WITH COMPLIMENTS OF THEMain Entrance to Rosehill Cemetery showing Office and Chapel.PLAT OF ROSEHILL CEMETERY.
Showing Sectional Subdivision of the East part of the Cemetery grounds, looking West from the entrance,THE ROSEHILL CEMETERY COMPANY.
Officers.
FREDERICK TUTTLE, President.
Wm, H. TURNER, Vice-President and Auditor.	 Hon.	VAN	H.	HIGGINS,	Treasurer.
JOSEPH GOW, Secretary.
Board of Managers.
FREDERICK TUTTLE.	Hon, J. B. BRADWELL.	CYRUS BENTLEY.
Hon. HENRY W. BLODGETT.	Wm. H. TURNER.	Hon. VAN H. HIGGINS.
H. F. LEWIS.
Trustees of the Fund
CREATED FOR THE PERPETUAL CARE OF THE CEMETERY AFTER ALL LOTS THEREIN ARE SOLD.
ORRINGTON LUNT, Esq.	Hon.	CHAS.	B.	FARWELL.
HENRY F. LEWIS, Esq.
Rosehill Cemetery is situated 6 miles from Chicago, on the Chicago and North-Western Railway, and has good Carriage Drives from the city to the grounds.
ROBERT I. HIGGINS, Superintendent.
Post-Office Address, HAVELOCK, ILL.
FAMILY BURIAL LOTS CAN BE PURCHASED FROM THE SUPERINTENDENT ON THE GROUNDS.
City Office: ROOM 29, 159 LA SALLE STREET.
TELEPHONE DIRECTIONS,
If City Office is Wanted, ask for No. 615.
If Cemetery is Wanted, ask for No. 3901.INDEX.
PAGE.
Introduction......................................................7
Reasons why the City Cemetery had to be	Removed -	7
Rosehill Grounds, Description of -	--	--	--	-8
“ Advantages of, for Cemetery Purposes -	-	- 8 to n
Buildings and Improvements..................................11 to 13
Artesian Well and Water System -	12
Avenues, Walks and Drives -	-	-	-	-	-	-	-13
Greenhouses and Conservatories -	-	-	-	-	-	-	_	13
Family Lots, Prices of -	--	--	--	--	-	13
“ An Important Feature of	-	-	14
Perpetual Care Fund -	-......................................17
Dedication of Rosehill Cemetery.........................18 to 35
First Interment in Rosehill Cemetery -	--	--	-.36
Charter and Organization of -	-	-	-	-	-	-	40 to 44
“ Amendment to...........................................44 to 48
By Laws.................................................49 to 53
Rules and Regulations.......................................54 to 61
Conclusion—To all who are interested in Rosehill, and to those
undecided, etc. ----------62 and 63ROSEHILL CEMETERY.
Introduction.
The experience of all large cities has proven the necessity, as a matter of public hygiene, that the dead should be interred in localities remote from the residences of the living. This public necessity is only appreciated fully when the population becomes numerous and the interments frequent. The cemeteries of an early period of the growth of large cities, have invariably been forced to give way to the requirements of commerce and population, and the spots once consecrated by the tears of bereaved mourners, as resting places for the dead, are doomed to be violated by the hum and bustle of traffic, and ultimately, a removal to the quiet and seclusion of the rural districts, is the only alternative.
Chicago has not proved an exception to this experience. The projectors of the City Cemetery (now Lincoln Park) were derided for locating it so far from the city. It was but a few short years, however, until the encroachment of the city, and the parks, rendered the vacation of this cemetery necessary, in order to meet the wants and requirements of the living. Its dead had to be disturbed and removed to more distant cemeteries, and the city limits, and residences, now extend far north of this point; and are joined on the northern limits by the populous suburbs of Wrightwood, Lake View, and other -towns and villages that are already crowding about and surrounding the cemeteries there with the residences of the living.
To-day Chicago has a population of more than 600,000 people. How long it will be until these figures are increased to one million, the census of a few years hence will irrefutably answer. And, even then, the increase will go steadily and rapidly on, above and beyond these figures; consequently, cemeteries that are in the line of march of the improvements, increase, and spread of the city and its suburbs, will have to give way (as did the old city cemetery), for the uses and purposes of the living.
(7)This, however, is but one of the very great obstacles in the way in selecting ground suitable for cemetery purposes.
The citizens of Chicago and vicinity are often disagreeably reminded of the naturally low, wet and marshy condition of the country for miles around and about the city, hence the great desiderata of cemeteries near, and of easy access from the city, are:
ist. Altitude.—Of sufficient elevation above the surrounding prairie to insure that at all times they will b z perfectly free from water.
2d. Location.—That which will be for all time outside and away from the line of the city and its improvements.
Description.
In view of the demands of our large and growing population, the projectors of Rosehill Cemetery, in connection with a committee of the Common Council of the City of Chicago, appointed for the purpose of selecting a suitable site for a new cemetery, after a careful survey, and topographical reconnoissance of the vicinity of Chicago, selected the ground on which Rosehill Cemetery is located; the lands being from thirty to forty feet above Lake Michigan—covered with timber—commanding a view of the lake, and being sufficiently high above the surrounding prairie to ensure that at all times they shall be perfectly free from water, and possessing all other needed qualities to make a first class rural cemetery; they were unanimously pronounced by the committee to be not only the best, but the only spot in all respects suitable for such purposes within the same distance from Chicago.
Their advantages may be enumerated as follows:
First—Suitable proximity to the city. The distance from the central part of the city is six and one-half miles, and no other spot of sufficient elevation, and comprising a sufficiently large tract of land for the purpose, can be found nearer than from twelve to fourteen miles.
Second—Accessibility.—The cemetery is accessible by several routes as follows:	By the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad to
Rosehill Station, by the Lake Shore gravel road, and by the Green Bay road, running northwest from the intersection of North Clark and Wells streets.VIEWS IN ROSEHILL CEMETERY GROUNDS, LOOKING EAST TOWARD THE ENTRANCE.Third—Character of soil.—The desirable qualities of a soil for cemetery purposes are permeability, ease of excavation, and facility of drainage. The location selected for the “ Rosehill Cemetery,” is a gravel ridge, having an elevation above the neighboring country of from ten to twenty feet. There is no possibility of water standing, in the rainy season, within fifteen feet from the surface in the higher, or eight or nine feet in the lower part of the grounds appropriated for burial lots. Graves of full depth may thus be dug at all times of the year.
Fourth—Elevation and undulation of surface.—The elevation of the grounds appropriated for sepulture, varies from thirty to forty feet above Lake Michigan, and is agreeably undulating; not sufficiently so to make much contrast in the eleyation of neighboring lots, but quite enough to give landscape effect to the cemetery, as a whole. A considerable portion of the grounds are devoted to ornamentation, as will be seen by reference to the plan.
Fifth—Capability of extension of cemetery to. meet the wants of a large city.—The grounds, which are available for cemetery purposes, include about five hundred acres, of which two hundred acres are now platted and improved. The platting, planting and improving of additional grounds, is being proceeded with so as to keep pace with the demands of the public for sepulture.
The managers of “ Rosehill Cemetery ” have thought it not only desirable, but necessary in view of the growth of Chicago, to secure a large tract of land for future use. The experience of other Rural Cemeteries has proven the necessity of this by additions they have been forced to make from time to time, and at great expense, thus entailing a proportioned increase in the cost of burial lots .
The Buildings and Improvements in Rosehill Cemetery have been made with the view of meeting the ever increasing wants and requirements of its patrons, and commensurate with the size and extent of the grounds, and the constantly and rapidly increasing number of lot owners!
The handsome and substantially built castellated stone structure, at the main entrance, contains a Chapel for the use of those desiring Divine services at the cemetery.
The receiving vault is of easy distance, in a southerly direction,from the entrance, and is located on the brow of a hill or rising knoll. This vault is built of brick, stone, iron and cement, and the interior has been recently re-modeled and furnished in the most approved manner, with all that could be suggested or devised by an experienced and skillful architect, for the reception and proper care of bodies deposited therein.
Separate compartments have been made, with iron rollers under each, so that coffins can be placed thereon easily and noiselessly, without the slightest delay or confusion; and without jar, scraping or injury to the coffins, and without disturbing, in the least, those surrounding or adjacent thereto.
These changes and improvements have, also, increased the capacity of the vault to two hundred and fifty, and those desiring to have funerals there, find it a very great convenience, as they can afterwards examine and select lots, and have interments made thereon, at their leisure. In short, the vault is now a public necessity, as well as a matter of convenience and accommodation.
The Artesian Well and Water System.
In consequence of the altitude and naturally dry condition of the high, rolling ground upon which Rosehill Cemetery is situated, the Board of Managers unanimously resolved to furnish a water system which would *at all times supply sufficient water for cemetery purposes, and, at the same time, be under complete control. An artesian well was accordingly sunk to a depth of 2,278 feet, which yields a steady and ample flow of clear, pure water, which is conveyed to all parts of the cemetery'grounds, through a system of water pipes laid in the avenues, below the frost line, to which pipes, hose taps or water plugs are connected at regular intervals and convenient distances for sprinkling purposes.
A Sewer System was also devised and carried out in like manner, through which all surface and surplus water is carried off, thus preventing water cuts, or washouts; and, also, any excessive amount of surface water from remaining on the grounds, even in the wettest season.
Artificial Lakes have been formed, and the grounds adjacent thereto set apart for ornamental purposes, which adds, greatly, to the picturesque andpark-like appearance of the cemetery, and tends to break that which would otherwise be a too continuous display of monumental work and other cemetery ornamentation.
The Avenues, Drives and Walks have been made and improved in a manner to render them permanent and lasting, the greater number of which are macadamized, and the others are now being improved in like manner.
Large and Handsome Greenhouses and Conservatories have been erected on the grounds for the purpose of propagating and raising plants, vines and flowers for the ornamentation of family burial lots, urns and vases. And, also, for the purpose of furnishing fresh cut flowers to those desiring them for funerals, or for grave or other decoration.
