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About Mt. Scott herald. (Lents, Multnomah Co., Or.) 1914-1923 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 25, 1917)
Lower Rates for Electric Service TRIED AND PROVEN I I That Gas Light is nearest Under our new reduced rates you can use much more Electric Service for the same money than you ever could before. To Daylight Now is the time of year when the many labor-saving Electrical Appliances will come in very handy. Call and let us show you how Electric Service will reduce many of the heavy burdens of house keeping. “ The" "Radio V” During the long winter evenings, the soft, rest ful glow of the modern gas light will make read ing, studying, or sewing a pleasure, without the tiring effects experienced by the use of other artificial light. If you value your eyes Read and Sew by Gas Light. To use Gas is to prefer it. Electric Store, Electric Bldg. Portland Railway Light and Power Company PORTLAND GAS & COKE COMPANY Mt. Scott Cemetery and Crematorium Mt. Scott Park Cemetery is at once the youngest, and the fastest growing cemetery in Portland. It is ideally situated, is laid out in the most approved methods, isequipped with buildings second to none, leads all cemeteries in its class of service, and is growing fastest in popular approval. Quite a good deal to claim, but it can all be substantiated by a visit. This cemetery was opened in October 1911 and consists of 335 acres on the slopes of Mt. Scott. “Beautiful Mt. Scott Park” has many reasons for its popularity. It guarantees per petual service, and perpetual title to the grave lots, and is operat ing under a perpetual charter. The view from the cemetery is magnificent, and is doubly enhanced by the neatness and beauty of the cemetery itself. The beautiful buildings on the ground give it the appearance of a wealthy country estate, which indeed it is, an estate shared in by hundreds of lot owners. Trees and ornamental shrubs have been planted carefully and tastefully, and so ideally is this plot situated that the silver thaw last winter passed it by untouched. In a few years these trees will add a stateliness and grandeur which only nature can impart to an otherwise perfect aspect. It is some little distance from the street car, but the cemetery bus makes regular trips every Wednesday and Sunday afternoon and carries passengers free of charge. It will also meet passengers at any time in response to a phone call. With the paving of Foster Road, which it is hoped will soon be an accomplished fact this beautiful cemetery will be made even more easily accessible. The Crematorium is one of the most modem on the whole Pacific coast. It is neatness itself, with its spotless white tiling, its immaculately painted floors, its old-fashioned panelled win dows, and its carpeted and cushioned rest rooms. Everything looks so clean, so pure, so open; nothing mysterious, no cavernous furnaces, with belching smokestacks, no sickening or mysterious odors. Everything in plain sight, tasteful, restful, orderly. In the columbarium are hundreds of nitches where relatives can deposit the ashes of their departed friends, and there are receptacles provided for floral offerings. This institution is one of the most valuable assets of the community, or perhaps the shoe is on the other foot—this com munity shows such a faith in itself and such a solid, permanent future that it attracts businesses of as high a class as can be found anywhere in Portland. 4