Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-06-15
A CHEAT MAusOI.EUM.


A Plan OF Novel and Gigantic Character
Described.
In New York ON Monday Rev. Charles
r. Treat explained TO large audience
!" The ncw ~ stem for the sanitary dis
position of the dead In the new mauso-
Ieum, g
Kt.g Mausolus. who died about four
hundred years before the Christian era,
was buried In marvelously beautiful
structure, one Of the wonders or the world;
and ever since that time masoleums have
been acceptable and even fashionable re-
ceptacles for the dead. Burial in manso-
leum has from a sanitary standpoint been
more Questionable than burial In the earth.
Beyond its magnificence and the gratifica-
ticn of human pride, it possessed no
advantages to commend IL to the public
favor. II IL now proposed, said Mr.. Treat,
TO utilize the Inatisoleuni plan, but 30
modified that II becomes wholly unobjec-
tionable TO the living, and without placing
II at the same time beyond the means OF
families IN every city In the country. One
design. for example, will have frontage
of about three hundred and fifty feet, with
an average depth of about one hundred
feet. This building will contain 1000
sepulchral spaces, each large enough TO
hold casket, and each ms accessible and rs
capable of ornamentation as q like space in
. private tomb. The building will be Of
concrete made from Portland cement, SUI
perior sand and broken stone, prepared on
the spot where a mausoleum Is to be
erected, and poured in place when plastic,
three inches at a time, securing perfect
capitalization.
From the ground upward a multitude Of
inner walls-walls of sepulchral spaces, of
hall and corridor-will rise as do the outer
walls, and all become parts of the mono
1ithic house of concrete solid, jointless, EN-
during beyond any ycontemporaneous struc-
ture, memorial, or vault.
Imagine the sepulchral space opened and
n (uS< at nncn0 tharQin. YhQrQ alls nf
concrete on every hand except In front. As
soon as the casket IL deposited a door Of
thick glass Is inserted and sealed, and the
sepulchre is then hermetically sealed, ex-
cept in two places, by means OF which the
connections with the sub-cellar, where the
furnace is situated, are made. A steady
current of dry air Immediately enters the
sepulchre, flowing through 1t, enveloping
the body, changing the air In the casket in
u second, and carrying away the vaporized
water and gases of the body-they consti-
tuie about three-fourhs of it-through the
exit pipes to the furnace, where the current
passes through fire, and Is finally dis
charged through the high air duct into the
upper air in am absolutely inoffensive form.
There are left behind the solid parts of
the body, in perfectly dcsiccated contii-
ton, THE form and features intact, as recog-
nizable as in life, wholly inoffensive to
sight or smell, and remaining SO for a
length of time that no one can measure
applied in the Smead system ofdry closets,
With which school officials are familiar.
The application of currents of dry air to
the human body has been thoroughly test,
in New York and Washington. IT
feasibility of the plan has been amply and
fully demonstrated to the satisfaction of
many other eminent scientists and sani-
tarians. The entire structure will be
warmed, lighted and ventilateti,tNpd will
be wholly free from any sugaeSe.ion of
dam N n InsnV In hp ma n
lost friends will sleep on as securely housed
and sheltered as i'm life without adding in
the slightest manner to the corruption of
the air we breathe. the earth we inhabit
and subsist on, or the water that quenches
our thirst.
The minor advantages of the mausoleum
deserve mention. Grave robbers will never
attack building furnished with bars and
bolts and held both day and night by GUS
todians maintained from the fund for the
perpetual care of the building. deed for
u sepulchre will be countersigned by trust
company, and the trust company will re-
ceive and retain percentage Of each pur-
chase price with which to form fund for
the buildings perpetual care.
: Whether premature interment Is rare or
common, the new system will render 1t an
impossibility so far as the bodies placed in
mausoleum are concerned. The glass door
of the sepulchre permits inspection at all
times, and Il simple electrical apparatus
would alarm the custodians if the slightest
movement occurred in casket. life be
not extinct, the dry, pure air-it must be
pure to insure desiccation and prevent de-
composition-might restore sufficient Vi
tality to render an alarm possible. 1t GER
tainly would not lead to sufiOcation.
The new plan looks, also to the perpetu
alton of memorials and to the keeping of
records far beyond the possibilities of the
cemetery or crematory. No inscription
within its walls will be eflaced by the ele-
ments or by strange hands.
T. GRANGER STEWART, NJ. d. +. II. y. T., Or
dinary Phys to Ii. NJ. the Queen, In scot
land Professor OF Practice Of Physc i'm the Uni
versity of Edinburgh, says: Peritonits is oc-
casionally the cause of death i'm all forms of