The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-06-27
Installation Of Whose Latest
Equipment is lust Being
COMPLETED
COn1pleied.
BUILDING is AN ORNAMENT
And the Arrangement in the
Undertaking Department is
Certainly Most IDEAL

C6i tdilHy hOSt ta00t.
While. the warne Undertaking
Com pary has been occupying its
handsome new building at 44S west
Pike street some time. installation OF
the elaborate equirment, which Is
strictly modern in every detail, is Just
neing completed and Finishing touches
are being given the interior OF the
building The next progressive step
to be taken by this successful con-
cern will be the erection OF a large
brick garage on its rear lot, upon
completion of which funeral automo-
biles will be installed. 1t being the IL
Icntion TO use them almost exclusive
~ hereafter The garage construc-
ton will be begun within the next few
days ana rushed to speedy compis-
ton With the installation os these
automobiles. the service given by this
company viii be second to noEe any
where and the step will mark an ad-
vance in tia undertaking business
here that must recesssri.y tnd favor
with the public
The Warne building, in which IS
located the Undertaking rooms, was
constructed at cost Of $4,000 and
stands on a lot centrally looted
which cost the company 81 5.O0e
making an investment OF S45.OOo,
exclusive of thousSn nds of dollars IL
vested in the equipment and stock
The investment shows that the bus1-.
ness Of the company is one OF the
most substantial in. the community
and but few. If any. undertaking
companies in the state nave-SoneLto'
as great expense in equipping them
selves to serve the public. The ga
rage and machines VIII cost several
thousand dollars more. and, truly, II
may be said that the Warne Under
taking Company is among those
which head the list of Clarksburgs
leading business establishments
The building itself is forty-dve by
13: feet ant; three stories high II
was constructed Of tapestry brick
and steel. The design is modern and
the appointments IDEAL Besides the.
undertaking rooms of which de-
scription is contained herein, the
building contains a splendid street,
floor business room which IS occu-
pied by the OyNeaIe Printing Com
pany. and second and third story
apartments. all but one Of which are
aiready occupied II fronts on West
Pike street IN a central location as
previously stated. and has conven-
lent rear entrance from Traders al
ley. thus making it readily accessible
The undertaking department CT
the building contains a conamod1ous
reception room, a comfortable, prI-
vare Office, spacious chapel, suit
ably large en- nbalming room, tidy
robe room and roonay casket cases,
as well as an airy wareroom IN the
rear. There is also a wide hall lead
ing from the front door into the var
ious rooms.
81 ha
part of the building has solid, pol
ished plate glass window and Is tur-
niShed in tapestry and mahogany.
With white enanlcled panel ceiling
and yEhite-ayenato marble walls pur-
chased from the Vermont Marble
CotAeany at Pr0ctcr- Vt The man
Tel ana hearth are made of striped
Rrocoddiie marble. which quite o.
-namental 1nSterii obtain through
out tl1> building as TO mantel facing,
hearths, halls. both rooms and en-
frances. and the walnseoatlns
throughout the building IS dark Co
lumbia marble. furnished by the
same company. giving the building
sricn and beautiful eject Rich VII
to.t rigs cover the reception roon
|foor.
The private office whose walls and
trimmings are similar to those Of the
reception room is furnished through
out IN leather and mahogany ard is
briIIiartly lighted, and equipped with
Wilton rugs on the floor. ideal, in
deed, in every respect
The chapel Is twenty by thirty feet
ana has seating capacity of seven
u-fve persons It has i've punished
gold in ebony chandeliers, with 1hir-
ty-six electric lights. which. when lit
give not only superabundance OF
light, but also convey superb effect
It has cement floor OF moss green
brick The white ename1ed pane
ceiling adds materially TO the ap-
paarance and guarantee perfect
The walls are of hard
model finish. without exasgeration.
one may Well say that Eore ideal
chapel would be hard to ind It was
built for service. 1t was bunt fo<
comfort 1t was built to answer the
most exacting requirement..
On two sides of the chapel are
large, polished glass display casxct
cases. which are absolutely dust proof
so that all caskets can be left open.
thus displaying their interior and a
feature found In these cases Is card
ON every casket with the price writ
ten In plain figures, In fact price
card IS found on every article the
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