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Show WOULD MOVE HIS FATHER'S GRAVE. The Plan of a New York Millionaire to liaise Ready Money. "You can't blame ns for losing faith in human nature," said a prosperous undertaker under-taker the other evening. "We see how people, the majority of people, behave when death enters their homes. That is the crucial test. That is the time to learn what people really are. If the public knew how many of the so called upper ten' act when a relative dies, the good people in this town would be shocked. shock-ed. To mention an example, here is an experience I have just had with the meanest man in New York. This man is wealthy, being worth more than a million. mil-lion. His father died at the age of 80 a year ago after leaving this son, an only son, the bulk of his fortune. "I prepared the body for burial. Well, this son, who shed tears at the funeral of his father, came to me the other day and said he required my services. Now, what do you suppose he wanted?" "Another death in the family?' suggested sug-gested a listener. "Not at all. He said he had an excellent ex-cellent opportunity to sell the family burial plot a large one in a splendid location lo-cation at Evergreen, in which his father, mother and sister were buried. He wanted want-ed me to move the bodies to a little plot off in a cheap corner of the cemetery because be-cause the times were so hard and he needed the money the big plot cost." New York World. |