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effective, photograghs were made of every unsightly 
place in the territory, and thus by directing pub ic 
attention and criticism toward it the abatement was 
almost certain to follow. Still another method of in- 
struction was introduced. In this factory there meets 
each Sunday afternoon a Sunday school of over 400 
members from the neighborhood. This school not only 
studies the usual Bible lessons, but on the principle 
that home life and godliness are closely allied, lessons 
are given in the elements of home gardening and child- 
ren’s work. Seeds are distributed each spring and 
prizes are offered to those obtaining the best results 
from their summer’s planting. Besides this are the 
Boys Club, Girls Club, Mothers Guild, school of Domes- 
tic Economy, and a score of other organizations fostered 
by this company, in all of which the value of simple 
home gardening and a love of flowers is inculcated. 
A still further step was taken which has had even a 
greater influence in the wide spread interest in this 
work. The company offered a series of prizes for the 
best examples of home gardening, window gardening, 
cleanly kept back yards, neat squares, and to the boys 
and girls, back yards and vegetable gardens. These 
prizes amounting to about two hundred dollars annually 
have encouraged very many to a study of the best 
methods of planting in small yards. Photographs are 
taken at the beginning and end of each season showing 
the changes, and a competent committee after visitation 
awards the prizes. The improvement has been re- 
markable and from year to year the growth in taste has 
been shown. Not only those who entered the competi- 
tion for the prizes, but many of their neighbors under 
the impetus of this example have joined in the improve- 
ment of their grounds. 
The result of all this effort has been a marked 
improvement not only in this section whose residents 
are proud to refer to “South Park;” but in every other 
part of this beautiful city. Attention having been called 
to the condition of streets and sidewalks these have 
been changed and the city authorities have been com- 
pelled to join with this organization in the gradual im- 
provement of the public thoroughfares of the neighbor- 
hood. The union of effort has also led to the removal 
of tight board fences, and the cultivation of shrubbery 
and vines along such division lines, the planting of trees 
in small open spaces, the abatement of public and pri- 
vate nuisances, and the gradual change of an entire com- 
munity into a veritable garden spot. While not every- 
thing to be desired has been accomplished, enough has 
been done to show the influence of thorough organiza- 
tion with definite purposes in view. When it is remem- 
bered that all this work has been done in about three 
years, the most skeptical must be convinced of the 
possibilities of such efforts. 
These results can be seen in the pictures shown, but 
more than this is the changed character of many homes 
and families, in the contentment, health, ownership of 
land and finer tastes that are apparent everywhere. Men 
who work all day with beautiful surroundings want the 
same at home, and women who have once cultivated 
flowers will not allow the inside of a little home to be 
untidy. So while the favored ones of the world may 
have the enjoyment of mountain, lake, hillside and sea- 
side, these homes are attractive and healthful to the 
worker, and his influence will compel unwilling public 
officials to supply public parks and public gardens. 
Such work is possible to every city. Intelligent 
leadership only is needed, and this should come from 
such men and women as are represented in this gather- 
ing. 
(Mr. Shuey illustrated the most of what he said by 
stereopticon pictures showing the great changes wrought 
in South Park, a suburb of Dayton, through the influ- 
en e of the National Cash Register Company and its 
owners, the Messrs. J. II. & F. J. Patterson, and of the 
South Park Improvement Association. These pictures 
are largely taken from photographs of the grounds and 
homes of the factory and neighborhood, an 1 by their 
contrasts emphasized the simplicity and effectiveness of 
such instruction and organization.) 
THE MACKAY MAUSOLEUM, GREENWOOD CEME- 
* TERY, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK. 
The recently completed Mausoleum, erected on 
Ocean Hill in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, 
New York, for Mr. John W. Mackay, as a memorial 
of his son, is one of the most magnificent struc- 
tures of its kind in existence. It has been in 
progress for some three years, and both the old and 
new worlds have been drawn upon for the material 
entering into its construction. 
It is in plan, a Greek cruciform, treated in the 
Renaissance style of the fifteenth century. The 
exterior is built of Hallowell granite. It occupies 
an area of 33 feet square by some 47 feet in height. 
It is surmounted with a massive cross, and a group 
of bronze statuary embellishes each of the four 
sides. These symbolize Religion, consoling grief, 
Faith pointing to Heaven, Hope and Peace. These 
groups were modelled and cast in Europe. 
The entrance doors are of standard bronze; they 
lead into a vestibule, which again opens into the 
interior through two heavy, richly wrought and 
chased bronze grilled gates. 
The vestibule opens into an exquisitely dec- 
orated and appointed chapel, the principal feature 
of which is an altar constructed of rare marbles and 
onyx, with a reredos, in which is set a Madonna 
and child in white marble. The base of the altar 
is cut from light Italian, and the altar proper is a 
large slab of black Irish marble. On this upon 
ornamental supports of green Irish marble rest four 
carved onyx columns. The slab of marble in the 
reredos, in which is set the Madonna and Child, is 
pure yellow Carrara, said to be one of the finest 
specimens in the world. Beneath the group of the 
Madonna is the figure of a cherub offering adora- 
tion. This group of sculpture was executed by a 
fa mous Italian sculptor centuries ago. 
The ceiling is a dome, decorated with Venetian 
glass mosaics of several shades of gold, ending in 
the apex of the dome in a cardinal cross entwined 
with palm branches. Concealed in the marble 
molding surrounding the base of the dome are sixty 
incandescent electric lamps, which, when connected 
