PARK AND CEMBTERY. 
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WESTLAWN CEMETERY, CANTON, O, 
The universally lamented death of our late be- 
loved President, William McKinley, and the impos- 
ing ceremonies attending- his funeral have imparted 
to the cemetery in which his remains were finally 
deposited a national importance. More than this, 
his beautiful and consistent life, emphasized almost 
beyond the bounds of human appreciation on a death- 
bed, shall we say, divinely appointed, will undoubt- 
edly make Westlawn Cemetery, Canton, O., a sacred 
spot in our broad country, toward wbicb a national 
pilgrimage will be constantly setting. 
structed of rock-faced and dressed Massillon sand- 
stone, and built into the hillside, at a cost of some 
$ 5 , 000 . 
Westlawn Cemetery is a beautiful tract of rolling 
country, comprising some sixtv-five acres of well 
diversified ground. Its hills and valleys are accen- 
tuated by a fine stream, spanned by rustic stone 
bridges, and a picturesque waterfall adds to its gen- 
eral attractions. Tbe character of its topography 
lends itself to diversity of landscape views on every 
hand. Generally the land is covered with native oak 
forest, which has been inqjroved by other planting, 
but artificialitv has been avoifled as for as possible. 
receiving V.\UI.T, WESTn.A.WN CEMETERY, CANTON, OHIO, SHOWING KI.OKAI, TRIBUTES TO PRESIDENT MC KINEEY. 
Our readers will remember that our late Presi- 
dent’s home for very many years was in Canton, O., 
and his family burial lot was situated in the above 
named cemetery, and in this lot his fondest and sad- 
dest memories weue centered. In accordance with 
the usual custom of our counti-y, and for the lack,pn 
a certain sense, of a national valhalla, the public re- 
ceiving vault of the cemetery, for the time being, has 
become the temporary resting place of the i-nortal 
body of William McKinley. Our illustration shows 
the tomb after the funeral, but gives only a partial 
idea of the wealth of floral tributes, expressive of the 
international grief, deposited about the tomb and on 
the lawn. 
The vault was a gift to the association some years 
ago by Mrs. Frank Mason Werts in i-nemory of her 
deceased husband. It is of Romanesque design, con- 
The cemetery is fifty years old, so tlrat the lawn plan 
is a matter of progression, and is enforced as far as 
practicable. " i:,. 
It was the wish of the President that he should ’oe 
buried in the cemetery wherein lay his children and 
parents, and it is significant that no implied or ex- 
pressed desire of his life in respect to the disposition 
of his body when life had departed has been ques- 
tioned by the people. The grandly poised character, 
illumined by an abiding love for his feilow man, cul- 
minating in a death which set forth and emphasized 
the possibility of divinity in man, developed such uni- 
versal regard that all the ceremonies attending his 
funeral were performed with a loving service unex- 
celled in the annals associated with great public men. 
And Westlawn Cemetery has been given an heritage 
to be held in perpetual reverence and care. 