In short, no labor or expense has been spared, that was required, or necessary to make Rosehill, in all respects, a beautiful and well appointed rural cemetery,—a credit to its managers and worthy of the consideration and patronage of the citizens of Chicago and vicinity.
Family Lots.
Rosehill is laid out, subdivided and platted into sections and lots, with the view of furnishing every size, shape, and variety of family burial lots that the varied tastes and necessities of its patrons may require, from the small 10x15, in regular gradation, up to 100x100 feet.
The Prices
are uniform in all parts of the cemetery, at 50 cents per square foot, thus allowing those desirous of securing fine family lots, to make their own choice of lots and location, without any additional charge.
These prices, however, may be changed in the near future, by action of the Board of Managers, as grounds not nearly so desirable are selling in other cemeteries at $1.00 per square foot, and to quote from the price list of another western cemetery, it says:
“ Family lots containing 300 superficial feet are sold at prices ranging from $200 to $600, according to location. As in cities, and elsewhere, location, and the beauty and other advantages of particular spots, is regarded in fixing the prices. On this account, when parties known to be in affluent circumstances select lots inthe most prominent and desirable situations, corresponding prices are expected.”
In Rosehill,. with its uniform price of only fifty cents per square foot, nothing like the above discrimination can be alleged.
An Important Feature
has been recently introduced, at the request of a number of the most prominent and wealthy citizens of Chicago, who desired to secure large and handsome lots for themselves and heirs; to be held and sacredly retained, for all time, free from subdivision, as a place of interment for themselves and their families.
In order to meet the views of these gentlemen, and all others who may coincide therewith, the Rosehill Company caused several sections in the finest part of the cemetery, to be improved and laid out on the lawn plan, and special covenants were incorporated and given in the warranty deeds, covenanting not only as to the lots conveyed, but, also, that no lots in said section, or sections, shall be subdivided or sold in fractional parts. .
The covenants referred to, fully explain themselves, as follows:
“ It is Mutually Covenanted and Agreed by and between the parties hereto, that the grantee.... herein mentioned, or ..,legal representatives, shall not subdivide or sell any portion of the above described lot, and the said Rosehill Cemetery Company, on its part, covenants, agrees, and binds itself, its successors and assigns, that it nor they will not subdivide, nor sell fractional parts of any lots located in section.... The Intention and Meaning of this agreement is to protect lot owners in said section, and forever hereafter keep all lots therein free from subdivision, and sell them as a whole, according to the recorded plat thereof. To the end that monuments and improvements thereon may be made and kept of a character to correspond with the size of said lots in said section, and to prevent the sale or assignment of fractional parts of lots, and the placing of inferior improvements thereon.”
This feature of the cemetery is rapidly meeting with favor, and will, in a short time, form one of the most pleasing and satisfactory, as well as the handsomest and most desirable portion of the cemetery.
Here we find the family lots of Matthew Laflin, Byron L.INTERIOR VIEWS IN ROSEHILL.Smith, John B. Drake, Henry M. Hooker, D. B. Gardner, Estate of
S.	S. Gardner, deceased; Henry A. Rust, Dr. N. S. Davis, Frederick
H.	Kales, Richard T. Crane, A. D. Lamb, Mrs. Henrietta E. Morton, Arabella T. Calkins, John W. Calkins, Gary G. Calkins, Almon
H.	Calkins, Henry F. Lewis, and others.*
Perpetual Care Fund.
By reference to the preamble, and Sections 1, 2 and 3 of the Amendment to the Charter of Rosehill Cemetery, you will observe that the Cemetery Company is required to pay 10 per cent of all the proceeds received from the sale of lots to a fund created by said Amendment, for the perpetual care of the cemetery grounds forever, after all lots therein shall have been sold.
This fund already amounts to about $35,000 of principal, and is rapidly increasing each year, so that the completion of the principal amount of $100,000 is assured. The present Board of Trustees of this fund consist of the Hon. Charles B. Farwell, Orring-ton Lunt, banker, and Henry F. Lewis, capitalist; the latter gentleman is treasurer of the fund, and all lots sold are conveyed to the purchasers by full warranty deeds, executed by the officers of the Cemetery Company, and by a trustee, which trustee, at the time of signing such deed or deeds, demands and is paid the amount of trust money due on each and every lot sold. The officers of the Cemetery Company prefer this method on account of its simplicity, and because it is absolutely correct, and certain in its operation, thus insuring the collection and accumulation of said fund, just as rapidly as the cemetery lots are sold.
* It was our intention and desire to here give a complete list of the lot owners in Rosehill, but we find that the size and expense of such a book renders it, for the present at least, impracticable.Dedication of Rosehill Cemetery.
Thursday, July 28th, 1859.
The following account of the ceremonies of this occasion is collated from the reports of the several daily papers of Chicago, of July 29. To the Press and Tribune, the Times, and Democrat, we are indebted for excellent and correct reports, from each of which we have made selections.
“ Yesterday was an occasion long to be remembered in the annals of our city, as happily inaugurating a new, noble, and long needed enterprise. The question that' has long been agitated and discussed, seems answered, and finally. The voice of our city having united as the voice of one man in remonstrance against further interments within the fast springing residences that are filling our northern suburbs, and the evil, the positive danger of continuing to bury our dead thus among the homes of the living, the events of yesterday place on record how well the appeal has been met.
“ We believe a few years will constitute Rosehill one of the most attractive and beautiful of cemeteries, and see springing among its oak groves the monuments of taste and of remembrance of the departed, who are year by year to bind that city to this by ties and associations continually gaining in power and strength.
“ Rosehill is six miles and a half north of this city, on the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad, the present station being directly opposite the cemetery, the enclosure of which lies to the westward of the track. It is reached, also, by-two good roads— one along the lake shore, the other the prairie road following up the North Branch to the westward of the ridge.
“ The prairie on which our city stands, lies smooth and level as a threshing floor for miles about us, and to the northward the first change of soil and surface is where, within the palings of Rosehill, the rich black loam of meadow or wet prairie, changes abruptly into a dry soil, overlaying a gravel ridge, which in its greatest altitude is from seventeen to twenty feet above the adjacent prairie on theVIEWS LOOKING WEST OVER THE LAKE AND PAST THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF THE RECEIVING VAULT.south and the east. Thus is it especially fitted for the pprpose to which it is now consecrated. This ridge is crowned by a fine grove of oaks. It extends northward and westward, giving a total capacity of area of some four hundred acres, or more should it ever be desired to extend the cemetery to such limits.
“ Yesterday (July 28, 1859), had been appointed by the Committee for the dedication of the cemetery grounds. With much liberality, free trains were run throughout the day, and the long trains of twenty cars each went loaded, scarcely any available space of sitting or standing room without its occupant. The first train of twenty cars, bearing the procession and officers of the day, left the Milwaukee depot a little after nine o’clock, following the regular train for the north, which also bore numbers, an advance guard, bound for Rosehill. Probably on this train were about eighteen hundred persons.
“ The morning train from Waukegan brought down the Masonic brethren from that place in full regalia, and a very large attendance was present from Evanston and the country about Chittenden. A second,.third and fourth time the monster train of twenty cars went fully loaded from this city. From all these sources the attendance upon the grounds was estimated at from 8,000 to 10,000 people. By the admirable arrangements of the railroad managers, these thousands of excursionists passed to and fro with nothing to mar the enjoyment or completeness of the day. The weather was the perfection of mid-summer on the shores of our noble lake, just tempered to a balmy, delicious coolness, by breezes fresh from its bright expanse.
“ To characterize the exercises of the day as a class, they must be pronounced of no common order, and we have prepared for our readers, to sustain us in our opinion so far as our full and complete report shall reproduce for them, without the adjuncts of time and place, the events of yesterday in their order.
“ The train, bearing the procession proper, with the Masonic Fraternity, clergy, officers of the day, and others, reached the ground about 10 o’clock a. m., and, headed by the Light Guard Band, the concourse took up its line of march to the center of the cemetery, where, on a finely chosen site for the proposed chapel, afoundation having already been laid, all was in readiness for the initial ceremonial of the day.”—Press and Tribune, July 29, 1859.
Laying the Corner Stone.
“ The first thing in order was the laying of the corner stone of the chapel in accordance with the ancient rights and usages of the Masonic Order. The chapel occupies (or is to occupy, for only the foundation is now laid), a prominent site on the brow of the hill, fronting the railway. A broad carriage way leads directly to it from the main entrance to the cemetery, and diverging right and left before the chapel, leads off in winding directions over the grounds. To the right of the chapel, a distance of about 100 rods, is the receiving vault, a massive and durable structure of grout, brick and iron, built in the hill side. This structure is now nearly completed.
“ The corner stone to be laid by the Masons was suspended above its resting place from a derrick, ready to be let down at the proper time. The stone is what is known as the Athens marble, used extensively in this city for building purposes. Upon its facade appears the following inscription:
‘ ‘This stone was laid July 28, A. D. 1859, A. L. 5859.
BY THE MASONIC ORDER.
M. W. I. A. W. BUCK, GRAND MASTER.”’
— Times, July 29, 1859.
Everything being in readiness, the Grand Master gave one rap with the gavel upon the stone, and said:
“ Brother Grand Chaplain, you will invoke the throne of Divine Grace.”
The invocation was made accordingly by Grand Chaplain Reuben Taylor.
The Grand Master then said: “ Brother Grand Treasurer, you will make the deposits.”
The following articles, sealed up in a metallic box, were then deposited in the place prepared for them, by Grand Treasurer Powell, viz: The Holy Bible; one copy of each of the daily papers published in the city; the latest issue; one copy of each of the weekly papers published in the city; copy of the act incorporatingthe Cemetery Company; copy of the rules and regulations for the cemetery; copy of the programme of the dedication exercises.
