Finest Tomb In America

A mausoleum to hold the body of Frederick De Courcey May is nearly finished in Bonnie Brae cemetery. It will cost $25,000, and is said by a correspondent of the St. Louis GlobeDemocrat to be the finest tomb in the United States. The structure is modeled on pure classical lines. It is in the form of a Doric temple. Standing on the slope of a hill this modern temple of white Beaver Dam marble is an imposing feature in the landscape surrounding- it. The columns, roof and walls of the mausoleum are of marble. The only other material distinctly visible in the structure is a heavy bronze doorway, paneled and ornamented with a cross, which cost $1,000. The walls are nearly two feet thick. They are built of blocks of marble, extending through from interior to ext ■; ■.'ur. built up solidly from the ground, and only pierced by the doorway and several small grated windows under the eaves. The interior is rubbed smooth. The windows are five by three feet each, and are cut through solid stone. Four immense marble slabs, each weighing ten tons, form the ceiling. These stones are twelve feet long, four feet six inches wide, and three feet thick. Above the ceilinsr Is a pitched roof, also of stone, and having six windows to correspond with the windows in the ceilintr. Plate glass, one inch thick, is fltted fn the inner and outer windows. The tomb or sarcophagus is ohiseled out of a solid cream colored stone, imported from Cain, France. This piece of stono is nine feet long by four feut wide, and is nearly threo feet high. It ia earved on three sides in floral designs, and a cross is on top. The sarcophagus has been hollowed for the reception of the coffln. Just above the liead of the 3arcophagus is a niche in the wall extending to the ceiling. A piece of imported statuary will be put there. The carving on the arch of the siche is exquisito. Mr. May was 46 years old. He was a native of Baltimor.?, a son of 'ongressman Henry May of Maryand, and a brother of George May. He studied medicine, became a surgeon, went abroad when young and served during the Franco-Prussian war, being attached to the AngloAmerican ambulance corps on the skle of the Frenoh.