PARK AND CEMETERY. 
VII 
HAWLEY SARCOPHAGUS, CHATHAM, N. Y 
New Evidence 
bearing upon the stability of marble has recently been brought to 
light. An expedition sent out by the University of Chicago succeeded 
in digging up an old marble statue. It was embedded in the clay walls 
of a trench near Bismya on the plains of Mesopotamia, and the inscrip- 
tion on the shoulder of the white marble figure could be distinctly 
traced. Dr. Edgar James Banks, the man who had charge of the work, 
declares that the statue must be 5,000 years old. 
This gives striking emphasis to an already well known fact. The 
world is full of examples which bring out the endurance of marble, 
but in the present instance, a piece of sculpture — complete even to the 
inscription — has come down to us through 50 centuries. It’s a hard 
record to beat. 
The Hawley Sarcophagus is a white marble memorial which we finished for If '. P. Pratt, 
Chatham, N. Y. It forms a part of the mausoleum which was reared in memory of Edwin A. 
Hawley, the railroad magnate. 
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