Show TIIE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY MOKNIXfl APRIL 27 1 ODO A Monument toller Adored Poodle-- Mi SOLITARY MOURNER Exclusiva Photo of Wealthy Society Woman Waapisg Over How Christine Norman's Curious Bequest Turned the Spotlight on the Unique Animal Cemetery Her F avoid t Do('( Grata la Ilartsdale GRIEVING HEIRESS Batty Randolph Aristocrat! Virginia Balia Decorating tho Grate ef Her Wired-HaireTerrier d the hope of meeting her dog in the hereafter in admired the beauty of Christina Norman wealthy actress were shocked recently by new of her sensational death leap from a twentieth story New York hotel window The extraordinary will she left Treated still greater surprise however For In her last testament Christine Norman willed 1500 of het $150000 fortune for the perpetual maintenance of the grave of Yo San her Japanese poodle and ralnily neglected to men tion her Invalided mother Yet far from being a lone instance of almost Incredible devotion to a dead pet this curious bequest ia dwarfed by hiundreds of similar bequests made bv rich people every year A visit made by the writer to the Ilartsdale New York Canine Cemetery where Yo San Is bulled revealed an astonishing instance of the number of people who have expended fortunes for large memorial tomb stones to their dead animal friends f $££ $25000 Marble Arch la Ilartsdale N Y Cemetery Marking Gravee ef Twe Pekinese t Canine "s tf'C'Udjs&i' Magnificent monument costing a much as $40-00and seemingly more ZlP'P' appropriate to the graves of Oriental emperors and potentates mark the plots where pet cats dogs horses parrots and even lions are burled Even more astonishing than these lavish outlays are other almost Incredible evidences of rich people’s strange devotion to their former pets V - J jtXmi 't f Thomas Russell Retired I Businese Man Tics a Rubber Ball Like Tbit t t Tombstone of Hia Gordon Setter The Bell la Re- - M pieced Every Chrietmae W ft- - S ( — An Amaxlng Testimonial of Lova— the $40000 Marble Tonib a Memorial to Ihair Five Doga " v- - Mourners who kneel weepingly at cat and dog heaped with exgrave pensive flowers and toys and bearing carved epi tanhs expressing Inconsolable sorrow and hopes of meeting pets in ths hereafter are encountered again and again in this uiiKiue graveyard ChristinewillNorman’s which strange centered public at tention on this am Bring lov of society and stage people for dead animals also marked the tragio climax of a Broad way career torn by conflicting gusty emotions and guided hand invisible the by of fate Fantastically in volved in that bright life was YoSan For while the little dog lived the god he amed upon Christine Norman Stage success was hers and acctama- - Ererlrd by the Rich M F Walih Family of Mt Vernon N Y the epitaph: "Only a dog but such lov e bo gave Could not bovo perished in the grove So faithful end true M -- Jntil her adored Yo San died Christine Norman never knew what it meant to sip the cup of despair The senes of devastating defeats in love and professional stag ambitions date from her Japanese poodle’s passing In quick succession the father whom the worshipped died and temperamental differences separChristine ated her from Booth Norman went back to Broadway for consolation But the theatrical world had forgotten har ehe discovered just as quickly as it always forgete all its darlings of yesterday In desperation she accepted the minor roles that were offered her W hen she could no longer find even these humble parts Christina Meanwhile tried to write plays the baseless but insidious fear that sh had contracted cancer began to oppress her Doctors’ reassurances failed te And when the on convince her play of her that was produced was withdrawn after an saw Christine Norman tryout nothing but bleakness ahead One cold morning before dawn the leaped to her death from her hotel window That with her will created a furore It was discovered that for twenty years Christine Norman had been estranged from her mother Th actress It was said had never forriven the older woman for divorc-nf the other parent Christine had t loved so dearly This and ths fact that th mother had an Independent for tun explained Christine's apparently heartless act of omitting her mother’s name from her will Yet even In death she remembered the little Japanese poodle which she believed had brought her all the good luck she had ever out-of-to- g known Seven thousand animals In all are buried in the canine cemetery where the remains of Yo San were interred Started grassy acres Manv famous persons including Mrs James J Walker wife of New York’s Mayor James S Sher man former of the United States i Florence Reed and Blanch Bates and many million aires have purchased plots there for their household animals These rich people have been knowm to ship the remains of pets who died abroad to Ilartsdale for burial At the cemetery entrance Stand the imposing memorial to the wat p dog erected bv popular Towering above all the othei tombstone Is the $40 000 monu ment which the M F Walsh family of Mount Vernon N Y erected to mark the lat resting place of their two water spaniels and three' Mexiean Chihuahua s Mrs Frances Maslcron wealthy New York woman has f her dogs visited the graves Colonel and