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Show CREMATION, Reduction of Dr. Winslow. The proviflion in Dr. Charles F. Winalow'a wilt that his body should be cremated, will be complied with to-day. Yesterday Morris & Evans erected on the vacant lot in the rear of the theatre a furnace for the purpose, pur-pose, completing the arrangement laet night. A slow fire was kept in the furnace last night for the purpose of thoroughly drying it, and thia evening the body of the eccentric deceaaed will be placed in the fire box, and the cremation fires lighted. The exterior of the furnace is about twelve feet long by four and a half feet wide, and five feet high. The foundation is ot rock, the remainder of brick, and the whole has the appearanie of au ordinary or-dinary oven, such aa bakers use, t'he chamber whore the body will lie ib six feet long, two feet wide and two feet high, an ordinary iron door opening open-ing in front, through which the body is to pass. The bed of the chamber. is a solid plate of boiler iron, three-eights three-eights of an inch thick; the sides and top are fire brick. The fire chamber is under the above, the feed door i being at the front and the flue or chimney at the rear, ao that the heat will paas under the entire body. There are panes of isinglass set in the sides tf the chamber, through which can be seen the progress of incineration. A blower will be used to fan the fire, The coal to be employed ia from Rock Springs, with which it is thought a heat intense enough for the purpose can be obtained. It will require a heat of about 2,300 degrees to reduce the body to ashes, aud this must be produced through the three-eighths iron plate. The length of time that will be required in the process is variously estimated at from three to six hours. Probably the latter will come nearer the time than the former. Dr. Wins-low Wins-low was a portly man, weighing at the time of his death 1S6 pounds. Of course this weight has been reduced re-duced but little in the four days since uie death, and considerable of it ia liquid. Necessarily, much time will be required in evaporating the moisture mois-ture or liquid before the incinerating process can fairly begin. The weight of Baron de Palm, who was cremated in Pennslvania last December, bad been greatly reduced before he was put in the furnace. The moisture had pretty nearly all been extracted and the body otherwise prepared, so that the baron only weighed ninety pounds when the heat was applied. In that case, with a most perfect furnace fur-nace and the best of fuel, nearly three hours were required in the complete cremation. Hence, it scarcely need be expected that Dr. Winslow can be brought to ashes in less than six hours. The body will rest on an iron frame, mounted on low rollers for convenience in handling. The bottom bot-tom of the frame will be of sheet iron,-concaye iron,-concaye in form, in which the ashes will be collected. In the case of De Palm the furnace was left to cool, twenty-four hours after the cremation, before the ashea were removed. It is expected that in the case of Dr. YVinslow the iron frame can be taken I out and the ashes collected soon after the incineration is complete. The doctor will probably be wrapped in a thin cotton Bhroud, which will be the only foreign substance burned with the body. , There is a difference of opinion as to the amount of aahea that will be loft. A chemist who haa studied the bu'iject some, thinks that if the cremation cre-mation ia complete, the ashes will weigh about four pounds; others say ix pounds, or even more. However thetie estimates in a measure are uaaed upon guessep, as there ia little snowl. dge ot the facts, gained from experience in America. The work is beiug superintended by Dr. Hamilton, Hamil-ton, under the direction of Mr. Pease, Wiualow'a chief executor. Great care ia being taken to make it Buccessful in every respect as a failure or accident of any kind would be not only the cause of deep regret on the part of those officiating in it, but would be painful in the extreme to the feelings of the relatives of the deceased, all of whom are opposed to the carrying out of this provision of the doctor's will. There now appears to be no cause for fearing a failure. Everything aeems to be arranged aat-iafactorily, aat-iafactorily, and the probabilities are that within a few hours the entire remains of the late Dr. Winslow can be enclosed in a two quart pail. We understand it was the special request of the deceased that no reli gious ceremonies should be performed over him, which request will be observed. ob-served. However, it is probable that some speeches will be made this af ternoon on the occasion of the burning; burn-ing; btill, if