The Barney Granite And Marble Works

jno review of the man ufact uring and commercial industries of Ann Arbor would be complete without at least a brief sketch of so important an establishment as the Barney Granite and Marble Works, located at No. 3 E. Ann street. This wellknown -concern was established many years ayo by Sed ames, one of tlif finest designers at.d the most expert draughtsman in the state oi Michigan. In 18&5 Mr. Barney, the present proprietor, purchased an interest in the business and in 1890 became soie owner. His trade now extends over this and adjoining srates and business for the last four months hasequaled that for the same period of time in the past five years. His stock embraces all kinds of granite and marble monuments and headstones, the designs beingartistic and beautiful and an immense variety of styles being shown, and the repu-ation of the firm for turning out fine work of this description is unriveled. The granite used by this firm comes from the Yermont quarries apd also from foreign countries, and is procured at prices given only to the most favored buyers. Mr. R. C. Barney was boni in Vermont, and we might say.brought up in the quarries; and is personally acquainted with rnanyof thelarge quarry owners of the East. In our beautiful "Forest Hill" cemetery are many specimens of the work of this firm, which stand as grateful trihutes to thememoryof departed friends, and are cert'ainly ornaments to the "silent city of the dead." -Mr. Karney has had a life-long experience in the trade; has always maintained hiswork at a high Standard of excellence and is one of our most honorble business men and upright citizens. Mr. Barney builds a burial vault (of which a cut is shown above) that is in almost universal use in the East. It is made of solid stone, hermerticaly sealed and makes the caving in of a grave an impossibility. It is considered almost absolutly burglar proof and no doubt will soon come into general use in this country.