VIII 
PARK AND CEMETERY 
GRAVE 
DIRT ^ 
COVER 
MADE OF GREEN DUCK. 
9 ft. O in. 12 ft. 
Is 
the 
health 
and 
com- 
fort 
of 
your 
citi- 
zens 
worth 
con- 
sider- 
ing? 
DURFEE TENT 
MFG. CO. 
GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. 
“I often think,” said a clergyman who is frequently called upon to officiate 
at funerals, ‘‘that one funeral is apt to lay the foundation for another. In no de- 
tail of ordinary life are the people more careless of health than as they stand 
around the grave. On one of the recent cold days a pretty feature of a young girl’s 
funeral was the presence of little girl pall-bearers. The children all wore white j 
dresses, and the white coffin with the flowers added to the lack of horror about j 
the ceremony. This was all very well while we remained in the furnace-heated 
house, but as the funeral cortege took its way to the cemetery the white-gowned j 
little girls went also. In the bleak wind they stood, shivering, and, although some j 
onethrew wraps over their shoulders, I noticed that each poor little girl’s teeth were 
chattering. When rain or snow is falling the last rites become even more dangerous J 
to health. I wish that St. Louis might adopt the method of inclosing the grave in a 1 
tent, or at least putting a canopy over it, as is commonly done in Eastern cemeteries 
during inclement weather. — St. Louis Globe Democrat.’’'' J 
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different sizes and quailtlea by sending for our Tent Circular. W 
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The Bomgardner 
Lowering Device 
The cut below shows the mechanism of the Bomgardner double-tele- 
scoping steel lowering device, the idlers, as shown moving apart as the ' 
device is closed, and moving together as it is widened. Write for catalogue; 
and further information. 
The Bomgardner Manufacturing Co. | 
1629a33 Detroit St. 
The above is a fac- 
simile of the award 
granted the Bomgard- 
ner Lowering Device 
Co., at the World’s 
Fair, St. Louis, 1904, 
the grand prize being 
the highest award 
given to any exhibit. 
