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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
Li-inch rods in spandrel walls, and ^-inch 
rods in balustrade posts and rails. Floor 
slab was reinforced with LLinch rods and 
“Hy-Rib.” Expansion joints were placed 
at the shore piers. 
After the forms were stripped the con- 
crete was allowed to set from two to three 
days, when the surface was wet and rubbed 
with carborundum bricks. The rubbing 
will form a plastic mortar which fills the 
small air holes and leaves the surface uni- 
form in smoothness and color. The floor 
was given a granolithic surface 1 inch in 
depth, composed of one part Portland ce- 
ment and two parts sand, and marked into 
blocks. 
Steel for the reinforcement and “Hy-Rib’’ 
for floor slab was furnished by the con- 
tractors, and the carborundum bricks were 
purchased from the Emery Waterhouse Co. 
of Portland. 
PLANS FOR COMBINED OFFICE AND CHAPEL 
The new office and chapel recently 
erected at Oakridge Cemetery, Marshall, 
Mich., was built by the cemetery at a cost 
of $6,000 complete. This includes the 
CROSS SECTION, LOOKING EAST, OAK 
RIDGE CEMETERY OFPTCE. 
plumbing, furnace, furniture, and lighting. 
The furniture is of mission style and very 
massive. There is a beautiful mantel of 
medium sized selected cobble stone laid in 
cement, and a fireproof vault for cemetery 
records. The cement work was all done 
by the cemetery force, under the super- 
vision of the superintendent. The ground 
was given by Geo. H. Southworth and in- 
cludes one and one-fourth acres. It was 
plotted by the superintendent, J. O. Van 
Zandt. 
The building perhaps looks a little ex- 
posed now, but a little age will overcome 
this, as the trees and shrubs are all small, 
being set out this spring before the pic- 
ture was taken. It was opened to the 
public last November and since that time 
it has been very freely patronized. The 
cemetery board makes no charge for its 
use if they bury in Oakridge. The archi- 
tects of the chapel were Spier, Rohns & 
Gehrke, of Detroit, who have kindly fur- 
nished us with plans, elevations and sec- 
tions that show the design and construc- 
tion in every detail. 
An addition of six acres was recently 
made to the cemetery and laid out by the 
cemetery force. All lots are sold under 
perpetual care, and the effort is made to 
conduct it on the loan plan as nearly as 
possible. The perpetual care fund now 
amounts to $8,000 and many of the old lot 
owners are making deposits for the per- 
petual care of their lots. 
OFFICE AND REST HOUSE, OAK RIDGE CEMETERY, MARSHALL, MICH. SPIER, 
ROHNS & GEHRKE, DETROIT, ARCHITECTS. 
NORTH ELEVATION, OFFICE AND SHELTER HOUSE, OAK RIDGE CEMETERY, MARSHALL, MICH. SCALE % INCH 
EQUALS ONE FOOT. 
