The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-09-13
ASHES TO ASHES.
His Ashes Under Rosebush.
[From the Urn.l

[From the Urn.l
The poetic element in the character
of the late c. Jerome Cary, whose body
has been cremated at Detroit, will find
lasting and beautiful expression.
It was his oft expressed desire that
his ashes should be given to his init
mate friend, G. G. Whitnall, the we'll
known florist, to be buried beneath al
particularly fond. Only his intimate
friends knew that Mr.. Cary was pas
sionately fond Of roses. He was in the
habit of spending a great deal of time
among Mr.. Whitnadl's flowers, and the
latter was well acquainted with the
poetic side of his nature. To him Mr..
Cary frequently confided his thoughts,
and he will know how best to carry out
his wish.
He will place the urn containing Mr.
Cary's ashes in a spot which he will Sc
lect in his greenhouses, and plant it
over a rosebush in such a position that
the roots will strike down into it. He
will sink "a brick wall around it, to
keep other roots from striking it, so
that only the rosebush will reach the
ashes. Mr.. Whitnall will plant a small
LIE Marche rose, of which variety Mr.
Cary was very fond, and he will nurse
it carefully until it becomes a tree
This variety of rose grows to a height
of ten or twelve feet, and it is said that
"a full-grown tree will have from one
to three thousand Observation-Disclosures
kee Evening Wisconsin.
Ashes of bodies cremated at Fresh
Pond N. ", have been finally disposed
of in various more or less poetical
ways always in strict accordance with
the last wishes Of the deceased. Some
were cast in the waters of New York
Bay from the Statue of Liberty on
Bedlow's Island, some strewn on the
flower beds in the crematory grounds,
some buried in cemeteries, some adorn
in handsome urns the gardens or man
tel-pieces of relatives, or inches
at the crematory, and many are kept
in safe deposit vaults. The United
States Cremation company has provid-
ed suitable colunbarium, at Fresh
Pond, and most ashes will find a final
nesting place there, with separate lock-
ed inches for each, where photographs,
flowers, ETC., may be kept, and senti-
m1ents find expression, purer and loft
Ter, than in a cemetery, with its grlle-
some memories and surroundings.
Speaking of the cremation of the re
mains of Judge Drake of Baltimore,
the Washington Post comes to the con-
ir, IT.,
steady if not rapid progress in this
country. AT first 1T looked very heath
enish to the popular mind. But in
cineration began to be discussed in it's
sanitary, scientific and social aspects,
and to meet with much favor, espec-
tally ON the part of advanced thinkers.
"Calm reflection" as the Post says,
little by little began to get the better
of foolish prejudice. The new method
had clearly the advantage of saving
all that was mortal in our departed
ones from the ghouls of the graveyard,
and in the eye of affection the urn con-
tanning the sacred ashes began to take
the place of the sepulchral monument.
Indeed, so little is cremation a matter
in dispute to-day. that one might
readily fall into the error of regard
ing the general acquiescence in its pro-
priety as a waning of the public inter-
est in the subject.
"But it will be seen that the crema-
tion movement lis making constant
progress, and that, though there is no
present or prospective danger of a rev
olution in our method of disposing of
the dead, yet the movement has receiv-
ed sufficient momentum to give assur-
ance to those who are repulsed by the
idea of sepulture, that in the near flu
tura, ample facilities will be provided
for another method in the cases of all
who so desire"