While the cement was being applied and the stone lowered to its place, the Light Guard Band gave with fine effect “ Pleyel’s Hymn.” The Grand Master then applied the implements of the craft, the level, the square and the plumb line, pronouncing the same at the close, “ Well formed, true and trusty.” Goblets containing corn, wine and oil, were successively poured upon the stofte. The stone was struck three times with the mallet, and public honors were given by the fraternity. Then, having delivered with appropriate remarks, to the architect, Mr. Young, the implements of his craft, Acting Grand Master Johnson eloquently addressed Dr. Blaney, President of the Cemetery Association, thus concluding the Masonic ceremonies.
Address of H. A. Johnson, M. D., Acting Grand Master.
Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Board of Directors.—In accordance with your request, the Masons have laid the corner stone of this edifice, to be consecrated to the solemn services with which, in the hour of our sorrow, we commit of loved ones all that is of earth to earth.
We congratulate you on the success thus far of the undertaking in which you have engaged. We congratulate, also, the living thousands of yonder great and growing city; that here amid these lovely grounds, so convenient of access, where there is so much of natural beauty, and where so much of art and skill has been expended, a site has been selected where with sadness and with tears we may build, since build we must, our silent city of the dead.
We thank you, Mr. President, for the honor you have conferred upon us in inviting us to perform this ceremony. The appropriateness of this act will be apparent when we assure you that our Order was once operative in its character; that one of its objects at least was to contribute to the necessities, conveniences and comforts of man, as a social being. During the middle ages and up to the time of the general diffusion of learning in the sixteenth century, it was the conservator of art and the embodiment of practical science. While the school-men were debating with loud-soundingwords and meaningless propositions the abstractions of metaphysics, the Masons were earnestly studying science and applying it in a thousand different ways to the arts of life. In Britain and continental Europe, our Masonic forefathers erected those grand structures that enchant the eye of the modern traveler, those massive and symmetrical fortresses that constituted the strongholds of the Mediaeval barons, and that like old men wrinkled and furrowed and bending beneath the weight of years, yet stand on the hill-tops of Merrie England, and along the banks of the rushing Rhine.
It is to our order that the church is indebted for her mouldering abbeys, where, as the centuries have slowly passed, she has been gathering from the harvest fields of earth, the brave, the wise and the good; for her lofty cathedrals now crumbling beneath the tooth of time, with their dim and solemn aisles, supported by a forest of noble columns, and lighted by a thousand tapers, where the sturdy Northman and the stalwart, strong-armed Saxon knelt and listened to the wondrous story of the Cross.
But thanks to the press, that truly Masonic “ art of finding out new arts,” knowledge is now everywhere diffused, science, with its appliances, especially that of architecture, is universal, and we as an order preserve only the emblems, the memorials of our ancient operations, office, and character; these we continue to use, not for material purposes, but as the representatives of moral influences and the eternal principles of truth and justice.
We are no longer the builders of a material temple, nor yet the architects of cathedral or fortress, but we are still builders—as the coral insect beneath the tropical seas moulds its living self into forms of beauty, until by the united labor of myriads the islands of ocean lift their crowned heads above the waters, so are we all, according to our Masonic faith, the living atoms of a social and moral temple. Here in this world we are building from our very selves a structure, that we trust, shall lift itself up through the surging billows of time and crowned with beauty, bathe itself in the clearer light and softer air of the islands of the blessed.
We therefore thank you again, Mr. President, for the privilege of uniting with you in the inauguration of such an enterprise as this; we thank you also for the assurance that we see on every side, that here the stern repulsiveness of the grave is to be chastened; that its associations, though they may be sad, are to be softenedand sweetened by the hallowed influence always exercised by art and nature in their forms of beauty.
As men and Masons, we shall take a sad pleasure in planting here amid the groves, by the graves of those we love, our own Acacia, ever blooming, “ amid the storm-cloud and wintry wind,’ to us the symbol of an unending life.
To these ceremonies of laying the corner stone, succeeded the more general exercises of the day, from a rostrum beneath an awning, and before which were temporary seats for a very large audience; the grove at that part of the grounds giving them its deepest and most grateful shade.
Dr. Boone introduced Dr. J.V. Z.Blaney, President of the Cemetery Company, who proceeded to deliver the following address:
Address of Dr. Blaney.
Ladies and Gentlemen:—You are assembled to-day to witness and assist in the dedication of this beautiful spot as a Rural Cemetery. Your presence here is such numbers is accepted by those who have undertaken the work as an earnest of your interest in their efforts to supply to Chicago that mournful but necessary adjunct—A City of the Dead.
The custom of burying the dead within the limits of large cities, is one which was unknown to the ancients, and resulted from the abuse of a privilege granted, at first only as a mark of high distinction, to martyrs and saints, and afterward claimed as a right by the rich and powerful, but ever deprecated by science and by the Church as detrimental to the public health.
By the Jews, the Greeks, and the Romans, cemeteries were, by the most rigorous enactments, placed without the walls of cities and villages, and this salutary provision was adopted in the discipline of the early Christian Church
It was only during the period of decade? ce of letters in the middle ages that this custom, injurious to the living and unwarranted by any principle of public hygiene, by good taste or by respect for the dead, was allowed to creep in as one of many evidences of stolid ignorance and degraded morals. With the revival of letters, efforts began to be made to remedy a custom whose consequences in the more crowded communities of Europe had come tobe seriously felt. To the clergy of France, and more especially to the Archbishop of Toulouse, is due the credit of arousing public sentiment to the dangers of intramural interments. In a most eloquent appeal, after rehearsing the abuses by which the practice had been introduced, he portrays vividly the evils to which it gives rise, and exhorts the secular powers to assist the efforts of the Church “ to recall the ancient discipline on this point.”
It was not, however until 1765, that the Parliament of Paris, by legal enactment, led the way to a remedy of these evils* the French Government adopted the same course, and those noble institutions “ Pere la Chaise,” “ Vaugirard,” and “ Montmartre," were the first exemplars of those rural cemeteries which, both in Europe	and	America, are at once the ornaments and	the patterns
of	horticultural tastes of so many large communities.	I	have only
to point you to Mt. Auburn, Greenwood, Laurel Hill, Forest Lawn, Mt. Hope, and Spring Grove, as illustrious examples of the disposition in our country to a return to the correct taste and delicate sentiment so beautifully expressed in the epitaph of Sophocles, the founder of Grecian tragedy
“ Wind gentle evergreen, to form a shade Around the tomb where Sophocles is laid;
Sweet ivy, wind thy boughs and interwine . With blushing roses and the clustering vine;
So shall thy lasting leaves, with beauty hung,
Prove a fit emblem of the lays he sung/'
To-day inaugurates a movement in imitation of these examples, and to the citizens of Chicago we look to sustain our efforts.
A brief statement of the history of the enterprise thus far, and of the policy intended to be pursued by the Board of Managers of Rosehill Cemetery, will not be out of place. In the Autumn of 1858, a petition was presented to the Common Council of Chicago remonstrating against the further interment of the dead in the City Cemetery.
The gentlemen to whom the matter was referred, proceeded with their duty with commendable zeal and promptness. They opened a correspondence with the authorities of the several large cities of the United States, and the Canadas, procuring a vast amount of statistical information and numerous documents. They also made a reconnoisance of the vicinity of Chicago, with a viewof effecting a new location for the city cemetery. Among other localities, the one upon which we now stand was examined, and in the unanimous opinion of the committee, was not merely the best, but the only spot in all respects suitable for the purpose.
The report of the committee attracted the attention of several of the gentlemen corporators of the Rosehill Cemetery. The idea of the suitableness of this tract of land for cemetery purposes had previously occurred to them, but until the report was made to the Common Council adverse to the continuance of the city cemetery, the movement was thought to be premature. This report suggested that the time had arrived when the public sentiment of Chicago was prepared to support the efforts which might be made to establish a rural cemetery at a convenient distance from the city limits.
The Board of Managers of Rosehill Cemetery, appointed under the act of incorporation, encouraged by the report of the Committee of the City Council, and feeling bound to supply the need of a place for burial without delay, initiated the preliminaries for the location of the cemetery at this place. With this view they solicited and obtained the eminent counsel of J. Jay Smith, Esq., President of Laurel Hill Cemetery, at Philadelphia, who, in view of the importance of the movement to the future health and prosperity of Chicago, sacrificing his convenience and other engagements in an inclement season of the year, visited Chicago and freely gave his assistance in locating the grounds for the future cemetery and both then and singe has been of eminent service by his advice in the management of the enterprise. The Board of Managers would wish thus publicly to express their obligation to this gentleman and their high estimation of his experience in the management of rural cemeteries, and the value of his counsels.
But, fellow citizens of Chicago and vicinity, with you it remains to decide whether Rosehill is or is not to be your cemetery. We have made every effort to supply your need. That effort will be continued, so that you shall not blush to compare yours with the rural cemeteries of other and older cities. But to effect this we must be sustained by your sympathy and encouragement.
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The temple and the tomb are found among the wrecks of every nation, and by their graduated costliness always give evidence ofthe stage of civilization or luxury. All the treasures of art and opulence have been lavished on the altar and the urn. This has held, as well of those nations which have made the greatest achievements in the elegant arts as of those which have been sunken in barbarism. Whether it be imperial pyramid or sculptured sarcophagus, or the rude cairn, each faithfully pictures the mind which conceived, the heart which prompted, and the hand which executed them.
And to those who look upon death as the bartering of the mortal for the immortal, who regard the grave as the entrance-hall to the upper temple, who contemplate death as but the restoration to earth of its borrowed and no longer needed clay, our theme may be resolved into the truest and most elevating poetry. To these, death seems radiant in the reflected glory-light of its Divine Conqueror. To these the grave is a chamber of repose, fragrant with the memory of a Heavenly Guest, who once entered to adorn it with pictures of a bright hereafter. To these the interment of the body is but an offering we make to our mother earth at parting from her forever; an offering of all we have to give to the mother of our bodies, as we mount up to dwell with the Father of our spirits. But aside from this, the religious poetry of burial, there is a poetry of sentiment, of deep and wide human feeling. How many are there who look upon places of sepulture “ as fields of peace ” rather than as “ cities of the dead,” who have followed friends to the tomb as to a sanctuary of blessed rest from the fever and fret of life, and who can stand at the door of the peopled vault and see Rest and Hope embracing in that gloomy grotto. How many are there who have given to the grave the choicest treasures of the heart, and thus feel wedded to it as by the bridal of sorrow, whose tears keep green the grassy mound which arches the resting-place of the loved and the lost, and who find the grave-side a dearer spot than the fireside. How many are there who feel themselves bound and drawn to the coming life by ties which pass through the sepulchre, and who resisting not the sweet coercion, find the door of the tomb the dearest, because the nearest place to the land of happy meetings and everlasting communions.
