Show paying funeral expenses in advance workmen put up a telephone some weeks ago in an office in a building beai the brooklyn navy yard and later on other workmen carried in a number oi of coffins of various sizes and styles of finish and set them up in different orna mental positions neighbors looked or with a curious sort of interest all this weird activity was the outfitting outwitting out fitting of a business that is something brand new in corporate enterprise it was waa the practical beginning of a project of enabling citizens to provide while still alive fox foi their own or their friends friende burial upon tho same game system as life insurance is carried on and at rates that are a slash at the union prices of the undertakers association the coffins were samples of the cut rate wares the new business is done by a series of contracts with customers whereby the projectors of the burial bu business sines agree to furnish decent burial at prices that range anywhere from 80 30 for a child to for an adult A 30 interment for instance is obtained by paying 80 30 bentson signing a contract and 80 30 cents monthly thereafter until the 30 is paid at A the burial the rate is raised to on signing and a mouth month the contracts contain this ibis binding clause the preparation and preservation ot the body for interment one casket and name plate chestnut or oak outside case E extra line shroud door band hearse and five coaches attendance of undertaker at funeral opening and filling in the grave now new york sun i |