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Where Shall I Be Buried?
One Hundred and Fifty American Towns and
Cities have bnilt Community Mausoleums, in
which they are laying away their dead in snow
white tombs, where neither the ghoulTnor mnd.
mold and decay, nor the careless and indifferent
can disturb, desecrate, defile or destroy.
These Mansions for the Dead are fitting me
morials and tributes of a great nation or state,
and nothing short of this last gift and token to the
memory of departed citizens is becoming to a great
people.
Arrangements are completed for the erection of a
Community Mausoleum for the citizens of Portland to
hold not less than 1000 tombs and family compart
ments. The Portland Mausoleum Company, 214 Spald
ing building, owns the rights for the erection of Sani
tary Mausoleums and is arranging to erect such build
ings throughout the State of Oregon. Tombs are being
sold at Salem, Eugene, Medford and Ashland, and ap
proving inquiries are being made daily by the people of
Portland. In fact bodies are already in waiting for
the completion of the Mausoleum in Greenwood Cem
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THE CHAPEL.
The structure for Portland will be a reproduction of
the Mausoleum just being completed at Buffalo, New
York, which is noted for its massive quality and classic
beauty. It includes large and beautiful chapel accom
modations, spacious corridors, marble floors, magnifi
cent column effects, and very artistic interior decora
tions. Its exterior is plain, but gracefully relieved
from any severeness of extremes either way. Its
foundations are sufficient for a building 10 times its
height, while its reinforced concrete skeleton frame
work, its roof, walls, doors and windows, are made of
indestructible material so bound together that it is
spoken of as a one-piece building.
The Question of strength, durability, sanitation, fit
ness and desirability of Community Mausoleums, under
the patents, plans and specifications of the Portland
Mausoleum Company, have been settled by the highest
authorities, and this method of entombment has been
accepted as rapidly as its claims could be presented to
the people and buildings erected. A glance intp one of
its snow-white stone tombs answers the question
'"Where shall I be buried?" and in every instance the
answer will be, "Here."
The last losing service you can bestow upon your
dead is to provide for them a "final resting-place"
which will, in every detail, reflect the same solicitude
you felt for them in life. ' -
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JOHN S. BRADLEY, President
J. M. LEITEB, Vice-President .
JOHN BAIN, Sec. and Treas.
THE SU3TOAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND. FEBRUARY 3, 1913.
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RIVERVIEW ABBEY
COMMUNITY MAUSOLEUM,
Will be built this season at a cost of $150,000 on a beautiful eminence in Greenwood, adjacent to Riverview Cemetery, and overlooking
the Willamette Valley and surrounding Mils and mountains Non-sectarian, absolutely and exclusively limited to the Caucasian race.
What an inspiration it is to know that their bodies
rest in peace in the dry, sheltered from every sugges
tion of neglect, indifference and desecration and what
a tribute this fact is to your affection for them !
How resigned the aged are, and how more sublimely
reconciled the young are, when facing death, if they
know their bodies are to escape the horrors and the
tragedy of the grave!
And when laid away in the tomb, how pleasing it is
to the living relatives and friends that they can give
frequent expressions of their love and esteem at the
portals of a tomb which always reflects the highest
tribute of affection! .
Memorials cut in stone and shaped in metal, as old
as the pyramids, testify to the loving tenderness of
civilizations known to us today only through the stone
tombs, in which their dead were sealed and guarded
through the ages by stone tombs set above ground in
solid masonry.
In accordance with this old method of assembling
seamless tombs in large numbers, with no effort at vain
extravagance, a Community Mausoleum will be erected
on firm foundations, on a beautiful site, overlooking
River View Cemetery, and will contain 1000 single
tombs, many family compartments and sections, and
clusters of tombs, providing any variety of pleasing
ways to reserve space of two, three, four, five, eight,
10 or 15 tombs in groups, or in rooms especially built
for giving modest publicity, or positive exclusiveness to
entire families, as may be desired.
Tombs Must Be Subscribed For
Before Building Begins
The number of tombs and family compartments will
be limited to the number subscribed for. No tombs
will be for sale when the building is completed. Those
only who give our agents a hearing and subscribe will
be accommodated. The officers of the company will
fully satisfy all who care to investigate every detail
of plans and specifications in order to give absolute
assurance of the indestructibility of the tombs and
building.
The company invests its money first. The company
asks for no money when you subscribe, but gives the
advantages of payments within the reach of all, and
then only at certain stages of the construction work
One-Third of the amount subscribed for when the
big floor of the Mausoleum is in. The Second One
Third when construction work is advanced to the roof, ,
and the Remaining One-Third when the Mausoleum is
completed, and at this time the deeds for tombs are de
livered. Hence all- who want tombs must subscribe
for them either through our agents or by calling at our
office, 214 Spalding building.
How Shall I Dispose of My Body?
Shall I Determine, or Leave It to Others?
When Shall I Settle This Question?
Why Should I Evade or Shun the Thought or
Duty?
Why Should I Hesitate to Do What Has to Be
Done for Me, if I Neglect to Do It for Myself?