Go wander among the flowery mazes and lose yourself in the labyrinths of sylvan beauty, which the taste and sentiment of this age and country have ordered as fit resting places for the dead—or enter some quiet country church-yard and stroll among its thick set grave-stones. Read the chiseled words of affection, the tender tributes which heart pays heart. Peruse the marble record which tells you that successive generations are here slumbering side by side. Ponder the varied inscriptions. They are legends of a common lot to high and low, to great and humble, to old and young, to good and bad, to rich and poor. They tell the story of pride humbled, of riches fled, of glory faded, of ambition curbed, of love blighted, and of energy palsied. They preach a common humanity, an universal brotherhood, a like heritage to all men.
Turn now away from these eloquent memorials of a dead past, and stand beside yon lonely grave where the freshly piled earth is settling upon some new tenant of the tomb. Observe those simple flowers, yet scarcely withered, with which a mother’s or a sister’s hand hath garnished the grave. As they gently rustle in the wind every leaf is vocal with the music of the affections, every fragrant exhalation is an out-breathing of the perfume of love. Go now and sit by the fireside where stands “ the vacant chair.” Wipe away the tears which are pressed out by the freshly-imposed grief. Give ear to the story of a noble boy, full of the pride and the promise and glowing with the health and the beauty of youth; the light and the life of his home, suddenly blighted as by a frost in his spring-time, pierced as by a stray shaft, plucked ere his prime by the rapacious hand of death; and now he has gone, leaving ashes for beauty. There is a dirge in the dwelling. There are flowers on the grave. Presently the dirge shall die out, the faded flowers shall be scattered, but new hopes will “spring exulting” from the lately crushed heart, as the grass shall mantle with verdure that newly-made grave. From that grave to the skies, on the ladder of faith, shall those hopes like bright angels be continually “ ascending and descending.” Clustering around the tomb are such associations as these, investing it with an atmosphere of healthful poetic sentiment, and developing even in the circumstances of sepulture a moral beauty scarcely surpassed in any of the varied aspects of human life.
As I come finally to speak of the proprieties of burial, I only turn from what is suggestive to what is objective in the poetry of sepulture. I have nothing to say upon this topic but what has already, in all probability, been embraced in the plans of this incor-poration. The cultivated taste and religious sentiment of our land have already been so vigorously exercised in deciding upon the proper appointments of the cemetery, that it were almost presumption for me to speak didactically or critically of the proprieties of burial. Rather let me point you to the cemeteries which adorn the suburbs of many of our sister cities, where horticulture and landscape gardening, and monumental sculpture have achieved triumphs which command our highest admiration, and which we would do well zealously to emulate. There can be no question but that the rural cemetery, according to its recognized type, is the nearest approximation which has ever been made to a burying place which satisfies every 'demand of a christianized and enlightened humanity. Here in “the groves which were God’s first temples,” the dead are “buried out of our sight,” either in the grave or the vault, or the sarcophagus. Here every variety of taste may have scope in erecting permanent memorials to the dead, and in ornamenting with trees or flowers the “ lap of earth ” on which they rest. But not pausing to recite the merits of the cemetery as a place of sepulture, I go on to say that such provision of this kind as has been made for the wants of other cities, the Rosehill Association this day proposes to you, the citizens of Chicago. We are standing on the ground which has been selected, and most wisely selected for this purpose. Its general elevation, the easy slopes of its natural grades and the dry and gravelly composition of its soil seem to designate it as a place of burial. It is removed so far from the city as to be thoroughly exempted from its noisy intrusions and its worldly associations, and yet not so far but that the church spires may be plainly descried, nor so far as to forfeit convenience of access. At the -east of us and so near at hand lies the lake, that its waters become a very important feature in the landscape. At the west the prairie spreads away to the setting sun, now dotted with the signs of a dense population where but a few years ago the Buffalo was monarch of the grassy plain. Above us are the mighty arms of the oak which may have borne up at a time not remote, the canoe in which the pious Pottowotamie had made deposit of the remains of parent or child. Beneath our feet is virgin soil; ground which the spade or plough has never broken, a glebe which we now begin to plant for the great resurrection harvest. Thus the life of the city, the grandeur of the lake and the prairie, theVIEWS SHOWING THE SCHUTTLER MAUSOLEUM. BATTERY A. CHICAGO LIGHT ARTILLERY, AND ODD FELLOW’S MONUMENT.association of the Indian and the buffalo, the beauty of these native oaks, and the topography and composition of the ground all unite in the pledge which is this day made that Rosehill shall ere long be a wilderness of beauty. The elements are all here. It only needs an elegant and rigid taste to combine them harmoniously and group them with grace. It only needs a ready hand to carry tasteful design into prompt execution. A little while and we shall see these groves peopled with voiceless tenants. Here presently shall stand the “ storied urn and animated bust.” Here shall be brought the marble of Italy and New England, and the soft-tinted free-stone from the bosom of our own prairies, wrought into a thousand memorial shapes, and telling the story of a thousand lives.
Here shall stand the lordly obelisk, the proud mausoleum and the richly sculptured tomb. Here too the simple slab and modest grave stone. Here also shall Flora assume wide dominion, gemming the ground with her jewels, and perfuming the air with her incense. Here too shall shrubbery “ that Shenstone might have envied ” bloom in all its variety of form and foliage. Here cedars from Lebanon, and firs from Norway, the pine of Austria, and the arbor-vitae of Siberia shall mingle their shadows together. Here the arching elm and drooping willow and weeping ash shall intertwine their boughs. Here the cypress, the laurel, and the alder shall interlace their branches. Soon shall we turn our eyes to this hallowed and beautiful spot of earth as a retreat where we can always come secure of an hour sacred to beauty and religion— where we can come feeling that not Death but Hope is the genius /oci^-the beautiful not the corruptible, the aesthetical not the material, necessarily the temper of his thought who “ here in the love of nature holds communion with her visible-forms,” and who here in the love of God holds communion with the spirits of the departed.
To this spot we may soon return, following with bleeding hearts to its place of rest “the lust of the eye or the pride of life.” Here we may soon come to bury all our heart treasures, or, as borne ourselves, to the “narrow house appointed for all living.” Let us hasten then, like Abraham, to make ready this place, where we can “ bury our dead out of our sight,” but hasten more to be so conformed, as was the Father of the faithful, to tire will of Heaven, that oursepulchre shall be another Machpelah, tenanted by only those whom God has honored as His friends and covenant people. Thus armed in spirit, and with our chambers of repose decked with pictures of beauty and hope, we can approach our grave .
‘ ‘ Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.”
*
It only remains that I announce the design of these solemn services to be the ceding of this fair territory for all time to the uses of Christian burial. We offer it this day as a deodand, and invoke the blessing of Him whose it is by creation, to rest upon all who shall here lie down in death. These oaks, these lawns, yon open field and yon close-set grove, we sever from the common ground beyond. We would hallow these acres by our present invocation of Heaven, and by enshrining here the idols of the affections. Here, fellow-men, we look out upon our last earthly possession. It is a sweet scene as now we see it, bathed in the glorious sunlight of this mid-summer day. It will be a dearer scene when our loved ones shall lie slumbering in these shadows. It will be a scene replete with the most awful grandeur, the highest sublimity, when this densely peopled ground shall quiver beneath the resurrection blast, the cerements of the grave unclose, and the thousands who have been sleeping here together upon the instant rise to the audience of Judgment.*
The Light Guard Band here gave, with fine effect, a dirge full of beauty and pathos, and the following Hymn, selected for the occasion, was read by Rev. W. W. Patton, D. D., and sung by the choir:
Maker of all above Father of all below,
As now we meet, thy chosen met Thousands of years ago.
Sojourners, like ourselves,
On earth for a brief space,
They sought the grove and hallowed it As their last resting place.
* On the 13th day of December, A. D. 1874, Prof. James V. Z. Blaney was laid to rest under the rich foliage of the groves-he loved so well in life.And kindred feelings yet Thy children’s bosom sway,
And oft they meet, as we have met,
Within these shades to-day.
The cool groves rising round,
The slopes beneath them spread,
We consecrate with awe profound Forever to the dead.
So, when we’ve breathed our last,
Here may our burial be,
To wait, with kindred dead, the blast /	That	summons	u's	to thee.
Oh, when the hour shall come,
Earth’s scenes no more we know,
Smile thus upon our hearts, as down To the dark grave we gc!
Thy voice is with us here,
’Mid silence and the shade,
Where oft the mourner’s bitterest tear Must fall upon the glade.
It speaks not of despair—
It bids us look pbove,
The bow of promise spanning there,
The whole broad Heaven of love.
Rev. Dr. Burroughs offered an appropriate dedicatory prayer, succeeding which, a Doxology was sung by the audience, and the exercises closed by a benediction pronounced by Rev. Paul Anderson.
Only a few short months more than twenty-four years have passed since these Dedicatory Exercises were held at Rosehill, at which time the grounds contained but one silent occupant. Now they are numbered by the tens of thousands, and, perhaps, one hundred thousand people in and about the city see the chair made vacant by friends who are now sleeping there, and when in the fullness of time the city of Chicago shall have attained its growth, Rosehill will indeed be “a City of the Dead,”, beautified and adorned by the living, as a sacred place where their father’s rest.The First Interment in Rosehill.
On the eleventh day of July, 1859, the first funeral cortege entered the gates of Rosehill, with the remains of Dr. J. W Ludlam. But now, what multitudes are here!
