The Saint Paul globe., 1898-04-24

as much as $3.50. Now he doesn't turn
a hair when somebody wants a $500
casket
The building Of coffins and caslSets
by the Wholesale said he. sis inter
esting. Most parsons really know very
! little about coffins, and the subject is
one they shrink from
How are collins distributed to undertakers? :?
wholesale dealers get the bulk of their or
GERS through travelling statesmen, or coffin
! drummers if you like. We employ forty to
nifty statesmen. who cover the territory from
Maine to California and from the border of
Canada to Southern Texas. There are very
lew places in the country that these men
cont get at. Most of them are sent away
with SAMPLES of undertakers hardware and
cry goods, and but few carry a line Of caskets,
for they are too bulky. BY undertaker's hard
minGs, screws, and so on and the dry goods
includes burial robes.
Cofiln drumIners DC not make such large
saies as drunn1ers n other lines of business,
out they work up trade and undertakers or
DER from catalogues by mail or telegraph OF
course undertakers in very cut-of- f-the-way
places have to keep a stock OF cashets on
nahd, put when an undertaken who is in reach
CT city is calisd to care for BODY he asks
the family what kind CT coffin they wish.
II he hasn't what they want in stock they Sc
lect from catalogue and he orders bv taIe
graph That's the way ccffins are distrib-
l.ted Ni''i III
Woods for the manufacture Of cofins and
caskets are bought in enormous quantities, for
weed is the faycrite material Nearly all
cloth-covered icaskets are made of wood and
the finest caskets in the world are those of
weed hand-caryed
w Wouldn't yeu ike to see the very newest
talng in cashets?" he asked using a tome
such as the average French m*lliner calls
mt, INTO play when showing spring bonne. s.
We. we nave Only the newest and NEST exclusive
styles, he acded lesGiDg the way to a b p
glass ease showing four caskets ..CoIcred
cioths ela are very Fashionable just now and are
getting more 50 every day. Fer many years
people were horTor-striciyen at the idea of
anyth ng but black coffin for grown people
ana white enc fer infants and small chill
oren. It's just the ether way now. The
majority of people do not care for black
caskets. Those covered with pale gray cloth
are perhaps the most popular, though people
ere taking, tostsose covered with silk plush,
plain or broeaded, in lavender, pale blue
pink or even in the less sober colors.
One of the newest designs is the couch
casket, Loek at this one of pale gray broad
ANYTHING about that that suggests death or a
coffin? By this couch casket hangs tale. It
rssliy grew out of those enormous sleeves
that the ladies' wore while. Undertakes
ussd to bring their customers here to look
around; they'd select a coffin and frequently
would eei1e back and saw they weren't pleas
so eramped and crowded in it. The whole
trouble came frEul the big sleeves then fash
ionable 1t was inlpossible to get pair of
ard net have it. leak crowded. When the
ratter WIS bTcreht before the head de-
sisner he hit on the couch casket, and it has
Deen- a gre at Success. By means Of hinges
that work as IL bv magic the top turns over
the sides. giving p-eaty OF room ard entirely
tak1ng awav the aNneaf ance of casket At
hrst we hrorght cut a haf-couch cssket-
that is the top trrned down onlv half way
but now we make nearly all OF tfem to turn
down from hccd to feet. We sod enc yes
terday cf lavender silk hrocadsd push made
to order in Frrcrp. YES big sleeves are
really responsible fer the existence OF the
couch coffin. but t.e design is so rnlIeh liked
by people touched by sorrow thakit int Ike
~ to go out CT style because ti,s big sleeves
have.
after all to. most cca.ly and magnificent
cssi-ets fer grewIis perTen7 ere thosa made of
eslS Or mahcganv. which is elahorately carved
by hand. They 2~e neither oaslrt nor coffin
being Fcuore in design ard they are becom-
ing very fashionable amcr- enormously rich
Fs2vle. Sooner or iPtcr aeopla in moderate cir
errHstaDees vi! sfe3t them. fer fashions in
cefins ere Ike fashjens in everything else
The styles fer eVGyhcGv ere set BY the rich
ard fashionable. Every day customers go to
urdfrtakers FFd Ssav, 7 want a coffin such
as Nr. kstorhb.t bought for his wife or such
as Mrs. S1ueiSitTie1- hcrgh for her husband
This rlahcganX, cGSset s is from 81 600 to So
5G0, according ta the trimmings. IT Is made
of the finest san Domingo mahogany is
richly carved ard rests four feet All of
the oek used in fine hand carved caskets +
English quaTtered cak. Spanish cedar is used
fer the outs;5> boxes.
This casket." said the manager. turns--