The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-02-16
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4, bslt-psst eight o'clock yesterday
- .o,ns, the reporter OF the REGISTER
nv L b,d left Wheeling on the SIX
WV ,r ram for Washington, Pa, step
.o,,o the platform OF the b. u w.
Psa Psn,, in that town. He had travelled
a ,.tb ,hs. best-hesrted and piuekles' oil
.4oc,ors w." Captain Billy Brown who
hssn injured the night before In
III, .oms cars, but who insisted on
,,,unuing st work.
Tina ,epor.er's patronage was bestowed
,ba Fulton House, and thanks TO
w., excellent specimen OF a host' Mr'
S.m .- Melvin, the commisssry depart
wss first Glass. After breakfast
,@s reporter proceeded to have an
INTERVIEW WITH DR.. LIE MoYNE.
Tho ,eporter called on DR.. LeMoyne
~, otEre about nine o'clock, and found
a.'1 vo,v much indlsposed. He has been
.,5,,ioG with imaamstory rheumetlsm
r,. long time, and tor twenty seven
~. has not been IN bed, but has slept
liner in a chair or on settee, where ne
Cor1 move easily. The conversation
s,., turned upon the spelling OF the
n,,,or's name, which is sometimes gwen
NOME snd sometimes LeMoyne. be
.,I,bst tbe.lstter was the correct way,
.atthst il signlfed "little monk" From
,S,. mint the talk dritted to the first
,".nper of his iarnily who came to
nm. country which was his iaIher
Tn, latter was surgeon In the
French army and on the day that the
B,,,ile was burnt he happened to meet
N. mob of sans cuLOttes on the street, on
,1er way to demohsh that famous prison
A. he wore side arms the mob cried OUT
ulI.re is man with sword make MIN
r..t us" and, 10 spite OF his protests-
,..os ne WAS forced 10 lead the howlif <
tb,ong 10 the great stone fortress. snort
Il, .f.er this he became one OF y colony
VINO purchased n tract OF land IN ohlo'
,ot WAS one OF those who fouLded Cal
Tn1bs. DR.. LeMoyne's wife was the
IIrb,Cr # Mr.. Bureau, one OF the
c3Iolists, whose estate IN France joined
,bs, OF General Lsisyette, and at whose
house in Gsllipolis that famous french
man spent considerable ii ne:
The Doctor is very large man,
WEIGHING two hundred and fifty pounds,
srA i, AS bright and versatile IN his
c,tyersallon rs though be were not IN
Nj, myh,ietn year. When the subject OF
IN, approaching cremation WAS miro
t,,eI he enQured after n Cremation
: rie,y which he had heard had been
f,-mei in Wheeling. He said hethought
il did not amount TO anything as they
hal not erected furnace. be said that
owing to his poo: health he could not be-
present At the ceremony, but would De
r,nresented by his sons julius and DR..
Frank LeMoyne, snd his sOn-ln-law MIR.
Harding. He said that Mr.. Pittmsn de-
sired the affair to be strictly private, but
fr,m the tone in which the Doctor spoke
the reporter thought that he him.
self had no objection 10
the presence of members OF
the press lie told the story OF the
various cremstions in this country and
p-edicted that it would soon DO popular.
A lnly wrote To him some time ago ask
ing it he would cremste the body OF her
little son, in strict secrecy. He answered
thst he would Go all IN his power TO
mske the iucluiation private, but that he
would not agree TO any secrecy, tor II he
did so It would be the opening OF
door through which any amount
o( crimes would pass in order
to avoid discovery. He thought that
only few people would be attracted by
the event, ss II had been announced that
i. was TO be strictly private. The tenn
p.rature OF the iurIa aCr, owing TO the
improvements n sde in it, could, in the
opinion OF the Doctor, be made 400 de.
grecs hotter than II WAS when Baron De
Palm WAS burnt, or in other words, 1000
degrees in all As the Doctor was weak
from want OF sleep caused by his
rheumatism, the reporter bade him good
msrnng snd proceeded TO
THE CRENAToRY,
which is located over the brow of high
hill. mile and a half from the centre of
the town. After tolling up the steep hill
side, the building came into view and on
entering it y coIored man was found
fnlag the fires. He told the reporter
that the negro who had been in charge
Of the building tue night before, had be-
come very much scared at the idea
Of burning q human body and had
cleared out and could not be persuaded
10 return. The cremstory is a building
resembling in size and exterior an ordin-
sry country school house. The house Is
Oull Of brick, one story high with roof
Of corrugated IRON. and is provided with
three chimneys. The building is divided
into two spsrtments-t the reception room
and the furnace room. The reception
room is about twenty feet square and
IL furnished in the simplest manner,
there being nothing in it but the cats.
isl4Ue and few chairs 70, the accommo-
dAuon OF the friends of the depart
~. \ doos opens from the re,
Ceptlon room into the reception
room, which in size is about twenty
iee.. In this room there is nothing but
the furnace. The relort in which the re-
mains 10 be incinersted are placed was
msie especially for this purpose. 1t is
seven ard halt ieet in length, twenty
inches in heighth and twenty eighth in
ches wide, somewhat resembling gas
FeiOrt, the only difference beng that lis
aides are perpendicular il stead Of being
srcheI. Beneath the retort is the fur
nSce snd the whole is inclosed in brick.
work. Coke is the fuel used. The fur
race was erected by DR.. LeMoyne at his
own expense, it costing $1,000.
After leaving the building the REGIS.
TER man returned TO town and went
down 10 the depot OF the CHARTERS
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