Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-06-15

mite, the famous LcahiHs - -
Pisa, and these are the four slsnts u
this venerable city by the Amos mouth.
/ had donen them all and was stand
inc amoro the seven bells which crown
the Campanlle, looking out towards 1he
Mediterranean. the sheen OF whose silver
wavelets was Frightening the western sh!,
when il occurred to me that only thTee OF
four miles further was the lltte WIZ
al GombO" on the shore where smell
los. as drowned. and where later on Byron
cansed his friends body 20 be cremated'
and as had seen Shclley's grave al Rome
thought I'd spend my long afternoon III
a drive 10 the spot where that particular!
diercputable genius. OuldI 10 the contrary
Notwithstanding, met ms rate anu ~ u
neral. Italian hacks as 6rulc arrIFeaI 'Ho4
destination on the Shakespc"iIau PIN
ciple that some ships come home tnat are
not stoered. -" and mine was perception 70
Tho rule of dilapidation; but by Way OF
cornDcnsation nv driver happened 10 ue
from Turin and most Of the CITIZENS OF
that town speak French. so TOOK SI!u
nv his side. Then came discovery. MS
either was a fisherman, who having long
l,vcd NJ /" II CONDO" moved to TURN III
his old age, and as my driver informed Nl9
was present at the cremation OF SheHey., l
naturally asked If be had ever He ny l..l ~
father eppal, Of II. and If he could repeat
anv Of his information. 81. signore, sald ne
very often. but all | remember IS that ne
eaid one of the gentlemen got very mao
and sWore often because Signor Shelley
took SO long to burn o:.,,
since that afternoon have, as occasion
offered. being picking up what lh'orhla-
ton could on the subject OF modern ere
nation. which differs from ancient crema-
ton in this that all the latter was on
funeral pvres of wood in the open ar
.-,,,,,a. I'll tho latter . in ovens.
When ia Milan shortly after 1 VISITED her
crematorium, much the handsomest IN re
world, and afterwaTd the fere Ia ChaiSo
crematorium in Paris.
Writers on cremation universally COM
mence the story of modern cremation III
Europe in apparent ignorance OF the Iact
that Henry LaurOus, OF South CaroilnH;
that gallant patriot whom hiteeu moh.u7
imurisoument in London Tower and loss
of health were all rewarded .Wnen WIN
Law and Franklin no was commissioner 10
zion the Treaty Of Peace at Paris. was ere
mated NJ his own direction in 1892 IN the
state of his birth, and his ashes collected
and buried.
The French Revolution, which seems to
have riyen birth or form TO almost every
vagary of the human mind, eVolVed inc
first attempt in modern times TO legallZ9
cremation. A renegade jesuit Legia.niu
| v.
wear V.Ii7g) resolution IN the COuncll or
| The Five Hundred authorizing every, GU,
| zen TO choose bv his will whether he should
| he buried or burned after death, but the
proposition seems never to have come 10 a
vote.
Three wears later woman, La Cheyenne
| Dupre Geneste, formally demanded "a per-
| mission Of the Project Of the SEINE 10 ere
mate her son. IL was granted and the BODY
| l. E..
which we have record was made-that OF
| the bodies Of Shelley and Williams near
| the mouth of the Ame.
Near Florence on the ID Of December,
| 1870. an Indian Prince who dled III tnaJ
| CITY was burned on q funeral pyre IN the
| omen alr-the Prince Ryak Maharraya-
| operation lasting eight hours ana beinS
| conducted by his Indian servants AFTER the
manner of their country.
The first cremation after the modern
svstem took pl;ce on the 10th of October,
| 1873 at Dresden, BEING that of the body OF
| the first wife of Sir Charles Dixie, winch
| was consumed in furnace OF WAdt Is
| known a. the SIemen's pattern, construct
ed for that cremation.
Already had died at Milan the man who
! cave the strongest impulse to the crelha-
| ton movement, the Baron Albert Keller n
Swiss. who had made large fortu IN tuat
|
| beoueathed q sum of 10000 francs 10 DC
| spent in the cremation of his body. Socle,,
| Ties had already since 1867 been established
| IN several Italian cities tor the cremation
| propaganda, but no advance had been made
! towards the legaliZatlOn OF the system. 30
| there was no lawful way of creuatnS tho
| Baron's body. and II was embalmed. Mean
while his heirs and the friends oil creina-
| ton pushed the matter, the former giving
| 81 900 francs to erect a cIematoTium al
! Milan. which being finished and the legal
| diAirulties removed, on the 22d of Janu-
ary. 1876. the Barons body was burned III
! the handsome marble crematorlum OF
! Milln. and his ashes placed III marble
| urn. which occupies aconsplcuous pace III
! the building. - .-
In a letter dated September p, 1877,
| Garibald expressed his desire to be ere
mated, and on his death some OF ms
! friends, including the present ltallan
| Prime Minister. NJ. Crlspi, endeayored 10
| carry out his wishes, but his fanny refused
! tbe.r consent and he was buried. Inc
! French Parliament adopted law, which
was promulgated November 10, 1851, allow
! inc every person who has attained his ma
| iority, or who has been legally emanclpaied
! from his minority, to choose whether ais
! body is 20 be buried or burned.
But already the crematOry OF fere
! Lochaise had been completed and used Tor
! the consumption of bodies from the nos
pitfalls and the dissecting-rooms,
The price of cremation IN Paris - %
| francs plus the price of the urn, which
costs from u TO 200 francs. This gives
| right to a place in the reception-room OF
! the urns, which is called Columbarium, Tor
! five wears. when the urn must be removed;
| or # not the ashes will be thrown out.
/ This is by analogy TO the cemetery rules IN
! Paris, where. # You are not rch enough 10
| buy a lot you can hire one for I'VE years.
| at the expiration OF which period the body
! is exhumed and placed III common PIT
| and the grave sold or relet.
! In 1875 the first crematory IN England
was built at Working, and the funeral SER
vices of the Established Church are con-
| Quoted by the incumbent OF st. Johns
| Vicarage. Working The first cremation at
| Woking took place ten years atterward
! NSS5), and since that time there has been "a
| little over 100 bodies burned there. There
! has been, as you are aware, cremetory IN
| Pennsylvania tor several years and IN Eu-
rope besides those alluded 10 above, there
are establishments atZurich, Breslau, Ber--
! lin, and several other places.
One of the difficulties about cremation
was curiously illustrated last year at PARIS.
| The Government resolved 10 honor with
interment in the Pantheon the remains Of
! that gallant hero, General Marceau, VINO
! fell at Aitenkirchen September "a, 1895:
His body was burned and the ashes divided
| into two parts-one sent to his sister,
| Madame Sergent, living at Nice, and the
| other committed 10 a mausoleum at
| Coblentz. This latter was broken into by
robbers and the ashes scattered 20 the
winds. Madame Sergent divided her half
| into three pOrtions-One OF which she
kept. tine second she gave TO an
| aide-de-camp of her brother. and the third
she committed as sacred and supreme
gift to young lady whom Marceau was
about to marry. The aid-de-camp be-
quethed his portion to the Museum at
| Chartres. The inconsolable fdnc(e mar
RED another and returned to Madame Ser
gent the dismal dowry, and the first third
seems TO have been lost sight of. At all
events it was the third rejected by the
tickle demoiselle that alone was attainable
and this third Of q half of the ashes OF the
hero now rest IN the French Walhalla.
The French system consecrated by law
| is as follows: On the demand of the family
of the deceased permit for cremation is
;ae,aI kv fha MAYOR of fba Ward-eaeh