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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
COMPLETE MAUSOLEUM IN THIRTEEN STONES 
DULL MAUSOLEUM, HARRISBURG, PA., COMPLETE IN 
THIRTEEN STONES. 
The Dull Mausoleum illustrated here is not- 
able as an unusually simple, massive structure, 
of good lines, with its exterior construction 
formed from only thirteen pieces of granite. 
The joints of the single big stones that make 
up the side walls may be distinguished in our 
illustration, and the division joint of the stones 
that form the body of the front walls may also 
be seen just above the cornice of the severely 
simple pediment over the entrance. The angel 
figures wrought from the granite on either side 
of the door, are delicately cut in low relief, and 
are placed in a particularly effective and im- 
pressive situation. These faintly outlined fig- 
ures are the only decoration of the exterior. 
The simple, square lines, and undecorated 
architectural masses have been consistently 
followed throughout in this structure 
This mausoleum stands on the A. J. Dull 
family lot in Harrisburg, Pa., and was erect- 
ed by the Colwell Granite Co., Farmers’ Bank 
Building, of Pittsburgh. 
The mausoleum is built from light Barre granite from 
the E. L. Smith & Co.’s quarry. The size is 12x14 ft.; 
the four side walls are constructed of five pieces of gran- 
ite; the four vertical joints at the corners are dovetailed 
the full height of the wall and dropped full of American 
manganese bronze anchors and then poured with cement. 
The roof stone is one piece 12x14 ft. by 2 ft. thick in the 
center and is grooved so as to fit down over the wall 
iy 2 in. The walls are mortised and tenoned into the base. 
The interior is made of Blanco P. Italian marble and 
contains but two crypts which are unusually elegant in 
design and construction. Eighteen months was spent in 
securing the marble for the interior and every 'cargo that 
came in from Italy for a year and a half was inspected 
until finally an elegant piece was secured. 
FIGHTING THE PUBLIC MAUSOLEUM IN ILLINOIS 
The community mausoleum proposition which is being 
INTERIOR OF COMMUNITY MAUSOLEUM AT DECATUR, 
ILL., SHOWING DEFECTIVE JOINTING BETWEEN CRYPTS. 
vigorously promoted in a number of middle western 
states, especially in Michigan, Iowa, and Illinois, has met 
with some strong opposition in two Illinois towns that 
indicates to some extent the methods that may be used 
in opposing the movement. Where the legitimate argu- 
ments against these structures are intelligently and forc- 
ibly presented, it is evident that the public mausoleum 
promoters do not always find the clear sailing that their 
exuberant literature would lead one to believe. 
The chief arguments against the community mauso- 
leum are the generally doubtful sanitation, cheap con- 
struction, the insufficiency of the funds set aside for the 
endowment, and the lack of proper responsibility for 
the maintenance of the structures. They are usually con- 
structed by local companies whose officers know nothing 
about the exacting character of mausoleum building, and 
left in their charge or in the hands of the local cemetery, 
with funds ridiculously insufficient to rebuild or repair 
them if lapses in construction in the future when they are 
filled with bodies should reveal defects or deterioration 
that might make them dangerous from a sanitary point 
of view. 
These arguments have all been definitely and forcibly 
presented in an address by Bellett Lawson, Jr., Secretary 
of the Association of American Cemetery Superintendents, 
printed in Park and Cemetery for September, 1911, and in 
another address by Walter Trigg in the Monumental News, 
February, 1912. These contain the best campaign material 
opponents of mausoleums can find by which to present to 
the people of the community the arguments in opposition 
to the community mausoleum. Where the arguments con- 
tained in them are widely circulated in a community there 
