Show NEVER SEE HEARSE AT T NIGHT new york undertaker explains explain W why hy they are not sent out nobody gives us fellows credit for having a largo large bump of sensitiveness said a west side aide undertaker but the tact fact is 1 wo we go to lo a good deal ol of trouble to safeguard the feelings of tho the general public for one thing we WB try never to our hearses in the street after dark of course in the case of afternoon funerals find and long distances we cannot avoid getting homo home late but even so wo we make it a point to got get t under inder ca coico er as soon as possible after nig nightfall lit and wo we do that absolutely out of consideration for the public dy by nine ine people out of ten the sight of a hearse on the street at night la Is taken as a sure sign of impending death and disaster even in the bo daytime a hearse Is a gloomy affair but to run up against one at night Is pretty sure to give tho the most jovial fellow alive a depressing turn I 1 know how it Is myself accustomed cus tomed as I 1 am to handling hearses I 1 dont illie to bump into one unexpectedly at a dark corner most alost men in the business feel the same way therefore we strive to bo be considerate that we succeed remarkably marh mar kably ably ak veil ell is apparent to anybody who voll bill take the trouble to count the hearses he has seen out at night these are so few that ill wager the roost most confirmed gadabout cannot recall mole moie than three or tour four of them new york times |