Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1911 — MAUSOLEUM PROJECT [ARTICLE]

MAUSOLEUM PROJECT

Will Come Up Before City Council Again Monday Night. The International Mausoleum Co., of Chicago, in their determination not to see Rensselaer without one of their remarkable mausoleums, has acquired an option on the Mrs. Zard property north of the cemetery. The proposed building is remarkable for beauty, strength and sanitation, being, in fact, the only scientific method of sanitation now in use. A standing reward has been offered of $1,000.00 to anyone detecting any odor from decaying corpses within any of the buildings having their stamp of approval. This plan of doing away with the burying of people has •so grown in popularity in Indiana as seen by the large number of buildings completed and in course of erection. One of the finest of these built at Connersville, holding 500. tombs. Lowell, Valparaiso, Crown Point, Rochester, Peru, Franklin, Hopewell, Monticello, and many other towps either has one or is about to have a building completed. All of these are built under the license of the International people As the city council meets again next Monday night it is to -be hoped that our city will take up this proposition in earnest and acquire the rights and control of this beautiful and sane method of disposal of its dead. Dr. Evan Tucker is again here to push this matter in earnest and in as far as is possible work in co-operation with the trustees of the cemetery and the city council for the closing of a contract so that the building shall be built in the cemetery. xx