The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-05-10
EVEN IN DEATH
Now the Undertakers Have
Formed a Trust to Pur-
sue Men Into the
Next World

Especial to THE Jersey City News
TRENTON, May 10 1902.-With the Beef
Trust taking food from hungry mouths,
the Milk Trust making a luxury Of milk,
the Landlord Trust threatening the roof
overhead, life seems hardly worh living
and one turns fnstinctively toward the
last resort of oppressed mankind, the
grave. But there, on the threshold of
eternity, one is confronted by the Under
takers Trust. Thus it is that the trusts
exist upon. kill and bury victims.
The undertakers of New Jersey formed
/ their trust yesterday About hun
dred of them met in Masonic Temple yes
terday afternoon and organized the State
Funeral Directors Association, similar
to organizations or like character in other
States. The objects of the association are
set forth In the following letter, which
was sent to all the undertakes in the
State
Owing to the large increase of new
funeral directors in the State of New Jer-
sey in the past year, we, the undersigned
funeral directors of this State, desire that
a State association should be formed and
have laws passed which win afford the
legitimate funeral directors protection.
There are hundreds of students being
graduated every year from the various
embalming schools, the ma jority of whom
are. detriment to the profession, and
New Jersey, having no association
whereby we can protect ourselves, is one
of the States which suffers most
f" In union there is strength and by
you Joining his proposed association and
giving it your support we can have laws
enacted and some revised which are now
in force and which will be a benefit to
all in the profession
The meeting was called to order by
Fred Hulberg, of New York president of
the National Funeral Directors Associa-
tion. George Stevens, of Jersey City, was
made temporary chairman. and W. N.
Gray, Of Crawford. temporary. secretary.
In addition to representatives from
every county in the State except Cape
were present J. b. Smith, secretary of
the New York State Undertakers' Asso-
citation; George Chanler Paul, secretary
of the Pennsylvania State Association;
J. t. Gallagher of the New York State
Board of Embalmers; William S. Wilson,
Fred Suffie,d and w. J. Andrews of the
National Casket Company; W. Halsey
Smith of Harnthal & Co.: Spencer Smith
of the Morris Manufacturing Company
George E. Andrews of the Embalmers
Supply Company.
The principal business transacted yes
terday afternoon was the formation Of a
permanent organization by the election
of the following officers
President, George Stevens, Jersey City;
First Vice President, J. A. Logan, New
ark; Second Vice President. W Henry
Crawford Trenton; Recording and FL
nancial Secretary w. y. Gray, Crawford; i;
Treasurer, c. w. Springer. Englewood; :;
Executive Committee, NJ J. O'Brien,
Camden; ]. ]. Scully, New Brunswick;
George Keats, Atlantic City; Charles R.
Moat. New Brunswick; John V. Burk,
Jersey City.
At the evening session there were a
number Of addresses by representatives
of associations of other States on mat
ers pertaining to the association.
There are about 500 undertakers in this
State, and it is expected that almost all
will join the assoeiation. The association
VIII meet September 26 to adopt constitu-
tion and bylaws and TO elect delegates
TO the convention of the national body
to be held in Milwaukee in October.