PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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NEW MOTOR CAR THAT CARRIES the ENTIRE FUNERAL 
As has before been noted in these 
pages, the motor funeral car that 
carries the casket and entire funeral 
party has many advantages over the 
trolley funeral car by reason of its 
ability to get directly to the home and 
to the cemetery lot. This type of car 
has been tried successfully and a 
new type of motor car to carry the 
entire funeral has just been patented 
by Bellett Lawson, Jr., superintend- 
ent of Elmwood Cemetery, Chicago, 
and Secretary of the Association of 
American Cemetery Superintendents. 
In Chicago most of the cemeteries 
are from 9 to 18 miles from the busi- 
ness center, and often as far from the 
homes of the people who have to bury 
their dead. The transportation of a 
funeral with 28 mourners and the body 
in the usual horse-drawn vehicles to 
any of the cemeteries within 12 miles 
of the loop district costs $66 and up- 
wards. This does not represent all the 
expense, for a stop is usually made at 
a road house to feed the horses. 
The Lawson Car which is illustra- 
ted here is 20 feet one inch long, 
and seven feet five inches wide. The 
casket compartment in front is 7 
feet by 3 feet two inches. The car will 
carry 28 passengers. The casket com- 
partment is to be lined with sheet 
copper and the flower compartment 
enclosed with glass so that it will be 
separate from the other portion of the 
coach. There are four doors on the 
left side of the car and three on the 
right side. The casket is placed in 
from the front end. The coach is to 
be driven by electricity from a motor 
located under the center of the body 
