PARK AND CEMETERY. 
XIII 
JOE BOMGARDNER 
THE VETERAN LOWERING 
DEVICE MANUFACTURER 
HAS THE FOLLOWING TO SAY ABOUT LOWERING DEVICES : 
HEY must be compact, both for transportation and 
the amount of space they occupy when 'placed over a grave, 
especially in length. Monuments and head stones often will 
not allow more than three inches at the ends of the grave, there- 
fore the foot end of a lowering device should not be more than an inch 
thick, and the head end two inches thick. 
Give the brakes a little thought, and believe you will be convinced 
that friction is the only safe method of controlling a dead weight. Look 
at the large cranes which handle immense beams, used in the construc- 
tion of great buildings, bridges, etc., where men stand on these heavy 
weights and swing into midair with perfect safety. Friction controls them, 
more especially so when the cranes are operated by electricity. Friction 
brakes control entirely every train, street car or automobile when an 
emergency arises where lives depend on prompt and reliable action. 
THINK THESE FACTS OVER 
“In the past fourteen years as many as twenty-five different lowering devices 
have been invented, some of them have been put on the market, and some have 
never reached the public eye. But what should impress you is the fact that every 
one of them embodied cog wheels, or gears, in some form, and every one had to 
take them out. They simply will not work consistently where the propelling force 
cannot be increased or diminished, and you know that a dead body does not 
increase or diminish in weight while being lowered into a grave. 
“Nothing has come out that I have not tried out to my entire satisfaction, and 
I know that nothing in the shape of a delicate and sensitive device for controlling 
the lowering of a dead weight will ever be a success, where every conceivable 
condition must be met. 
“No lowering device has gone before the public that I have not been asked to 
manufacture, and put on the market, and the users of lowering devices will give 
‘Joe’ credit for knowing a good thing when he sees it.” 
BOMGARDNER MFG. CO. 
CLEVELAND, OHIO 
(SIXTH CITY) 
