The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-10-29
IN A QUIET NElGHBoRHOoD
Buying a Lot in tho City Of tho Dead.
Caste TX q Cemetery.

Your first real estatel Sad sad Bat
we've all got to come to it. But isn't it
a satisfaction to have few feet in a well
kept place like this: Why. grow fonder
and fonder Of it every day. Surveyed
and built up most Of it myself. you C..
There's monument for you! How is it
to your likingl Pretty heavy. hh, but
its lasting-no stained surfaces, no ginger
bre 81 work tocrumble off, Take NY sd-
vice Young man, and when you buy
vour monument don't invest in marble.
faint worth twopencc ton. except to
the dealers. Nothing like granite.
The superintendent led the way along
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
Ittle ike a grief stricken purchaser of a
burial spot.
Now, let me see about what you d
naturally want, said he, cycling his COM
panion critically, as if sizing him up so as
10 save himself needless trouble. "Iou
see everybody has his special likings. and
we have 10 sort Of estimate customers
tastes before showing him lot All
sorts Of people apply to us, and we have
10 use good deal Of tact and judgment
so as not to offend present lot owners or
new customers. We have to discrimin-
ate even in the gravel II negro comes
to me I've got to sell him a 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 matter"
ooh, bless you, that's easy enough.
Nobody knows what lots are for sale but
myself; and if a man selects lot where
l don't think he belongs, why. the lot,
already sold. See9 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 a $2j white bronze tomb
stone right under the nose Of his $4,000
granite monument? War in the camp
right off! tell YOU there isn't a 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 in graveyard.
well show me u lot where poor
devil Of a scribe would naturally belong"
said the reporter.
YES. in just minute. Going to
bury wife or childl Oh. not married.
But suppose you're going to be. Now,
here's some nice slightly lots at $50.
But then there no provision for growth
Of family or extensive local I'M
provements. Being buried here is
cool 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 rs JAY Gould You
couldn't put up monument. The lots
too small; you'd have 20 BE- content with
a headstone. | want to sell you lot
tina. YOU I'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 new sub
division, where the Improvements that
have been made are cool. and bIdc fu-
ture developments. It is here just as IL
is down town. New streets and subdi-
visions outshine the old ones. Now.
here's n mound by this time they had
arrived pretty nearly at the west side Of
the where the lots are large
and open. There's plenty Of room here;
the grade is high and the drainage good.
But seldom bring the likes OF you here,
because it's a sort Of foreign settlement.
You notice how the sens and 'oskis,
and dts predominate You'd scarcely
feelat home here if I'd sell YOU 4 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 field No,
] know YOU wouldn't be satisfied here.
You'd better put o little more money in
Your ground and get something that will
rise in value rather than detcriorate All,
! have it. Just come over here"
The superintendent led the way 70 the
southeast, near pretty expanse Of Wa
ter. Consulting his book. he picked ont
particular lot and pointed it out with
satisfaction.
Now, here you are" said he. Il
couldn't show YOU anything better in
the whole cemetery. Price moderate
neighbors Of high class, near public
drive, where you know things will
always be kept in order. This lot will
be worth twice its present value year
from now. One hundred and twenty
five dollars and room enough for dozen
interments besides a monument You
can't do any better. Just let me put
yClir name down for it now and you can
arrange the details at the down town
Office. Look at the monuments gong
40 al around you here. Can't have bet
Ten data by which to judge OF the local
ity Right across the driveway yonder
i: one of the largest lots in the cemetery.
We've put fanccy price on 1t just 50 as