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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
OFFICE BUILDING, MT. AUBURN CEMETERY, BERWYN, CHICAGO, ILL. 
18 by 40 feet, with beamed ceiling; the 
oak trimming is finished in dark 
green. Wainscoting, window sills and 
floors are of mosaic tiling. The lava- 
tories for women and the rest room 
are similarly finished, and have the 
latest sanitary equipment. The build- 
ing is lighted by electricity and heat- 
ed with a hot-water system, and a 
water system has been installed ex- 
pressly for this structure. The wait- 
ing and rest rooms are adequately 
provided with mission furniture, the 
comfort of the patrons being carefully 
considered. Mt. Auburn cemetery, of 
which Mr. George Schrade is super- 
intendent, and for which plans were 
made by Mr. O. C. Simonds, was de- 
scribed in these columns a few years 
ago, not long after it was opened for 
interments. 
CURIOUS CEMETERIES FOR 
Pretentious burial places set apart 
for animals but resembling in every 
particular those for human beings 
are to be found in various parts of 
the world. The oldest of these is 
the Animal Cemetery in Hyde Park, 
London, which was opened in 1881, 
chiefly through the efforts of the 
Duke of Cambridge. One of the 
first interments was that of the 
Duke’s terrier. 
At each grave are a headstone and a 
footstone, and many of the epitaphs 
are framed in affectionate language. 
One of them reads: “Surely he was 
not a dog only; he was human.” The 
hope of life beyond death for dogs as 
well as for humans is expressed in 
such inscriptions as these: “We are 
only sleeping, master”; “Till we meet 
again,” “She will give me joyous 
greeting when I pass the golden gate.” 
Biblical quotations also appear, one 
being from Luke xii, 6: “Not one of 
them is forgotten before God.” All 
available space in the plot was filled 
some years ago, and a new animal 
cemetery was then started at Moles- 
worth, Huntingdon. 
The dog cemetery of Paris is the- 
most elaborate of the burial grounds 
of this sort. It was opened in 1900. 
In the first four years only twenty- 
seven dogs, three parrots and a mon- 
key were buried there. Recently it 
has become the fashion among weal- 
thy Parisian families to bury their pets 
there. 
Some costly memorials have been 
reared over the graves. The image of 
a famous St. Bernard dog is carved in 
relief with an infant on its back, the 
inscription reading: “He saved forty 
persons and was killed by the forty- 
ANIMAL PETS 
first.” A pedestal in red granite bears 
these words in golden letters: “Palm- 
ers, brave little dog, we weep for you 
always and we shall never replace 
you.” On the tombstone of one of 
her pets another mourner says that 
if she “cannot accompany the dear 
and noble animals” she does not wish 
for heaven. 
Family vaults are found in this 
cemetery, some containing half a doz- 
en bodies of pets. As is the custom 
in Parisian cemeteries for human be- 
ings, the graves in the dogs’ ceme- 
tery are leased, but not sold. A lease 
of five years costs $5; for ten years, 
$10; for twenty years, $15, and for 
thirty years, $20. When a lease ex- 
pires the gravestones are removed and 
a new interment is made. A dog’s 
body is taken to the cemetery for $1 
and buried for $1 more. No cere- 