“ The youth in life’s green spring, and they who went In the full strength of years—matron and maid,
And the sweet babe, and_the gray headed man,
Have, one by one, been gathered to his side By those, who in their turn shall follow them.”
In	July,	1883, as we wandered through the	labyrinth	of
shady	walks	and drives, peopled on every side	by those,	in
memoriam of whom stands the stately monument, the broken column, the stone, the urn, and the rustic vase, filled with rarest flowers, that breathe forth the story of severed ties, cherished by love that is chastened by sorrow, we were led to exclaim, “ What a following he has had! ” Cities may grow or decline, but the city of the dead keeps on increasing forever. What a theme! The history of burial has never been written, but like tradition, it in memory binds, with stronger ties than pen can tell, the past to the present, and in hope, the present to the future.
Herein we find the sentiment, the religion of burial, that with tender care and affection builds and beautifies our rural cemeteries, which are pre-eminently places of Christian burial, where the sentiments and affections of the living show forth in the care for the dead:—
“ Our tastes do round Affection’s aitar crowd,
And eager lay their tributes there.
The grass is taught to grow and flowers to bloom In shapes and order fit to utter forth The tender eloquence of cherished love.”VIEWS LOOKING WEST FROM THE ENTRANCE, SHOWING BRIDGES BATTERY LOT, SOLDIER’S
MONUMENT, ETC.In looking over the charter, you will find that it is perpetual and most liberal in its provisions—granting power and authority to the Company to obtain and possess 500 acres of ground, in fee, for cemetery purposes, which area is now secured, thus insuring permanency for centuries. Previous to drawing the act of incorporation, a letter was addressed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, of Illinois, to a number of influential gentlemen of Chicago, “ inviting their co-operation and: assistance in the endeavor to supply to Chicago a rural cemetery adequate to her necessities, and worthy of her anticipated future.”
These gentlemen were Hon. William B. Ogden, Charles G. Hammond, John H. Kinzie, H. A. Tucker, L. D. Boone, B. W. Raymond, Charles V. Dyer, James H. Reese, John Evans, Jonathan Burr, L. R. Taft, E. K. Rogers, A. T. Sherman, George Schneider, Andrew Nelson, J. V. Z. Blaney, Henry Smith, Philo Judson and others, who, with a committee appointed by the Common Council of the City of Chicago, for the purpose of selecting a site for a new cemetery, made a full and most exhaustive report of the extent of their labors.
Rosehill Cemetery Company was, in consequence, incorporated February n, 1859, and. the site selected by the'gentlemen mentioned was, on the twenty-eighth day of July, in the same year dedicated for cemetery purposes in the presence of from 8,000 to 10,000 citizens of Chicago The proceedings of which Dedicatory exercises have been given, and are well worth reading.CHARTER
OF
Rosehill Cemetery Company.
AN ACT to Incorporate the Rosehill Cemetery Company.
Be it enacted by the People	of	the	State of Illinois, repre-
sented in the General Assembly :
Section i. That William B Ogden, Charles G. Hammond, John H. Kinzie, Hiram A. Tucker, Levi D. Boone, Benjamin W. Raymond, Charles V. Dyer,	James	H. Reese,	John Evans,
Jonathan Burr, Levi B. Taft, E.	K.	Rogers, Robt.	H. Morford
Andrew T. Sherman, William Turner, George Schneider, C. H. Deihl, Andrew Nelson, James V. Z Blaney, Henry Smith, Philo Judson, E. L Jansen, Francis H. Benson, and such others as they may hereafter associate with themselves, be, and they are hereby created a body politic and corporate, in fact and in name, by the style and title of the “ Rosehill Cemetery Company,” and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and be capable of suing and of being sued, of contracting and being contracted with, of pleading and being impleaded, in any Court of law and equity in the State of Illinois : and they and their successors may have a common seal, and make and alter the same at pleasure, and do such other things as are incident to a corporation and not inconsistent with the Constitution of the State of Illinois.
Sec. 2. The eighteen persons first named shall constitute the first “ Board of Consultation,” and the five persons last named shall be the first “ Board of Managers ” of the said Rosehill Cemetery Company, and shall have power to receive subscriptions for the purchase of property and the laying out and ornamenting of grounds for Cemetery purposes, as contemplated by this Act; and may issue certificates representing the interest of subscribers in the property held by the Company, and in the proceeds of thesale of burial lots ; and the individual interests represented by such certificates shall be assignable and transferable only in such way as the Managers, for the time being, may from time to time direct; and such individual interests are hereby declared to be personal estate. And the said Managers shall have authority to call in and demand from the subscribers, respectively, such sums of money by them subscribed, at such times and in such payments or installments as they shall deem proper, and to compel the payment of installments so demanded, by forfeiture of the interests of any subscriber refusing to pay such installments so demanded, or by the sale by them of such part of his interest as may be necessary to pay such installment. And it shall be lawful for said Managers to receive, at their option, such real estate or personal property, at an equitable valuation, in payment of subscriptions, as they may deem available for the purposes of the Company, and no subscriber shall be liable for the debts of the Company in a greater amount than the interest actually owned by him at any time.
Sec. 3. The said Managers of the said Company, and their successors, shall have power and authority in the name of said Company, to obtain possession of real estate by purchase, exchange, or otherwise, for Cemetery purposes, in the Township of Lake View, County of Cook, State of Illinois, to hold the same to an amount at no time exceeding five hundred (500) acres ; to sell, exchange or dispose of any part or parcel of land that they may be compelled to purchase in order to obtain such grounds as may not be actually needed for burial purposes.
Sec. 4. The said Managers and their successors, shall have authority to lay out and ornament, for Cemetery purposes, such grounds as they may acquire as aforesaid ; to make and have recorded in the Recorder’s office of Cook County, a plat of such grounds and of such additions thereunto as they may make at any time, and the filing of such a plat for record, shall operate as a legal vacation of any former plat or subdivision of the same, and of any roads or alleys passing through the same ; also, to erect such buildings, tombs, enclosures or other structures as they may deem advisable ; to arrange and dispose of burial lots on such terms and with such conditions for the permanent care and preservation of the Cemetery, or any part thereof, as they may agree upon with the purchasers. To make such by-laws and regulationsrelative to the election and duties of Managers and their successors ; the appointment of officers and agents, and their several duties and compensations ; and to make such rules and regulations, from time to time, for the government of lot holders and visitors to the Cemetery as they may deem necessary.
Sec. 5. All lots sold for burial purposes by said Cemetery Company, when conveyed by the Corporation to individual proprietors, shall be indivisible, but may be held and owned in undivided shares, and shall be free from taxation and from execution and attachment, provided that no one person shall hold at any one time more than four lots so exempted ; and all estate, real or personal, held by the Company, actually used by the Corporation for burial purposes, or for the general uses of lot holders, or subservient to burial uses, and which shall have been platted and recorded as Cemetery Grounds, shall likewise be exempt as above.
Sec. 6. Every lot sold by the Cemetery Company for burial purposes, shall be held by the proprietor for the purpose of sepulture only, and shall be transferrable only by the consent of the Managers, and no lot holder shall permit interment in or upon any lot held by him, for a consideration.
Sec. 7. The said Corporation may take and hold any grant, donation or bequest of property, real or personal, upon trust, to apply the same, or the income thereof, under the direction of the “ Board of Managers,” for the improvement or embellishment of the said Cemetery, or for the erection, repair, preservation or renewal of any tomb, monument or gravestone, fence, railing, or other erection, or for the planting and cultivation of trees, shrubs, flowers or plants in or around any Cemetery lot, or for improving the said premises in any other manner or form, consistent with the design and purposes of this Act, according to the terms of such grant, donation or bequest.
Sec. 8. If any person shall clandestinely open any tomb or grave in the enclosure of the Rosehill Cemetery Company, and shall remove or attempt to remove any body or remains therefrom, such person, upon conviction thereof in any Court of competent jurisdiction, shall be sentenced to undergo an imprisonment in the State prison at hard labor, for a term of not less than six months, or more than one year, or pay a fine of not less than one hundred or more than five hundred dollars, or both, in the discretion of the
\Court having jurisdiction thereof. And any person who shall willfully destroy, mutilate, deface, injure or remove any tomb, monument, gravestone or other structure, placed within the enclosure of said Cemetery Company, or any fence, railing, or other work erecte'd for the protection or ornament of said Cemetery, or any tomb, monument or gravestone, or other structure, placed therein as aforesaid, or shall willfully destroy, cut, break, injure or remove any tree, shrub, plant, or any part thereof, within the limits of said Cemetery, or shall shoot or discharge any gun or other fire-arms, or any fire-works, or other missile, capable of doing any injury to any structure or plant, as aforesaid, within the limits of said Cemetery aforesaid, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction thereof, before any justice of the peace, be punished by a fine of not less than five, nor more than one hundred dollars; or upon conviction thereof, before any other Court of competent jurisdiction, shall be punished by a fine as aforesaid, or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year, or both, at the discretion of the Court having jurisdiction thereof, according to the nature and aggravation of the offense. And such offender shall also be liable in an action of trespass, to be brought against him in any Court of competent jurisdiction, in the name of said Company, to pay all such damages as shall have been occasioned by his unlawful act or acts, which money, when recovered, shall be applied by the said Corporation, under the direction of the Board of Managers thereof, to the reparation and restoration of the property destroyed, or injured as above; and members of the said Corporation shall be competent witnesses on such suits. And to enable the said Corporation to enforce the provisions of this section, power and authority are hereby given to the Superintendent and Gate-Keeper of the said Corporation, for the time being, respectively, to arrest, without process, any person or persons who, to their knowledge, may have committed any offense against the provisions of this section, and shall carry such offender or offenders before a justice of the peace for trial or examination.
Sec. 9. No roads or streets or other thoroughfares shall be laid out through any property selected and held by said Cemetery Company for burial purposes, without consent of the Managers of the Company, nor shall any of the lands so selected and held, becondemned for right-of-way by any other corporation, for any purpose whatever:	Provided	that this section shall only apply to such
lands as shall have been platted and recorded as provided for in Section 4 of this Act.
