Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 195, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1911 — CEMETERY TRUSTEES TURN DOWN MAUSOLEUM PLAN. [ARTICLE]

CEMETERY TRUSTEES TURN DOWN MAUSOLEUM PLAN.

Refuse to Deed Place In Cemetery For Building and Frown on Erection of General Vault. Two men who have been trying to interest the cemetery trustees and others in the erection of a mausoleum have failed to impress them and also the city council and the city attorney that their plan is deserving of consideration. *

They ask the trustees to deed to them without cost a plat of ground large enough to erect a 300-crypt mausoleum, which they propose to build and take the chances of selling the vaults at prices ranging from 9150 to 9200 each. The trustees were told that Lowell, Crown Point, Val-< paraiso, Kankakee and other places had gone into the plan and that Monticello was Just getting ready to build one. They explained the advantages of the mausoleum form of burial and showed illustrations and plans that were very attractive. The mausoleums are erected with a large chapel within and are nicely finished interiorly witfi marble. The trustees did not feel, however, that they cared to deed ground in . the cemetery to aid a scheme to make money and figured out how easily the promotors could clean up from 520,000 to 530,000 on the deal, an<J they decided not to deed the ground and not to permit the mausoleum to be built in the cemetery grounds unless I£ey should decide to build one at some future time, when, they say, they will save to purchasers the promoters’ profit. The promoters, however, are reluctant to leave and have procured an option for the purchase of property adjacent to the cemetery, where they say they will build if the cemetery trustees do not decide to let them build in the cemetery. City Attorney Leopold has been advising with the trustees and Is opposed to the erection of a mausoleum by any company that seeks to big profit and he says that city ordinance restricts the burial of dead outside the cemetery, and that even if the promoters acquired property outside the cemetery, but inside the corporation, burials could not be made therein.- It is probable that the promoters will be unable to do any business here.