The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1912-09-27

censes to testify to that fact, while
thousands of people VIII testify to
these facts, If inquiry is made. In a
recent sermon Rev. G. H. Clark, a
man not given to fattery, declared
that, "Mr. A. N. Johnson is a genius"
in the profession. Register of the
Treasury Napier declared in a public
speech that, "Mr. Johnson came to
our city and revolutionized the I'M
dertaking business" and it would
take your entire issue to make SINH
lar quotations from people in all the
walks of life, both friends and foes,
and whether I get the business or
not, it Is conceded that I give the
best service and lead in funeral SER
vice. SO much for that.
The foregoing was said only to
prove the following:
First, that many people bury their
dead at an expense of from two to
three hundred dollars Is far fetched.
| have buried some two thousand in
Nashville and not one dozen have
reached the $500 notch, and have
furnished many fine funerals. Of
that number rot fifty have paid as
nhuch as 5000. I have no knowledge
of what the other gentlemen in the
business charge. I canly only speak
of myself and the public knows what
I saw IS true. The prices obtained
for the same grade Of funerals fur
niehed in Nashville are far less than
any other CITY Of its size in the coun-
try. Here all of us embalm ordinary
cases for $40. In post mortem, high
ly contagious and infectious cases the
rrices are higher. but seldom. The
funeral cars. while the finest made,
more elegant than any others in the
country in style and cost are used
in funeral for the paltry sun of $500,
while in Memnhis and other big cities
The price is SIS, and many other
cities always $40. Take the carriage
service. Not a Negro undertaken In
Nashville has made a dollar in car
riage service for years. The white
funeral directors, with no better
teams and carriages, in funerals con-
suming often less than one-half the
time and less than the same mileage,
get SIS and Sc ner funeral in the city
while we get SO. We pay u drivers
81 p week, which Is certainly little.
We feed our horses at an expense OF
Sc per week, and the harness repair,
horse shoeing and painting will aver
nee So per week making a total OF
SIS per week. While we make an
average of six calls per week at SO
or $18 for the week, leaving only 50
per week Torrent interest on the In
vestment, natural decline in value OF
horse, carriage da and harness, insur-
anca. license. veterinary bill and gen.
eral upkeep; so that the least obser-
want can see we have been playing
a losing game. depending upon other
INCOMES to keen the business going,
lighting each other, hoping to break
down the other man.
AS for embalming, we make but
little out Of $40. The modern chemi-
Gals used in the circulatory symtem
to preserve the entire v%iscera, those
employed in ABSORPTION to blend, pro-
ducing the cosmetic effect, together
with various emollients employed in
The technique. the funerals and in
vestigators of new discoveries added
TO the enormous cost of a life insur-
ance the merest foool employs to pro-
tect his dependence while %hazarding
his life with death itself to make a
deceased body to the living and safe
from the harmful disease which de-
stroyed the life of the deceased, when
$40 is the fee; we wonder how a mar
does it for $10-at least one who
knows how and does it right. YOU
pay a physician $25 for a minor ope
ration and much more for a major
operation and no n demands OF hin
that he save the life of the patient
Yet, after doctors, nurses, friend
Z and medicines have not kept dealt
away, we are called upon to do NOR
and not allowed to fail for $40 Their
is the grave. For an adult it is SIS Il
7 either cemetery. Less than any plac
: in America of the same size. A ma
who dies in Chicago can have hi
body transported on the train t
d Nashville, carried in a superior fun
earl car to either cemetery in Nasl
s. Vile and buy a grave for less tina
s they charge him for a grave in Oh
o cago.
i AS for collins, caskets and robe
l. reople get them for as little as the
l. care to pay. They come to my plaC
and we do not show them a cat
logue and pictures, but we show the
cofTlns and caskets, commencing f;
!. So and on up proportionately
high as they want and they are nevC
% measured by the amount Of insu
T. ancs but left to select what sui
is heir taste and spending ability, ar
6 while the impression may be TIL
NJ most of these funerals cost 5000
4 5000, il is not SO. ! have never a
w vertised myself as a Cheap man
70 Many people have thought that b
~ a my service is superior. N
I'd prices are necessarily high, but SUI
j. rot the case. That my comm
into Nashville has done good IS Il
Nv universal verdict. The people had
na reach and run and put up with
% service certainly cheap and AM
n. quated, while now the pace set
NJ US has been so hot that all compe
lre tors have been spending money a
in the people are getting the benefit
or our keen competition.
The average society pays $50 I
a funeral in Nashville and makes
summary of a baby funeral and