2014_020_013-013_GraveOpeningFee1890-1

Subject: charges for opening grave

[Letterhead: INCORPORATED 1847
logo of a flowering branch
THE PROPRIETORS OF
SWAN POINT CEMETERY.
SAMUEL H. FIELD, SEC. & TREAS.
35 NORTH MAIN ST.

TIMOTHY M^cCARTHY, SUPT.
SWAN POINT.

Providence, R.I. Nov 17th 1890 ]

J.W. Lovering

My Dear Sir

Our Catalogue and I presume
many others have a price stated of $5.00 for opening
and interment of adults in plain grave. Our
ground not being prepared more than a foot deep
in the older portion we meet many rocks, and stones
caving in of the sides &c. so that I could not
see any money in this work at $5.-- and have
increased the price to $8.-- this includes
covering the Earth with green when we have the
material and time and governed somewhat by the
standing & wealth of the family, also the watering
of graves if opened in dry time, the filling up of
the grave and sodding when the box decays
at some future day, shovelling sufficient walks
in snow time and covering the lot with wooden
walks in wet or snowy weather, In all this
there is certainly no money at $5.-- But since
Undertaker or somebody has complained to the
Directors, and they may have an idea that the
price is Exorbitant or more than other places charge