Sec. 10. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage.
William R. Morrison, Speaker of the House of Represe?itatives.
John Wood, Speaker of the Senate. William H. Bissell.
Approved, February 11, 1859.
United States of America, )
State of Illinois. f
I, O. M. Hatch, Secretary of State of the State of Illinois, do hereby certify the foregoing to be a true and correct copy of an enrolled law now on file in my office. In wit-[seal] ness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the great seal of State to be affixed. Done at Springfield, this nth day of February, 1859.
O. M. Hatch,
Secretary.
amendment to charter.
AN ACT To Amend “An Act to Incorporate the Rosehill Cemetery Com pany,” Approved February 11, 1859.
Whereas, the lot holders in Rosehill Cemetery have become fearful that the said cemetery may, after the lots therein shall have been sold, come to be neglected and left without care; therefore, to prevent the possibility of such results, the Rosehill Cemetery Company proposes these amendments to its charter:
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, that there shall be set apart and kept, to be reserved and expended as hereinafter provided, the sum of ten per centum, or one-tenth part of all the proceeds hereafter to be received from the sale of lots by the Rosehill Cemetery Company, incorporated by that name by an Act approved Feb-ruary 11, 1859, until the sum so reserved and set apart shall amount to one hundred thousand dollars.
Sec. 2. That the aforesaid sum of one hundred thousand dollars shall be kept and preserved as a fund, for all time to come, for the preserving, maintaining and ornamenting the grounds, lots, walks, shrubbery, memorials, boundaries, structures, and all other things in and about said cemetery and belonging to said corporation, so that the purpose and intention thereof shall be carried out, and so that said grounds shall be and continue as cemetery grounds forever.
Sec. 3. That the said corporation, by its proper officers, shall pay over the said ten per cent, of all sales of lots, from time to time, and as often as they shall be thereunto required, to three Trustees, who are hereby constituted the “ Board of Trustees of the Rosehill Cemetery,” who shall be owners of lots in said Rosehill Cemetery, and who shall be appointed as hereafter provided, who shall keep the said fund in their possession until a sufficient amount has accumulated to purchase such one of the securities hereinafter provided, as shall be deemed best by the said Trustees, and as often as there shall be a sufficient accumulation for the purpose, as above provided. The said Trustees shall invest the said fund in the bonds or securities of the City of Chicago, the bonds or securities of the Coynty of Cook, the bonds or securities of the State of Illinois, or the bonds or securities of the United States, as they shall deem best; or if no such bonds can be had, then in other State securities of the highest value, looking to their safety and the amount of interest to be received therefrom. The said bonds or securities so purchased, shall be at once deposited in the custody of the Mayor and Comptroller of the City of Chicago, as a special deposit — the said bonds having been first plainly endorsed as belonging to the safety fund of the Rosehill Cemetery. The said fund, when so invested, shall be kept and held for the uses and purposes specified in the second section of this Act and no other.
Sec. 4. It is hereby directed that only the interest or increase of the sum invested under the authority of this Act, shall be expended for the purposes herein specified.
Sec. 5. The said Trustees may, in their discretion, and whenever they believe the securities belonging to said fund may be im-proved or increased, or the receipts therefrom increased, change the same from time to time, always preserving or reserving the capital sum, and expending only the interest or profits therefrom.
Sec. 6. Whenever the principal sum of any of the bonds or securities so held, as aforesaid, shall become due and payable, the said Trustees may cause the same to be collected, and the proceeds thereof to be invested in the same manner as is provided in the third section of this Act.
Sec. 7. Whenever the interest or coupons upon any of the said bonds or securieties shall become due and payable, the said Trustees shall collect the same, and shall cause the amount of the said interest or income to be at once expended upon the said Cemetery grounds, for the purposes above provided, in such manner as they shall deem proper. Provided, that the same shall be expended by and with the advice of the Board of Managers of said Cemetery Company, as long as said Board of Managers shall continue to exist.
Sec. 8. The said Board of Trustees, created under this Act, or hereafter to be appointed, may bring suits at law or in equity against the said Rosehill Cemetery Company, or do any other matter or thing to carry out the spirit and intent of this Act, and may restrain the said'corporation from selling lots in said Cemetery grounds, in case of failure to pay over and account for the said tenth part of lots sold, as is hereby provided and directed.
Sec. 9. That Frederick Tuttle, C. N. Holden, and L. B. Sidway, are appointed the first Board of Trustees under this Act; that said Board of Trustees shall hold their offices as follows:	One
until the first day of May, 1865, one until the first day of May, 1867, and one until the first day of May, 1869, and until their successors are appointed; that at the first meeting of said Trustees after the passage of this Act, the said Trustees shall determine by lot, which of said terms of office shall be held by each of them, respectively, and shall notify the Board of Managers of said Cemetery Company of the same.
Sec. 10. At the expiration of the term of office of either of said Trustees, or their successors, it shall be the duty of the Board of Managers of the said Cemetery Company to call a meeting of the lot holders of said cemetery, who shall elect a new Trustee, who shall hold his office for the term of six years from the first of May,in the year in which his term of office properly commences, and until his successor is appointed, and in case the said Board of Managers shall fail to call a meeting, as aforesaid, then, on the application of ten owners of lots in said Cemetery, the said remaining Trustees shall call a meeting of the lot holders, who may proceed to elect, as above provided; and in case the office of any Trustee shall at any time become vacant by death, resignation, or otherwise, a new Trustee may be elected for the unexpired term, at a meeting of lot owners, to be called as hereinabove provided for, in case of the expiration of the term of office of any Trustee; and in case said Board of Trustees shall have become extinct, or shall fail or refuse to call a meeting, as above, then any ten lot owners may call a meeting of lot owners in said cemetery, by advertising the same in two daily papers, published in the County of Cook, for at least ten days previously thereto, at which a Trustee may be elected, as above.
Sec. i i. All the rights, powers and franchises conferred by an Act of the General Assembly of this State, approved February 24, 1859, entitled “ An act to amend an Act, entitled ‘ an Act to incorporate the Carlinville Cemetery Association,’ ” approved February 18, 1853,* are hereby granted to and conferred upon said Rosehill Cemetery Company, its successors and assigns; but all applications under said power shall be made to the County Judge of Cook County, and notices in such proceedings, published in any newspaper in the City of Chicago.
Sec. 12. All vacancies in the Board of Consultation of the said Cemetery Company shall be filled by the election of the lot holders at any meeting holden for the election of Trustees, as above proved.
Sec. 13. Whenever the said Rosehill Cemetery Company shall, by its Board of Managers, vote to accept this Act as a part of the charter of the said Company, and shall file for record in the office of the Recorder of the County of Cook, a certificate, signed by the said Board of Managers and the Executive officers of the Isaid Company, and attested by the seal of the said Company, showing that the said Company have so accepted this Act, from the date of filing of the said certificate, this Act shall become a part of the charter of said Company; and the said Rosehill Cemetery Company
* This Act provides for the condemnation of adjoining lands for enlarging cemeteries.shall be bound by the same as fully and completely, in all respects, as by the Act incorporating the said Cemetery Company, to which this is an amendment.
Sec. 14. This Act and the Act hereby amended, are hereby declared to be public Acts, and as such are to be recognized and considered.
Sec. 15. This act shall take effect from and after its passage.
Approved February 13, 1863.
At a regular meeting of the Board of Managers of the Rosehill Cemetery Company, held March 6, 1863, the following resolution was adopted:
Resolved:	That	we accept the Act of the General Assembly of
the State of Illinois, approved February 13, 1863, entitled “An Act” to amend An Act to incorporate Rosehill Cemetery Company, approved February n, 1859, as a part of the charter of the Rosehill Cemetery Company.
In accordance with the conditions of the amendment, the Board of Managers of Rosehill Cemetery Company filed for record in the office of the Recorder of the County of Cook, the above resolution of acceptance.BY-LAWS
OF THE
Rosehill Cemetery Company.
Section i. The Board of Managers of the Rosehill Cemetery Company shall consist of seven managers, four of whom shall constitute a quorum for all business.
Sec. 2. Whenever a vacancy or vacancies shall occur in the Board of Managers, from any cause whatever, it shall be the duty of the remaining members of the Board, without delay, to call a meeting of the Stockholders for the election of a Manager or Managers, to fill such vacancy or vacancies ; such meeting to be called as provided for, and the priviliges of Stockholders, in such meeting, to be such as are defined in section eight of the by-laws, and in case of the refusal of the remaining members of the Board N of Managers to call such meeting of the Stockholders for thirty days after the occurrence of such vacancy or vacancies, a meeting of Stockholders may be called to fill such vacancy or vacancies by any parties representing one-tenth of the capital stock.
Sec. 3. The officers of the Board shall be a President, Vice-President, Auditor, Treasurer, Secretary and Superintendent ; the first two shall be members of the Board of Managers.
Sec. 4. The regular meetings of the Board shall be held at such time and places as the Board by resolution shall direct, and special meetings may be called by the President, at his discretion, or by the Secretary, on the request of two members of the Board.
Sec. 5. The President of the Board of Managers, when present, shall preside at all meetings of the Board, and in case of a tie shall give the casting vote, and is hereby declared to be the executive officer of the Board, and is hereby invested with such authority as may be necessary to enable him to carry into effect the orders of the Board of Managers, and in emergencies, to take such action as may be necessary for the interests of the Board and the Company,which action he shall report to the next regular meeting of the Board for their confirmation and approval ; and for all his acts he shall be responsible to the Board of Managers only.
Sec. 6. The Vice-President shall, in case of the absence or inability of the President, perform all the duties of the President.
