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THE AMERICAN UPLIFT MOVEMENT, 
Another important consideration in connection with 
the underground vault is its immunity from injury due 
to the elements. Properly constructed on modern prin- 
ciples, with brick walls laid in cement, and below the 
frost line, it should be proof against all the ills to which 
open air structures are subject. 
The underground vault would seem to be a return to 
very ancient principles of sepulture, and it undoubted- 
ly meets the approval of those able to afford it, be- 
cause it modifies so many of the objections against earth 
burial. To those interested in the lawn plan of modern 
cemetery practice, it promises to do away with much 
unnecessary stonework, and in a certain measure, com- 
pels the adoption of a class of memorials less liable 
to obstruct the views, or disturb the harmony of the 
landscape gardener’s effects to secure the effects of nat- 
ural beauty. 
The July number of The World’s Work is a special 
issue devoted to the “American Uplift,” and contains 
a remarkable series of articles recounting the progress 
that has been made in many directions in improving the 
conditions of American life. “The Uplift in American 
Cities,” is a handsomely illustrated article, prepared 
jointly by J. Horace McFarland and Clinton Rogers 
Woodruff, telling of the great forces at work for civic 
betterment, showing what they have accomplished in 
our foremost cities. Illustrations of parks, public 
grounds, street and other improvements, show in a 
striking way how the cities have been beautified. “Our 
Uplift Through Outdoor Life,” by Dallas Lore Sharp, 
and “How American Taste Is Improving,” by Charles 
H. Caffin, will also be of especial interest to improve- 
ment workers. Some of the other articles treat of : 
The uplift in business ; content in work, etc. 
CROSS SECTION OF CRYPTS SIDE BY SIDE, WITH 
PARTITION WALL. 
CRYPTS SIDE BY SIDE, NO PARTITION WALL. 
