The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-20
MacMARTIN E. co.
Funeral Directors, WalIa WalIa, Wash.


finer sentiments of a people are best
, judged at the sepulchre" we moderns
5 may rejoice at the softening influences
which have wrought such changes in
our funerals within the past few de-
cades. The erstwhile sombre scenes
and depressing sounds of falling clods
of earth upon our coffined dead have
given place to artistic couch caskets.
fresh flowers and the inspiring peals
Of the organ.
1t is gratifying to note that Walla
t Walla has at least kept even pace in
this respect with her sister cities Of
the Pacific coast.
In the subject of this sketch we
have the modernized old pioneer I'M
dertaking establishment of Walla
5 Walla, founded by the late T. S. Mabry
in the sos The business has under
gone many changes and as modernized
by it's present owners, George Mac
Martin and H. H. Champion, under the
l style of MacMartin & Co, funeral di-
rectors, is now worthy of a city Of
metropolitan proportions.
The establishment is all on the first
floor, and the rooms are fitted up with
view to combining all the scientific
appliances and modern cOnveniences
and artistics helps pertaining to the
up to-date undertaking parlors.
From the cheerful reception room a
door opens into a well lighted and APP
propriately fitted up chapel. The
chapel has seating capacity for 100
persons. There is a curtained alcove
of 20 seats for immediate relatives of
the deceased. The usual space for an
altar is so occupied, and regulation
emblems for all the fraternal societies
are kept for use when occasion de-
mands them. There is, too, a second
altar, canopy draped, before which the
casket is placed and upon which cut
flowers are artistically grouped. And
richly toned organ, under the hand
of a skilled musician, furnishes suit
able music.
When the funeral cortege reaches the
cemetery it is met by the sound of an
organ in a tent over a newly made
grave. The dun earth has been cover
ed by green, and chairs have been
placed for the mourning relatives and
4 friends. The coffin covered with flow
ers is placed upon an automatic bier
over the grave, and while Borrowing
: friends sit hushed to sacred silence by
the solemnity of the occasion, and
while the organ chants sweet requiem
to the departed the coffin sinks slowly
to it's sacred resting place.
t AS the cortege takes its homeward
2 wav the last sound heard from the
/ cemetery is the organ pealing forth
mans hope for immortality. 1t is thus
l beautifully funerals are conducted I'M
der the direction of MacMartin & Co.
Volumes have been written about the
u lost art of emblaming practiced by the
= Egyptians; but modern science has so
y far surpassed the ancients in embalm-
= ing the dead that there are no more
regrets for the lost art of the Egyp-
tians.
, Mr.. MacMartin is a post graduate
l emblamer who for five years held the
r position of embamer for the California
, Medical College, and for The Physi-
; clans and Surgeons Medical College OF
f San Francisco.
This firm carries well selected
stock of undertakers' supplies includ-
, ing beautiful artistic couch caskets,
, metallic burial cases, collins burial
robes and everything pertaining to the
funeral directors, embalmers and I'M
, dertaker's calling. Walla Wallans may
he assured that in the firm of Mac
. Martin &. Co the city has the dlSt1nc-
, ton of possessing one Of the most mod
, ern completely equipped andably con-
, ducted undertaking establishments in
the state.
# need hardly be added that the firm
stands in the first rank among mod
,,ndartakers embalmers and fun
eral directors or that its individual
members. Messrs. George MacMartin
and H. H. Champion, are equally es-
+oon,ed in business circles in Walla
Walla.