Sec. 7. The Treasurer shall have charge of all the funds, deeds, papers, seal, and all other evidences of property belonging to the Company. He shall sign all deeds and other papers requiring the seal of the Company, and attach the seal thereto. He shall keep an accurate account of all funds and property, received in charge by him and belonging to the Company, and memoranda of all deeds and papers, and shall disburse the funds of the Company as directed by the Board of Managers. It shall also be his duty to examine monthly the books and papers of all the agents or officers of the Company to whom shall be intrusted in any way any part of the funds of the Company, and shall require from them a statement monthly, or oftener, if he deems it advisable. He shall also give bonds to the Company, to be approved by the Board before entering upon the performance of his duties, in such a sum as the Board of Managers may require, and shall present to the Board of Managers a statement annually, and oftener if required, affording a full and complete exhibit of the affairs of the Company, and shall also make a statement at every regular meeting of the Board, of all receipts and disbursements since the last regular meeting, and of all resources and liabilities accruing. All books and papers of the Treasurer shall be, at all times, open to the inspection of the President of the Board, and of any committee the Board may designate, and it shall also be his duty to report, without delay, to the President of the Company any inaccuracy in the accounts or vouchers, or any dereliction of duty, or incompetency of any of the officers or agents of the Company.
Sec. 8. The Secretary shall keep a true and faithful record of all the proceedings of the Board of Managers, and submit the same to the Board for correction and approval before entering them on the records of the Company. He shall issue all notices to all Members of the Board of Managers, of all meetings of the Board, and notify, without delay, all committees appointed by the Board, of their appointments and duties, and shall perform suchother duties as the President of the Board shall require of him. He shall have the charge of all record books and files of papers and correspondence, except such papers as involve or represent matters of property, and shall keep the same filed and labeled in an orderly manner, for convenience of reference, which books and files shall be, at all times, open to the inspection of the President and such officers or committees of the Board, of Managers as the Board may authorize, and no others.
Sec. 9. The Superintendent shall reside on or near the premises and be in attendance at every interment, and shall obtain a statement of the name, place of nativity, residence, age of the deceased, the disease of which he or she died, and also whether married or unmarried, the names of the parents of the deceased, and to deliver such statement to the Secretary, by whom an accurate registry of the same shall be made. He shall attend to the opening and closing of graves, and shall have the general control and direction, under the Board of Managers, of the improvements of the premises. Lot holders who may wish to make any improvements on their lots, or to have their boundaries more fully defined, must first apply to the Superintendent, who must be present, and whose directions they will' conform to on these occasions, as well as in the erection of other improvements. He shall keep a map of the Cemetery grounds, showing the avenues, walks and lots, with their numbers, and shall cause the boundaries of lots, avenues and walks, to be preserved. He shall have charge of and keep an account of the property, tools and implements of the Company which may be on the premises, and shall see that the regulations of the Board of Managers, for the proprietors of lots, interments and visitors, are properly observed, as it is to him the Managers look for the enforcement of the rules and regulations generally, and for the maintainance of decorum in the Cemetery on all occasions.
Sec. 10. Any and all officers of the Board of Managers or agents of the Company may be removed from office for incompetency, inability, or derelictionNof duty, by a vote of two-thirds of the members present at any regular meeting.
Sec. 11. No new improvements shall be made in the Cemetery except a plan of such proposed improvements shall first be submitted to the Board of Managers and approved by them ; andall work shall be done in accordance with the decisions and directions of the Board of Managers.
Sec. 12. Stockholders’ meetings may be called whenever occasion shall require such meeting, by a vote of two-thirds of the Managers present at any regular meeting of the Board of Managers, or at a special meeting of the Board ; provided notice of the intention to call such Stockholders’ meeting shall have been given by the Secretary to each of the members of the Board. Meetings of Stockholders shall be called by notice issued by the Secretary of the Company, at least ten days previous to the date of the proposed meeting, to each and every Stockholder appearing as such on the books of the Company, which notice shall be sent by mail to such place as shall appear by the books of the Company to be the address of such Stockholder, which notice shall state the particular object or objects for which such meeting shall be called ; and such notice sent as aforesaid shall be considered legal notice of a Stockholders’ meeting, and the Stockholders present at any such meeting so called, may determine by a majority vote of the stock represented all matters submitted to them in the notice of the meeting, and no others ; every Stockholder appearing as such on the books of the Company, shall have one vote for every share of stock actually held or owned by him at the date of meeting, which vote may be cast by himself or herself, if present, or by any person regularly authorized in writing to cast said vote or votes. It shall be the duty of the Board of Managers to call a meeting of Stockholders as above, whenever they shall be requested in writing by parties holding one-tenth of all the stock of the Company so to do, and in case of refusal or neglect of the Board of Managers to call such meeting for thirty days after the next regular meeting of the Board following such requirement, a Stockholders’ meeting may be called by the Secretary of the Company on the written requirement so to do, of the parties who shall have so demanded a meeting to be called by the Board of Managers.
Sec. 13. It shall not be lawful to use, or sell to be used, any of the lands, lots or buildings within the Cemetery enclosure for any other than cemetery purposes, and all deeds to purchasers, hereafter to be executed, shall contain a condition intended to restrain said Company or its Trustees from any lien or alienation ofthe whole or any part of said property for other than cemetery purposes.
Sec. 14. These By-Laws, or any section thereof, may be altered, amended or repealed, by a vote of two-thirds the members present, at any regular meeting of the Board, or by unanimous consent at a special or adjourned meeting.RULES AND REGULATIONS
OF
Rosehill Cemetery Company.
As a general rule, the Board of Managers of Rosehill Cemetery have no disposition to interfere with the preferences and tastes of individuals. But they nevertheless believe it their duty to reserve the rights conferred on them by the charter for insuring the stability of improvements, the good appearance of the grounds, a respectful manner of burying the dead, and a proper observance of the sacredness of the place.
Purchase of Lots.
1. Those desiring to purchase lots in Rosehill, are respectfully requested to visit the cemetery, in all cases where it is possible to do so, and select their lot or lots on the grounds, where the plans can be examined, and all necessary information given in regard thereto.
Experience has taught us that this method gives general satisfaction; as it enables purchasers to first personally examine the grounds, and make their own selection of lots and location.
2. Lots purchased in this cemetery are conveyed by warranty deed, and are secured under the charter, to the purchasers, their families and heirs, as a burial place forever.
3. Lot owners are expressly prohibited, by the charter and rules of the Company, from selling or transferring their lots to other parties, without first obtaining consent of the Board of Managers thereto in writing. All applications asking permission to sell or transfer lots, must be accompanied by evidence showing good and sufficient cause for making such transfer or sale. But in no instance will the consent of the Board of Managers be given to a transfer or sale of a lot or lots, unless the person making such transfer or sale shall pay to the perpetual care fund, and the im-provement fund, the sum of ten per cent to each of said funds of the present value of the lot or lots so transferred or sold.
Lot Improvements.
1. No ground in the cemetery shall be sold until it shall have been surveyed and platted, and the plat or pl^ts have been approved by the Board of Managers, and duly recorded in Recorder’s office in and for Cook County, Illinois.
2. The grade of all avenues, walks, and lots, shall be established by the Cemetery Company.
3. No improvements shall be made upon any lot, or interment therein, until a receipt for its purchase has been obtained from the Treasurer, at the city office, or from the Superintendent at the Cemetery.
4. The corners of all lots (as sold) shall be permanently marked, at the expense of the purchaser, by stone posts three feet long and six inches in diameter, tops to be dressed round, and set not to exceed three inches above the surface of the ground. The setting of corner posts against others will not be allowed.
5. The proprietor of each lot shall have the right to erect any proper headstones, monuments or memorials thereon, and to cultivate trees, shrubs and plants in the same—subject, however, to the rules and regulations of the Cemetery Company; but no tree growing within any lot shall be cut down, removed or destroyed, without the consent of the Company.
6. Enclosures around burial lots will not be allowed, nor the erection thereon of anything injurious to the immediate locality, or prejudicial to the general good appearance of the cemetery.
7. Trees or shrubs shall not be planted upon any lot without first notifying the Superintendent, who will see that the rules of the Company in regard thereto are complied with, and that only such varieties are used as will not injure adjoining lots. Silver leaf poplar and locust trees, lilac and syringa bushes and shrubbery of this class will not be allowed under any circumstances.
8. If any trees or shrubs situated in any lot shall, by means of their roots, branches, or otherwise, become detrimental to the adjacent lots or avenues, or unsightly, or inconvenient to the public, it shall be the duty of said corporation, and they shall have the right by their proper officers, to enter upon said lot and removethe said trees and shrubs, or such parts thereof as are detrimental, unsightly and inconvenient; and if any lot or any structure thereon shall, by the neglect of the proprietor thereof, become unsightly, it shall be the duty of said corporation, and they shall have the right, by their proper officers, to enter upon said lot and put the same in proper order or repair, and make a reasonable charge for the same.
9. The erection of vaults or tombs above ground will not be allowed, without special permission is first had from the Board of Managers. And in no instance will permission be given to erect vaults or tombs, as a receptacle for bodies above ground, in localities where they will be objectionable and injurious to the surrounding lots. Applications for permission to build such structures must be accompanied by plans and specifications, of the proposed vault or tomb, and its intended location in the Cemetery.
10. All workmen employed in the construction of vaults or tombs, erection of monuments, etc., must be subject to the control and direction of the Managers or Superintendent ; and all materials brought into the Cemetery to be used in improving lots, must be transported and deposited within the Cemetery in such manner as the Superintendent may direct; and all earth or rubbish accumulated in improving lots must be removed and deposited, under direction of the Superintendent, at the expense of the proprietor of such lot, and any workmen failing to conform to this regulation will not be permitted afterward to work in the Cemetery.
11. Copings around lots are prohibited in the new sections
12. Headstones for graves will not be allowed to exceed three feet in height, including the base. No footstones will be allowed.
13. All monuments, headstones, statuary or other memorials erected in the Cemetery, must,be of real stone, marble or bronze, and be set under the supervision of the Superintendent;
14. The Cemetery Company, in order to insure good work, will put in all corner posts, and the foundations for all monuments or other superstructures, upon the lot owner’s written order or request, and proper time must be allowed for their construction. All such foundations must be built of solid stone masonry or concrete, and must be not less than five feet in depth, and tops level with the surface of the ground. Plans showing the size and material of all large monuments or superstructures, must accompany allorders for the foundations, in order that the proper sizes and prices of such foundations may be determined.
