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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
FORM. 
ORIGINAL DEVELOPMENT OF TABLET 
Kimball Brothers, Lincoln, Neb., Contrs. 
plicity of line. It was cut in Barre gran- 
ite by McDonnell & Sons in their own 
plant at Barre and was erected in Forest 
Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, N. Y. It meas- 
ures 4 feet 6 inches by 3 feet on the 
ground and has a total height of 9 feet 7 
inches. The urn is of standard bronze. 
One of the finest cemetery memorials yet 
developed along simple lines is the “Mul- 
len” memorial designed and erected by 
Kimball Brothers, of Lincoln, Neb. This 
form is an original one and is a combina- 
tion in design of the sarcophagus and tablet 
styles. It has the graceful, upright lines 
of the best of the tablet monuments and 
the massiveness of the sarcophagus, and 
the simplicity and harmony in decoration 
that distinguishes true art. The simple 
classic frieze, the lilies carved into a cross 
on the end and the little rosettes have been 
used with rare skill to produce an effect of 
richness and dignity without ornateness. 
For simple, medium-sized granite work it 
would be difficult to find a more beautiful 
form than this. It is of Barre granite, 6-Ox 
3-3xl-3 at base and 4-9x1-9x3-10 die, and 
was cut for Kimball Brothers by Rossi & 
Casselini, of Barre. 
A beautiful tablet memorial embodying a 
very expressive and appealing original sym- 
bolic sculpture is the “Hoit” memorial in 
Mt. Hope Cemetery, Chicago. This is a very 
simple stele 7 feet 4 inches high, executed 
in pink Tennessee marble. The sculpture 
is intended to suggest the idea of lifting 
the veil of the hereafter from the eye of 
the soul. The expression of the face and 
the treatment of the drapery to merge the 
sculpture into the stone has been very 
skilfully handled. Below in incised let- 
ters appears this quotation from Browning: 
“The best is yet to be; the last of life for 
which the first was made.” This monu- 
ment was erected by Mr. Lowell Hoit in 
memory of his wife, and it is the work of 
Evelyn B. Longman, the well-known New 
York sculptor. The marble was cut by 
Piccirilli Brothers, of New York. 
HOIT MEMORIAL, CHICAGO. AND CLOSE VIEW OF ITS SCULPTURE. 
Evelyn B. Longman, Sc. 
