Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 206, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1911 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

A PALACE—OE-A HOLE. " Which will it be? The sentiment is fast turning in favor A Grand Mausoleum, and why should it be otherwise? It is fairly safe to predict that ground burial will disappear withiq ten years. When one comes to consider the cost of a plot of ground, the digging of the grave, the rough box, the cement vault, if such is chosen, the foot stone, the monument, and compare the aggregate cost to that of a private tomb, finished in pure, white marble, with floral ledges, large marble corridors, mosaic floors, tinted opalescent glass windows, solid steel and cement throughout, with an exterior as pure white as it is possible to make it, all for $l5O a tomb. What' is the comparison? The one offers a cold, wet, unfriendly earth burial, at greater cost than the marble palace affords. Is there a single argument against it? Not one. No yearly assessment to keep the grass green, the flowers in bloom, the tombstone erect; while the dead lies rotting amongst earth, vermin and water. The Mausoleum to be erected here is the most extravagant for beauty and architecture of any yet built. One prominent citizen met Dr. Tucker on the street the other, day and said, “Doctor, you’ve got what I want, and what I propose to buy, if you succeed in your proposition here. I’d buy for myself and wife without hesitation.” This citizen had seen the water-colored design and all the plans of the interior. He says it’s beautiful. Another citizen, prominent in public service, who had recently attended an entombment of an old friend in one of these buildings, when asked what lie thought of it, answered that it was all right and could not be any more beautiful. The people are not going to buy holes at an extravagant cost, when they become acquainted with a snowwhite tomb made sanitary.—Adv.