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PARK AND CE/nCTERY. 
Chapel, Conservatory and Receiving Vault, Rose Hill 
Cemetery, Chicago. 
The accompany illustrations of the new Chapel, 
Conservatory and Receiving Vault combined, in 
course oferection. Rose Hill Cemetery, Chicago, rep- 
resents the most recent practice in such structures. 
The building and its details are from the design of Mr. 
Geo. H. Scott, C. E., superintendent of the cemetery. 
The building has two floors, the ground floor 
and the chapel floor. The ground floor which is 6 
inches above the level of the ground consists of re- 
ceiving room, boiler house, box, storage, toilet rooms, 
store rooms, coal house and crypts. The latter 
measures 30 feet by 15 feet and contains 28 crypts. 
The crypts are built in white-glazed brick-work 4 
inches thick, the floors being slate. They are sup- 
plied with fresh air by means of horizontal iron air 
pipes I inches in diameter, which are connected 
to the outside by an open iron grating sufficiently 
high to cover the whole of the ends of inlet pipes. 
The pipes are perforated within each crypt. The 
ventilation is by means of similar perforated pipes 
which are connected to two 12 ft. by 9 ft. , ventilating 
shafts built in the brickwork of the tower, each shaft 
being fitted with a powerful air-extractor. The air 
supply pipes are fixed at the lower front of crypts 
and the ventilating pipes at upper rear of same. By 
this means a continual current of air is passing 
through each crypt. The floors are slightly sloped, 
and an arrangement of water pipes is provided for 
the purpose of being able to have a run of water 
through each crypt, the water being carried along 
the backs of the crypts into the sewer. The divis- 
ions between crypts are of white glazed brick work, 
the doors being slate, fitted with heavy brass han- 
dles and are arranged on the “drop in” principle. 
The receiving room is built in white glazed brick 
work and measures 30 ft. by 1 5 ft.; in the centre is 
a receiving bench with slate top, immediately un- 
der the hydraulic lowering apparatus and elevator, 
which is used for lowering the caskets from the 
chapel floor above. 
The boiler house is 25 ft. by 12 ft., and con- 
tains the heating apparatus, coal-house, etc. 
The height of this floor is 9 feet, with walls 2 
feet thick the full height, the inner 12 inches is brick 
work, the out portion is 12 inches rusticated gran- 
ite. 
The chapel floor contains vestibule, chapel, 
chancel, conservatory, robing room, two toilet 
