PARK AND CEMETERY. 
Ill 
The Bomgardner Mfg. Co., Third and Detroit Sts. 
Cleveland, Ohio 
FIVE 
BOMGARDNER 
LOWERING 
DEVICES 
IN USE AT ONE 
FUNERAL 
No other device could have been used for this occasion. 
The adjustable features are indispensable. Write 
THIS BURIAL OF 
FIVE BODIES, 
VICTIMS OF THE 
SALISBURY WRECK 
TOOK PLACE AT 
WATERLOO, N.Y. 
AUG. 7, 1906 
STONE GRAVE VAULTS 
The best underground vault on the 
market. Made in sections. Easily 
handled. Requires no mechanics in 
setting. Beautiful color, strong, dur- 
able, cheap. Ready for use. 
SOUTHERN OHIO VAULT CO. 
ncDERHOTT, OHIO 
Ised and Recommended by 
Leading Cemeteries 
You can’t keep these vaults — they 
sell. Sold direct from quarries to Ceme- 
tery Associations. No middle man’s 
profit. Many cemeteries enjoy a sub- 
stantial income from the sale of these 
vaults. Write at once for prices. 
GRAVE AND LOT MARKERS 
Buy the best — There is none just like it 
A Lowerin^r 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 tolowerthe 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. A Iso manufacturers of Little Giant Telescoping Device. 
The entire weight of device 7S Pounds. 
E. R. Butte rworth, Seattle, Wash., Ex-President of the Washington 
Funeral Directors Association, sends the following: 
Foldln^r 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 (ali 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., Snpt. Mt. Elliot and Mt. Olivet Cemeteries, has used the 
Device 3.BOO 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 we have nine of your Devices In use and used them at least 
3.500 times for lowering 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 
Clncliwiatl Uoffln Co.. Cincinnati, Ohio. 
.lohn MarsellUBMfK. Co., Syracuse, N.Y, Cal. CaBketCo.,San Krancisco. Cal, 
The O.K.BuckhoutChem. Co , London, Eng. Oregon Casket Co., Portland, Ore. 
Eekardt Casket Co. Toronto, Ont. Los Angeles Coltin Co., Los Angeles, Cal. 
