The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1874-03-28
The Funerals of IO-Ddy.

Modest funerals at modest prices are not the
rule in New York, a local paper says. Apron
inent undertaken says that every funeral he
has had charge of in the last few months has
cost at least $475 That sum represents only
the amount paid to himself. Metal ic caskets
only are used in fashionable funerals, except
for very old people, who are content with wood
en- coffins covered with cloth, costing 800. The
caskets range from 800 to $3.50. Tie last are
marvels of luxury and are furnished with all
the modern conveniences. In a funeral, then,
where sorrow can be INDUCED in to the widest
excess, the casket will cost $3.50; the hearse
$l2; eight carriages at $3.50 each, 500; porters
Sc; gloves for the rall-bearers, porters, under
taker and clergyman $50; undertaker's atten-
ton $40, and the opening of the grave 81, which
makes up the total Of $475 that the undertaken
receives. Ifthe funeral takes place at church,
the sexton receives S10 there is ST. extra on
each of the carriages. The choir in most
churches is paid. In Catholic churches the
organ, choir and draping of the church COM
pletely in black will be furnished for $780,
These expenses added, which are by no means
unusual, bring the cost up to $685., and by no
means includes number of important items
which 60 to make up fashionable funeral
Not the least of these is the flowers. They are
furnished as certainly as the coffin, forming
very important part of what one might call the
| trousseau Of death. These are, to be sure, not
all furnished by the family of the dead, but
| they are I'M part. A moderate basketof flowers,
such are used on these occasions costs $40,
out of season and one basket of flowers is
| scarcely perceived in the floral luxurlance
| which usually is seen.
The following from the Washington Chronicle
| will give the reader better idea of the funer-
| ais of to-day:
| 1t will be remembered that Mrs. Abby B.
Mills, mother -in-law of Hon. Fernando Wood,
died here in July, 1872, from injuries received
| by falling from window in the Metropolitan
Hotel, and that her body was removed to Will
| Jamestown, Massachusetts,. for internent, DR..
G. Pelham Sutton. her son, took charge of af-
fairs, and intrusted all the funeral arrange
ments to August Burgdorf, undertaken, stating
to him that he wanted no expense spared to
make the funeral as decent as possible. The
body was embalmed, placed in casket re-
moved to the Metropolitan Church, where SER
vices were held, and thence to the depot, for
transportation northward, the undertaken and
one assistant accompanying il to its destination.
Returning to this city, the bill was presented as
follows:
WASHINGTON, D. c., July 6, 1872.
II. e. Pelham Sutton IN account with augustus
Burgdorf.
To casket, case, plate, trimmings, &C., $685. ;
embalmng, attendance and services of four
men, $l6S; hearse and carriages at Washing
ton, $l46.5O; eight pail bearers, $65; attend
ance with three assistants, $50; Grape, gloves
and silk ribbon, $3.50; wreath, cross and loose
flowers, sos; box for flowers and freight by ex-
press for same, $27.75 tickets to New York and
baggage, S4S.75; help at Washington depot, $40;
expenses at New York and New Jersey health
offices, &C., $5675; moving remains 10 Fl. r. R.
depot, SIG; tickets for H. E. Pelham Sutton
and wife and kilograms, $500; ticke.s to Troy
and express, $26.45; tickets from Troy to Will
Jamestown, $3.50; conveying remains to hotel
and help, $3.50; hearse and carriages at Will
Jamestown, $43; opening grave, Grape and
gloves, $27; hotel bill at Williamstown, $32.S7 !;
tickets to Washington and hotel expenses, $40 /;
personal services, $780, services of assistants,
5000; sundries, S2l; total, 50 ,579.O1; credit by
cash, $500; balance, $2,279.O1.