Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 199, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1911 — Says We Will Have Mauseleum Whether We Want It or Not. [ARTICLE]

Says We Will Have Mauseleum Whether We Want It or Not.

The Monticello Journal says that Rensselaer will have a mausoleum. The cemetery trustees, the city council and the city attorney decided that we would hot have one and refused to give space in the cemetery for the erection at one and the city attorney said that they would go farther and refuse to grant a permit for the erection of a mausoleum on ground within the corporation and outside the cemetery. The couhciT became convinced that the plan suggested by Dr. Evan Tucker and Mr. Austin, the promoters, was not economical, and that if carried out on the lines they proposed some one would make a profit of about $30,000. They said that they would reserve the right to erect a mausoleum themselves and sell the crypts at a figure not exceeding SIOO each, whereas the promoters expected to sell them at from $l5O to S2OO. They also figured that they could erect a 400-crypt mausoleum and after paying for the building and the right to use the patent form of crypt construction, they could deposit in a bank or invest SIO,OOO, thus providing for permanent maintenance and upkeep, and still have a substantial balance by selling the burial privileges at SIOO. - So they recided that there would be no mausoleum. The Monticello Journal, however, says there will be one built here, and we are wondering where the Journal gets its information.