AN ARTISTIC BOOKLET ON APPLICATION
Upon application the Portland Mausoleum Company will mail you an artistic
booklet which will give an elaborate description of this method of entombment
and accurately shows the extent of its endorsement throughout the States and
Canada. The coupon attached should be enclosed with your letter.
PORTLAND MAUSOLEUM COMPANY
214 Spalding Building
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A MANSION FOR THE DEAD
Isn't it the horror of the grave, or the dread of cre
mation, or the hope that death will relieve you of the
necessity of making this provision? Is this rational?
Is it paternal, fraternal or religious conduct? Is it
the part of wise men?
FAMILY SECTIONS.
True, a grave can be dug in a day, the body can
easily be lost in the white hot furnace in a single hour,
but do either of these satisfy the demands of affection,
the dictates of conscience, the tenderness of soul that
reaches back to those you leave, or follows after those
who leave you? '
A stone tomb cannot be built in a day. In order to
possess it you must provide it when you need it least,
that you may be sure of it when you need it most.
Mausoleum Burial hitherto has been only within the
reach of Wealthy Families. Until the inventions which
make the Community Mausoleum possible, the minimum
cost of such entombment was $1000 for each single
tomb, and this does not include endowment which pro
vides for maintenance. Tombs, better built, sanitary
and connected with large chapel accommodations and
other advantages, heavily endowed and always main
tained, cost iQ Community Mausoleum $200 and
$250 each.
The Endowment Fund will be ample to care for and
maintain the Mausoleum. No lots to buy, no tomb
stones or monuments to provide, no curbs to set, no
grades or walks to maintain, no graves to be dug and
no exposure of family and friends in attendance at
funerals all within doors, and the consoling reflection
that your dead are in the dry, housed as they were in
. life, with a living memorial, facing the marble eor
ridor, on which your family name will outlive all other
family records.
Dr. Mendel Silber says: '
"Our present mode of human burial is such that
one must shudder and shiver"1 at .the very thought of
dying.
"With that dismal, damp, dark bole in the ground
as a Mast resting-place,' with the positive certainty
JOHN S. BRADLEY,
G. P. CUTHBEET,
Directors
that this 'last resting-place' permits of no rest,
because of snakes and worms and the elements of
Nature, who can help being sickened by the mere
thought of the grave?
"We no longer rend our garments, nor don
sackcloth, nor cover our beads with ashes, nor
shave our hair, nor fast, nor eo barefoot, nor do
we hire professional wailing women to sing dirges ;
nor do we make incisions in our flesh, nor offer the
dead locks of our hair or drops of our blood as-ancient
peoples once did."
"But we do still put our loved ones in dark, dismal
holes in the earth to be fed upon by the elements and
the lower forms of life, and, Dr. Silber asks :
"Who can contemplate the awful sacrifices our pres
ent mode of burial entails without realizing the enorm
ity of these vital facts?
"Human health is threatened wherever there is a
cemetery. Thousands of human beings are taken every
year by the poisons given back by polluted burial lots,
not only to the waters under the earth, but to the air
above it; and in one or both ways the present burial
practice is a constant and increasing menace to the
living. Epidemics of typhoid fever and other malig
nant diseases, and the propagation of deadly bacteria
spreading cholera, diphtheria, meningitis, and any num
ber of milder disorders which afflict humanity, are
easily traceable to this source.
"Face to Face With These Astounding Scientific
Facts, is it not passing strange that the present mode
of earth burial, accompanied as it always is by so har
rowing and horrible a feeling, so great? danger to the
healthand life of the people that it should be tol
erated at all in this age of Sanitation and Science?"
The more strange and inexcusable, becaiise there is
a vastly more rational, sanitary and tender way of
disposing of the dead not cremation, for this has its
horrors; not through the Silent Tower, for this seems
fiendish; not the deep sea, for this is more heartless
than the grave.
None of these meet the demands of Love and Af
fection. 1
Entombment in the Snow-White Apartments of a
Sanitary Community Mausoleum is the most satisfying
solution of the question.
Advantage of First Subscribers
Subscriptions for Tombs will begin at 9 o'clock
Monday morning at the company's office, 214 Spald
ing building, and the canvass by the company's agents
will continue until the required number of tombs are
sold. The date and hour of each signature to the sub
scription is recorded on each contract, and in this order
subscribers will be admitted -to the building when com
pleted to seleet the tombs subscribed for. So that
First Subscribers will be the First to make Selections
of Tombs, and this is an advantage of great importance
to tomb buyers. No Money is required when subscrip
tions are taken, and the First Subscriber pays no soon
er than dees the Last Subscriber One-Third of the
Sum when the foundation of the Mausoleum is in.
The Second One-Third when the tomb and wall struc
ture is op to the roof and the Remaining One-Third
when the building is completed, covering a period of
a year or more.
J. M. LEITEB,
WM. A. MACRAE.
' PORTLAND MAUSOLEUM CO. rf
214 Spalding Eldg., Portland, Or. f F t
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