, 1889-12-19

authorities hava decided to equip u
SQUAD of aerial patrolmon. Reliance mas
heretofore been placed upon the hlunl-
nation of the housotops and the watcn-
fulness of the outlooks stationed in tho
police observatories. But practice mas
shown that these outlooks can not distrh
guish between the aero-cars OF honest
citizens and malofactors, and that when
an occupant of an aero-car Is seen ue.
scendjpg upon roof IL can not be told
whether he Is the householder or the
robber. Many citizens return fron,
Youngs river, Warrcntown, Clatsop ana
Tanzy Point, late at night, descending
upon their roofs, and many unfortunate
mistakes have been made by the police.
Al the same timeluany successful bur
plaries have been )mmitted, tho prowl-
ers alighting from their aero'caps IN tue
full light of the electric illuinina,,
tors. II is hoped the aerial patrol VIII
succeed in reducing the number of such
thefts.
The Central park crematorium was
open yesterday for the reception OF guests
from foreign countries. Hundreds OF
visitors from Europe, Asia arid Africa
wandered through the delightful place,
and expressed their great delight, Tho
long onyx and pearl galleries, with their
numerous rows of urns, never looked
better. The suns rays streamea IN
through the colored glass roof the plros
in their cages sang sweetly; the mowers
and plants mingled with the nrns filled
the place with fragrance, and the solemn
symphonies from the great organ cchoed
in every nook and Granny. The ionh-
tains dashed their spray in the rosy
light and bees and butterflies lifted
visitors especially those from ASIA
and Africa, could hardly believe that
such a.beautiflil spot, teeming with iife
and gentle activity, was house OF the
dead. Evidently they could not oust
from their minds recollection OF the
which make their own burial places SO
horrible. "If lived in Astoria, said
bright Hindo from Calcutta, II should
not be afraid to die. You wonderful
people have robbed death of half his ter.
rors." Their astonishment was stu
greater whom they were told that TINS
crematorium was owned by the cityi
that reduction and inurnment were free;
that there was equality for all, the rich
having no more conspicuous place, no
| finer urns, no more fragrant plants next
their ashes than the poor. Indeed
remarked Huyuyen Dzing, of Tcheran,
''in America death is the great levoler OF
ALL" The visitors walked through the
| lawyer gallery and were shown
the urns of our great advocates; through
the minister gallery, and the galleries
where lay the cremated ashes OF the
merchant, the bricklayer the stone
mason, the journalist, the raiiroader,
out to visit all of the galleries, but
abandoned this project upon being in
formed that the galleries were five miles
in length and contained the ashes OF
100000 of people.
what" exclaimed FL Baad Maan,
superintendent of the Sahara irrigation
channel 'three millions of remains in
country town cemeteryW Yes, in,
deed, replied the chief cremator, "and
| room for ten millions more"
Electric light balloon No. IL, stationed
5000 feet in air above the corner of Ono
Hundred and Nineteenth and Cass
streets, was damaged by the wind storm
last night, and had to be drawn down by
the steam hoist. The great reflector,
100 feet in diameter, was not injured, but
on account of the withdrawal of the 5O,-
900 horsepower electric light, which
was stationed under it, that part of the
city was at 1880 p. M. plunged from the
light of day into the darkness OF acloudy
night. At 1882 p. NJ, however, the
darkened district was illuminated almost
as brilliantly as before, as Superintend-
ent Carbonne of the Electric illuminate
ing Bureau telophoned his orders to the
four surrounding stations, and balloons
| No. ii, 9, II and % were moved little
way out of their usual position and
| toward the position Of the injured bal
loon, and the whole territory was thus
so nicely lighted that the people on their
| way home from the theaters read the III
Z. NJ extras of the midnight papers as
usual.