Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 254, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1917 — WORKS EIGHT YEARS ON TOMB [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WORKS EIGHT YEARS ON TOMB

Miss Melva Beatrice Wilson has spent her summers for eight consecutive years at work in Calvary cemetery, one of New York city’s greatest cities iof the dead. ' She has been engaged on the sculptural exterior and the mural interior decoratlion —of chapel and mausoleum erected by Cardinal Farley for* the prelates arid priests of the archdiocese of New York. ——The ehapel and the mausoleum are situated on the highest point In the cemetery, with a wonderful view commanding the turmoil of the, city on one side and the wide expanse of Long Island sound on the other. .The chapel and the hundred catacomblike sepulchres are early Byzantine in architecture. The reputed cost is .half a milliqq dollars. The structure is bllilt of hard blue Indiana limestone.