The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-10-28

u was he who adopted the idea. and.
lastly. TO q woman OF wealth. living
near HartsdaIe. for n was she who
made the cemetery an accomplished
fact. She set aside three acres OF land
for the purpose and placed the veter-
mary hospital In control.
Inc graveyard has got along so Tar
witnout any name. The agents call IL
canine cemetery. and let IL go at
mat As o as they shall have made
the place more attractive by carrying
out certain plans for it's Improvement.
they mean to give Il some and
appropriate title. This really ought to
De done. IL Is almost an insult to the
memory OF any self-respecting tabby TO
bury her In a canine cemetery. Cats
are Just as eligible to graves at Harts-
dale as dogs. and. in fact. three cats OF
very high degree are already buried
there No goblin scratching matches
nave been reported. but IL Is too much
10 expect of a cat to slumber peace
fully In a place labeled canine ceme-
terry"
The graveyard Is not a p~otter's field
where an animal can he slowed away
without money and without price. II
costs something to get ones deceased
pet laid recently at rest out there. The
prices are IS for n single interment for
cats and small dogs. - for large dogs.
$40 for a small grave and SIS for a large
grave. When he grave is purchased
outright the owner can bury several
pets In the same place. Up to date
there have been pugs. poodles. spaniels
and ST. buried in the ceme-
terry. the numbers OF each species N
ing In the order given. OF these all ex-
cept the st. Bernards came under the
head of small dogs and were inferred
at the s. rate. There is a vagueness
about this size limit which may cause
AfeGQnui0n I'm the future when a0mo
medium-sized and not too much la
mented dog becomes a candidate for a
grave.
Most of the animals are so loved by
their owners that the latter gladly a
what is asked and are thankful for the
chance. 1t was never a pleasant
thought to any one who had grown
to love a pet that the loyal. III dumb.
companion OF So many hours should
be dumped with the city refuse on Bar
rem sland. And yet any other disposal
of the body was almost impossible to
persons OF ordinary means.
Before the dog cemetery was estab-
lished Is often cost SIS and almost end
less trouble to have an animal taken
to the country and buried. Under the
present system the agents OF the GEM
etery receive the body at the hospital,
prepare II for shipment. send II by ex-
press to Hartsdale. where the sexton
OF the dog graveyard buries IL. Each
grave Is numbered and a s~tonecutter
Is now filling orders for several monu-
ments to be erected by bereaved mis-
tresses. IL you ask the cemetery ag mt
whether these owners of pets really
grieve deeply when an animal dies he
will give you a loo that speaks loud
er than words.
ID they carer he repeated the 9TH
err day. WELL. If you should come
in here sometimes you'd think 1t was
bedlam broke loose. why. the women
cry so they set al the dogs In the Gag
es here to bowling their heads OF.
There was a woman came i'm no long
ago with a sick parrot, and when the
parrot keeled over and died she car
ried on so we had to keep her here for
an hour before she looked fit to go out
on the street. As for the dogs and cats
that are brought here to be buried.
well, I tell you some of them are liked
up pretty fine. We furnish a plain
wooden box for them at the rate OF 81
for small animals or 81 for large ones.
But a plain box isn't good enough for
some OF them.
II hear that some one said there was
a dog buried out there in a $50 coffin.
Well, I don't know about that. 1
haven't seen the bills for any of the
boxes that We didn't furnish. and $50
Is a good deal OF money. Bul may pt
il was 80. Some of the bodies were in
polished wood caskets. upholstered in
side with fine cloth. We buried a beau
tiful white Angora cat out there and
il was i'm a box all lined with white.
And flowers, Well. they just cover the
bodies with the most expensive flowers
to be had.
They often attend the funeral. too.
We never allow a.body to be sent direct
from the house. Every N of them
has to come to the hospital n go from
here. You see. we're obliged to know
the contents OF a box before We ship IL
o "a to the agent there. When a body
IL brought to us we inject embalming
fluid IL the animal is small, or thor
oughly embalm IL IL IL Is large. i tell
you IL has to be done properly. too.
Sometimes the friends var to see the
body out at the graveyard. l expect
they are just as anxious to know what
IL in the box as we are. And every
thing has to be in tiptop shape or there
would be trouble.
why, we had a case OF a dog which
died this summer after Its mistress had
gone to Europe. Her sister a US
bury the dog out at Hartsdale. and you
would think that would have settled IL.
But IL didn't. When the woman came
home she and her mother and her sis
ter all went out there and had the body
dug up I'm order to satisfy themselves
that IL was really the body of their
dog.
THE cemetery hasn't been much fix
ed up yet, although IL is neatly kept
and every grave il rounded Oypr and