New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-08-02
THE NEW MAUSOLEUM.
a NEW SYSTEM OF DISPoSING OF THE
BODIES OF TIE DEAD.
DESIGNATION INSTEAD or BURIAL, OR cREMA
1ioN-THE PRESIDENT OF THE COMPANY
EXPLAINS THE ADVANTAGES OF
THE NEW EyTEHppIsr

" "" pan Tor The disposition of the dead Is fairly
"o'o 'ne public and central office for us promotion
"' or inc aihusion of Information concerning f. has
's'a"isned at che corner Of Twenty -ffihst. and
"'oan"ay' In the Madison square bank Buildng Tho
P''n' OIL the new organization IS Mr. James ). Mae
~'e president Of the Pneumatic Tool Company
anu "e secretary is Dr. Charles A. Harvey former,
ID. c. '' "e'"
e" ~ the plan is, II has already received the
couial Endorsement OF DR. Charles Jnsee parla. DEAN
W ~, '.e University Medical College; Professor r. A.
"'''Hsus' NJ d., the Rev. Howard Crosby. ID. D. the
'cV alexander Mackay -Smth Archdeacon IN tho Do.
700 =, "'"io fk' She Rev. Josiah Strong d. D.. tho
soherai SECRETARY Of the Evangelical Alliance: the
NOV. henry NJ. MacCr.cken, d. d. vioe-cnancellor
vi INC university of the City OF Now York the Rev.
oo"n ". Brown, d. D., the Rev. Thomas Amltage.
" d. the Row George s. Mallory. D. D., j. Edward
summons Aloer Bierstadt, Hamilton W. Masie, DR..
Soou u Peters, DR.. f. p Fowler DR. Egbert G.
guernsey the lato Dr. A. Y. T. Gamet, the president
Oh mo American Medical Association; General Clinton
y, fiSA' James G. Patterson, John " Farwel and
o.no''' his plan has also received tho Endorsement
Oh many journals devoted TO SCIENCE as Tho SAM
.arian' The Eew-York Medical Times,' The SAM
Iary Era" Tho Brooklyn Medical Journal and Tho
lcdicai Iimes' of Philadelphia. A careful examina
u'n iNlS IL Is claimed, resulted IN every instance in
fun Endorsement.
Inc necessity for acceptable substitute for earth
burial Is becoming imperative In tho large cenires or
popuhuon In tho growth Of this city cemetery after
ec"e'ery has been overtaken and built about with
human habitaOns. and the time will assurcdly come
when Woodawn Will be similarly surrounded as
"fe'nWocd, In Brooklyn. already practically Is. In
Ne"lown. l.. l., where the inhumrd dead actually out
huper tho living. death rate exists that Is AT times
alarming, and unless tho sanitarians and physicians
VINO nave given the tectt
are al fault the dead and the living cannot, IN any
case IN any locality, be brought into close proximity
WITHOUT resulting loss OF health and life the latter
As long ago as 1903 the Board Of Health In this
city reported through Dr. Edward Miller that INFER
mont Of dead bodies within the city ought TO be pro
hioited' And at later date. DIR. Elisha Harris de-
clarod: Trinity churchyard has been the centre of
very fatal prevalence of cholera whenever tho
disease has occurred as an epidemic near or within
quarter Of a mile OF IT, Trinity Place, west Of II,
hectorst, on It's border the streets west of Rector and
the occupants OF the ne!ghborng Offices and CONNER
cial houses. have suffered severely at each visitation
OF the pest, from 1892 1854" In justice TO this
churchyard. It should be said that the condition OF the
Others was as bad that tho mistake made hero
universal and that this Is only taken a type Of ALL
For this testimony might be duplicated from every
medical practitioner and every medical publication In
every civilized land; and all the facts at hand
they would furnish appalling proof Of the fact that
the dead endanger the living, and that tho living
only safe when they to dispose of the dead by
intcrment and eltombmcnt at present practlsei.
