COFFIN AS SAFE.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1299, 30 November 1911, Page 4

COFFIN AS SAFE.

CREMATION URN VAULT IN AN OFFICE WALL. In the office of a steam laundry-in tho little Cornish town of St. Blazey, 'near St. Austell, stands a coffin in full view of ail who entsr. At present it is used, by the proprietor of the laundry, Mr. "\V. ,T. Moon, as a safe. .But -he intends that his body shall be .cremated in. it,... The ashes will bo placed, in an urn; for tho reception of which ho' has had a small vault built into the wall of his office. These preparations for death date from two years, whoa the laundry was destroyed by fire. .The"fire-turned' Mr. Mcon's attention to the question of cremation, which, he'resolved, should be adonted in his own case. To save his : favily the task of making this preparation's, he beein them himself. Hβ encountered some delay through tho.hesitancy of nndertakers to measure him for a coffin. Ho solved tho problem by stipulating that the contractor who built his now dwelling-house should mako his. coffin without oxira charge. For a timo the contractor treated tho matter, as a joke, but tho laundry proprietor was insistent, and t-ventu.illy the coffin wns delivered at the laundry. )n the yard Mr. Moon held a. reception uf his workpeople, round tho coffin and drank the health of tho undertaker over it. With workmen and Mr. Moon, jnn., rctiiiK a> bourn-?, the coffin was afterwards solemnly conveyed into tho !;\undiy, the nropriotor following carrying the trestle*. Jfr. -Moon's reason for using tho coffin as ii. s;ifo is that he cannot imagine any thief lifting the lid.