Word: dorp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...midst of the 15-acre Vanderbilt plot adjoining the Moravian Cemetery at New Dorp, Staten Island, there arose almost 70 years ago a great mausoleum (see cut) in which lie 54 coffins including those of the old Commodore; his son William Henry; his grandsons Cornelius, George Washington, William Kissam; his great-grandson Reginald and his great-great-grandson William K. Jr. Last week Mrs. Vanderbilt was put away with those who, in the words read by Dr. Brooks from the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer, "are henceforth blessed . . . for they rest from their labors...
Ghouls with sledgehammers and crowbars chipped and battered at a fortlike mausoleum in the Moravian Cemetery, at New Dorp, Staten Island, N. Y. where lie the bones of the late Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt & kin. But the ghouls did not get in. Police who tracked footsteps through the snow next day recalled that 53 years ago the body of John Wanamaker's department-store predecessor, Alexander Turney Stewart, was stolen from its grave...