The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-02-14
,ruoYSE's FIERY FURNACE.


,ruoYSE.s FIERY FURNACE.
Another Incarceration on the Bills
"Jirs. Kenn pitLnnn, OF Ctnetn.
mil. 10 be Cremnted on Sntur-
dn,-preparations Tor the Event
ISgeich OF the subject.
msSugh Dispatch, 18th.
D, IeNoyne's cremaLory at Washing
I'm, hi. State, ia to do duty this week
far ,he second time since its construction.
III. doctor Yesterday received inleifi-
,,n,r Of the death OF Mrs. Benn Pitman,
If Cincinnati, on the previous day, and
h, .Ipressed desire in her last will and
t,,l,ulsnt to have this disposition made
dh,r body. The lady is the wife Of the
Celebrated photographer Of that city,
ybo.e name i. familiar in perhaps every
eity Of this continent. Mr.. Pitman will
r,r, with the body from Cincinnati to.
n,rroW evening, and the incarceration
uil take place on Saturday, il the ar.
r,npenlenls eau he completed by that
tiur.
Agreat deal OF interest will attach to
mi, case, from the fact that the remains
Of DePaim, which we're cremated eighteen
months ago, were merely the skeleton oil
au,n Who had been dead about a year
Ia The present instance the death Of the
.1bi,rt Il 40 recent that the real capabil-
ilie. Of tue furnace will be more thor
Oughly tested.
MAKING PREPARATIONS.
Tie work Of preparing the crema tory
for incineration is now going on, and the
furnace will be heated 10 a temperature
Of some 1000 degrees; this Of course ID
= work requiring time. Unlike most
pablo entertainments, DR., lie Moyne
does not charge an admission fee, consid'
sring himself obliged to popularize what
he considers a necessary ear TO enable
the poor 10 dispose Of the remains oil
their friends without unnecessary cost
The furnace il enclOeed in u building oil
bdrk, but Une story 10 height, and ID
roOinl with cnrrogaled iron. Ithas three
rhiuueys, one from the furnace room,
one lrOm the reception room and one
from The corner OF the building, the latter
apparently ornamental. The building
CONTAINS but two rooms, the reception
and furnace rooms, The reception room
i. devoid Of ornament, and contains .
ralli4lpue on which bodies are placed
10 a case which contains u glass door,
through which friends can take a lasl
look at tho remains Of the loved
one. A dOos leadA from this room to the
Crtuatory, which ia a room Of lOx2O feet
OF Ihsreabouls. In the cremation room
there ia nothing except the retort. Thi,
i. seven feet ak inches in length, twenty
inches high and twenty. eight inches wide
inside measurement. The fetort ia simi
lar to = gas relort, except that ita slde'
are perpendicular, while those Of The
former are terminated in an arch. Coke
hused for heating, and the appliance
are such that the retoft be heated
several times hotter than that Of the pc
trnlale who once undertook 10 cremat'
alive Shadr ach, Meshach and Abednego
The retort can be brought 10 a white heaI
in twenty.io hours. When this tenn
Ieralure has been reached the body, in .
plain, pine collin, is placed in the retort
and in a few hours the whole OF th,
ashes, both from the body and coffin, car
be be slowed in q small urn, which NIGH
be made an attractive mantle ornament
Ia the retort a remedy is provided Il
lsegent tho dissemination Of poisonouI
sl,r. arising from the burning. AT III,
hack Of the retort there is q vent lou
inches in diameter opening into the fur
mace, through this the gas escapes into th'
furnace and 10 there consumed. Yer,
little smoke arises from the chimney, ant
this is 80 disseminated by the accompany.
iBg current Of hot air as 10 be rendered
l%nuOCuOus.
the SUBJECT OF THE CREMATION.
Mrs. Pilman has been an invalid ior
more than a year past, declining grad
uAlly under the inroads OF an irremedia
BE di.ease. Her death was not unan
ueipaled, though her loss will he none
Tue lesa mOurntd. Mrs. Pitmau, like hei
husband, was Of English nativity. Alter
their marriage, which has been a long
and unusually happy one, they came tC
this country, lirst locating In Philadelphia
where il was their misfortune to lose two
children in infancy. They subsequently,
removed to Cincinnati, where Mr.. Pit
man introduced and taught the system o.
phOnOgraphy invented by his brother
Isaac. Dnring the years that be devoted
exclusively 10 his art, in publishing
lnlAuAl' Tor the corresponding and re-
PORTING slyles, and u serial designed Il
pPulAriEt his method Of short.hand
snting, Mr.. pilman found in his wife !
4ost competent and active assistant
tAs had 40 far mastered the system AS Il
he able to revise the plates oil the yarion'
publications, aud assist IN %tranacriblnl
The Ort-hand notes taken by Mr.. Pit
aln u political and other speeches which
he Was frequently engaged TO report lol
The daily papers. 10 his official capacity
sirPOrter II the trials Of the Indians
con.PitatOrs during the civil war, and
y various other matters, including The
Buell. courl.marlial, Mr.. Pilman found
10 bis vile All invaluable assistant
The reporters Of the Associated Press
and the special telegraphic eorrespen
ashls IL The leading daily papers OF the
country, who were in attendance At The
HftelrJ Convention in Cincinnati in 1876
have abundant reason TO remember TIL,
t''luAbls lady for the efficient part sh'
losk IN n~elhOdiling and promptly trans
lllihE the dispatches containing th,
Efoceediug. Of that Convention. II was
hiSelJ her cleGrness Of method aud exc
sII''e capacity that enabled the press Il
p'aee beIOEe the country each daY'Atrans
sS''oh, a. rapidly "A the events lhemsel
'ehHi taken place. She was a woman o
tsaifEahle entrgy-bright, active, cheer
IVY, sympathetic; foremost within th,
,Paefe Of her action IN every enterprise
'ait promised u public good, OF aimet
y Tie relief Of individual suffering o
t..'als want. Large hearted and Tree
siaael she knew neither the Limitations
set nor the p~reiulires Of race, FULL
oogniihg in her charities the brother
rISi Of men aud the obligations that th'
"lAlIon imposes.
Tue Finest Hull Fight on Record
%I Vie london Daily New.
AADGIp, January ?7.-oa Friday III,
S'p0tatIOn.itOm The iorLy.elghL province!