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Show MADE HIS FUNERAL A PARTY Bartender, a Suicide, Pays for Feast for the Mourners Around His Ashes. William S. Casey, a bartender widely wide-ly known in the California cattle country, coun-try, had a funeral which he paid for himself. Casey died by his own hand. His health shattered, he told his friends that he did not want to live If he could not be happy. He had $1,000 in a bank at Salinas, and arranged ar-ranged that the sum be used for his funeral. "My passing out is not a signal for sorrow," Casey had said. "1 want the friends that attend my funeral to enjoy themselves Just as if 1 were among them in reality, as I will be in spirit." A special car brought Casey's body from Salinas to San Francisco, where It was cremated. With the ashes in an urn, a score of Casey's friends, following fol-lowing directions left by the decedent, proceeded to a hotel whose proprietor was an old friend of Casey's. Before the party sat down to dinner the urn was taken into the barroom and placed behind the bar. Then every one ordered his favorite drink, and this toast was drunk: "To Casey, who is still behind the bar." The party, carrying out Casey's instructions, in-structions, then sat down to dinner, and later went to a theater. Casey's ashes were taken back to Salinas and sprinkled on the Salinas river. San Francisco Examiner. |
