The Cheyenne Daily Leader

The fate of A. T. Stewart's remains so alarmed the friends of the late William H. Vanderbilt that a guard is still kept posted about his $300,000 tomb. Night and day a body of well-drilled, well armed men move about in its vicinity on the lookout for pillagers or ghouls. In addition to these, a system of signals or burglar alarms is added, which penetrate many parts of the grounds. At stated intervals these are set off by a man on his six hours' turn of duty, and the reserve rapidly assembles at a given point. At night the watch is even more vigilant. At sunset a powerful flame is lighted in the cupola, which shines out over the humble graveyard below and off upon the waters. Into this dome one of the detectives must go every half hour and touch another alarm, which records the fidelity of those on watch. Every twelve hours the chief enters the building to see from the register whether each man on duty during the night has gone his rounds at the prescribed moment. The cost of guarding the remains amounts to a small fortune each year, and it cannot but occasion some melancholy reflections in the man who knows that just a little distance beyond this pompous mausoleum lie the remains of Commodore Vanderbilt himself, without guard or honor, so far as the eye can see, except a single stone bearing his name.