The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-07-28
1yGERSOLL NOW IN ASHES.
uJ, BoDY CREMA TED AT FRESH POND
YESTERDAY.

T.yipp Experiences or the tunerai Party
u,u, waiting for tho Ashes to Be ne
,,r,ed-A Description of tho Urn in
which tho Ashes We're Carried Home.
The family OF Robert g. Ingersol. accompa-
,iod bv a few friends. Journeyed yesterday
orrirv from their homo at Dobbs Ferry to
,h, ,r,,uatory 10 Fresh Pond. Long Island.
unh the Counel's body, and waited there al
most until sunset for ID 10 be incinerated and
tbs ashes placed In an urn which they carried
ho,.k with them No ceremonies marked tho
o,c,sion The wife and daughters. all I'M
rcryed as they have been since week ago
YESTERDAY who did not leave the form OF father
and husband as long as it bore his semblance.
urr, away from its solid substance only while
The retort encompassed 1t. and they took the
crumbIinv ashes in the carriage with them as
,,,r rs the incinerators had finished their
york In tho meantime the men OF tho family
had shared watches at the furnace room door.
Tho funeral party left the house In the High
lands at x - o clock reaching the special train
which resident Galloway had placed at their
di,,osal az the Dobbs Ferry station at p::'O.
sympathetC storekecpers of the village kept
their curtains down as the carriages and hsarse
PASSED along the roads. In the five carriages
there were. besides Mrs. Ingersoll and Mrs
1necrsoll. Mr. and Mrs Walston H. Brown. Mr..
Horace B Fry Major o. J. Smith. Herbert P.
Brown. arcnce :. Brown. John II. Hazleton OF
Col IngcrsO's law firm Frederic G. Penfleld.
former United States Minister to Egypt: DR..
John Elliott and DR.. Fred l.. Brady. Such OF the
men as were required acted as pabearert at
pobbs Ferry and at tho Grand Central
Station whore the train arrived at 10
o'clock Loose flowers were strevn upon the
coffin which was placed In another hearse. and
the party entered carriages and drove all the
way to Fresh Pond, instead OF taking another
train A crowd awaited the arrival Of the train
at the Grand Central Station. and II was neces-
sary for attendants to force the people back.
The mourncrs arrived at Fresh Pond at II 80
o'clock Other curious spectators awaited
them there The carriages were driven up 10
the front entrance Of the crematory. while tho
hcarse was stopped at the side door. and the
coffin was carried by the crematory attendants
into the building. There It lsmainci for a
shor, time in the presence OF the mourners.
but the body was not exposed. The party
took racs, in the Gsh"mEarum
filed countless inches in the inner walls The
ashes of Anton S"Idl, over whom Col InRcr
Those Of Henry VI. Tabor, who rarely missed
Sunday call on CO. lIEersoll. although h"
upon their right Ashes Of families. exposed
to sight in common nrns of glassware inter;
n w gIrs some Mtt r
American flags. Miniature monuments pressed
rom within against the glass doors OF sope Of
lecesses stood photographs OF the dead. all with
Inscriptions, few with enitaIhs; .,
windows Gaudy colors Of permanent decora-
t9ns enrirclnG the urns In some Of the inches
II. T o5 ne ensn the asn
9siEn II saffron slass Remove your hat.
from, the far side Of his arch gates give
Won dc tn" area at the ,N ievr where the
body Of Col, Ingersol was lifted from the
Hea cad Tha was moved
noistIessy on rubber roller. over the cement
hoornF Of the s2rriS to pocs opposite The
rH-ty era lie was at IN" level OF, the doorsill.
TIL" head of the body was toward the furnace
door. The body was clothed only in q light
SIN shroud. Crenat"ry attendants dipped a
ii,nen-h"et II solH,i"n Of alum and wrapped
isnItton Of the wraypinss when the i i
door was op"ncl The Door was opened, and
took on roseato hue. The register recorded
the temperature Of the retort at 2.OT55 Fab
rr Montn.-s II ,,sv ,o.,ro ~. r.rnt,to, 70
watch from the coiumhnrinm hridga un der the
arch The preliminary processes Of cremation
through the furnace door door The ' women I Of the
dneHrsoIl family preferred not to do 80. so the
kdl'S rom ne cOuillbh'lunl were Fht opened.
cnfn into the corridor.rema ned there to watch
tnY b9%y to the last, When the furnace DOC!
dong the sides Of tho rctort Two attendants
Win ir,n roles thrust the cradle from the
cn'A'a1nc into the retort and the door was
s4rl and fastened. i, was. II 80 o'clock.
,o ThS tamil ~ wc1s stu waiting in the coum;
themselves when a SECOND funeral arrived
IN" body, of 'ieore" Tai Imam was to be Gre
na'rd His friends desired music and the
w t" use The InGcrsolls could not endure
n thought of thiS. music al such time and
s4 hour h"..t,nG smoke ISSUED again briefly
tarked Haeo,s y%s'Tf Ner SH .n6h"r Sine
ngr.soI nc l4rersoil family wore Obliged
tons Hat are collectively labelled hotels al
t bsar s,.G OF tn, rremntory They are proncr
privacy there " IS mpossible. Tie chaTacter o.
S b bner ri nay ~ EGrhap. be JUDGED from IN.
l,os"Se1 " Gyemat"ry Hotel" ar and on he sid'
facing the Mount OIivet Cemetery it is pa
s4TH~d Mount OIivct Hotel" 1t was fli"C
tnd cr"matory visitors. some OF them mourn
err orr Mh" &.t%rnn'eh tGtweeE thT inches sn[
lYbns Ferry. but this was the only place
Nni HtdiE. Yet the hotels pretensions wcr'
such that it would not serve Col. lnEcrSoll'
E Eith ."ryan',. who accompanicd IT, family
WIN even drink ot water. The family re-
Treated 10 the shade Of some trees back Of thu
trcnH'ory- Mount Olivet Hotel and Their
sI"nt tho weary hours until O'Clock. whel
the ashes 81 the r dead were delivered to then
~ 70" urn they had brought with them;
Inc urn, which was bought from Tiffany
{oand came only recently from Paris,is Of rie
troHz%. 1t is Oyoid. standing about n foo
~ above porphyry base six INCHES squar
10y TWO and half inches deep Up one sid
hh4 over tho top SrriG OF laurel winds. In tn
Iw.y r,,"r Of the vase but shaded in the fold
o. INC caves and clinRinG to the OF her side
6nuilhG "t cypress in bronze Of deep greer
Nh on" lac" OF tho urn Ia this inscriptions
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