Norwich bulletin., 1913-05-12
TO SCATTER ASHES
 1000 MILES AT SEA. Mrs. Harriet M. Rowland Sails to Carry Out Deceased Husbands s

| When the Berlin of the North Ger man Lloyd line, which sailed yester- i day for Genoa, has steamed 1000 miles out from Sandy Hook. Harriet NJ. Rowland, widow of Dr. George Titus Rowland, of Norwich, Conn., will step to the rail with golden urn and strew upon the waves the ashes of her hus band, who died Sept. "A. 1911. said the New York World of Sunday She will thds comply with clause in Dr. Howland's will. It was not read until the day on which the urn, with his ashes was to have been buried at 1 Tivol N. Y. Even then it's provisions were not made public and friends were permitted to understand that the in- terment of the urn had taken place.
 Mrs. Rowland arrived in New York Friday afternoon with her only daugh- ter, Elizabeth, strikingly handsome and IS. They boarded the Berlin at her pier in Hoboken at o'clock yesterday and went immediately to suite Ne. 39 on the main deck. which had been re- served for them and their maid. They went in mourning.
 Black Case in the Luggage. Their luggage comprised, besides trunks and grips, a black leather case about two feet square. Whether this contained the urn could not be ascer- tained, as the preparations to carry out the stipulatiOns of the will were guarded with the utmost secrecy, al though intimate friends were told of the intended trip abroad.
 When a reporter saw Mrs. Rowland at the door of her cabin and inquired concerning her intention to strew the ashes upon the waves, the widow was surprised. She would not discuss her plans in any way.
 It was learned that she will proceed to Genoa and later visit Lyons, where it is said she and her daughter will be the guests of J. B. Martin. a wealthy manufacturer, whose son. J. B. Martin, Jr., has been much in Norwich during his inspection of his fathers mills at Taftville.
 It was further learned that Mrs. Howland would have carried out the wishes of her husband long ago had it not been for two accidents. Once she was badly hurt in a runaway and an other time in an automobile collision. It was only recently that she recov- cred.
 Made National Capital Clean.
 Dr. Rowland was a native of Tivoli, and a graduate of Yale university and of the College of Physicians and Sur geons in this city He went to Greece and Germany for further instruction and then settled in Washington, where he established a large practice and ultimately became health officer of the
 
 against unsanitary conditions which made the city one of the most health full in the world.
 Dr. Rowland was wealthy by in heritance and in 1902 he gave up his practice, settled in Norwich, of which his wife was a native, purchased Fair view, model show farm where he in dulged his fad for scientific dairying and raising pedigreed cattle,
 He died following an operation for appendicitis. By his express wish his body was cremated at Forest Hills and the ashes were taken to Norwich, where funeral services were conducted at FRirview by Rev. Samuel H. Howe, pastor of the Park Congregational church.
 The will disposed of property valued at considerably over s1,0O0, GOO. After generous bequests to his sisters. Mrs. Titus of New York and Miss Sarah Rowland of TivoIi, the balance went to the wife and daughter, who shared alike
 The friends of the doctor have no reason to offer for his wish to have his ashes Strewn on the ocean. So far as they are aware he was not excep- tionally fond of the sea.