Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1890-12-13
IN A QUIET NEleHeoRHooo
Buying . Lot In the City Of tho Dead.
Caste in u Cemetery.

"I our first real esfafef SAD. sadi but
we've all got 20 come to il. But isn't II q
q satisfaction to have few feet in well y
kept place like this2 Why grow fonder !,
and fonder Of Il every day. Surveyed A.
and built up most Of 1t myself. you see. /,
There's a monument for youl How Is 1t h
10 your liking3 Pretty heavy. All, but d
it's lasting-no stained surfaces, no ginger n
bread work tocrumble OH. Take my ad- 3
vice, young man, and when you buy {
your monument don't invest in marble. j
'Taint worth twopence ton. except TO t
the dealers. Nothing like granite.
The superintendent led the way along ,
the eastern limits Of the cemetery and {
then paused as IL to get his bearings. His
strange combination Of business tact and |
harmless gossip made the reporter feel I
| little like grief stricken purchaser Of
burial spot
| ..Now, let me see about what you'd
naturally waIrt said he, cycling his com
panion critically. AS IL sizing him up so as
To save himself needless trouble. "You
see everybody has his sperial likings, and
we have To- sort Of estimate a customers /
tastes before showing him lot. All I
sorts Of people apply TO us. and we have |
to use good deal Of tact and Judgment
70 as not TO offend present lot owners or
: new customers We have TO discrimiii.
ate even in the gravel If a negro comes
to me I've got to sell MIN lot, but I've
also got to put him in his natural ele-
ment. II didn't there would be Ned to
pay"
5 But that, should think, is a difficult
task. Suppose such a person as you refer
! 10 wanted fine lot In what you call an
q aristocratic neighborhood. how would
q you get around the matteri"
+ ''Oh, bless you. that's easy enough.
g Nobody knows what lots are for sale but
q myself; and IL a man selects a lot where
a don't think he belongs, why, the lots
already sold. Sect 1t doesn't look just
right, but it's got to be done. What
:, would one OF your wealthy aristocrats
:. think II should sell little lot next to
; his big one. and the owner Of the little
/" lot should erect $2J white bronze tomb
stone right under the nose of his $1,000
70 granite monument? War in the camp
right off tell you there isn't popu-
70 lar cemetery in Chicago that hasn't its
Il South Side and its West Side its Michi
" gan avenue and its South Clark street.
n. You notice in laying out the cemetery
W we group a number of big lots in the
le most conspicuous places. Caste lines are
I'd inevitable, even in "A graveyard.
n 'Well, show me lot where n poor
I'd devil Of scribe would naturally belong,
OF said the reporter.
at YES, in just a minute. Going tC
bury wife or child7 Oh, not married
"a But suppose you're going to he. Now
n here's some nice slightly lots at 500
',a But then there's no provision for growth
of family or extensive local i'm
- provements. Being buried here i
- a good deal like having standing
!. room in a theatre; you kind of fee
~ as though somebody were going to traml
oe on your toes all the while. And if yo,
Is should become as rich as Jay Gould yol
couldn put up "a monument. The lot
ep too small; you'd have TO be content witt
o! headstone. | want to sell you 10
ed that you'll be satisfied with hereafter an'
id, your children be proud of. :
LET me see something a little better
'ur them interposed the apparent purchaser
,he I'D advise you to go into new sub
l a division. where the improvements tina
r n have been made are good, and bide fu
an ture developments. II is here just as
,La is down town New streets and subj
SIC visions outshine the old ones. Now
"a here's mound"-by this time they la
arrived pretty nearly at the west side {
the cemetery-..where the lots are larg
and open. There's plenty OF room her
the grade is high and the drainage goos
! But seldom bring the likes of you her
'all because it's "A sort of foreign settlemen
II You notice how the sens and .oskis
one and dts predominate. You'd scarce
ted feel at home here IL I'd sell you lot. B
no sides, the locality has one great and pc
o
as single graves in plain sight. Ye
tice wouldn't like 10 live always in sight
thy the poorhouse, and you'd scarcely wal
the to be buried in view OF potter's field. n
the ! know YOU wouldn't be satisfied her
and You'd better put a little more money
the your ground and get something that W
4 rise in value rather than deteriorate. A
.ino / have il. just come over here"
The superintendent led the way TO Il
southeast, near a pretty expanse Of "
ter Consulting his book. he picked o
~, " particular lot and pointed it out wi
-, ~ satisfaction.
'wi- Now. here you are" said he.
NE couldn't show you anything better
ten the whole cemetery Price moderai
lon- neighbors of high class, near pub
h drive, where you know things "
ting always be kept In order. This lot "
1py. be worth twice It's present value a We
ley. from now. One hundred and tweni
tile. five dollars and room enough for a doz
and interments besides a monument. u
can't do any better. just let me 7
your name down for il now and you C
arrange the details at the down tos
aper office. Look at the monuments goi
the up all around YOU here. Can't have b.
the ter data bv which to judge OF the loci
mile ity. Right acrfss the driveway yond
TX Il Is one Of the largest lots in the cemeter
or IL We've put a fanccy price on II just 30
nds. to induce some capitalist to buy il a
Ioa put up an expensive monument Thai
In > lend additional tone TO the nelJhborho
4, ! and oil the lots around will feel the
% 4 fiuence. II would pay to buy this
- purely as a business investment "-Cl
cago Tribune.
Nt Triek af the Hakarx.