1891-02-16 Letter: John C. Gordon, Beechwood Cemetery Co. Canada, prices for caring for lots, 2014.020.014-003

Subject: Prices for caring for lots.

from John. C. Gordon.

Beechwood Cemetery Company. Canada

Ottawa, Feby 16^th 1891

James. W. Lovering Esq Cambridge Mass, U.S.A

Dear Sir.

Your obliging and prompt reply of the 31st January received in due course. On behalf of our Company and myself I thank yourself and Mr Farmer very much.

We are greatly pleased with the very favorable report of the affairs of your Cemetery which you kindly mailed us. I am glad of the Plan of grounds which it contains. I am enabled there by to recall and trace out some of my wanderings in Mt Auburn during my visit of last July. Another item of advantage to us which it contains is the prices of caring for lots. We annually take care of aboutt five hundred Lots ourselves in this way and your rates will assist us in establishing a uniform tariff-

I do not notice a form for "Certificate of Burial" As you state you do not bury any Paupers we conclude there is a special Cemetery for them as our recollection of Boston & Cambridge was that while there was abundant evidence of "refinement"- and wealth as become the Hub there was also conclusive indications of much poverty and of course the considerable cost of $30.00 for interment would preclude their burial in your cemetery.

Thanking you sincerely I remain

Faithfully yours John. C. Gordon Supt- Beechd Cemetery