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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
model resting place lor the dead. Beautiful trees 
and shrubs embellishing historic ground, lovely 
green sward, neatly kept grounds, are all arranged 
to produce a pleasing, quiet picture. It is away 
from the town, and so inclosed with trees and 
shrubs that one is hardly prepared for the quiet 
scene within. 
“You might have heard the rustling leaf, 
The breeze’s faintest sound, 
The shiver of an insect’s wing, 
On that thick peopled ground.” 
Joseph Meehan. 
THE CREMATORY, FOREST HOME CEMETERY, 
MILWAUKEE, WIS. 
The crematory at Forest Home Cemetery, Mil- 
waukee, Wis. , not long completed, is as maybe 
recognized from the illustrations 
herewith given, one of the latest 
and most complete examples of 
the crematorium and accessories 
for this method of disposing of 
our dead by incineration. Pro- 
found study was given to the 
work by those intrusted with its 
installation, and a careful exam- 
ination made of many plants al- 
ready in operation, so that in 
many respects the latest ideas 
might be incorporated in the 
new work. The architects, 
Messrs. Ferry & Clas, in design- 
ing the work have throughout 
sought to impart an attractive- 
ness to the various apartments 
in use, so as to create as cheerful 
an aspect as possible to all the 
details of the ceremony. 
The crematory occupies the 
basement of the chapel shown in the illustration, 
and which has been before described. It consists 
of three rooms and a hallway leading to them. 
The waiting room and hallway are situated under 
the chapel, and the furnace and preparing room 
under the conservatory, the floor of which has 
been made perfectly water tight. 
The walls of the hall and the waiting and pre- 
paring rooms are of pencil veined white Italian 
marble in slabs reaching from the ceiling to the 
floor and carefully matched. The floors are mosaic 
of a simple design to harmonize with the classical 
ornamentation in the rooms, which is on the Corin- 
thian order. The ceiling of the preparing room is 
deeply paneled and handsomely ornamented. In 
the center of alternate panels are electric lamps that 
light the room and are reflected on the marble walls. 
On one side of the preparing room is a hand- 
some fireplace, and on the opposite walls are the 
two retort doors. One is the door of the retort in 
operation, and the other waits for a second retort 
should an addition become necessary. The prepar- 
ing room is comparatively bare in its appointments, 
but the waiting room is supplied with attractive 
furniture. 
Every detail has been carefully worked out to 
insure both durability and attractiveness, and what- 
ever comfort may be derived under such circum- 
stances from inspiring surroundings. 
The furnace itself embodies the latest improve- 
ments connected with the generation of the high 
temperatures required in incineration, as well as the 
preservation of a structure having to sustain such 
extremes. It is constructed of high class fire brick 
CHAPEL AND CREMATORIUM, FOREST HOME CEMETERY, MILWAUKEE, WIS. 
specially molded and laid so exactly that no de- 
structive strain occurs from the alternate heating 
b 
and cooling of the furnace. The plan provides air 
spaces and other expedients in the walls to prevent 
the radiation of heat to the exterior. To obviate 
all suggestions of active operation, both the oil for 
the burners which is supplied under hydraulic pres- 
sure, and the compressed air to effect the spraying 
of the oil when burning are piped underground 
from a considerable distance where the operating 
devices are located. 
The furnace consists of two chambers, one above 
the other. The upper one is the retort in which the 
bodies are incinerated, and the lower one the com- 
bustion chamber in which the gases from the retort 
are consumed. The burners in the retort, three in 
number, are arranged along one side near the 
