The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1890-09-20
FUNERALS IN ClTkS.
Many of Them Are Now Conducted i
Undertaksrs' Shops.

Many of Them Arc Now Conducted in
Undertaksrs' Shops.
Successful undertakers in New York
nowadays have to be prepared to fur
nish church and clergyman along with
the other requirements for a funeral.
Not very long ago it was an exceptional
thing for funeral services to be held in
an undertaker's shop. Only the bodies
of the friendless or of those whose
friends were too poor to afford any bet
ter accommodations were then taken
from the undertaker's direct to the
grave. OF late, however, the phrase:
1.-The funeral will be be.d at the parlors
of So-and-So, undertakes" is fre-
uuently seen attached to death notices,
and even more often the place where
the funeral is to be held is designated
by its street number only Nine times
out of ton the place so designated is an
undertaker's shop.
The way this has come about has been
chiefly through the increasing reluctance
of hotel and boarding house keepers to
have funeral in their house. Friends
of those dying in such places are gem
orally given to understand that an i'm
mediate removal of the body would be
highly appreciated, or, If the friends ap-
pear within few hours, the pro-
prietor summons an undertaken and has
the body removed. Unless the de-
ceased person has near relatives in the
city 1T is generally matter OF difficulty
for the friends to find place in which
to hold the funeral. unless they wish to
60 to the expense of church funeral,
and have claim upon some church OF
which they can make use. In this way
it has naturally come about that bodies
have been left to lie In the undertaker's
rooms, and at the time set for the fu-
neral the friends have gathered there
and listened to brief service pro-
nounced by some clergyman, supplied
by the undertaken, too, perhaps, ana
thence have borne the body directly to
the grave.
With the increase of this custom the
undertakers have been compelled to In
crease the size of their rooms and to hit
them up better and differently from or
dinary shops OF the sort. One city
undertaken has gone so far as to clear
out the whole front OF his store ana
leave large room nearly seventy-nVe
feet deep, with paneled, church-liKe
ceiling and walls, which can be filed
with chairs II necessary, where the serV-
ices are held. 1t is not unusual for as
many as two or three hundred persons
to gather at funeral services held IN
this shop. Some quite well-known per-
sons have been buried from there. One'
a woman. who had been in life we'll
known advocate OF cremation, went from
there to the cromatory only few Gays
ago.
tom will continually increase In clty
lika Nav York, and that in time every
urdartaker will have to keep sort OF
.n,.Ii chapel, in connection with his
49,, Tor the use of his customers. AT
ssent those who have the facilities
for allowing services to be held in their
shops make an extra charge for the use
Of the rooms for that purpose, but com
petition is already doing away with that
IN. Y. Sun.
"a New York dry-goods merchan
says that frequently some Of the sub
oroinate employees receive larger re
muneration than the men In who's
nands rests the main responsibility 70
running q business. The men VIII
usually make the most money In tn
very large firms are not the superir
vendent and his chief assistants, but th
myers OF departments.
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