Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1913-04-23 | Page 9 | City Cemetery Will be Open Half Hour Longer

I CITY CEMETERY WILL WILLBE BE OPEN HAlF HOUR lONGER Park Commissioner Makes This Concession to Protesting Protesting Protest Protest- ing lug Undertakers U I Conference yesterday bel between een local undertakers and and the commissioner of or parks arks s resulted in extension oC oJ tho the time during which City cemetery will vili be open tor for burials burIal from 4 30 to 5 6 o'clock lit In u tho the afternoon For burials after aHer tho the thoIn In latter hour an extra fee of 5 will be bo charged by the city It is proposed to o have havo the gra edl gravediggers ers s-ers work a half longer long and to raise their salaries from 5 to 50 per da day In order to extend exten tho the burial time This change results from action of or orthe the commissioner of or parks s in making makin a a. rule some time since that there should be bo no burials permitted after In Inthe the tho afternoon A few nl nights ago o there was a burial scheduled for later than this hour hOUT The sexton notified the undertaker undertaker un un- that th the rules of oC the cemetery forbade an any burials after aCter the tho specified hour lour The undertaker fearing the fu funeral Cu- Cu would be le held up called calle three commissioners on the telephone and arid thc they hey ordered the sexton to permit the burial The un undertakers then asked ed for a a. hearing hearing- with the tue park commissioner commis cominis- stoner which was had yesterday afternoon after after- noon The undertakers declared it was not riot right to clo close c the gates of ot a cemetery at such an hour as 4 O. O To hold fu funerals funerals funerals fu- fu and burials in the earlier parts of the day especially In Hummer summer it was declared declare is almost Impossible because of the effect upon people in close carriages carriages car car- es of oC the heat Besides it was declared declared de de- dared the cemetery should be open for burial bUlla at nn any r time It lt b CIl Percy Perle Per Per- was e explained by City Sexton le hey cy A. A Hill that the tho gravediggers ig-gers ig are supposed to work on only I- I eight hours a ada aday aday da day and when the gates are arc held open until the tho men arc compelled to work vork until or later He a advocated that hat the cemetery should be closed to funerals on Sunday Sunda the undertakers say sar