Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1885-04-30
Cremation or Burial.

residence of Mr.. Courtlandt Palmer.
NO. III East One Hundred and Seven
teenth street, last evening. The Rev.
Dr. John ID. Beugless, chaplain of the
Brooklyn navy-yard and prcsideny of
the United States Cremation company,
which has crematory under way,
read n carefully-prepared paper advo-
eating cremation. He was replied to
by Rev. DR.. n. Maynard. rector of st.
Paul church. Brooklyn, who advo-
Gated inhumation. Mr.. Andrew
Carnegie spoke of the poetical and
sentimental characteristics of both sys-
TENS.
The subject was, said DIR. Beugless.
one which must of necessity be in
some sense an unpleasant one from
every viewpoint. Advocates of crema-
tion were trying to take away rs much
of its unpleasantness rs possible. 1t
was no idle conceit when Sir Henry
Thomson represented the nobility of
England as dining from tables of ma
hogany made of San Domingo slaves.
Cremation was rapid burning. Inhu-
nation resulted in burning well de-
scribed by Leibig "slow, desolate
burning" Living or dead, in the in
cineration chamber of the grave, in
light and purity or gloom and often
siveness, the burning process must go
on to completion. When the burning
process was completed, only an ash
remained, whether in the grave or IN
closed in an urn. In the modern
method all offensive gases were passed
back in the fire, and rendered innocu-
Gus. IL the burning went on in the
earth the air was filled with the nox-
ious gases.
"Let us consider cremation as n SAN
itafy REFORM" said DR.. Beugless.
"tew know what our cemeteries real
ly are. Formerly the dead were buried
in churchyards, Gods acres. In
many places the eXhalations became
so dangerous that the law had to step
in to prevent burials in populous local
tiles. So came about the beautiful
parklike suburban cemeteries sleep
ing places of the dead. rs they are IL
lusively called. Would that sense of
duty might leave this law untouched.
So beautiful have they become that
they are regular resorts and attract
tourists, SO that on Sundays there are
an interest in the dead who lie in loath-
someness below
DR.. Beugless then described the
cemetery of Kensal Green. III London,
where Leigh Hunt, Thackeray, and
others famous in English history were
said to be buried. They were not
there. They had once lain there, but
they had been resurrected, and the
ash alone remained. Seven acres of
the cemetery were set apart for the
burial of London's poor. The directors
of the cemetery in country which
laid more stress on burial than any
other in the world said there were in
the seven acres l33, 800 graves Each
grave held ten collins, making the
total of 1870, 900 bodies of poor pcO-
pie buried there. 1t was figured that
by burying over the same ground once
every ten years the seven acres would
last indefinitely. This gave 2.2 feet
of surface space to each body for one
day only.
The Rev. DR.. Maynard said that
cremation was not natures way;
burial was. The present mode fol-
lowed delayed burial until corruption
set in This was grossly unphiloso-
phical simply to CRAFTY a sentiment.
The earth stood at our feet. TO it we
must all return. The true idea of in
humation was TO bury directly to
mother earth. Then there was no
danger. The practice as carried on
with the poor was Infamous. Mr..
Carnegie said that natures way was
simply matter of education. BY the
poets death was looked upon as sleep.
He quoted from different authors at
length, pointing out that poems relat-
ing TO burning were ALWAYS of "A heroic,