Identifier: streetrailwayrev01amer (find matches)
Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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- to the poor,that the funeral car commends itself, the charges shouldbe placed at such a figure as to place the service withinthe reach of all. If desired there could be two or threeclasses of cars, as is the case in the city of Mexico, or
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INTERIOR FUNERAL CAR indeed as prevails among un<lerlakers, who will furnish aplain or expensive hearse and carriages, as may be desired.But in the case of the street car service, a hearse car andtwo passenger cars would comfortably provide for asmany people as would require no less than one hearse andtwenty carriages, which would cost in no case less tban$5 each, or over $ioo. On the other hand, the threecars could be furnished to make the same distance andreturn at not to exceed $20 if run in one train. Wherethe distance to a cemetery is as great as exists in Chicago,the charge for carriages would be more than the figureabove named. For the very poor, a combination carcould be furnished in most places at a cost of only five orsix dollars for transportation of casket and say eight orten persons, which would be about one-third the amountwhich would have to becharged for livery. It is notthe belief of the writer that inall places the charges for ser-\ice of funeral vehicles isgreatl

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