The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-28
PET ANIMAL CEMETERY
Site Selected Near Coxsackie
Station on the Hudson.
THE UNDER TAKERSATTEND
Death Masks of the Little Darliups of
the Household Can Be Taken Be.ors
Burial-Handsome Funeral Cor
teges Will Be Seen Thers.
Written for the Sunday Standard

Written for the Sunday Standard.
New York, May 22--The establish
ment of cemetery for the exclusive
burial of household pets is not an en-
tirely new idea, for such a ground has
existed in London for some time and
the story of 1t which bobs up in the
British periodicals every now and then
is occasionally copied here for the edi-
fication of the readers of this country,
as something very novel and odd The
time has come when Americans be-
lieve they should have a similar insti-
tuition for the purpose of providing for
the little favorites of the family bet
ter and more elaborate resting place
than the back yard, where they are liza
BILE to be forgotten, owing to domestic
changes or other causes. In pursu-
ance of this idea, owners of animals
who believe household pets should re-
ceive as much consideration after
death as other loved ones of the fam
lily have designed handsome burial
ground to be called the Dell Wood Ma
tional cemetery.
The gentlemen with whom the idea
originated have decided that the GEM
etery shall be devoted to the burial
of horses, dogs, cats and birds. In
short time force If competent civil
engineers and Landscape gardeners will
be put to work on the site of the new
cemetery, near Coxsackie station, in
the town of Stockport and county of
Columbia, New York state. to beau
tify the land and lay out the neces-
sary avenues, walks, paths and lakes.
A skilled undertaken will always be
in attendance when the cemetery is
opened and the most careful attention
will be paid to the keeping of the
ploy of the managers will be first class
embalmers, who will take the remains
of the household pet and make of
them mummy that will survive the
test of time and show to succeeding
generations that the closing years of
the nineteenth century saw the birth
of a spirit regarding the treatment of
animal pets after death more humane
than that which consigned them to a
corner of the sta BILE or stock farm.
1t will be no unusual sight, when the
new cemetery is in running order, for
| funeral professions of the most mag
nificent kind to drive up to the gates,
for there are many owners Of pet an
| imals who value the dog cat or bird
as most people value their children,
| and think them deserving of just as
much attention and ceremony after
death as though they were the pam
| pered son or daughter Of wealthy and
| fond parents.
The new cemetery will give rise to
| many new industries, as for instance,
| that of the making of collins for the
| pet animal who has ceased to wag his
| TAIL purr or chirrup at the appear
| ance of a member of the family. These
| collins, it is safe to say, from the prec-
| edent esta blished by many owners of
pet dogs who have spared no expense
! in making the last resting place of
| their pets as beautiful as money can
provide, will far surpass in elegance
the coffin of a child of the poorer class
The Baskets that will be inferred in
Dell Wood cemetery will be beauti-
fully lined with silk or satin, and the
little darling of the bereaved one will
rest his furry head on a pillow of the
softest and finest material, while the
cold and unsympathetic earth will re-
ceive into it's embrace coffin with sill
yer trimmings and made of the most
expensive wood that money can buy
There will no doubt be a storm of
protest on the part of a great many
people who will regard this care of
dead pets as little short of wicked but
the people who can afford to bury their
pets in a national cemetery can also
afford to ignore public opinion, so that
there is no probability of this disap-
prevail interfering with the success of
the plan for establishing the cemetery.
In connection with Dell Wood burial
ground there are to be various insti-
tutions hitherto unheard of in connec-