"Born of the Spirit;" or, Gems from the Book of LifeOsborne, Zenas
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"Born of the Spirit;" or, Gems from the Book of Life
Osborne, Zenas
Free Methodist Church of North America; Osborne, Zenas
COLLIS P. HUNTINGTON, president of the Central Pacific railway, and
one of the best known of the magnates of Wall street, has laid some
curious plans for his grave. He intends that his remains shall be
laid to rest at Woodlawn, in a mausoleum more pretentious and more
costly and of greater proportions than any yet built. The stones that
will be used in its construction he proposes shall each be of such
enormous weight that no ordinary railroad car can carry them. They
will be brought as near as possible to the cemetery by boat, and then
rolled on immense rollers over the country roads to the site of the
tomb. If they have to cross over bridges, they will be strengthened
by new abutments.
JAY GOULD has made elaborate provision for the disposition of his
body after death; but nothing for his soul. He has erected on Central
avenue, in Woodhaven cemetery a costly and imposing structure. It
occupies the highest elevation of the grounds, and commands a view
of the 400 acres given up to _tenements_ of the dead. The ground
on which the mausoleum stands is 250 feet across, and is circular
in form. It cost $60,000. The mausoleum, the exterior of which is
modeled after one of the most famous buildings that once stood on the
Acropolis in Athens--the Parthenon cost $50,000. More than 800 tons
of Westerly granite was used in its construction. The building is
37 feet long and 19 feet wide, and is surrounded by Doric pillars,
thirty in number. Five pieces of solid granite compose the roof,
each piece being 30 feet long and 6 feet wide. The door is solid
bronze and cost $3,000. Within the mausoleum are twelve shelves or
catacombs, divided by an aisle 10 feet wide, at the end of which is
an ornate stained glass window, representing the heavenly choir.
Each of the catacombs is 8 feet long and 2½ feet deep. A heavy slab
of polished marble constitutes the face of each, and will doubtless
contain the name and so on of the person whose body is deposited
therein. Imbedded in each stone is a heavy bronze handle. No name
will appear on the outside of the mausoleum to show who lies buried
within. Many more rich business men of New York and other parts of
this country have made like preparation for their bodies when they
die.
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