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Show FOR THE "STRANGER DEAD." The Paulist Fathers Are Preparing a Mortuary Chapel For Them. In the Church of the Paulist Fathers at Columbus avenue and Fifty-ninth j street, New York, there is being pre- I pared a mortuary chapel which will be I devoted to the "stranger dead," those i who die at the hotels or railway stations, sta-tions, on street cars, or those unfrotu- I nates who commit suicide. Many trav- I elers, without a friend in this great city, die on the trains or steamships, j or in the hotels, each year. These I bodies, ordinarily, lie in some undertaker's under-taker's rooms. The Paulist Fathers purpose to provide churchly accommodation accommo-dation for some, at least, of such cases. Funerals, also, of strangers, will be held at the chapel. The chapel is a memorial to the dead of the Paulist Fathers who are buried underneath. Their names are chiseled into the marble mar-ble arch surmounting the door, which has converted a space behind the confessional con-fessional booths near the entrance to the church Into a mortuary chapel. The church is being decorated, and it could not be said definitely yesterday when the chapel would be ready for use. The door has for groundwork of its color scheme dull gold, to correspond with the decorative scheme of the naive of the church. New York Freeman's Journal. |