Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1884-12-11
=. NEW CREMATORY TEMPLE.
Che Cornerstone Laid and the Building 7
Re Rpndy In Ephruary


Be Ready In February.
Thirty men and two women climbed
The muddy slopes of Mount Olivet,
Long Island, yesterday, to lay the cor
ner-stonc of the new crcmatory temple.
The structure was already finished to
The ground level. The pouring rain
lrove the little crowd to the shelter OF
.hc nearest hotel, where gentlemen
prominently connected with the enter
prise did what talking was necessary
before the stone was laid. j. ID. Beng.
ess, president of the United States
Cremation company, symboizcd the
work of blasting the rough stone from
the quarries and hcwing it into finish
I'd shape, with the hard work and
faithful labor which had been neces-
;ary to establish the enterprise. He
gave brief record of the work already
lone, and took very hopeful outlook
or the future. In Il year from now,
le expected that the crematory would
1c taxed to its fullest resources. Mr..
Bengless spoke of the economy and
lealthfulness of cremation, as com
pared with the expense and loathsomC
langcr of intorment in the earth.
Prof. Felix Adler, one of the dircc.
ors in the new company, spoke first
If the sanitary benefits of incincration.
Every time he went to the cemetery,
le said, he was more and more inn
pressed with the lOathsomc unhcalth-
ulnesS and decay consequent upon
earth burial. 1t was productive OF
disease and pestilencc. Prof Adler
thought that poetic imagery had much
10 do with the tenacity with which
men clung to the custom OF putting
heir dead into the ground. Poets and
singers referred to the grave AS an
abode of rest, Il bed of final repoSc, n
place of shelter, thus throwing Il false
ylamor over the hidcous reality. Now.
ldayS, he said, an aesthetic sense re.
Solted against earth burial Oul
bodies are the garments of intelligence
he homes OF the spirit, and should moi
oe permitted to gradually rutrefy
Speaking of the expressed fear that
people might be crematcd when lif,
was in the body, he advised that IN
autopsy be held before incineration Il
satisfy doubling lawyers and physi
clans. For his part he had rpthcr die
under the knife than awaken under
ground.
Taking n moral view of cremation
Prof. Adler thought it would be wei
to have the ashes of departed ones be
fore us in churches, either in inches
along the walls, or in n receptacle be-
mind the altar, ''to remind us OF tho
trusts we have inherited from past
generations. Cremation would dc
away with all the gloomy blackncSS oi
the pail which now ,urrounds death
The Rev. DR.. Howard Henderson,, o
Jersey City, also spoke in favor of dis
continuing earth burials and substi
tuting incineration.
After the specch.making the crema
tionists went out into the rain agair
and put parcel OF papers into block
of marble taken from the old st. Mich
Olas hotel. 1t contained city news
PHaPcIS' " teltl'cI'c Vi Incorporation
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few coins, a statement of finances
and half-dOzen pamphlets and pa
pcrS in favor of urn burial.
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