The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-25

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whole into a handful OF bones and as *.
The regulations laid dowu'hy the council
o STA c are very stInge u. No cTenstory
apparatus may be established with mt an
authorization Il the project, VIII CT Is onv
given after consulting the col CT OF
health. Each cremation must be authorized
4 by the public registrar, upon demand of
the representa- ives Il the deceased. and the
/ production Of a medical certificate attest ng
/ that the death IS due To natural causes; o.
/ in default of this letter, upon the report #
a inquiry conducted and signed by sworn
4 physician.
after the necessary permission has been
obtained. an official report must be drawn
I up and fOrwar ied 10 the municipal authori-
ties TO prove the reception # the body at
! the cremat Jun and It's dua incarceration,
the ashes may not be dep sited, even pro-
/ vsiO1aliy, 81 ewhere than in a re .ularly
| established ami lice sed pl zee of seDulture,
I nor removed without permi-siO from tn )
c ty fathers. THESE two conditions, | am
t II, are imposed for the prove tion of
| pr fanati Il.
he objection first moOtei by Dr.
/ BrOuardel, that cremation Won d render
| impossible the detection OF poiso IS by sub g.
quent exh imaton, is thus pared. No
cremation, in fact, is allowed except by the
express deai e of the defunc TIE council
/ in providing that in all cases of cremation
pOst-mOrten shall precs e the ceremony
| has etfectUally done away with the doctor S
objection.
81 have witnessed the ncineration of sew
eral persons bslonglng to weli-k own ia n
| lies since tue ne apparatus You have Just
| seen at work was Install ID. The first of tlese
was the body of boy II ears old, the son
| OF DIR. Jac iOy, q Russian. AT that time,
the crematorium no. having received tle
sanction or the chambers, the doctor had
great difficulty in obtaining permission to
| make use of it. But he ultimately sue
ceeded through the intervention of c unit
Loris MelikoR. The furnace was heated to
| SUI, and at the end of an ur and a nalf
| the ashes were taken out and p aced in an
urn, and taken TO the Hotel de Vile, TO be
kept until claimed by the family. This was
on Feb. II the present year.
''Since then tie body of Nine. Benon,
| mother OF the municipal councillor Of tina
| name, was cremated IN two ho urS; the asueS
were placed In an Oaken lest and deposited
in temporary vault. TIE remains Il a
| young Slamese, an attache of the Legation
| in Pans, we q consumed il June acc riding
| to the rites of his country, ali some ii ne
after forwarded t. Bangkok. Another
personags OF note, Nj. Gagneur, was in
| clnerated in August last, in tne prese ce Of
Gen. Grevy, brother of the EXPIRE ,idsnt of
| tie republic. The coffin was of poplar
wood, W itch burns with lut leaving much
ash. The proceedings occupie an h lur and
| quarter. There was 10 religious cere-
| muny, but a few speeches were made before
an empty bier n aroOm Of the crematorium.
h a les were temporarily placed i'll q
vault owned By the city, whence they will
| be re moved by the friends Of the de-
ceased. Last month witnessed the burn
/ & of two deputies, NJ. Molrot and NJ.
! e nie BrelaY
1.-The project OF the Seine has recently
publlsuel a decree approving the tariff
| DIR WA up by tle municipal council for i'll
| ci Grating he dead. Pa1pers are, of course,
! burnt GRATIS pro dec. Persons able 10 pay
are uniformly clarged $40. This includes
! a nc le for five We rs, if demanded, in a
! columbarium or ur--room, which, however,
| has yet 10 tie uit The urn m lst i 4 every
case be paid for by the family. An ext
tax IS imp sed for the space taken up by
! th3 receptacle in the ur l-roo II, the rate
| beilg roplrtiOnlte to the decoration Of
! the crem storium monument when the in
C nsratiOn occurs aud the Importance of
the poinp displayed at the fune al.
First, second. and third-clasS burial car
riages aud paraphernalia are c arged $40;
fourth a tfJn classes, as also bod 5
brought to the creratoriu II from places out.
SIDE Of PAris fortihca;i)ns, are rated $50
| the sixth-.l SIS pays $40; tla seVe lth-cl lss
s., aid the eighth-class So ~. No tax i.
imposed for exhuming corpses for pur-
poses of cremation in any of the Paris
| cemeteries"
a socialist organ recently proposed to
level the cemeteries of Pere la Chaise and
| Montparnasse in order to BULL GA the sizes
houses to lodge the work. 2 classes, alleging
at these burial grounds would be Of nc
use if the government were sufficiently
well-inspired as to render incineration com
pulsory on every one. But the govern nent
in the present sta Of the public mind is
long way of from attempting to make
cremation obligato y. So, even if respect
for the dead. which is intensely strong il
France, did not sta ID in the wa, of tn,
realization of the project propos d by tn,
socialist paper, it would be long time be.
f re the Cemeteries of Paris would b,
abandoned and cremation rule supreme.