Salt Lake Tribune | 1910-01-22 | Page 7 | Innovation in Auto Line is Coming

I10VAT1 IN AUTO LI IS COMING Motor Hearse to Be Put in Uper- ation Here by Undertaking" Under-taking" Firm. Sale Lake's most recent innovation in the automobile line Is the motor hearse. Within the next few weeks a. local undertaking un-dertaking establishment will liavo a line of autohearses in operation, and if the suggestion is adopted here as it has been in eastern cities, the hearse with hordes will soon 'be a thing of the past in Salt Lake. The automobile hearse was first introduced intro-duced In Xow York Oily and, after the effect of tho innovation had worn off. Ihe motor cemetery car came I'o be an accepted pnrt of the funeral procession. Chicago. Philadelphia. Pittsburg. Boston. San Tranciaeo and Mother cities followed suit, and now the motor hearse is conspicuous con-spicuous in most every city of any size in the country. Accompanying the autohcarse is a motor mo-tor ear for, the pallbearers, and within the next few years automobiles will probably prob-ably form a large, part Of all funeral corteges cor-teges in the lnrger cities. It has been pointed out that the introduction of automobiles au-tomobiles will do a.way with the possibility possi-bility of runaways, and It is also conceded to be a much cheaper method of transportation. trans-portation. Within the past few years In Salt Lake a number of serious accidents have resulted re-sulted from runaways at funerals. It has been figured out that with the introduction in-troduction of automobiles this danger will be eliminated. The ypeed can be regulated regu-lated to suit existing conditions, and In cities where it has been tried oilt. the automobile has been found to h a satisfactory satis-factory substitute for the horse-drawn hearse.