From this danger cremation has been brought for
ward as an ancient and available mode of delverance
But this is acceptable to few; the many it IS I'M
welcome and repeent. 1t IS natural to shrink from
the deliberate destruction OF the form of one dearly
loved. mother can hardly consent TO the burning
OF her babe. And no thoughtful man easily ap-
prove the adoption Of method for dlsposng Of the
dead that is certain 10 make murder difficult Of
detection. What shall be dOnc1 II cremation is not
accepted and will not be- and II the dead, when not
burned, must be either buried entombed the only
escape from Che danger OF earth burial and entomb
ment must be TO make these sanitary. Can this be
donel Probably not, in the of burial. AS 10
tombment, however, tho New Mausoleum Company
claim that they can do IT.
To a Tribune reporter, yesterday. President MacCoy
explained the great advantages Of this new system
VIII the New Mausoleum Mr.. President. be
thoroughly and permanently sanitary
at Will be thoroughly and permanently So The
dead will be laid to in sepulchres, through which
will pass a current Of pure, dry air. that VIII stay
decomposition Or in most cases, prevent It entirely,
and that will take up and carry away from the life
less body. its moisture, and particularly, the germs
OF the disease which caused DEATH and compel all these
10 pass through the flame Of furnace remote from the
sepulchres and so the air viii be purified. The
germs OF disease that may remain I'm the tissues OF
tho body are also certain to be destroyed, either by
the dryness of the air or by the high temperature TO
which the air in cases that require it, will be raised
As the latest assertion Of sanitary science, as to the
misunderstanding potency of deSccated air. let mo quote
IN Won what Dr. Stornberg, general director of the
Hoagland Laboratory has JUST written for the June
ISSUE of The Brooklyn Medical JOurnap
The cholera sprllum Is DESTROYED In few hours
by desiccaon. The typhoid bacillus taxes aonk9s
hut "A
one Of the most effective ways OF Destroying ths anu
other pathogenic organisms. Ihesg SrI b o ob
10 flourish I'm moist places. Willie many Oi thc ,Iro az
eolutcy unable TO reicin their vitality In diy AZ
moSphcre So WHOM VIC go back from the coast 10 inc
HIGH dry lands oil the Interior. not Only are may ~
hsSe infectious diseases especially those that prevail
as an epidemic, almost unknown. Dut one me- nH ~ ~
piccn of meat I'm the open air IN western haSds auu
,Pplona and instead Of becoming puilid IL becomes
dcsccatcd and is plcseT 81 anu Lnn Is ''' ""'
Indians preserve meat In thOSc feelohS'
Il should add that the furnace in which the a'r
is 10 be purrcd is not to be placed beneath 'he
r,arso,eim IN which the dead repose. but IN small
so,aratc building. which will also contain appliances
for furnishing light and heat and power to Mc MAN
buildlng And when the air has thus oeeu u'd""
through the sepulchres 10 the flame OIL inc lurh"oe
IN the AnEox and has there been purined' 'hcro WIZ
be no suggestion to any sense that inc uc"" arc
near; not even at the chHne9 nou'"' "
air rejons tho atmosphere
Have there boon any experiments hlH'o ""' ~
tain these siatements!"
:. Yes some of tho experiments have boon maze III
Washington and others later In this city. under Inc
SUPERVISION of Dr. Paidce. dean Of the UnNersiS
Medical College and Dr.. Wltthaus. professor IN tne
same college. These experiments show lha', ny Ins
otsnrhent action OF current OF dry air. the molstts
and Eases are taken IRON llfele,s DUdy, unni II IS
reduced about two-thirIs In weight ana IRON ono
tL a. one half IN apparent silc, ana that le pVsh
and the result are aho innocuous to the living. M
.oIid portions that remain are then airy, and VIII
remain without further noticeable chahso i"l ~
:, Does not the loss of moisture and CONSEQUENT
shrlnkagc give to the dead tho appearance Vi mum"
mics - o., D.. Ao,,a h. horpe in
mind was Hrst process of muila1on Then ny
'dtse ira, we've leit Infused and inhllrs'cN
win foreign matter that what we call mummy Of
human form but with little OF It's substance ih
our process however. nothing VIII be done y air p' 10
nary Eases eXccpt 10 cause a curr0lt Oh ny az
,,a tbI,,urh he sepulchrc IN which 0he body Is ia
mar remains, after de,cearon : complete, - ro
an. fnr,u somewhat shIrnlcn. sii IN he senolahoc
In of alccllm can lnlA