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Show CREMATION OF THE DBAD. New York Newspaper GlveB Reason for Its Adoption. Cremation moroly reaches In a shorter period tho same final risult aB burial, says Municipal Affnlrs. Fleshy parts of tho corpse decomposo In tho earth In five or ten years; during tho wholo period ot decomposition thoy conBtltuto nqthlng but a putrid mass of carrion. Hones which tako centuries cen-turies to crumble nro unceremoniously carted from ono cemetery to another when necessity compols their removnl nnd Incrcaso tho horror 0' death after they havo ceased to bo Identified nnd claimed. If they aro converted, with tho flosh, into ashes In ono hour they aro Insured ngalnst desecration. Tho volume and weight of bodies aro ro-duccd ro-duccd by the process of cremation some 05 per cent. If ashes woro placed In tho gravo of an urn cemetery, as occasionally Is done, tho dead vould loavo moro hom for tho living than tholr Intact bodies demand. Two hundred city lots nro now required to bury In tho old fashioned fash-ioned wny tho seventy thoi -and por-sons por-sons thnt annually dlo In Gr a'.or New York. Wo probably could eavo moro than a hundred -nnd fifty of theso pro-clous pro-clous lots If nshes of tho seventy thou-sand thou-sand wero placed in urn cemeteries, presorvod in niches of n columbarium or Btrewn on tho wnvoa of a river. As comctcries 'nro exempt from taxation tho municipality would dcrlvo nn In. como from tho lots which tho living then would uso nnd from tho Improvements Improve-ments thoy would mnku upon them. |