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Show The finest mausoleum in America, built for ex-Senator Wm. A. Clark, Jr., on an island in a California cemetery, at a cost of & $355,000- The architecture is a combination of Grecian and Roman, and the white marble used was quarried especially for this purpose in Georgia. The interior provides burial crypts for seven persons and is decorated with a wonderful mosaic relief representing angels and cherubs in flight through a cloud-flecked sky - n ' j "Funeral of a Mummy on the Nfle," from the famous painting by F. A. Bridgman m J "0W much ought a man to spend i I I on his own funeral? I Most men nowadays dodge this j question by mnking no funeral ar- j rangeraenta whatever, leaving that duty B - entirely to members of their family and their friends. Every now and then, how- ( ever, there is some one who has the j wealth and the leisure and the inclina- tion to look ahead to the day when he I shall be dead and make elaborate and costly plans for the disposition of his lifeless body. A recent conspicuous example of this kind is William A. Clark jr., the multi- I millionaire mining magnate and former I Senator from Montana. Although Mr. I Clark apparently has quite a good many I years of life to look forward to, he is said to have been making for a long time jj past unusual provision for the disposi- 1 tion of his body after he has breathed j his last. The only one of his funeral plans IL which has thus far been permitted to I reach the public is represented by the marvellous marble mausoleum which he J has had erected in a cemetery near I Hollywood, California. The small for- Hjwl it tune which this stately sepulcher cost H(K leads to the belief that if Mr Clark's !' other funeral plans are carried out on j a corresponding scale, the total cost of I laying- his body to rest may reach a I million dollars. i The mausoleum where ex-Senator I Clark v. ill have himself and the members I of his immediate family entombed I cost in round figures $340,000. Its site, I a picturesque little island, cost an ad- i ditional $15,000. But if ex-Senator Clark should live '4 another eight or ten years, the interest A on this investment and the expense for J upkeep would probably run the cost of J the mausoleum up to at least $500t000. BtfXl' It the total funeral expense is to.be 1 11,000,000. this would leave another half million to cover the cost of the -3 embalming, the grave clothes, the casket, 4 the floral tributes, the cortege and $ the transportation of the body to the ra, cemetery at Hollywood Hffjii tt i difficult for any one not a mil- ,5 lionaire to see how quite as much as 3 this could be expended on a single funeral. Yet it would be quite possible to spend as much as this, particularly if famous artists should be employed to design mosaics, bas-relief6 and other adornments for the casket. Another factor that would help swell the funeral cost to this tremendous total would be the occurrence of death in a foreign land This would entail large outlay for the transportation of the body and its attendants by steamship steam-ship and special trains to the Hollywood Holly-wood cemetery. In modern times, at least, there pror ably never has been the funeral of a private individual that cost anywhere near $1,000,000. Even in the case of king's and queens it is doubtful if the outlay ever reached quite such a figure. To find anything to compare with a $1,000,000 funeral we have to go back to the old rulers of Egypt, India and Persia who were so fond of spending fortunes on the magnih. tombs where their bodies were laid. A leading New York undertaker thinks a quarter of $1,000,000 the most that any funeral in America has yet cost. Of this amount $200,000 went for the construction of the mausoleum. mau-soleum. The casket, cast of the finest bronze and lined with the costliest tufted silk, added $2o,000 to the total, and the remaining- $2o,000 covered all the other expenses. In this instance, however, the body did not have to be transported any great distance, and the casket did not represent repre-sent years of effort on the part of many famous artists. An outlay of $250,000 for a funeral makes a strange contrast with the cost of burying a poor man or woman. The tenement dweller can be laid away, even in these high cost of living and dying days, for a.s little as $85. Every day sees hundreds of funerals that cost no more than this. Of course, a man's money is his to use as he sees fit, but "there will be many who will think $1,000 000 or even a quarter of that amount much more than any one ought to spend on his funeral. They will point out the good which might be done if all this wealth were devoted to some philan thropy instead of being used to surround sur-round an individual's death with empty pomp and magnificence. Yet many will think such beauty as sculptor, architect and builder have given the world in ex-Senator Clark's mausoleum in the Hollywood cemetery ample justification for all it cost. Already Al-ready it is proving one of the sights of southern California. 