Show FUNERAL CORTEGE HIM Y TO A t i J Y- Y Refused to Allow Mans Man's Burial Until Debt Was Paid BILL WAS FINALLY PAID Members of I Dead Chicago Mans Man's Q Dead Bent Beat Title I 4 Union Obdurate j Sept 30 Luke 30 Luke Summers Summers' funeral was delayed for forty-five forty minutes today while white his friends sought forgiveness enesi for his memory from the Undertakers' Undertakers association For a time it looked as IC f would not be ba burled buried at all To co one of the members of the us association he ho was indebted UH and until this sum was paid tho the officers of ot the organization refused to allow the ceremony to proceed It H is the Undertakers associations association's rulo rule that none ot of Its Is members ma may bur bury a man or woman against whose family a previous un undertakers undertaker's hill bill is IH out outstanding Tho The penalty for tor violation of the rule Is expulsion and as thu the a association controls every evely heal hearse o In Iii Chicago eXI expulsion mean means means' ruino ruin o Summers' Summers wife wire died two years a ago o t and the Mil hili for tor her hel funeral funeral f was still unpaid Two brother mcm- mcm bers bels of the Machinery Sate Safe Movers' Movers a. a association of or which tho dead man was vas a member finally si signed ned a note noto for tor the amount Then and not until i then was vas the hearse to p start Would Not Pt Burial Summers died at the county hospital hospi hospi- tal Thursday III Ills union Manager Smith of ot th the th Union Burial a association to take charge of or the the funeral After Arter th the bod body had hail been laid out nut Undertaker R. R K Sloan notified I Smith that he must mut go 10 no flo farther UI ui- tH r tho former was paid for Mrs Summers Summers' Sum Sum- mers' mers funeral C Summers Summers' friends appealed to Secretary Secretary Sec Sec- J. J S. S Dillon of oC tho the Undertakers Undertakers' association Ion Smith cannot bury him these friends say 1 Dillion replied Ho lie owes oves owesa a n Mil hill to Mr 1 Sloan lie He was a dead deadbeat deadbeat l beat cat and his body belongs belong's rightfully to tho the dissecting room Smith says rays he be offered to give Sloan n tho the profit ho would receive from Summers Summers' funeral for COl which the union would pay but hut Sloan was wa wasI obdurate I |