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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
Townsend >Iowers 
HAND MOWERS AND 
HORSE MOWERS 
This Lever Raises the Kaives 
All Our Hand Mowers are Ball Bearing 
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S. P. Townsend & Co. 
ORANGE, N. J. 
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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. Forty sold 
to cemetery officials in city of Detroit, Mich.; 300 sold in 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 lowerthe same, loosen thebrake 
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 
finished. Also manufacturers of Little Giant Telescoping Device. 
The entire weight of device fs 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 first accident. 
Most respectfully, E. R. Butterworth & Son. 
John Reid, Detroit, Mich., Supt. Mt. Elliot and Mt. Olivet Cemeteries, has used the 
Device 3,600 times without an accident. 
Folding Device Works, Ovid, Mich. Detroit, Mich., Oct. i, 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 we have nine of your Device s 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. 
Folding Device Works, Ovid, Mich. 
Eastern Offices— BR.ANCH OFFICES Western Offices 
Cincinnati Coffin Co., Cincinnati, Ohio. 
John Marsellus Mfg. Co. , Syracuse, N.Y. Cal. Casket Co., San Francisco, Cal, 
The O.K.BuckhoutChem. Co., London,Eng. Oregon Casket Co., Portland, Ore. 
Eckardt Casket Co. Toronto, Ont. Los Angeles Coffin Co.. Los Angeles, Cal. 
ARTISTIC 
MEMORIALS 
IN GRANITE AND BRONZE 
FOR CEMETERIES AND PARKS 
SPECIAL DESIGNS SUBMITTED 
for Receiving Vaults, Memorial Chap- 
els, Mausoleums, Sarcophagi and 
Public and Private Monuments to be 
erected in any part of the United States 
H arrison Granite Co. 
Granite Works: BARRE, VT. 
Bird Sarcophagus Erected hv Harrison Granite Co. hi Woodlawn Cemetery y New Tork. 
Main Office : 44 E. 23d St., New York 