15. No heavy teaming will be allowed in the cemetery in wet weather. No stone work shall be brought into the Cemetery on Saturdays after 12 o’clock m., and no work shall be commenced on that day that can not be finished," and the dirt and debris entirely removed before the hour of closing the gates.
16. The soliciting of contracts or orders for monuments, head stones, memorials, or any other work, will not be allowed in the cemetery. Signs, notices or advertisements of contractors, stone-cutters, undertakers, or any other persons, will not be permitted on the cemetery grounds.
17. Hedges, fences, wooden or iron head-boards, wooden trellises, chairs or settees, wholly or in part of wood, and large vases or urns other than of stone, marble, or durable metal, are prohibited.
18. If any monument, effigy, or enclosure, or any structure whatever, or any inscription, or any other thing, be placed in 01 upon any lot, which shall be determined by the major part of the Managers for the time being, to be offensive or improper, or injurious to the appearance of the surrounding lots of ground, the said Managers or a major part of them, shall have the right, and it shall be their duty, by their‘proper officers, to enter upon such lot and remove the said offensive or improper object or objects
19. It shall be the duty and right of the Board of Managers, from time to time, to alter such avenues and walks, and to make such rules and regulations for the government of the grounds as they may deem requisite and proper, to secure and promote the general objects and best interests of the cemetery.
Care of Lots.
1. All work in the care of lots must be done by the Cemetery Company. The avenues and walks will be kept in good condition, and the trees and shrubbery pruned, without any charge to lot owners, but extra care or work, such as planting trees, cultivating flowers, or watering lots, will only be done at the lot owner's expense.
2. Persons may have any such extra care or work done upon their lots, by leaving a written order with the Superintendent at the cemetery, or at the city office of the Company, specifying the workthey wish done. All such orders (consistent with rules and regulations of the Cemetery Company) will receive prompt attention, and the work will be properly done, for which a reasonable charge will be made.
Interments.
1. All graves shall be opened and closed by employes of the Cemetery Company, under directions of the Superintendent, and shall not be less than five feet in depth, and no mound shall be raised upon any grave exceeding two and one-half inches in height above the surface of the lot. And whenever interments are to be made, eight hours previous notice must be given the Superintendent at the Cemetery, in order that he may have graves in readiness.
2. The sum of three dollars will be charged for opening, closing, and sodding graves of adults, and two dollars for graves of children under twelve years of age, and must be paid when graves are ordered.
3. No grave will be opened upon any lot, nor interment allowed therein, except upon the written order or permission of the owner of such lot.
4. No interment will be permitted in the Cemetery, nor in any vault therein, unless the proper certificate or information is furnished the Cemetery Company, showing the name, and residence, time and place of death of the deceased, and disease, or cause of death.
5. Only one interment will be allowed in any grave, except in cases of a mother and infant child, or twin children, or two children buried at the same time.
Funerals.
All funeral processions while within the grounds, will be subject to the directions and control of the Superintendent. Undertakers must so arrange the time of funerals as to be out of the grounds before dark. Carriage drivers employed at funerals must always keep to the right on the avenues, and remain with their respective vehicles during the performance of funeral ceremonies, and otherwise conduct themselves properly, and in a manner becoming to the place and the occasion.Single Graves.
Suitable grounds within the Cemetery have been set apart and platted and designated as single grave lots, the cost of which, including interment, is $10 for an adult, and $7 for a child.
No previous notice of funeral for a single grave is required, as a number of these graves are opened and in readiness each day.
Public Vault.
1. The receiving vault has been constructed for the use of lot owners, or those intending to become such, and no bodies can remain deposited therein more than fifteen days (except during winter months).
2. Parties who are not lot owners are required to deposit with the Superintendent, at the Cemetery, previous to placing a body in the vault, if under ten years, $7, and if more than ten years of age, $10, for which money the Superintendent will give a certificate of deposit.
The charges on all bodies in the vault for the first ten days'are $1. After ten days, $1.50 per month, if under ten years ; and $2.50 per month, if more than ten years old. When bodies are placed in the vault temporarily, as. a matter of convenience, before removal to other cemeteries, or to distant cities, the charges are $2.50 for fifteen days or under, or $5 per month.
3. On removing a body from the vault, the Superintendent will refund the moneys in his hands on account of the Vault Deposit, after deducting the amount of the vault charges therefrom. At which time the holder of the vault receipt, or certificate, is required to surrender it and receipt across its face for the amount of money so refunded by the Superintendent.
4. The Cemetery Company reserves the right, in the event of any bodies deposited in the vault becoming offensive at any time before the expiration of fifteen days, to inter such bodies immediately, the same as though the fifteen days had expired.
5. The Cemetery Company also reserve the right to refuse the depositing of any bodies in the vault during extreme warm weather, or the prevalence of epidemics, or a crowded condition of the vault.
6. No bodies in a decomposed or offensive condition, or in defective coffins, will be allowed to be deposited in the vault.7. The remains of any person who has1 died of small-pox or yellow fever will not be allowed to be deposited in any vault in the Cemetery.
8. Bodies may be deposited and remain in the vault during the winter months by special arrangement with the Cemetery Company.
9. If persons when depositing bodies in the receiving vault will leave their address at the Cemetery, notice will be sent them by the Cemetery Company, to such address, by mail, at le^st forty-eight hours before the interring of the bodies by the Cemetery Company.
10. No interments from the receiving vault will be allowed on Sundays.
Lot Owners and Visitors.
1. No persons will be permitted to enter the Cemetery except through the gates, which will be opened at 7 o’clock a. m., and closed at 6 p. m. Closing thirty minutes earlier on Sundays.
2. Lot owners and their families will be allowed access to the grounds at all proper times, but must observe all the rules which may be adopted for the regulation of visitors.
3.	All improper persons, and all those known to have wantonly violated any of the rules 01 regulations of the Cemetery Company, will not be permitted to enter the grounds.
4. Visitors must keep on the avenues or walks, and not pluck flowers nor injure any plants, shrubs, or trees, nor remove anything from the grounds.
5.	Persons with refreshments will not be permitted to enter the cemetery.
6.	No rapid driving will be allowed, nor driving on the grass.
7.	Omnibuses will not be permitted to enter the grounds.
8.	Horses must not be left without the driver, unless securely fastened, and must not be hitched to trees.
9.	No smoking will be allowed, nor persons with firearms admitted.
10. Persons with dogs will not be permitted to enter the grounds.
11. Children will not be admitted unless accompanied by proper persons, to take care of them.12. It is of the utmost importance that there should be a strict observance of all the proprieties of the place, whether embraced within these rules and regulations or not, as no impropriety will be permitted to pass unnoticed.
13. All well-disposed persons will confer a favor on the Cemetery Company by informing the Superintendent of any breach of these rules that may come under their notice.CONCLUSION.
To all who are interested in Rosehill, and to those who are undecided as to where, and in what cemetery, they should secure a family lot, we would say:
That the future of Rosehill, as a large, permanent, and beautiful rural cemetery, free from molestation, is assured. Its superior advantages of location and adaptability for cemetery purposes, over any other ground near or conveniently accessible from fthe city, have been enumerated and need no further mention. A visit to the grounds will convince the most skeptical of the correctness of the statements in regard thereto. Chicago may grow and become a city of one, two, or even three millions of people—a continuous city, north along Lake Michigan to Evanston—and yet Rosehill, a city in extent within its own borders, is away from the line of growth of the city along the lake. It is a city set apart by itself; a resting place for the dead, where they will not be disturbed or molested by the encroachments of the living; and still it is within a convenient distance, and of easy access from the great city of Chicago.
The exceedingly low price of lots, as compared with other cemeteries, where ground is sold for double the price asked for the finest lots in Rosehill, may be an inducement for some to purchase in this cemetery. It is true that those who purchase now get the benefit of the present low prices, yet we do not hold this out as an inducement to the public. There are other and greater advantages possessed by Rosehill, advantages that are far above and beyond any mere money considerations; advantages that elsewhere money can not buy.
It is to these points, which you will find fully set forth in the description of the grounds, and which a visit to the Cemetery will make self-evident, that we invite your attention, and ask your careful consideration; and not to the fact that you can now purchase a lot in Rosehill 50 per cent, cheaper than elsewhere; because it isVIEWS IN THE NORTH EAST PORTION OF ROSEHILL GROUNDS, SHOWING THE BANGS MONUMENT, EGGLESTON AND STANBRO MONUMENT, ETC.evident that the price of lots will have to be increased in the near future. The rapid growth of the Cemetery, and the nature and extent of the permanent improvements made, in order to keep pace with the ever increasing demand for family lots, also increases the expense of taking care of the grounds. We all know that avenues, drives, walks, borders, etc., no matter how well they may be constructed, require constant care and attention to keep them in proper condition. The same is true of lawns, trees and shrubbery. All these things, be they ever so perfect in form and condition, uncultured soon become wild, rank and choked with thistles and weeds. The tares will always grow; that which is good and beautiful must be produced by labor and culture. Yet all the improvements, general care and ornamentation yearly bestowed upon the grounds by the Company, will not alone make a beautiful cemetery.
The neglect of family lots, be they many or few, tend to mar and destroy the harmonious effect of that which has been done to give beauty and cultured form to the grounds. It gives us pleasure to add, however, in justice to all concerned, that in Rosehill, the neglect of proper care and attention to family lots, is rapidly becoming the exception. And we are sure that thousands of lot owners and others, join us in the hope to soon reach that proper and perfect condition of a rural cemetery, when nothing shall be neglected.
We have spared no labor nor expense, in the past, deemed necessary to attain this end; and our efforts have been so ably sustained by the great majority of our people, that we feel an assurance in believing that, ere long, neither lot nor grave within the borders of Rosehill can be pointed out as a place neglected by the relatives or friends who are now living.