The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-02-27
A GRATB-CHBATING DEVICE
One Tested in Washington Twenty
nine Years Age.

The Proposed burial of Il Live Man
in Kew York to Try "a RuSsian In
ventiOn Recalls nm Experiment.
Once Made at GIenUood Cemetery.
The story that comes from New York
that Emil Camis. a Freedman. who ar
rived IN that CITY few days ago. is
about TO have himself inferred six feet
under ground to 5est the merits of an
invention to accomplish the return to
earth Of people who have been buried
alive, * interesting many Washington
ians. But there Is a least one under
taker here who takes little stock in the
claims for the device. He Is also Of the
opinion that even If il possesses AL of
the qualities Mr. Camis insists it does,
the possib .Iity of its actual need is very
remote. Notwithstanding CAMS decl res
that in l0.Gu9 willis made by his country
men the testators ask that when they
are buried the machine may he placed
over their collins so that they may have
4 chance TO be restored to the wo7ld in
case they should wake up. The device in
question is the invention OF Count M.ch-
aeI de Karnice Harnic!1i. Russian ~
bIeman. who is represented by Camis.
The latter has brought one of his con-
tr1vaGces with him, and in order to dom
onstrate MS faith in it says he VIII pre-
mt himself to be buried alive.
Mr.. Calnis Is said To nave done much TO
assist the count in the perfecting of the
Invention. He has delivered addresses on
the subject before academies of medicine,
before associations of learned men and
legislative committees. There is now \
bill pending in Albany to provide some
means for keeping the bodies OF the sup
posedly dead until there IS no doubt that
life has entirely fed Mr. Camis will call
attention TO the KarniCe system as supe-
rior TO the plan proposed There is al
ready IN this country a society which is
devoted to furthering the use Of the sys-
tenn Mr. CAMS will establish headquar-
tiers III New York. from which he Will
cOnuuct a campaign in the interest Of the
haFnIee method.
Inc device consists. broadly speaking.
OF tube ten centmeGres IN diameter and
Il fUrneIlCaIIy Seaied box The ordinary
types OF CONN may be used AS soon as
the coffin Is lowered into the grave the
tube. which, according TO the English
measurement, Is about three and d half
inches III diameter, is lifted over an aper-
ture in II ~ the top of this tube IS the
Dramatically sealed box On the breast OF
The supposedly dead body is placed a ball,
which IS attached to a rcd. The least
movement OF the chest or of the body,
in fact, viii he communicated TO the sig
raj box above ground. The movement re
leases q spring. which causes 4 door IL
the box 10 fan open. thus admitting light
and air 10 the coffin. ii would be posS4-
be for man To live for two days unaer
sICh conditions The same motion causes
g bell 10 ring half an hour. 1t also sets
OF . rocket, which in the night serves 10
call the attention of the person in charge
OF the cemetery. Should the one VINO IS
eEtomhed cry aloud for help the contrI-
vance greatly increases the volume or the
voice
Speaking OF the invention W r. Speare,
the Street undertaken said ne had seen
cuts and read a description OF it IN his
vice that was brought TO this country
something ike thirty Years ago. =
Frenchman was the inventor Of this de-
vice. Mr. Speare thought it posi-
BE that the continuance about TO be intro
duced WAS the duplicate Of the old one:
it might be that those who were behind
the present device were interested in the
Old one
The old invention, Mr. Speare said, was
given a sort OF test at CIlenwood cemetery
about the year 1872 Harvey & Mari, then
an undertaking nrm Of this city, for
whom he worked. attached the device to
the coffin OF dead man The
alarm never went of. and the undertake
ers- having little faith in the thing,
dropped II then and there
Mr. Speare says the only difference be
tween the old alleged life-sayer and the
new one Mr.. CAMS proposes to try, 50
Ia= as he Is able TO see. is that the VIC
tim of premature burial, if he was such,
with the old machine notified his friends
through the blasting of a whistle of his
desire to be- taken up. With Mr.. CAMS
invention the Teh2 Dilitated Individual
rings bell II he wakes up III the day
time. while if he comes TO at night he
fires OF i skyroclet.