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Highland Park Press, 16 Dec 1926, p. 10

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1 !5 PAGE TEN A Lot in NORTH SHORE CEMETERY, Nowhere else can such a begutiful sight be found on a single cemetery lot. The white bloom is in the rear of the lot while other bloo: shrubs ‘are on the lot lines on either side. This makes a beauti exelusive private c];lace of a cemetery lot, heretofore unknown an: *North Shore Cemeâ€" tery has many such lots. & A y » BIRD BATH and drinking fountain. We have several of them and they are much appreciated by our feiiheied friends. We have seven varieties of Spirea, six varieties of Lilacs and forty other varieâ€" ties of blooming shrubs, some of which np]iur' in this picture. (h *_ ENTRANCE PARK of North Shore Cemetery is in front of the entrance gates. It is 200 feet deep from the intersection of 18th street with the Green Bay road. The width is 175 feet including a scrupulously kept 24 ft. wh}te driveway which is a portion of the main driveway of the cemetery. The nu%siv'e pylons of everlasting Mt. Airy white lzrlnite aré 35 ft. high and form a landmark for many miles around. It is now well known that this is the most artistic and imposing American cemetery entrance. | Such charming URNS are unique ihigcemetery ornamentation. After soveral days were spent in stu‘dyi; urns and searching for designs these were specin]ldeeeigned. They are on the three points of a triangle. White globe-quped elms'nr:g on the side lines, she cenâ€" ter of the triangular lot being kept open. Blooming, colored and hanging plants grow within the urns whhe plantings in colored ofâ€" fects surround the urns on the ground. | REC of ORD OF ACHIEVEMENT a North Shore Institution | fine MONUMENT on a lot the front of which is on a white driveway, the other three sides being planted to blooming shrubs, A large oak tree f. part of the backgromnd of this lot. Only a porâ€" tion pf the rurmfinfi and a portion of the planting on one side is here ishown. lt . + Glimpses of the.big Entrance pylons, of the Administration Buildâ€" ing, |of a smail portion of beautiful Section A, of a white driveway and jof fine elm treés. NORTH SHORE CEMETERY is a veritable arboretum, as it coi'ptaim'ugvurda of seventy varieties of trees and more than fifty varieties of blooming shrubs. T iglis the most pléasing approach to a cemetery ADMINISTRAâ€" TIQN. BUILDING in this country. The exterior of the building is & lica of the Studio of Mrs. Harry PaYne_ Whitney, the noted grican Sculptress. The water lily and gold fish pool in front is a true circle in form and 25 ft. in diameter. It contains several varieâ€" ties of exquisitely beautiful lily and lotus plants which bloom all sumâ€" met, and upwards of 100 goldfish. This aquarium is surrounded and finighed in attractive rockery effects with cute pockets in which miniature blooming plants are grown, e \ quartering view of the ADMINISTRATION BUILDING showâ€" ing| one of the cutved rockery walks leading from the easterly enâ€" trance to the main ‘driveway. Both ends of the byuilding are alike but the| walk plans nr;‘,:)\zf alike and there is no aquarium on the westerly front. |Two fine ps of Fitzer‘s juniper and two groups of Spirea Va :'}jou.ttei_ help| to make the unrivalled picture formed by the easterly front HE HIGHLAND PARK PRESS, HIGHLAND PARK, ILLINOIS To N PCs CC The finest MASONIC MONUMENT in any American % It is composed of 84 tons of Mt. Airy white granite, is 35 sigh, contains the emblems of the order on the Easterly side of thi lm trave and the inscription "TO THE GLORY OF ALMIG AND IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO HAVE PASSED ‘UNâ€" SEEN PORTALS" on the Westerly side. This exceptionally artistic and imposing memorial is happily located in the center of the ' Section which slopes appropriately to the East. at ) Two GLOBEâ€"TOPPED ELMS glimpses, with Marshall monumer You have my hearty congratulations upon your *est success in making for the North Shore the finest plac ‘of human interment in the country in the short p Briod of nine years. I am pleased to reflect that I bought a lot in NORTH SHORE CEMETERY five years ago. I knew a man whose dying request was that he ; rould be buried in NORTH SHORE CEMETERY but who neglected to buy « lot in his life time although ainl to do so. His family ignored his request and burjed his remains in a repulsive looking place, all signs o ' , will be obliterated from the face of the earth i 'e few years Hence. § 1. . Dear Mr. Western:© * Words of Appreciation (Extract from one of many letters) arn, white driveway, % THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1€

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