1 The mausoleum, which was d- signed by Robert D. Far-quhar, Far-quhar, a leading Los Angeles An-geles architect, is comp. of Georgia white marble. It is situated on a small island, 70 feet by 130 feet, in the middle of a placid, water lily crested lake, surounded by a fringe of towering eucalypti, and bright memosia trees. The building itself is 20 feet by -10 feet and has seven white marble crypts, two of which are already occupied. One holds the body of Mrs. Daisy Foster Clark, who died in Los Angeles, and the other that of Mr. Claris first wife, Mrs. Alice M. Clark, whose body was sent to Los Angeles from the Montana home of the family. The style of the architecture archi-tecture is described by architect Farquhar as a combination of Grecian and Roman. The building is oblong and gives the impression im-pression of being much higher than it really is. The white Georgia marble of which it is constructed throughout, the roof included, in-cluded, was specially quarried quar-ried for this purpose. It Is of exceptionally fine quality. A mosaic relief covers all four walls of the interior of the mausoleum. This mosaic was made in Milano, Italy, and was installed by workmen work-men sent from there. H is highly decorative deco-rative and colorful and rooresents angels and cherubs in flight in a cloud-flecked sky. The marble ti-. ure of a woman is sculptured a I ovr the stately entrance to the mausoleum. The statue symbol- -Senator Clark Builds Hii self a Marble MausoleunJ That Cost $355,000, ail1 the Total Expense of Hm Burial May Easill Be Close to a I Million Dollar! -'.V, - I- 14-'' A snapshot of ' o;:-: nator Clai-::. , rl!cing I alor. z Hew & : pi York's Fifth ' Avenue v- ' . A izes Teace and is in keeping with I s K - :;y'' ' :Mt ' : - S m I . :, - . . .. m T I mm n-iMT-- -r- - 1.- mmi. - i, m PMloro Lr1C ) WMf T1iiOKy, r- Tlie beautiful Taj Mah?l at Agra, India, built in the sixteenth century at a cost of $9,000,000 as a burial place for the Persian Per-sian Shah Jehan and his favorite wife. It is one of the most wonderful lombs in the world and the supreme achievement of Mahometan art the mosaic them.-. Sherry Fry of New York is the sculptor. Architect Pair-quhar Pair-quhar declares the mausoleum represents the utmost ut-most in this type of construction. A special venti-latinc venti-latinc svstcm in jures against bad I and musty air. L He is proud of I his work and bi - lieves it is the j finest of its kind j in America. 3 ' Landscape I deners have sur-J sur-J rounded the mausoleum mau-soleum wi'. h a i I i o r m a ! garden that is almost severe ir. its sim-' sim-' plicity. The whole the -now .-. hite mas 1(f marble, the tiny shafts of cypress, the few preen shrubs cast shimmering shimmer-ing shadows in the lake, which, from the shore of the mainland, frames the scene in a wonderful natural border. A mall bridtre leads to the island. One of the crypts not yet filled is for W. A. Clark jr. himself. him-self. Another is for his son, W A. Clark. 3d, who is a student at Columbia. The remaining three will be for other Clarks who may come later. One of the iist inguishiiiK marks of a highly civilized people always has been the honor they have shown their dead. Mc:st famous in this respect injH "': th. t:;r phan. The" vm r ' ' ? south.Mt munumontal f.-v nee ofH P ovisk i made i ,r the nat s" and lasting the pyramids that a later king JL in; de the remark that not all the weM "'' ' 1 v 1 . 1 rnableK to destroy one of them. Most of the pyramids were buihw ward the west, where the sun sinkjff re-it Th -ni.olic grounfl tombs, funeral corteges took boat rowed aero?.; the Vile, as 13 shnwiM the accompan ine- production of a S mous painting. A bare-e. sumptu(M furnished, bore th- body, whiln wodK wailed and pne.-t; performed uw strange rites. 'H funerals were costly in Egypt. Wk bod:. - of the rich were embalmedB their int'-stines placed in four CenflJ j.-n . 'i i-orp-.'s v. . 1.' treated WM nation and asphalt and wound in swafl of linen. The fan s weie covered MB mask- if linen ur.d -tucco. fterB placed in sarcophagi of wood OH i lining- that for se days, priests, maintained by the rJ houhl comiuct th-.r coremafl to insure peace for the soul of the 1 ! j - ::" 1 Faj Mahll 1 ' he supreme achkl ' - ot m ir,- in the worldH a to - - ' ii.-.' on. 1 r-i - budt byB i-iii-f f and f- 1 ..:n iii .- ru -ture ! four lovely minarets and two moiqfl of ie.l sandstone ami white Dm ,r niters through an aOH ter dome into the vault. 9 When Tamerlane or Timur, iH m,- iit ;, Mongol conqueror KenM K'.i.m, and himself .'1 v.r.rnor who S .1 r: in-- of India, died -I bod;, was "embalmed in musk and r(B water, wranned in linen in an tmW coffin" and ; nuidly eiitombe(Bi ,-,:n and rall.-l . lu- lir-am City. 1 Tamerlan . "f ilu greim rulers (he world has ever seen. WM he died in the year 1405 be was the I UK'stiont'd Ma-.er rf A-is. In thtH 1 nk en t tomb which he built forJ in Samarkand Ins body lies .i..me of the most brilliant turquol blue, beneath a t,.oa!; of black Jaafl J. H. Curie a fnmou English travM icjtingly of theH Samarkai . i:..k'-ara, to north of India. W "I came out or; a sandy wasto.M ancient burying place of the doad,"S: says in or.'1 of his books. -Th'1 sun wi ing, and I turned to tra-.- over city this city of a dream. ai by wen- i!k fam-'U.- tnmbljB Shah-i-Zm.!eh; yonder, above W trees rose the blue dome of the EmpeM Tamer) u ; ' 1,1 me 1'! the ui nositious and ever-lengtheM tomb of Munich m the city itself out the ruir.s of the tomb of TanierlxaJ queen and the .hree mosque-: of Rofl tar.. And : 1' around ire lay '.i.edeBi Samarkand a great company. On tbj dreary uplands, in view of the ?ar- hills, "tens of thousands are ly.ng V their prince .1 "A dream city truly! For these tj-are tj-are fast melting "way Flvrn m the ihr wondrous mo-aic innaret fallen from Tamer 'an "...b. andfj inlaid cupola from the mosque 0. IW Khan These fell to a slight carth shock; the next- as I ke as not, niy Samarkand with the dust M 'God knows what were .1? splendors! What the old travelers It is even pow a treasure place ol world, and I see it crumbling to m hefore mv eyes Its glor.es are mew into thin air. The day is not lr tant when they will all be gone, So. too. must the marble niausWJ; which ex-Senator dark hn3 jd in the cemetery at Hollywood some crumble to dust. And long before -ym day arrives doubtless the man wno W a fortune on this mflgn.tuer.t rw p,ace for his body will live ' but perhaps not ' :" ' WdT' memory'- |
