Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-08-15
MORT|CIANS
SEE EMBALMlNG.
Prof. HohensChuh Demonstrates on
Young Man from SprjOgviIIe'
CHANGE In THE PROGRAM
Trip 90 saltair Postponed tntil TO-
morrow-JOseph Il. Taylor Gives
au Interesting Address

The undertakers we're conducted into
the morgue In Joseph william Tayors
undertaking establishment this morn
ing to witness a scientific embalming OF
a body. The subject operated upon was
Lester Bird, an 1S.year-old youth who
died at St Marks hospital at o'clock
this morning Of appendicitis, Young
Bird had been the agent for the Rio
Grande Western at Price and came to
the city two days ago suffering Intense
~ He was taken to the hospital where
DR. Bascom performed the operation,
but the boys condition had become too
aggravated. He was embalmed this
forenoon by Prof. w. p. Hohenchuh
in the presence Of the members OF the
western funeral directors. The pro-
fessor employed only the arterial in
lection method and worked with the
skill OF a master. Prof. Hohenschuh
possesses the very last ideas OF the
science Of embalming. He knows more
about II than all which has been writ
ten He Is the most profitable lecturer
the western association ever had. He
knows the science down to the mlnut-
est detail and Is one Of the worlds
formost workers In the field of original
research. He can stand on the lecture
platform and deliver more perfect lee
ture on the anatomy and how to pre-
serve II than anyone else. Then he can
step from the lecture hall into the en-
balmlng room and act out what he has
been talking about with more skill than
anyone else. His work with the in
gtruments Is quick and perfect. This
morning he accompanied his operations
with an exhaustive treatise on the
science Of emblamlng.
After the professor finished the body,
II was prepared and shipped to the
home Of the deceased at Springyllle
where he was born. Mrs Bird the be-
reayed mother, came to the city with
her son and watched at his bedside
until the end. She will return with the
remains
The undertakes had an outing TO
Saltalr scheduled for this afternoon,
but they changed their program on ac-
count Of the rain, They decided to
hold a busy session this afternoon and
another one in the evening and go to
the lake tomorrow.
Some of them are going TO Ogden on
Saturday and will visit the canyon
They VIII be the guests of Mr.. George
W. Larltin, Jr., c. a Lindqulst and
other Ogden morticians who are
pledged 10 give them one Of the times
OF their lives.
A few papers were read this after
noon and the meeting ends tomorrow
with the following program:
FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 0 A. NJ.
/. Paper, DIR. Betty Secretary Utah
State Board of Health.
2. Paper, Pointers" G. $. Thompson
La Junta, Colo.
3. Discussion, Decomposition and
putrefaction, Infection and Conta-
gion,' Prof Hohenschuh,
Discussion
FRIDAY, 1880 p. NJ.
I. Unfinished business.
.. New business.
8. Nomination and election OF officers
and delegates to the national con-
vention.
T. Selection Of place of next meeting
3. Quiz class.
6. Distinction, Prof Hohenschuh.
Discussion
Z. Good Of the association.
B. Appointment
AN INTERESTING ADDRESS
The principal feature Of yesterdays
meeting Of the undertakers was the adj
dress by Joseph II. Taylor. the oldest
undertaken In the intermountaln region
and for many years the only one in
Utah. The subject of his address was
EARLY Undertaking in Utah" and sew
eral OF the visitors said that II was one
OF the most interesting talks they had
ever listened to.
Mr.. Taylor said that undertaking In
the early days was necessarily crude.
but he supposed that the rest of those
who died in those days was as sweet as
II would have been had they been
buried In costly caskets. II was ex-
planned how bodies were prepared in
the early days for shipment across the
continent before the railroad spanned
the plains. The first body was put in
a zlnc-lined casket filed with alcohol
and Theoretically sealed. One of Wells,
Fargo's coaches was used and riders
were employed 10 secure relays OF
horses at each station to prevent de-
lay. The body arrived at It's destina-
ton In good condition. A different
method was employed with the second
body. The soft parts OF the body were
removed and the cavity filled with pull
Verized charcoal. The casket was her
metically sealed and the remains were
transported east with as much success
as attended the first body.
Mr., Taylor deprecated the fact that
many men were palming themselves
on as embalmers who were very SUPER
fcial. He related an instance OF a
FaF tHta. afa - 4
the east and was shipped home. The
been thoroughly embalmed. but
he discovered II in an aw-
full condition Mr.. Taylor wrote back 10
the undertakers telling them the con-
dillon the body was In and taking them
20 task sharply. They sent reply
that was an astounder They said:
MI Taylor any sum you name viii
be sent you. our reputation is at
stake" Mr.. Taylor Indignantly re-
piled that money could not cover such
an outrage. but the matter was dropped
at the request OF the family.
The speaker said that during an ex-
perlence ~ a little over forty years
he had prepared for burial over 10000 |
persons. He contrasted the crude con-
dltions Of the past with the present |
system Of embalming and suggested
that there should be more practical
embalmers and fewer theoretical ones.
At one place Mr.. Taylor was going
10 stop but cries Of go on" came from
nearly everyone present, and so he pro-
ceeded IN his most interesting manner.
Referring 20 the undertakers who
had the privilege OF seeing the organ
demonstrated IN fits manifold tones az
ter the recital which had drawn from
them many expressions Of wonder. Mr..
Taylor said that Utah was fast coming |
10 the front The old saying was See
Paris and die" but it Is now "see Salt |
Lake and die" He added that the |
natural resources OF Utah. together
with what would be demonstrated out
Of her native element. would cause such |
wonders that men who come here
would exclaim Ike the Queen OF Sheba |
on beh0lding the grandeur OF the court |
OF Solomon. The half had not been
told"
The address was very warmly APP
niaudcH