New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-11-11
PRICE THREE CENTS.
NO BODIES BURNED AS YET.
EXPERIMENTS AT THE CREMATORY.
SHEEP AND A LOT OF BONES ON HAND, BUT THn
FIRES NOT HOT ENOUGH.

sHEEP AND LOT OF BONES ON HAND, But THa
FIRES NOT HOT ENOUGH.
The quiet little village of Fresh Pond l.. l.,
has been in state of considerable excitement the
last few days In OF the that
the new cremaOry there he tested yesterday by
the incineration OF hun body This feeling was in-
tensfed when 1t was known that oy the directors Of
the company would be allowed to witness the expert
ment Then IL was felt that terrible rite would eer.
tRnly be performed Tie majority OF the are
SOBER respectable Germans who cling tenaciousy to tho
ways OF their fathers AMI look with alarm thar
favor upon any Innovation that likely to disturb tue
established order OF things. Groups Of these people
gathered around the BUILDING peered into the windows
and anxiously awaited the arrival OF the sacrifice as
they seemed to consider IL.
The directors arrived in body shortly after o'clock
They entered the building at once locked the doors and
covered the windows This proceeding resented by
the crowd and ladders procured by of which
the more yenturesome obtained occasional gimpses Of
what was going within In vain did DR.. Beuglcss
president Of the Society," entreat the gd to dsprsc
they refused away and the venerable cremation ad
vOcate retired In despair. It not until bury
Greenport butcher drove up with OF sheep
and fifty pounds of beef bones which quickly taken
into the building, that the fears OF the people
aayed and the grounds vacated allowing the directors
to proceed with their operations In peace.
Fires have teen urning in the furnaces for week
ertheless sufficient degree OF heat could
be obtained yesterday permit to be made
the sheep and the bones. The Board adjourned about
o'clock and Dr. Beugess stated that there wond be
public test made to- day would been the had
the experiment yesterday proven satisfactory The
directors who thought that the defects in the
furnaces trivial aud could be remcdied ia few
days. The test that to be made yesterday not
only the furnaces but ascertain how quickly
the ashes OF urncd body could be Leached by the
process employed by the company
The crematOry stands the summit Df Mt. Otyet,
the hill In the Of Fresh Pond Is called 10 II about
hun tred rods from the station and the site which
10 stands commands fine view Ot NewlOrk and Brook
Ign. At present the structure is In appearalce
between q GrecaD temple and machine e-shOp. Tho
front Is OF marDle the sides and walls OF brick
with marble trimmings The dimensions are forty by
seventy feet In the front will be situated tho
ground floor. tue office, reception and q
The auditorium Is IN the main body OF the sllldng. In
the inches OF this will he placed the containing
up with cremation apparatus. which cOnslsth OF huge
furnace, containing two nretrCk rctorts, IN ~hch tho
bodies to he burned placed The cremation appi-
used are said to be the most complete In Use. Ihy
consist mainly OF furnace and gas-I rOduceF. Tho
coal used is ist converted into gas which Ia aftGrward
burned in the furnace proper The flames 10 not
the gaseous products rendered thoroughly innOcuOus
and OdOress before being liberated whlo the ashes
remaining are pure and clean snow. The caso
coffin containing the body Will be burned after the in
cnneraton In instances OF death from dis
the coffin will lie burned with the body aud
pOsre Of the reuains will be allowed.
he directors of the company Dr. John d. BeugeSs
James B BrOgn Anlrew Carnegie, Edward Caswell,
Augustus q. Cobb Edward G. COckey G. ". G. Dreler,
s. II. Edinecr, William j. Flagg. Louis LANCE L. H.
Never CHARLES PutZel and August SchwarZsciid. Pro-
Boycsen. Joseph Kpper, Richard W. Glider. and
Miss Kate Field among the stockholders. The walls
Of the building were blown down last January and
PUT them up again. This caused the delay IN 'he
srUcti0n hot tue lack OF funds as has been reported