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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
Townsend >Iowers 
HAND MOWERS AND 
HORSE MOWERS 
This Lever Raises theKnivesK^” 
All Our Hand Mowers are Ball Bearing 
SENT ON THEIR MERITS 
Write for Catalogue 
S. P. Townsend & Co. 
ORANGE, N. J. 
We Sharpen 
and Repair 
Thousands of 
Mowers 
All Makes 
John Reid, Detroit, Mich., Supt. Mt. Elliot and Mt. Olivet Cemeteries, has used the 
Device 3,500 times without an accident. 
Folding Device Works, Ovid, Mich. Detroit, Mich., Oct. 4, 1906. 
Gentlemen— In justice to the perfection and safety of the mechanism of your Casket 
Lowering Device as well as Its neat appearance when in use, I wish to state that In the 
cemeteries under my charge w-e have nine of your Devices in use and used them at least 
3.500 times for low'ering caskets of all sizes and weights without a single accident 
or mishap. John Reid, Superintendent Mt. Elliot and Mt. Olivet Cemeteries. 
Buy the best — There is none just like it 
A Lowering- Device is not only important in lowering a casket, 
but is essential in softening the appearance and beautifying the 
grave, in keeping with modern funeral furnishings. Thirty-five 
sold to cemetery officials in city of Detroit, Mich. 
The above photo shows Device and Lining over the grave. The 
Border and Linings are fastened together, thereby covering the 
walls of the grave and the plank. When the casket is placed on 
the webbing and you are ready to lower the same, loosen the brake 
until the desired speed is obtained, and then step back. It lowers 
the Casket safely and noiselessly without anyone touching the 
Device. The casket can be raised as well as lowered. A child’s 
3 feet 3 inches, as well as an adult 6 feet 3 inches case or grave 
vault can be lowered. 
Our Patent Casket Guides are also shown. These keep the 
Casket from catching on the rough box and for directing the 
Casket squarely into the grave when on sloping ground. 
This Device is absolutely safe, easy to handle and elegantly 
fiinshed. Also manufactur^srs of Little Giant Telescoping Device. 
T/ie e7itire ivei^ht of device 7S founds. 
E. R. Butterworth, Seattle, Wash., Ex-President of the National 
Funeral Directors Association, sends the following: 
Folding: Device Works, Ovid, Mich. Seattle, Wash., Oct. 10, 1906. 
Gentlemen — I desire to say that I do not see where it would be possible to 
improve on your Lowering Device. We are using three at this time { all your 
make) and out of three thousand interments made where your device was 
used I have yet to have the tlrst accident. 
Most respectfully, E. R. Butterworth & Son. 
Folding Device Works, Ovid, Nlich. 
Eastern Offices BRANCH OFFICES Western Offices 
John Marsellus Mfg. Co., Syracuse, N.Y. Cal. Casket Co., San Francisco, Cal, 
The O.K. Buckhout Chem. Co. , London, Eng. Oregon Casket Co. , Portland, Ore. 
Eckardt Casket Co. Toronto, Ont. Los Angeles Coffin Co., Los Angeles, Cal. 
Grooved and Bolted 
Slate Grave Vaults 
CLEAN. STRONG. DURABLE. 
All sizes kept constantly in stock. Can 
ship at short notice. Special Attention given 
to Catacomb and Structural Work. Write for 
prices and particulars to the manufacturer. 
THE BANGOR SLATE CO., Bangor, Penn. 
Accurate Records of Interments 
are indispensable to a well-ordered ceme- 
tery. Specimen pages of record books, in- 
dexes of interments and lot diagram books 
sent on application. 
B. J. HAIGHT, 324 Dearborn Street, Chicago. 
Reservoir Vases 
For Cemeteries 
and Parks 
The Best Made 
The Reservoir supplies the plants with mois- 
ture by capillary attraction. 
Not necessary to water plants oftener than 
once in ten days. 
We make nearly 100 styles ranging in price 
from $6.00 to $100.00 each. 
None better made. Send for catalogue. 
Walbrid^e Company, 
The Original Patentees and Makers 
Buffalo, N. Y. 