Tige every Sunday Mrs Master for fifteen years son had a wicker chair especially made so she can sit in comfort for hour as she gases sorrow mgly at her pets' graves Probably the only dog ever to named houe have apartment after him is Rex Moore who also has a costly tombstone in the Hails His owner Bdly dale cemetery I ( Mrs "Jimraia i Moore Walker Wife of New York Cily’e Mayor Bulldog Buried Here Had Her Prisa New York” millionaire re alter named a whole row of apart ment houses after his mourned pet a bulldog Lven more amsrmg is the Owttlkv b ItMk (BUgMIMtl B MUUI life’s aea find him me” waiting there to welcome curiously sentimental aninscription is that carved on th headstone of Bags a black pomeranian It reads: by Mrs W S Burrows " Stranger t ear' pause and drop For my little dog Wong is buried here In New York City a few miles from this cemetery lies rotter’s Field Here the bodies of hundreds of homeless men women and children are buned every year The corpses are buried without cereStu mony by the rity government dents o the idiosyncrasies of human Prrofltably contrast this drab unmarked expanse with the care-with fully gardened acres dotted magnificent tombstones erected by doting rich people over their pets Another imal HER GOOD LUCK PET Christine Norman at She Looked la "Peg O’ My Heart” with Y San Her Bolovad Mascot Whe Figured in tha Tremendously Popular Play At Rlghti Actor Who Portrayed tha Butler In the Sam Comedy Holding tho Other Dog That Played an Important Part la tha Play tenderness displayed by Thomas " - A v V Rus- sell a retired financier for his Gordon setter Fvery Christmas morning Mr Russell places a large rubber bail tied with red ribbons on his dog’s grave Perhaps the most unusual tomb-atonis the one which marks the passHis ing of Goldfleck circus lion trainer the famous Princess Lwoff built a $13000 Palarghty of Russia mausoleum over this Idol of the sawdust ring A few years later the Princess died In poverty Rare love for a dead pet Is also dis fdaved by inIrene Castle who owns ae which seven dogs and plot monkey art buried e years thirty-fiv- e sub-cri- T- m The tombstone of a griffon is inm nbed : ‘‘Part of my heart is buned here” And another dog Kiki Zowie is bered In the "I do not So much remem- verse: cringe from death my dearest friend Your dear dead soul will wait For mine long before the end” Mrs Jennie Owens also expresses Porcelain Portrait of Their Silver Persian Cat Embedded in th Headstone of the Beloved Pussy’s Grave at Ordered by the Prebi Family ef New York Backless Frock That Shocked Blase Budapest ago by a vetcrinanan as a burial place for his customers' pots the graveyard today covers seven tion J! heart Must is eternity have tome part And aometimes when I’ve crossed BUDAPEST poor Irene This beautiful actress has popped into a peck of trouble during the past year First there was a royal rumpus over hei dog Then Irene was confronted with the riddle "When Is a gown not a PITY ralasthyl gown?" She is still pondering th latter problem — pond ring It with distinct anger For Irene feels that this timt the authorities have pone ju-- t a little As a consequence liene ! too tar preparing to shake the dust of Hun garv from Her petite feet and sail for the United States where people — she hopes — aren’t so easily shocked Irene’s round of tribulations started when she boarded a local tram ear with her microscopic pet dog concealed Ju-- t as the conductor in her fuis came by by ill luck Musetta thrust her muzzle out of the shrouding chin chilla and since the ue of tram by pampered quadrupeds is viewed un favorably Irene was told she would have to get out and walk home hat with the ram and the remoteness of the taxi less suburb in which the car had halted Irene couldn’t quite see that So she was chArped with muh erdinatlnn ami fined 100 penpo (about $8 ) Irene who the wife of theatrual pio ducer ha had a popular anil lui lative career both on the Continental stage and in Amerian m ide movies hhe therefore thoroughly conversant with dramatic etiquette end knows— oi should know — what the is Han-Barts- wejl known well-dress- hrthA 1m ! Buuia llku iastrvai ' I will wear both before and behind the footlights Yet only the other evening Irene had gone to a performance at the Civic older with an Theatre woman fiaend They were enjoying the play nugely woman when up stepped a man in plain clothes and tapped Irene on one ivory shoulder Turning in some indigna tion Irene sensed that the stranger was a detective But what could he want Via it some 'with her? of that wretched dog busl ness? It was all It wasn't shout Irene's frtnk a stunning silver creation which had won her firt prize in sn evening dress contest u tk the s This gown claimed had absolutely no baik and as a result she was drawing all the audi ence’s attention from the stage and toward her shim-ring shoulders Intel rogated by a police inspei tor Irene had hysterwent to ia Then she her hus!h rlin to meet band leaving behind harsh memories of her backless dress and instructions with her attorney "(live ms’’ the good old C S A Irene ay “They’re no ijr i 4 e piudes 1” i Iran Palasthy th Popular and Baautiful Hungarian Actrcaa in tha Evaning Frock That Aroused Budapast Tbaatreg ora F ! tj i M ’! |