Show COSTLY FOR DOGS and one for A parrot that beats them all asked about the truth of the report he had recently interred a dog in one of the public cemeteries a broadway undertaker said 1 I was consulted a week or so ago about burying a dog but the party has not ordered a coffin yet X have furnished coffins however for quite a number of dogs and once a coffin for a parrot the highest priced casket I 1 ever supplied for a dog cost A new york lady was the mourner it was of solid rosewood carved silver slated and everything first class I 1 0 not remember just what kind of a dog it was its name was on the plate there is no ceremony about a dogs funeral if the owner believes his dog has a soul he is very likely to keep the belief to himself and it he it would probably be rather difficult to get any minister to say prayers over the four footed pet the dog is simply put into a childs casket of fitting size and conveyed in p hearse or wagon to the cemetery there the human mourners are in waiting and there are some quite striking exhibitions of grief over the departed animal choso whoso bark has been launched as it were on the waters of oblivion do the cemetery authorities object to buch interments inter ments certainly not at least have not heard of their objecting even if they had a legal right to do BO the dogs are interred in the private burial lots of their owners no monument that I 1 am aware of has been erected to a dog but the owner fixes some way of telling where the animal is buried the average price paid for a do gs casket is from 50 to 75 and the plates with the name are usually silver and sometimes plated pointers and setters are the dogs mostly favored with such luxurious burial and ladies are in the majority of those who bestow this costly postmortem post mortem honor on their canine friends the casket for the parrot of which he had spoken ho added was really an work of art and the cost of manufacturer alone was over it was 1 foot 10 inches in length of solid rosewood hand carved and hand polished and the mountings of silver while the linings were of the richest quality beneath the outer cover was a plate glass covering through which the dead bird which had been carefully embalmer embalmed ed could be gazed upon by its devoted mistress the reporter vas shown a photograph of the casket and it appeared to be fit for a deceased the parrot haa net been interred butcho lady keeps the casket with ians remains in her parlor and it is to bo buried with her when she dies she has said that the bird saved the lives of herself and her late husband in india by giving timely warning of the presence of robbers A woman recently attempted to have a pet dog interred in riverside park but being denied that privilege she caused the body to be weighted and sunk in the river near the parle |