anything is Baid it will not be of a religious character. Tbe cremation will be publio, but police are to be atationed in the yard to keep the expected crowd away from the furnace and prevent any disturbance that might occur. a revolutionary patriot cremated. Thia will be the third experiment in cremation in America, the first having hav-ing been the burning of the body ol the revolutionary patriot, Henry Laurens, in 1792, a clause in his will requiring his body to be burned, coupled wi'b a provision alienating his estate of 60,000 from bis bod unless the request were heeded. The reason given by Mr. Laurens for tins desire was that his body ws too good to be eaten by worma. The funeral pile was erected on a beauiilul spot on hia plantation. The body, wrapped n twelve yards of two cloth, was borne on the shoulders of four favorite slaves and laid upon tbe pyre, when incense and perfumes were thrown upon it. After the funeral services were held beside it, tbe flames were ! kindled, and when tbe pile was burned tbe ashed were collected and 1 placed in a silver vase. CREMATION OF BARON VON PALM. ! The second experiment in the art . of cremation was made ot Washing-i;tuo, Washing-i;tuo, Pa., on tbe 6th of December j hint undd? the superinteddency of 1 Dr. Lfiuoyne. Baron Von Palm ol Nw York, a theosophist, before his ! death, gave injunctions to Col. Olcott that bis body should he burned. He had a horror of the gmv, having Been a young girl buried aliv.i in bis youth. In drawing up Ins will he repeated his injunctions to the attorney. attor-ney. When the body of the b.tnm was brought to the cremating furnace it had been some time dead, and its weight had been reduced from IcJ0 povMida in life to about ninety pounds. The corpae presented the appearanceofa ghastly skeleton covered cov-ered by a clingingaurface of muscular and nervous tissue. Spices aud per-lumea per-lumea were profusely scattered around the body, and it was wrapped in a shroud and placed in an iron crib, which had a flat hot mm and flaring sides, being made ol li.tra of iron, with a top rail running al nng the sides, with the ends open, and runners of Btrap iron underneath upon which to slide it into t!ie retort. Into the retort this crib was pushed, the fdet being the last part of the body to enter. It was quickly pushed in and the door shu', io. This was at twenty minutes alter eight. At first the vapors hid the body Irom view, but shortly alter it was plainly visible through the holes left for the purpose of viewing tha process. At 10 o'clock the body appeared like an incondescent mass; even the feet looked of a transparent pinkie!) hue; the upper part ot the body, from the knees to the head, was tailing down io tbe crib, which was now red hot; the rosy mist floated all over the body; the fluid parts evaporating and mingling with the aromatic odors. The retort was ot a brilliant, pinkish, straw cqlored hue. The line of asd which was ooce tbe shroud could still be detected. It was of a rosy white hue. The feet had dropped 1 dowa into a pile of ashes, and the en- j tire retort was euflused with a glaring, glar-ing, dazzling white light, which the eye could not bear. Although there was no pyrometor at hand to measure meas-ure the heat, it was estimated to have reached over 2,300 degrees. At 12 minutes past 11 a.m. the physicians physi-cians present declared tbe cremation complete, and at noon the fires were withdrawn aud the party dispersed, and the furnace was left for twenty-four twenty-four hours to cool. On this occasion, before the ere (nation, Dr. Olcott made a feeling address, in which he set forth the pe culiar religious views of Bsrou Von Palm, which be said "neither exacts nor tolerates moral cowardice. It is the faith of the ancestors of tbe earliest earli-est Argana, the once universal world religiou, the trunk from which sprang the branches of Brahminism, Ohaldaisin, Judaism, and even Curia-lianity. Curia-lianity. It is a f.iith accepted by many scholars in the United States, who, while devoting their lives to its study ami i professing it in the privacy of their own libraries, dare not, the time not being ripe, come out and profess it boldly and unreservedly, tw I now do. Can we blame them when tbe public sentiment obliges even men ot science who have associated themselves them-selves together as crematiooists, to refuse to take part ia the disposal of a tbeosophiai's body by the veiy process pro-cess they would have the public adopt in plane of inhumation?" Uie expense of the cremation of the hody ot Baron von Palm was stated to be only $L0. Of course the furnaces, retort, and other conveniences conveni-ences for completing tbe process were not included in this bill. |