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Show Tram-Car for Cometery. A coffin tram-car Is the latest Innovation In-novation by way of a conveyance in Paris The cemetery of Vlncennes Is full, and it is Impossible to find nn- j Buimuie piece or ground in the town, so the new cemetery has been made at a distance of about three I miles out This is too great a distance for l he ordinary funeral procession. bo the municipality has solved the problem by having a special coffin tram car constructed, and laying down , a line right to the gates of the cerae-j cerae-j terv. The car. which is of a dark ETeen color, is divided Into four compartments, com-partments, one for the driver, one for the bearers, one for the clergy, and a 1 roomy one, containing 24 seats for the I family of the deceased In the side of the vehicle there Is an aperture Into which the undertakers Klld .be coffin. cof-fin. The wreaths win be hung on the car A specially constructed carriage Will follow the funeral car containing 1 tho rest of thoae assisting at the cere-many. |