PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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RECEIVING VAULT, MOUNT EI.LIOTT CEMETERY, DETROIT, MICH. 
by 8 feet 6 inches, b\' l foot 8 inches. 'I’lic next 
stones are 20 feet 2 inches by 5 feet wide by i foot 
8 inches and the key is 4 feet 2 inches deep. 
Great care has been taken in the design to pro- 
vide for ventilation and drainage. An air space ex- 
tends under and at the back of the crypts to which 
air is admitted through ventilators, which passing 
through in a continuous current, finds its exit through 
the upper ventilators provided in the roof. The 
crypts have a fall from front to rear and the drain- 
age is carried away by suitably arranged ducts at 
the back. Two small windows at the rear of the 
structure, as shown in the plan, serve for lighting 
the interior of the vault. 
’I'he contractors were the Harrison Granite Co., 
of Chicago and Barre, Vt. 
Respect for the Dead. 
Our respect for the dead, when they areyV/vi' 
dead is something wonderful, and the way we show 
it more wonderful still. We show it with black 
feathers and black horses; we show it with black 
dresses and black heraldries; we show it with costly 
obelisks and sculptures of sorrow, which spoil half 
of our most beautiful cathedrals. We show it with 
frightful gratings and vaults, and lids of dismal 
stone, in the midst of the quiet grass; and last, and 
not least, we show it by permitting ourselves to tell 
any number of lies we think amiable or credible, in 
the epitaph. 
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Now, this being one of the most complete and 
special ways of wasting money; — no money being 
less productive of good, or of any percentage what- 
ever, than that which we shake away from the ends 
of undertaker’s plumes — -it is of course the duty of 
all good economists, and kind persons, to prove 
and proclaim continually, to the poor as well as the 
rich, that respect for the dead is not really shown 
by laying great stones on them to tell us where they 
are laid; but by remembering where they are laid, 
without a stone to help us; trusting them to the 
sacred grass and saddened flowers; and still more, 
that respect and love are shown to them, not by 
great monuments to them which we build with our 
hands, but by letting the monuments stand which 
they build with their ozvu. — John Ruskin. 
