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PARK AND ce:me:te:ry. 
The Lraxirel Glen Mausoleum. 
The Laurel Glen mausoleum, Cuttingsville, Vt., 
erected by John P. Bowman, a wealthy New Yorker, 
before his death, is an interesting structure. It is of 
Grecian design and stands on a rolling terrace over- 
looking the country road and is cared for perpetually 
bv a legacy of $50,000 left by INIr. Bocvman for that 
purpose. The ground dimensions are 18 by 25 feet, and 
height to apex of roof 20 feet. Decorations of Greek 
foliage, with a laurel frieze, ornament the exterior, and 
the entrance is closed by a granite door formed from 
one slab weighing over three tons. In front of this is 
a summer door of Ijronze, j^lindly hung and fastened, 
with a backing of brass wire netting to keep out birds 
w ithout obstructing tbe view of the interior. 
The superstructure l)egins with a vertical ashler 
course two feet high, capped with a beveled and 
moulded w-ater-course twelve inches thick, h'rom this 
to the frieze the w'alls consist of six courses of regular 
a.shler work in lilocks weighing from three to six tons 
each, and the angles are decorated with a laurel mould- 
ing. The friezes are divided into panels by Trigly])hs 
and band mould, each panel bearing a festoon of laurel 
in high relief. 
The roof is composed of eight slaljs, one foot in 
thickness, rabbeted and grooved at the inclined joints, 
and having a total weight of forty tons. 
.At the entrance stands a life-size statue in Italian 
marble of Air. Bowman, on the point of entering the 
tomb. It represents him with one foot on the step, 
holding a wreath of marble immortelles and a large 
key with which to unlock the door to the chamber of 
death. 
' The tomb is cared for by six trustees, one of whom 
resides in the house formerly occupied by the Bowman 
family. A conservatory is maintained solely for the 
UAtJREL GEEN MAUSOLEUM. CUTTINGSVILLE. VT. 
adornment of the mausoleum and grounds surround- 
ing it. 
The lawn and grounds are laid out in rolling ter- 
races. planted with rare flowers and plants, and orna- 
mented with a Grecian fountain. 
G. B. Croff, New York City, was the architect. 
THe Ice Storm 
One of the greatest storms in tbe way of destruction 
of trees ever known in the vicinity of Philadelpbia oc- 
trees ON CHESTNUT AVE., PHILADELPHIA, AFTER STO <M. 
at Philadelphia. 
curred on A\’ashington's birthday last. A rain, turn- 
ing to ice as it fell, so weighed down branches that 
trees of most all kinds suffered, but more especially 
those of the silver maple, poplars, birches, lindens and 
the like. Huge limbs of six inches diameter snapped 
as well as smaller ones, and in many cases avenues 
were impassable for days until the limbs could be got 
away. To give some idea of the immense damage, we 
present photographs of portions of two avenues. The 
one with lining of maples on each side is Norwood 
avenue. Chestnut Hill ; the other, where the carriage 
appears, is Chestnut avenue, at the same place. Nor- 
wood avenue, though lined with limbs, as shown, is 
not damaged as badly as the other avenue, nor as badly 
as many other places and properties, for the reason 
tliat the trees were far too tall, and if the broken limbs 
are sawed off to leave a clean scar, and these scars 
painted to keep out moisture, the trees will be the 
bushier and better for their loss. These trees are of 
the silver maple, Acer dasycarpum. Wherever similar 
trees are they have suffered just as these have. The 
