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the advantages and improvements which our pres- 
nt knowledge suggests as proper and desirable for 
such cemetery requirements. The cost of the struct- 
ure was eight thousand dollars, and the Cemetery 
Company paid two thousand dollars for the site. 
It was erected after thedesign of Mr. Edwin Wil- 
bur, Architect, of Newport, R. I., by Mr. Will- 
iam Gosling, contractor. 
Constitutional Right to Construct Highways Through 
Cemeteries. 
An exceedingly important question has been 
passed upon by the supreme court of Michigan in 
the case of Woodmere Cemetery v. Roulo. The 
highway commissioner ordered a highway to be op- 
ened along the north side of the cemetery, con- 
demning therefor a strip of land which was not in 
use for burial purposes at the time, but which had 
been purchased and was being held with a view to 
such use. This was resisted on the ground that the 
cemetery was owned by a corporation formed un- 
der a provision of law that “No streets, highways, 
railways, sewers or canals shall be opened or con- 
structed through the grounds of such corporation, 
without the assent of the board of directors, grant- 
ed at a meeting of such board, called for the pur- 
pose of considering the propriety of granting such 
assent.” The court decides in favor of the high- 
way. It says that we are not to presume that the 
legislature intended to barter away sovereign rights 
when by general law it provided that lands held by 
cemetery associations should not be taken for high- 
ways without consent of their board of directors. 
An attempt to do so would be futile. Therefore, 
the provision under consideration, if of any valid 
ity whatever, must be considered as no more than 
an assurance of immunity from unnecessary inter- 
ference by local officers, by precluding their action, 
•without the consent of the cemetery associations, 
until the legislative will should be manifested by 
further legislation. The legislature could, when it 
should see fit, lay out a highway across these 
grounds by a special act, without passing a general 
law providing for state roads through all cemeteries. 
This is the effect to be given the act of 1893 provi- 
ding for the opening of a public street through the 
above mentioned cemetery. 
The wonderful East Indian statues and temples 
cut from the solid bowlders and stratified rock are 
duplicated, if not excelled, by the Afghans, says 
Prof. J. A. Gay, in one of his recent lectures on the 
far east. He tells of a stone statue of a god which 
he saw at Bamian, near the Russian frontier, which 
was one of a score, but was the giant of the lot, 
being one hundred and seventy-three feet in height 
and large in proportion. It was used as a store- 
house for grain, and at that time contained over 
two thousand bushels. 
Confederate flonument, Chicago. 
A most important monument, in point of public 
interest, was dedicated on Decoration Day this year 
in Chicago. It was that erected to the memory of 
the Confederate prisoners of war, who died in 
Camp Douglas, Chi- 
cago, and were bur- 
ied in Oakwoods 
Cemetery of that 
city. All over the 
country attention 
had been drawn to 
this on account of 
the conflicting senti- 
ments expressed, 
but the decided 
manner in which 
Chicago took it up, 
and made of it an 
event long to be re- 
membered, and of 
a possible immense 
good to the country, 
settled the question 
and in a character- 
istic manner. The 
decorations about 
this monument 
CONFEDERATE MONUMENT, were most pi'ofuse. 
OAKWOODS CEMETERY, CHICAGO. floral Wealth of 
the South was freely drawn upon, and several car- 
loads of palmettos, palms, magnolia blossoms, 
jessamine and various flowers and wreaths, were re- 
ceived from the warm hearted Southern people and 
placed about the monument or distributed over the 
graves of blue and gray alike. , 
The four guns which stand guard at the cor- 
ners of the monument, and which had done deadly 
service on both sides, having been captured by the 
Confederates at Chickamauga and retaken by the 
Eederates at Nashville, were spiked and silenced 
forever. The ceremony was a memorable occasion, 
fraught with many possibilities for future good. 
The monument, herewith illustrated, stands 
something over thirty-six feet high. It is con- 
structed of Georgia granite, furnished by the 
Southern Granite Co,, of Atlanta, Ga. The bot- 
tom base is fifteen feet six inches square. The die 
six feet square by three feet high. On top of a 
battlement crowned shaft stands a heroic figure of a 
Confederate infantryman in a pose suggesting the 
resignation of a brave man to the inevitable. 
