Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-06-12
THE pEovEss or UKsmArIoN.
AS IL 10 Psr,ormed ct the Le moyne Fnrn.


"The crematory is o brick structure
40 story high. 80 feet long, 90 feet wide)
into two rooms-a reception room
CIV oIye" r.,' :. room. Cremation is per.
sas.sd snn ~ q Arc An" retort, such as is used
in tho manufacture OF Illuminating gas,
heated to red heat before tie BODY Is
introduced. The body is placed IN an
iron crib, which is arranged to slide easily
into the retort. In addition to ordinary
burial garments tho body Is covered with
q cloth wet with saturated solution of
alum, which retains its form when heated
and prevents any part of the corpse from
being seen. During the cremation there
In no odor or smoke from the body, "a the
furnace IL self condenser of smoke and
other vaporable matter. The time re
quired to complete the operation is about
two hours but improvements in the pro.
cess will doubtless shorten the time. A
very small portion Of the remains is ashes,
but the mass is in the form Of oalcined
bones In small fragments-very white,
odorless, entirely deprived of animal mat
ter, and which may be preserved any
length Of time without change. There
are from four to seven pounds of these
remains, which can be placed for preser.
walton in one gallon, salt moutbed
druggists bottle with large ground stop
per, into which photograph with appro-
pirate records may be placed. This bottle
may be placed in tho columbarium Of the
crematory, kept among the memorials oi
the family Of the deceased, or placed in a
cemetery"
Advantages Of Cremation.
Dr. T. 8. Lambert.
Cremation should no doubt receive at
tention because Of its economy, il for nc
other reason. But there are many other
reasons why we should consider its adop.
ton as the best means Of disposing of our
mortal remains. 1t is the neatest, quick
est, least shocking way, aud then there
are sanitary influences, What is our mod
ern burial IL there is anything about us
that is worthy Of inhumatioD, it is the
brain, tho ego, the me. What does all the
rest of US amount to? And yet when a
body is embalmed for interment is not the
brain removed from the skull aud the cav
ity filled with spices and resin and
so forth? What becomes of the brain .
do not know thrown into the gutter
probably, or into the sewer. Cremation
l say, Is economical, but, OF course, it may
DO made as expensive az our present Gus
tom of funerals. Fashionable rich people
may still continue the long procession, the
floral display and the handsome coffin and
they may invite their friends to tho crem-
atOry to witness the conversion of their
dear departed's remains into ashes, but To
the majority OF the people cremation will
be blessing. know poor woman who
buried her drunkard husband last year at
an expense OF something like $500, and she
has been cramped and pinched ever since
for want of money. Custom willed it, and
this woman had to do it to escape the
sneers and criticisms Of her ncighbors.
There is a distinction in the two words,
"cre nation" and "crem- alton" Scient
lists now use the latter in preference to the
former, which represents the old and bar
barous ways of burning human beings.