The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1888-11-08
IN A QUIET NeieHeoRHoop
Buying a Lot IN enc city Of the Dead.
Caste I'm O Cemetery.

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and fonder of it every day. SURVEYED
and built up most of it myself, you see.
There's monument for you'll How is it
to your likingg Pretty heavy. All, but
It's lasting-no stained surfaces. no ginger
bread work to crumbleyoR. Take nv adj
vice, young man, and when you buy
your monument don't invest in marble.
Ialnt worth twopence ton. except to
the dealers. Nothing Ike granite 80
The superintendent led the wayaIonp
the eastern limits Of the cemetery and
then paused as if to get his bearings. His
strange combination Of business tact and
harmless gossip made the reporter feel
little like grief stricken purchaser of
burial spot.
Now. let me see about what you'd
naturally want" said he, cycling his COM
panion critically, as il sizing him up SOFAS
to save himself needless trouble. ssYou
see everybody has his special ikings. and
we have to sort of estimate customers
tastes before showing him a lot. All
sorts of people apply to us, and we have
to use good deal of tact and Judgment
so as not to offend present lot owners or
new customers. We have to discrimin-
ate even i'll the grave! If negro comes
to me I've got to sell him lot, but I've
also got to put him in his natural ele-
ment If didn't there would be Ned to
pay"
''But that, should think, is a difficult
task. Suppose such person as you refer
to wanted fine lot in what you call an
aristocratic neighborhood, how would
you get around the matteri'' owtsnss
'Oh, bless you, that's easy enough.
Nobody knows what lots are for sale but
myself; and if man selects lot where
l don't think he belongs, why, the lots
already sold. Seea 1t doesn't look Just
right, but it's got to be done. What
would. one of your wealthy aristocrats
think if should sell little lot next to
his big one, and the owner of the little
lot should erect $25 white bronze tomb
stone right under the nose of his So. 900
granite monument? War in the camp
right off! tell you there ism t popu-
lar cemetery in Chicago that hasn't its
South Side and its West Side, its Michi
gan avenue and its South Clark street
You notice in laying out the cemetery
we group a number of big lots in the
most conspicuous places. Caste lines are
inevitable, even i'll a graveyard"
''Well, show me lot where a poor
devil of scribe would naturally belong"
said the reporter.
''Yes, in just a minute. Going to
bury wife or childa Oh, not married!
But Isuppose you're going to be. Now,
here's some nice slightly lots at 500
But then there's no provision for growth
OF family or extensive local inn
provements. Being buried here is
good deal like having standing
room in theatre; you kind of feel
as though somebody were going to tramp
on your toes all the while. And If YOU
should become as rich as Jay Gould YOU
couldn put up a monument. The lots
too small; you'd have to be content with
headstone. l want to sell YOU a lot
that you'll be satisfied with hereafter and
your children be proud of"
Let me see something a little better
then. interposed the apparent purchaser.
I'D advise you to go into a new sub
division, where the improvements that
have been made are good, and bide fu-
ture developments. 1t is here Just as it
IS down town. New streets and subdi-
visions outshine the old ones. Now,
here's a mound'-by this time they had
arrived pretty nearly at the west side of
the cemetery-"where the lots are large
and open. There's plenty of room here:
the grade is high and the drainage good.
But l seldom bring the likes of you here.
because it's sort OF foreign settlement.
You notice how the sens and 'oskis.'
and dts predominant. You'd scarcely
feel at home here if I'd sell you a lot. Be-
sides, the locality has one great and per-
manent drawback. Yonder are the
single graves in plain sight. You
wouldn't like to live always in sight of
the poorhouse, and you'd scarcely want
to be buried in view Of potter's field. No,
know you wouldn't be satisfied here
You'd better put little more money in
your ground and get something that will
rise in value rather than deteriorate. All.
have it. Just come over here"
The superintendent led the way to the
southeast, near q pretty expanse of wa-
ter. Consulting his book, he picked out
q particular lot and pointed it out with
satisfaction.
''Now, here you are" said he. II
couldn't show you anything better in
the whole cemetery. Price moderate,
neighbors of a high class, near public
drive, where you know things will
always be kept in order. This lot will
be worth twice its present value a year
from now. One hundred and twenty
five dollars and room enough for dozen
intermSnts besides a. monument. You
can't ldo any better. Just let me put
your name down for it now and you can
arrange the details at the down town
Office Look at the monuments going
up all around you here. Can't have bet
ter data by which to judge of the local
ity. Right across the driveway yonder
is one OF the largest lots in the cemetery.
We've put a fanccy price on it just SO as
to induce some capitalist to buy it and
put up an expensive monument. That'll
lend additional tone to the neighborhood
and all the lots around will feel the in
f1uence. 1t would pay to buy this lot
purely as business investment. Chi
cago Tribune.
A Trick of the Bakery.