Show FUNERAL conveyances time has wrought radical changes in the manner of laying away our dead as well as in all other things lings ti time was when a heavy wagon without springs constituted the hearse and then someone in the community purchased a side spring buggy and for many years a procession of white tops characterized every funeral cortege A hearse was then purchased by the city and surreys came into use and the next step was the professional undertaker who supplied the hearse and attended to all tile the details of handling the remains As the years have gone by since this last innovation in the manner of handling our dead the automobile has made its appearance and taken its place in the everyday life of the community so that now it is not a matter of providing carriages for funerals but automobiles mobiles and that brings us to tile the point in this article automobiles I 1 and carriages do not go well together I 1 in a funeral cortege the power pro polled machine cannot be slowed down very well to co the speed of a horse drawn vehicle and it looks odd to see carriages hurrying along to keep up with the automobiles the next step in the line of modern day progression and that has been taken some time since in the big cities will be an automobile hearse and autos for those de string siring to accompany the remains to the cemetery it will surely come to that but in the mean time it might be well to suggest that either all autos or all carriages should make up the conveyances at funerals fune rais |