*No More Burials Alivo
"No. Under our present methods
burial alive is an impossibility. To be
sure, there are some eccentric indi
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viduals who make odd requests, but mt
my long experience I bave never come
across one. This steel casket is as
far as they ever vary in their ex
pressed wishes."
A member of the local branch of the
company, from. whom it was reported
the -$22,000 casket was bought, also
agreed that it would be impossible to
expend this amount of money on the
steel inclosure. Te said:
"Our prices range from $100 to per
haps $500, and should such a thing be
made to order, of heavier steel and
with special arrangements, it might be
brought up to over $1,000, but scarce
ly more. I have heard nothing to the
effect that Mr. Sage's sarcophagus
was bought of our firm, but if it was it
is scarcely probable that any such
price as this was paid for it."
"Have you in ordinary use especial
arrangements like electric bells or
other means of safeguarding against
burial alive?"
"No; although, of course, such
things could be made, to supply a
whim. The steel casket is common
enough, especially in countries where
there is a great deal of rain, or in
remote regions where the grave can
not be watched."
If as big a sum as $22,000 was ac
tually expended on the burial arrange
ments of Mr. Sage, it must have been
in other directions than for the mere
inclosure. Local undertakers doubt it,
and maintain it is absurd.
Grave Robberies Common.
