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PARK AND CC/ACTCRY. 
THE BLATZ MAUSOLEUM, FOREST HOME CEMETERY, MILWAUKEE, WIS. 
The Blatz flausoleuni, Milwaukee, Wis. 
4 he Blatz Mausoleum, erected last year in For- 
est Home cemetery, Milwaukee, Wis., from designs 
of Mr. Chas. A. Fink, architect, is one of the re- 
cent examples of costly memorial architecture. It 
is constructed of Barre granite on a ground plan, 
the extreme dimensions of which are, 29 feet by 23 
feet 9 inches, and it has a height of 30 feet. It is 
massive in every way, some exceptionally large 
stones having been used in its construction, and the 
ornamental features, moldings, reeds and festoons 
lend themselves to the solidity of appearance of the 
structure. The interior walls are of marble and the 
ceiling is of mosaic panels and marble ribs. Itcon- 
tains thirty catacombs and two in an Italian marblg 
sarcophagus, which rests on a Sienna marble slab 
placed in the centre of the vestibule. It is lighted 
by nine stained glass windows and it has bronze 
gates. It was built by the Milwaukee Monument 
Co., at a cost of about 140,000. 
The old George IV. tavern in Portugal street. 
London, which Dickens’ commentators unite in 
saying is the house which the novelist described in 
“Pickwick’, has just been sold at auction for ^37,- 
750. It is not stated what its future will be, but 
such incidents remind one that in the many radical 
improvements carried out in London, very few of 
the spots made famous by Dickens remain. 
