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Show OERTAKERS' SHOP FUNERALS. r of Them Now and They Are Ex-ted Ex-ted to Become Yet More Common. ecessful undertakers in New York :days have to be prepared to furnish ;rch and clergyman along with the requirements for a funeral. Not long ago it was an exceptional thing uaeral services to be held in an unlets un-lets shop. Only the bodies of the lless or of those whose friends were oor to afford any better accommo-as accommo-as were then taken from the under-r's under-r's direct to the grave. Of late, how-. how-. tho phrase: "The funeral will be at the parlors of So-and-so, under-rs," under-rs," is frequently seen attached to notices, and even more often the where the funeral is to be held is rusted by its street number only, times out of ten the place so desig-1 desig-1 is an undertaker's shop. ' way this has come about has been 3y through the increasing reluc-e reluc-e of hotel and boarding house keep-to keep-to havo a funeral in their house, nds of thoso dying' iu such places jenerallj given to understand that wmediate removal of the body would ghly appreciated, or, if the friends 'ar within a few hours, the propria-' amnions an undertaker and has the ( removed. Unless tho deceased perils per-ils iear relatives in the city it is gen-'7 gen-'7 a Clatter .nf rIifRl-o v.m 4 matter, of diffidulty for. the Wound a place iu which to hold funeral, unless they wish , to go to expense of a church funeral, and f. claim upon some church of. which n make use. In this way, it has iy come about that bodies have 1 left to lie hi the undertaker's rooms, at the time set for the funeral the ads have gathered.there and listened "net service- pronounced by some 7man, supplied by the undertaker. Perhaps, and thence have borne the ? directly to the grave. -t the increase of this custom the wUrers have been compelled to in- the size of their rooms and to fit 3 P better and differently from or--7 shops of the sort. One city un-T un-T has gone so far as to clear out noie front of his store and Jeave a worn nearly seventy-five feet deep, 11 Paneled, church like ceiling and Thichcan be filled with chairs if ry. where the services are held. 1 not unusual for as many as two or I hundred persons to gather at fu-'"yces-hefd in this shop. Some well known persons have been bur ai there. One, a woman, who in life a well known advocate -aation, went from there to the ry only a few days ago. e undtakers think that this cus-u cus-u contLiually increase in a city - ew York, and that in time every jaser will have to keep a sort of pel in connection with his shop of his customers. At present ho have the facilities for allow-pees allow-pees to be held in their shops .n eKra charge for the use of ths T tllat PurP06et but competition doing away with that New |