The Newtown bee., 1880-03-03
CREMATING A SCHOOL GIRL.

CREMATING A SCHOOL GIRL. Young Girls Body Given to the
 Flames at the Washington Sfa.'
 Crematory.
 The New York Sun has a letter from Washington, Pa., giving details oI the cremation of the body of Miss Dolly Hartman, of Pittsburg, neantiial In young school girl, who died of nasty consumption, and who was cremated Tn accordance with her expressed wish; The body of Miss Hartman was so arranged as to simulate life with start ling fidelity. She lay on her side on sofa, with her head resting on pillow. A gayly-colored afghan was thrown over the lower part of the body, and the fingers of the left hand rested on its edge as though it had been drawn up by the sleeper. In the hand were two | loose rosebuds. A light-blue worsted
 shawl was placed with studied careless
 ness behind the body, and formed |
 background for the silent figure in its |
 pure white dress of white. fieecy ma
 terial The hair was unfastened, and
 a stray lock lay half across tie lips The features were calm ana only slightly discolored. The big blue eyes
 were covered by the pallid lids. She looked wonderfully pretty there in her
 last rest in her fathers home, and the
 very naturalness of her appearance was
 most pathetic. The customary service
 for the dead was read by the Rev. MT.
 Vetterling, who made a few remarks on
 the life and death of her who slept be- 7 fore him.
 MT. Hartman and his sons, with two or three friends, accompanied the re-
 mains to Washington. The body,
 which was in an elegant mahogany casket, was placed in a hearse and driven to the little building on the hill which , was first made famous by the ceremonl- :, ous cremation of Baron De Paim. Ire family followed in carriages, and soon the little party gathered in the small g reception room adjoining the furnace: l, It was very cold outside, and the wind whistled drearily around the building Il and blew the loose snow against the l. window pares. John Dye Ghere is
 fitness in names sometimes that cannot l. be explained), the queer, sour-loo klng ts man who built the crematory and has P had charge of it whenever 1t was Il IT use, had the furnace filled with coke 1- and the retort was brilliantly white witt
 heat. Dye said it was just right. l as was not hot enough" he coolly added Q. as though speaking of roasting chest x nuts. "When De Palm was burned, an' 1e was too hot when Mrs. Pittman cam ,d here, but it is all right now" :,
 The coffin was opened and the bod ~ laid upon the iron framework of tn en catataloue. It was then wrapped in sss linen sheet dripping with alum water ot The fignre of the young lady was sadl Se wasted by disease, and it looked yer hs slender indee1 in its moist draperI
 The Rev. MT. Vetterling took sma as shoyelful of ashes from the fireplace an "a, read 9 few words about the severan' i'd of the spiritual and earthly body. The st, he sprinkled the ashes on the boa lls The iron frarLe was then lifted by Il
 attendants and showed into the long ar lie, narrow vault of the retort. The dott of was pushed into a rim of the moi by cement and screwed up tightly, and t ,on incineratiou began at Il A. For abo all a second there was an almost lmpe ite, ceptible odor as of burnt cloth; AttS
 ward no smell whatever could be c in tected.
 tv- Looking through the small hole in fo dosr of the retort, 1 saw the outline inn the sheet shrink slightly and sgrc e9" smaller This lasted a few secon en1I only. and then, as the alum-soak
 sheet was baked hard, it became st
 and immoyable. I looked in six tin S., within the next two hours, but col sl sl see no change in the appearance of pot pt form. It took about two hours and U eHe it teen minutes to reduce the body. KY |. ashes did not weigh more then four Sn' E five and half pounds,
 'on'7 tano to -Fhe family in a small tin box. I '4te Ie;. entire cost of the cremation was .I pis over S35. Mir. Hartman was very mt tue tue pleased with the result. and says way own body shall be similarly disposed ght Wovpa and one of the frnsteas of
 crematory, says he has over one hl ltly dred applications from persons n one living for the use of the crematory, a fish he added that a large number of the ,ers plicants were residents of New Yt not and vicinity.