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About The Augusta herald. (Augusta, Ga.) 1914-current | View Entire Issue (July 26, 1914)
SUNDAY, JULY Zb. AUGUSTA’S NEW CEMETERY NOW BEING CONSTRUCTED BY MARSH AND COMPANY FOR PANTHEON VIEW COMPANY, INC. Officers and Oirecfors ROBERT C. BERCKMANS, President, HARRY H. BELL, Vice-President, ALBERT S. HATCH, Treasurer, CLARK GRIER, Secretary, W. H .SHERMAN, Assistant-Secretary, ' WILLIAM S. BRAND, G. LLOYD PREACHER, AMBROSE J. SCHWEERS, SIMON LESSER, THEO. F. ROESEL, ARCHIBALD BLACKSHEAR, THOS. D. MURPHEY, H. C. BOARDMAN, H. C. LORICK, P. J. BERCKMANS CO., (Inc.) Landscape Architects, S. P. MARSH, Superintendent and Manager, WILLIAM H. BARRETT, General Counsel, MARSH & CO, Sales Agents, P. O. BOX 294. IF YOU DID NOT FILL OUT AND MAIL COUPON OFFERED YOU IN LAST SUNDAY’S HER ALD, DON’T FAIL TO DO SO NOW. REMEMBER THAT YOU CAN BUY A LOT ON EASY PAYMENT PLAN. EVERYONE WILL SOON ER OR LATER NEED A BURIAL PLACE. WRITE FOR INFORMATION, WITHOUT IN ANYWISE OBLI GATING YOURSELF TO BUY A LOT, AND WE WILL SEND YOU MAP AND PLATS OF GROUND AND SECTIONS. Marsh and Co. P. O. Box 294 fHE AUGU? T A HERALD AUGUSTA, GA. WILL YOU NAME THE NEW CEMETERY? IF SO USE COUPON BELOW THE PANTHEON VIEW COMPANY—a CORPORATION compose !of Augusta people owns a large tract of land whic’i is now being developed into a MODERN. PERPETUAL ('ARE, PARK-PLAN CEMTERY in one of the most elevated and beautiful parts of Augusta, and invites votiraid in giving it an appropriate name. READ ON and LEARN about AUGUSTA’S NEW (’EM ETEIiY. LOCATION: Situated between the COUNTRY CLUB on the East, WHEELER ROAI) on the South and HIGH LAND AVENUE on the West, this u ig nificent expanse of Park-Woodland approach ing one hundred acres in extent—sloping gently down the descent for half a mile towards LAKE OLMSTEAD, looks down on the LOWER CITY and it most ideally located as a RES TIN G PLACE FOR THE DEAD. ENTRANCES: About four minutes walk from the car line on Walton Way, at the intersection of Monte Sauo Avenue and Wheeler Road, will be located the MAIN ENTRANCE., designed especially and in keeping with quiet taste and modern Arcuitec ture. And then, on Highland Avenue—being one of the well-graded and popular drives ar.. and Augusta—will be another specially design ed ENTRANCE. All of these prominent T 110 ROITGH F A R E S afford pleasing approaches to THE NEW CEMETERY. Enter ing the PARK from the Main Entrance one will have a pleasing view of a HOLD SPRING and attractive SCENERY graced by winding WALKS and DRIVES. From the Highland Avenue Entrance the beautiful SIXTY THOU SAND DOLLAR MAUSOLEUM stands out In its attractive beauty at the top of a sloping expanse of well kept lawn and against"a BACK GROUND OF FORESTRY. DEVELOPMENT: The construction of a modern Cemetery is a real science and only within the last few years - has the Art of building high grade cemeteries near to large cities been perfected. Such Ceme teries are now developed on the PARK and LAWN PLAN; which, following the natural coir tours of the land, does away with the old angular fences, parapets, copings, curbings and enclos ures—thus leaving Vie STRIKING FEATURE of the WELL KEPT LAWN as the PREVAIL ING CHARACTERISTIC. The number of mon uments. limited, aerhaps to not more than one to each lot, will reduce the “stone-yard effect” of the ordinary cerneterv to a minimum in AUGUS TA’S NEW CEMETERY. . , _ CARE: There will be no neglected lots in this NEW CEMETERY, COMMON DBS ERV A TI O N teaches that after lapse of years the interest of friends and relatives in their BURIAL LOTS is, for one reason or another, broken; and, ceases al together after the death of the care-taker. NOT SO with AUGUSTA’S NEW CEME TERY, for scientific provision is to he mam fru its PERPETUAL CARE as a lawn by ad'quote endowment of the entire cemetery. Each and every lot under the operation of this CARE FUND, which will be accurnulati d in the hand of an INCORPORATED TRUSTEE, wilt he perpetually cared for in ages to come. This HOME OE THE DEAD will he as beautifully kept as the raosi beautiful HOMES OF THE LIVING. NAME: LET AUGUSTANS NAM E THEIR NEW CEMETERY. Use the coupon hereto attached by filling in ALL TH E BLANKS and mailing to THE NEW CEMETERY, or MARSH & COM PANY, Post Office Box 294, Augusta, Georgia. When the responses to this request seem to be complete, or, by September 15th, 1914, tin en tire lists of suggested names will he turned aver to a COMMITTEE OF PROMINENT CITI ZENS, and, the name finally chosen by this com mittee shall he the name of this artistic REST ING PLACE OF THE DEAD. YOUR PREMIUM: The one whose coupon is the first to give the. name of the New Cemetery, will receive a deed, free of all cost, to a lot to he selected by him or herself, containing F 0 U R HUN I) RF T) SQURE FEET OE GROUND. To every one who sends in a e. upon duly filled out there will be given a credit of ten dollars on the purchase price of a lot Twenty feet by twenty feet in area, and a pro rata credit on a smaller lot—PRO" VIDED, the purchase be made by October 15th, next. Terms of purchase on application. Augusta, On., , 1914. MKHHRS. MARSII *. CO., Managers ami Kolling Agents, P, O. Box 294, Augusta, Oa. Gentlemen: My first amt last choice of names for THE NEW CEMETERY is time said name has been suggested, ami it should be the one chosen hy the Committee for THE NEW CEMETERY, then i am entitled to receive a deed to a lot, at least I’OUR HUNDRED KqUARE FEET In area, M said Cemetery, FREE OK COST. But I um to make my selection from the unsold lots within ten days after I am notified thi.l the pint of the Sections Is ready for me to make my choice if the name 1 suggest above shall not he the one chosen bv tile Oornmltt e, I understand that I am to receive a credit of ten dollars on the purchase price of sny lot, 20 feet l.y 20 feet In men, and a pro rata credit for n smaller lot—PROVIDED ! make my purchase hy Otcober 16, 1914. Name Number Street Do you own n Cemetery T.ot In Augusta? If so, where 7 Answer Remarks NOTE—Persons residing within a. radius of twenty miles from Auguta, proper, are included in the abate offer, because they arc Interested In having a modern burial p'ace for theli SEVEN
