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PAjfVK AND CEMETERY 
acter and the requirements of the structure were ac- 
cepted or rejected. 
The problem was to furnish a receiving vault and 
chapel for the use of the cemetery and the two were 
separated by placing the space for the catacombs on a 
lower level with an entrance at the rear of the struc- 
ture. The chapel is all that can be seen from three 
sides and consists of a portico and one large room, 
the floor of which is divided into a large and small 
space by a railing. In the larger space are seats and 
in the center of the smaller one the coffln slowly rises 
on an elevator from the vault below and rests upon a 
marble dais while the services are held. A drive leads 
to the great front door of the chapel and another de- 
scending the hill reaches the front door of the vault. 
All the appointments are perfect. 
From the artistic point of yiew the structure as- 
sumes a new interest. Everything is to be commended. 
A reference to the photogra’phs will show the propor- 
tion and style of the chapel. The material is a light, 
fine grained Barre granite' and all the delicate charac- 
teristic details of the Greek Ionic order are faithfullv 
carried out in molding, capital and column. Over the 
large door opening is probably as fine a piece of carv- 
ing as has yet been done in granite. A massive bronze 
door opens into a rectangular room lined with mar- 
ble. The walls are ornamented with extraordinarily 
large friezes of glass mosaic representing the voyage 
of life, encircling the room and meeting at the great 
window in the end, overlooking the lake, as shown in 
our first illustration. 
This window is one of the most wonderful speci- 
mens of the glass painter’s art in the world. Of great 
size and surpassing beauty of color, no words can con- 
vey an idea of its overpowering impression on the 
mind. The subject is the “River of Life.” 
Much delicate exquisite work in marble inlaying can 
be seen in the marble and wainscoting. 
Flubbell & Benes, of Cleveland, were the architects. 
Tiffany & Co., of New York, did the interior decora- 
tions, Norcross Bros., the marble work, and Barclay 
Bros., of Barre, and Joseph Carabelli, of Cleveland, 
the cutting and placing of the granite. 
Ora Coltman. 
INTERIOR OF WADE MEMORIAL CHAPEL, LAKE VIEW CEMETERY, CLEVELAND, O. 
