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Show IftDEfiTAKERS' SHOP FUNERALS. my of Them Now and They Are Ex. wcted to Becomo Yet More Common. iuccessful undertakers in New York tva3 have to be prepared to furnish Iiurch and clergyman, along with the ler requirements for a funeral. Not 7 long ago it was on exceptional thing funeral services to be held in an un-taker's un-taker's shop. Only the bodies of the ndless or of those whose friends were ' poor to afford any better accommo lioni were then taken from the under-er's under-er's direct to the grave. Of late, how. r, the phrase: "The funeral will be id at the parlors of So-and-so, under-m," under-m," is frequently seen attached to i:h notices, and even more often the-ce the-ce where the funeral is to be held is ignated by its street number only, a times out of ten the place so designed desig-ned is an undertaker's shop. The way this has come about has been "2y through the increasing reluo-co reluo-co of hotel and boarding house keep- to have a funeral in their house, lends of those dying in such places ' generally given to understand that immediate removal of the body would highly appreciated, or, if the friends lar within a few hours, the proprie-suamions proprie-suamions an undertaker and has the ly removed. Unless the deceased per- 'has near relatives in the city it is gen- a matter of difficulty for the ads to find a place in which to hold funeral, unless they wish to go to eipense of a church funeral, and e a claim upon some church of which ? can make use. In this vay it has 'orally come about that bodies have a left to lie in the undertaker's rooms, ' at the time set for the funeral the ;ls liave gathered there and listened 1 met servico pronounced by some 'oTmaii, supplied by the undertaker, periaps, and thence have borne the directly to the grave. 'I 'th the increase of this custom the ertakers have been compelled to in- the size of their rooms and to fit " UP better and differently from or- shops of the sort One city un-r un-r has gone 6o far as to clear out wnoIo front of his store and leave a j'9 room nearly seventy-five feet deep, Paneled, church like ceiling and A Thiohcan be filled with chairs if asary, where the services are held, aot unusual for as many as two or hundred persons to gather at fu- services held in this shop. Somi s well known persons have been bur-., bur-., ro:a there. One. a woman, who u ueeninlif0 a well known advocate wemation, went from there to tha .natory only a few days ago. undertakers think that thiscus-e thiscus-e v wntinually increase in a city dmT ' and tnat ia tune ever all it nave to teeP a sort of tU . 1 in nnection with his shop use of his customers. At present no have the facilities for allow-.apices allow-.apices to be held in their shop ltnj tetra charce for the use of the l tka' purpose, but competition tdo'ng away with that New |