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Show COFFINS THAT LAST. Denver Salesman Proposes to Educate Edu-cate the Mexicans. F. W. Murphy of Denver, a coffin salesman, and an officer of the Western West-ern Undertakers' association, is visiting visit-ing Salt Lake City preparatory to entering en-tering upon a unique mission. Next month will find Mr. Murphy in Mexico undertaking to inculcate new Ideas into the poorer classes in relation to burial. Under the present system a casket is used only for show purposes, and is secured se-cured on a rented basis. When the place of interment is reached the remains are placed in a box and buried, the expensive ex-pensive casket being returned to the undertaker. "It is a practical proposition," proposi-tion," said Murphy last evening, "but it is rather hard on the casket manufacturers. manu-facturers. Mexico ought to be a great field for American manufacturers of caskets and undertakers' supplies. As a matter of fact, it is not. The fault lies in the fact that one coffin and its usual accompaniments will last several generations. I am going to take along an interpreter and an excellent instructor in-structor in embalming, together with J an array of the finest apparatus and see what can be done to revive Interest in burials. We expect to invest some money in missionary work, but expect to accomplish the end for which we set out." |