Show GREENWOOD THE repository OF leabel BODIES one grave abe remains of over one hundred persons correspondence of imagine that you are in greenwood cemetery it is a big place of about six hundred acre s with twenty two miles of carriage track eighteen miles of pathway burial lots and persons have been buried here since 1840 it is a beautiful place you see naturally full of gulches and knolls all of which have been utilized to their fullest extent by time and money it has eight lakes each with a fountain and tho grass just feel of it is soft as green plush natural trees are supplemented by planted ones all trimmed and trained to their best behavior but you will notice flowers you ever saw in a cemetery it looks as though those buried in greenwood disdained disdain ed so cheap an ornament as flowers see that purple hydrangea first you ever saw same with me that bell tolls all day and that with the suggestive click of tho chisel mingling with the chirp of the grasshoppers and the grind of the carriage wheels are the sounds which break the stillness of this vast city of the dead this huge receiving tomb is capable of holding bodies beecher is lying in there now waiting for the completion of tho subscription list here lies john koach the great shipbuilder who recently died of a disease similar to that which carried off grant here is a monument erected by an old sea captain fifteen years before his death see that monument like a temple I 1 forget whose it is but it was made by the prisoners at sing sing and is a magnificent piece of workmanship that hom lot is on property owned by the family before the cemetery was incorporated corp orated so with the large round lot below where the row of headstones is ranged that was a whole churchyard and burying ground when the church had to be moved tho bones were collected in one spot and these stones and this monument erected to their memory here Is the most expensive and at the same time the most interesting monument on the grounds it is that of a young lady who on her seventeenth birthday was thrown from her carriage and killed while on her way to a ball in the monument is cut a life sized likeness of the girl representing her just as she was arrayed for tho fatal festival the lace ribbons flowers and jewels of her costume are faithfully reproduced in tho alabaster at a cost of hero is a monument and bronze bust of horace greeley the pedestal representing a rough plow a pen and scroll and the young greeley at his printing case there is the monument of the browns bankers six of whom were lost together at sea it is descriptive of the sad catastrophe the fir emens monument is surmounted by the figure of a fireman holding a little child in his arms and things connected with tho department are illustrated on its base this monument is a touching tribute to the memory of the foster mother of harry howard ex chief engineer of the firo department and represents her as adopting him when saved from a burning building as a child but the most unique thing in interment is that of five e maiden ladies sisters choso whoso ages ranged from ono hundred to one hundred and seventeen years and who all died within a few years of each other the lot in which they are buried is called the old maids alot this tomb of C K garrison ex mayor ol 01 san francisco is a beautiful thing in oriental design this wonderful monument to george law is a testimonial to a man of pluck when a young fellow he walked through the streets of new york wanting a meal passing by some new buildings by some accident a hod carrier fell oaf dead at his feet hungry george applied for the job and got it the soldiers monument is an object of interest in any cemetery but this of greenwood out tops anything I 1 ever saw the hugo spire is effective in black and gray figures representing the four divisions of the army were cast of captured cannons A unique fence is made of guns with fixed bayonets A sad sight is this large circular lot in which are buried unrecognizable victims of the I 1 brooklyn theatre fire in 1876 greenwood is a great museum of mortality |