The morning times., 1896-10-18
An Inventor Offers Secretary Of War Lamont
Travelling One for the Battlefield.
CAN BE TAKEN IN PIECES AND PACKED UP
Heated in an Hour, and in Two Hours Will Turn
a Soldier to Two Pounds of Ashes.
URNS USED FOR BRINGING HOME A SOLDIERS REMAINS

body in regular crematory. This Is ae-
cording TO the size OF the body, the time for
children being much less. Very large,
heavy persons take longer to cremate. In
the crematores an extra price is charged
for them. Chilcren under ten years are
only SIS. Stout, elCerly persons are $50
and upward. These details are quietly
settled by the officers nr the crcmatory.
But with the travelling Que upon the
field of battle much better time IS made
The entire crcmatory fuii Of bodies can
be incinerated in an hour. Experiments
have been made with the bodies Of lambs
With tile retort heated as high as the
machinery VIII allow, the work goes on
very rapidly. or course the ashes in this
case are charred and black from the great
heat, but this cannot lie helped.
The arguments to be used by the iu-
ventor are, first, the sanitary proper
ties of the crematory. Tie horrible CON-
ditions OF battIefields Will be brought
forth, and the fact that they are prac-
tcally useless ever after as cities. Also
the unspeakable horror of the Immediate
after condition. After battle the lat
uereid can be located miles away by ths
vuitures that hover over it.
BURYING BATTLE HEROES.
Another argument will be the comfort
1t is to families 70 know their dead are
disposed OF deCently. The terrible death
buie into which battle heroes are swept
i'll the hurry OF the march has made
many soldiers last thought a torture.
The danger OF coming to life alone with
the dead will also be bauished; for,
though it Is not pleasant to think of
being inCineI atel before death, it is a
thousand times more agreeable than to
think of returning to consciousness in
pit OF the dead
1t is expected that there will be a wall
Of sentiment from the feminine relatives
: OF soldiers The warriors tbems selves will
see the beauty of this crematory aud urge
it; but there is always deal of old fOgy
sentiment which fight anything new
The old orthodox argument against
inciDeration was the reincarnatiou OF the
body. But since Heber Newton, Bishop
Potter, Phillips Brooks, aud Cardinal
Newman refused to accept this as a
literal argument against cremation there
is less heard of it.
In the case OF the dead soldier the re-
Incarnation theory would not carry as
mutiiated, and shot-off arm or leg lying
lone and unclaimed upon the field would
not Offer much argument for the actual
| rising Of the body.
An impressive burial can be Conducted
with the ashes of n crematory These
could all be gathered together and placed
in an urn and brought home. The body uf
full-Grown man makes two pounds Of
ashes. For purposes Of burial an urn could
he filled with the ashes and brought home
to he inferred in the soldiers lot. There
would then be chance for the soldiers
monument.
TIE expense OF these travelling crema-
tories would not be SO very great. II
our government wishes to have them in
time of war they could be made quickly
and easily. So simple are they Of con
struction that the government engineers,
appropriatirg Schiiff's idea, could construct
similar ones and improve upon them in
small details. Many say this is the great
est step toward 4 rational disposition of
tue body that has yet been made.
JAMES BARTON