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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
the grounds, and the many acres covered 
with grass, shrubs and trees not used for 
burial purposes give the park-like appear- 
ance and beautiful landscape. All lots and 
graves are sold with provision for perpet- 
ual care ; that is, the lawn and flowers are 
in that style. On the left of the gateway, 
as you enter, is the superintendent’s house, 
of eight rooms, office, parlor, dining room 
and kitchen, on the ground floor, and four 
bedrooms above. On the right are a labor- 
ers' cottage, tool house, etc. The whole is 
the receiving vaults, thirteen in number. 
These vaults are roofed over at about ten 
feet above the floor, and at this height are 
the sills of the windows of the clere- 
story lighting the chapel. The interior is 
beautifully decorated. The windows are 
ENTRANCE AND GATE LODGE, FAIRMOUNT CEMETERY, DENVER. 
watered, grass mowed, shrubs and trees 
trimmed, without expense to the lot owner. 
More than $250,000 has been expended in 
beautifying, improving and embellishing 
the grounds in addition to the cost of the 
land. Over $1,000,000 has been invested in 
monuments, memorials and mausoleums. 
Reasonable rules have been made govern- 
ing the care of the grounds and the erec- 
tion of monuments and memorials. 
The perpetual care or endowment fund 
is constantly being augmented from the 
sale of lots and other sources, and from 
the income from the careful investment of 
this fund which affords assurance that the 
cemetery will always be kept up without 
further expense to lot holders. 
The gate lodge, built of blue-white sand- 
stone from the designs of H. T. E. Wen- 
dell, architect, is a building 80 feet long on 
the main front, with a depth of 26 feet. 
The main entrance to the cemetery is 
through the center of this building. The 
roadway passes under a massive arch sup- 
ported upon eight columns with carved 
caps. This gateway is 16 feet wide, and 
the arch rises to a height of 20 feet at the 
crown. The style is French Gothic, and 
all of the mouldings and ornamental work 
have been carefully worked out in detail 
under one roof of a steep pitch. In the 
main entrance are elaborate wrought-iron 
gates of a special design, in keeping with 
the other work, and with a small wicket 
gate within the larger one for foot pas- 
sengers. 
Passing through this gate lodge, the road 
sweeps gracefully to the east on the left, 
and winds up a low hill, upon the sum- 
mit of which stands the Mortuary Chapel, 
with its receiving vaults. 
The Mortuary Chapel, of blue and 
white sandstone, is in the Ecclesiastical 
French Gothic style of the thirteenth cen- 
tury, and has been very carefully worked 
out in all its details. It faces the east, 
and from its commanding position makes 
a prominent feature of the cemetery. The 
main portal is in the center of the wall : 
the door proper is six feet wide, and 
capped with delicately carved foliage. The 
large pointed arch is one of the main fea- 
tures of the front; also, a rose window, 
about six feet in diameter, with flowing 
tracery, and which is filled with stained 
glass. The dimensions of the chapel proper 
are 26 feet in width by 64 feet in depth, 
the west end being octagonal in form, and 
surrounded on all sides but the front by 
filled with tracery and colored glass, mak- 
ing the interior bright and light. The roof 
is pierced gable, surmounted by a tower 
SO feet in height. The vaults for tem- 
porary interment are capable of holding 
six bodies each, or seventy-eight in all. 
One of the most interesting structures 
in the grounds is the crematory, a light 
gray brick building, decorated and fur- 
nished in light, cheerful colors. 
The machinery for cremation includes 
two retorts with the latest improved air 
and oil atomizers, and four bodies per day 
can be cremated. Crude petroleum is used, 
just as it is taken from the oil wells. The 
oil is forced into the retorts at a tempera- 
ture of 100 degrees, and under pressure of 
40 pounds; the air at lj/j pounds pressure. 
This produces effective atomizing, there- 
fore high efficiency. The retort, previous 
to incineration, is heated, to a temperature 
of 800 to 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit. The 
temperature of retort at the time of cre- 
mation is 2.500 to 3,000 degrees Fahren- 
heit. There is no flame, smoke, odor or 
noxious gases, all' being consumed by ac- 
tion of intense heat. The time required 
for the complete cremation of an adult 
varies from 50 to 80 minutes; heating of 
