Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-08-17

WEATHER E.oS-A 1, .,
lion for Friday cooler; northwesteriy
y.njs aud fair weather.
Tqg FUNERAL DIREcroRs.-Last
.,iabt's session of the Funeral Directors
u location terminated in an enjoyable
A mar in the shape Of handsome
s @a,., of seasonable eatables, pre-.
s p, rad bv Mr.. l.. Shumau, and rendered
!ba ASSOCIATION by Mr.. B. Wheatley as
= oxen ofhis regard for the association
a." " also in appreciation of its action in
"sIactipo Alexandria as the meeting
SIsce this year. Several persons, not
n!,oJertokers, were invited to join IN the
S,s,;yities-among them a representa-
two of the GAZETTE, who entered the
T i with the iovial superintendent of
,Sa National cemetery, neither OF
, nSom could at first understand why
.bcy should be the honored guests of
,r,"n s or what interest they had
IN common with them. They soon had
the fog cleared away by being told both
wore in their element, as the funeral
S;ractors were the masters of cere-
" MONIES on the sad occasions when
oath til0 claims his own. The keeper
Of the cemetery next played his
mart by keeping the mound green,
while the newspaper man placed the
cspstone upon the last scene of all by
ertojlinc the deceased in pa
,betic obituary notice. When this
, ..ntS dashed both felt more at
home and having been taken to an ad-
ioininr room and shown the exterior
and interior Of specimen of the genus
bomo I'm wax and being shown how
wonderfully and fearfully we are
made" they were as much at ease as if
they had been in their own lodge room.
The bare idea of an assemblage of un-
dcrtakers is rather calculated to impress
one with the smell of caskets or Grape,
or to remind US of the rap-it-ay rap-rap
cIatter which David Coppertield heard
and eventually discovered was the
noise from room where his mothers
coffin was being constructed. But fu-
neral directors are very much like 9TH
er people when they throw off the re-
serve which characterizes them when
they strive TO respect The sorrows and
bereayemcnts which their mission in
life calls them to witness. They are ID
social intercourse jo.'s, ;ss'ssoII n u'h;oh,
gehue ana very CON t!"nioti"Di., 49,
last h'ShI seSSton VI sne;t ,'toGo t"int
NenohS'f".eH oo,no , tn"'' nuSi .' and
IN vocal ana iuS.iuilen ii nuI,0 "nu
elocuioii, WINE the I"iAS MntIu VIZ
INDUCED III saFoFeu Il, ol ihte'iiSG i
ana ripe ihihGs' ne ne a "ss 1:S
was called TO order oy W. u. Dluguiu'
president of the ASSOCIATION, when Capt.
Frank Cunningham, Of Richmond, who
possesses q good voice, sang The Blue
and the Gray with fine elect he
was followed by Prof. /. r: McNulty,
of Baltimore, who sang After the Ball
is Over which was highly enjoyed.
Mr.. B. Frank Kirk, oil pennsylvania,
then delivered pertinent address upon
the calling OF the undertaken, tne gisI
of which was that those VINO followed
that occupation as wei! as emDaiming
should concentrate their powers upon
their avocatlon, IN order that all shouid
become experts. capt. cunningham
subsequently entranceo me assembly
with that good Old sonnet, way Do% own
Upon the SuWanee RIVER, as 4'u aiSo
Prot. McNulty with the etreeii Leaves
OF Shamrock; after Whlch an an, ha rus
We're escorted 10 Ihe oahqueV nal IL E, n ~
invited guests had lost SlsnC vi ; ,ue id AZ,
that they were Deine euve'i t,. ~
undertakerS up TO tnl5 tlhe, ou' ,f npo ~
beng seated at ehe supie, aae1i h,ots;r w.
w. Millen had askeu !he usuai oiesstns
their eyes whlie leastins upon vean 't.ns
Jelly CAKES nS''t ecu, 'h noe i " snotba,
mounted WIN Wv. - 49,, eo,,hnonass
discovery Whlcn l1 i sot 4bn 'u e. 80
upon the surroundings was o .ne ora aau %
tnaI 'ne uil.iel1n. S% 1anuiJed into The
s ToLV Of cnst ets Had the music start,
ca up i In tho, ~ n,o,1d hove 5een
h'cheiGu ~ ~ H. 'n 80 900 IN rucretia
TelilHu0U p y, Vmo otLi, Ue Ill IL tbot occnr,
pGrsa ia - n" io no'4 Tvs tban Il toIas n
req ,i anu .So - ,G9 cofns had haen re.
tell II 'no 5 thn 49, Id ,,non the
n io',' a ANU ,n IL of oil the sem.
49, u en1 ' - hod nrou;onsly horne to cas-
i,o,I ond n fro about half an honr was
S ms % ~ discuss;ng tba Good things and
; in social and eyhiIaratinG conversation,
Can't I V Davis was called mon for a
81 Sndach rho oantain nffcr some hest.
3 3auo,. ord nonifest;nG q 6es;re n hack
"a" ANY so 'tA ~ bis foot and said he conId
UoT' sU' make M s sneecb sing SONG nor
donce and wos consequently in q fix.
He knew some poetry. however,