The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-02-16
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to the reporters who had assembled IN
DR.. LeMoyne's office By Mr.. Pittmsn,
and all seemed ready for business when
to the intense astonishment OF
everybody, (ncluding Mr., Pittmsn'
DR.. LeMoyne, to use slang
expression, isoured" and positively
refused admission into the crematory to
everyone cave his family and the I'M
mediate friends OF the deceased. This
placed things in q most provoking state,
| for the Doctor was 80 obstinate, tnat
nething which could be said, had any
effect upon him. Every inducement
which could be thought of was brought
into play but the obstinate old man
would not yield at all, and finally
when one of the New Workers
said rather sngrily that ne
would "show the thing up" the old gen
tlemsn ordered him out of the office and
threatened to prosecute him if he set his
foot inside the door. The members OF
the press did nothing save what was
right and proper, but OF course alter suen
discourteous treatment, war was declared
and they started of in search OF
news. What caused this sudden and
surprising change in the tone OF
DR.. LeMoyne is not known at present,
but the reasons which he gave were very
poor ones. He said that the process had
been thoroughly written up when Baron
De Palm was burned, and that this was u
precisely similar case, and he also SAID
that in order to make the thing popular
he must establish precedent OF privacy.
The first is not true at all, for the preyl-
GUS case was merely the cremation OF q
lot Of dry bones, while the last was that
of BODY in which life had only been
extinct about a week, and therefore the
action of the furnace upon 1t would be
totally unlike what it was in the De
Palm affair. The last does not seem con-
sistent, for the Doctor has always been
remarkably anxious to have Interpretations
of this kind brought into public notice rs
much as possible in order to populsrize
them. Almost sll the leading citizens OF
Washington sided with the reporters,
and declared the action of the doctor 10
be an outrage, By u lucky chance the
REGISTER man managed to see enough
! Of
THE CREMATION
to give the following: At two o'clock
Mr.. Pitmsp, his friend Mr Plympton, OF
the Cincinnati Commercial, Mrs. Hard
ing, daughter of DR.. LeMOyne, Misses
Jane and Madeline LeMoyne, and Julius
and DR.. Frank LeMoyDe arrived at the
furnace in carriage and entered the
building. The numerous unlucky re-.
porters remained disconsolately outside
with sympsthizing crowd about them.
The REGISTER man, however, got look
at things inside by a lucky sccl-
dent. The body was at once
taken from the cherry casket in which
1t had arrived and was placed in sort OF
iron basket of large iron wire. The
body WAS clothed in white merlno
shr0ud with wreath of insmortetts upon
the breast. The face was calm and
placid and seemed 10 be that of q woman
of about fifty years of age of very dark
complexion and about five and half
feet IN heigth. The shroud was well
sprinkled with alum to prevent Its burn
ing too rapidly, and then the furnace
door was opened and the iron frame
quickly showed in. There was not as much
of the horrible, sickly oder, which was so
strong when De Palm was burned,
at this time but at the end OF an hour 1t
was very obvious.
At the expiration of twenty minutes
all traces of flesh had disappeared and
the skeleton lay clearly defined upon the
iron frame. In two hours the cremation
was declared to be successfully over and
the door of the retort was sealed up to
prevent combustion and allow 1t to cool
ii will take from twenty-eight TO
thirty-two hours for the retort to
cool sufficiently for the calclne to be
removed. That which remains of the
body is not a dust or powder. but small
pieces of clear, white bone, which do not
retsin the slightest odor.
CREMATION GOSSIP
was on every tongue in town yesterday
among the stories told is this: After the
| incinerstion of De Palm, the coffin N
which his body was brought here, wa:
broken in fragments and burned on 8
brush heap near the cremstory, and Dr
LeMovne's horses have their iced mixed
in what was once the outer box which in
closed the coffin.
Two leading journalists, fired
by desire to "oeat" the other
newspaper mea present at the De Palm
obseouies, offered the man who hsd
charge of the furnace, one hundred dol
lars il he would place the Baron IN the
retort al midnight and cremate him be-
fore sny one could find it out. One OF
these gentlemen was on hand yesterday,
and his enterprise was recog'
nized by admiring glsnces from
| the losfers around the hotel.
| lis not known what Mr.. PIttmsr
will do with his wif.'s remains, but pro-
baby he will erect q monument IN Gin
cinnsti, and place the urn containing
them, in the Interior OF it.
Among the leading newspaper me-
present at the cremation yesterday, were
w. Drysdsle, Of the New York Times
one Of the quickest wit.ed journalists IN
the country, +. Lewis, chstty bright
writer for the New York Sun, w. X
Mooney, New York Herald, J
ID. Mccormick, Cincinnati Enquirer
Mr.. McElroy OF the Western Associated
Press; F. b. Plymp,on, Cincinnati Com
merciai; J. F. Hudson, Pittsburgh Com
mercial Gazette; NJ. q. b. Dothett, Pitts
bursh Dispatch; Mr.. King, Cincinnat
Ga.etts; Mr. Leighner. Pittsburgh Tete
craph: B. +. Gardner, Pitts burgh Lea
der, and G. w. Heston, Wheeling Eren
ing Standard.
weather Indications.