to all 
coecerned. 
The Chapman monument was erected in the 
spring in Forest Home Cemetery, Milwaukee, Wis., 
and the illustration is sufficiently explanatory con- 
cerning the classic grace, dignity and beauty of its 
design. The sarcophagus is cut from pink Tennes- 
see marble, a marble which is much favored by 
Boston and other Eastern architects. It stands on 
a base of pink granite, making a harmonious com- 
THE CHAPMAN MONUMENT 
high cost. It would surprise, perhaps, most of our 
readers to realize how much space is now given in 
the public press to our old cemeteries, and it would 
be food for pretty serious thought to know how 
comparatively short a time the ordinary tombstone 
lasts. Having no artistic merit, it has little but his- 
toric value for future generations. But put some 
merit into as many memorials as possible, and 
future generations will understand their import and 
will preserve and respect them. 
These thoughts are suggested by the illustration 
herewith presented of the Chapman monument, de- 
signed by the sculptor, Daniel C. French, in col- 
laboration with Mr. C. Howard Walker, architect, 
Boston. The term suggestion is used advisedly, for 
it is certain the great majority of monuments must 
MILWAUKEE, WIS. — D. C. FRENCH, SC. 
bination of material. The winged figure, a feature 
of sculptural art in which Mr. French is particu- 
larly effective, is of bronze, and was very suc- 
cessfully cast by the Henry Bonnard Bronze Co., 
of New York. 
The occasion is not nearly so frequent as we 
should desire to illustrate cemetery memorials in 
which our leading sculptors have the opportunity 
of displaying their work, but it is to be sincerely 
hoped that with another era of prosperity in the 
country this field for our worthy sculptors will of- 
fer inducements for the exercise of their genius in 
its true sense, for with the perpetual care system of 
our cemeteries it is reasonable to expect that we 
shall have to record many artistic memorials to carry 
out the arguments suggested in our opening lines. 
