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Show ASHES TO ASEES. Successful Cremation of the Late Dr. Wiuslow. Reduction Extraordinary 126 Pounds to 4 Pounds, 4 Ounces. The oremation ceremonies, yesterday, yester-day, over the remains of the late Dr. Winslow attracted a great crowd of people. Some went as mourners and friends of the deceased, others tor the purpose of intelligent observation, and large numbers were urged by a vulgar curiosity. About 5.30 o'clock tbe body w.ia brought from Sexton Taylor's to the crematory and was taken charge of by the pall bearerB, Judges MeKeau, Hayilou aud Hagan, aud Messrs. O. J. Holliator, Fred. Lockley aud J. E. Taylor. By these gentlemeu the roffiu was carried to tbe rear of the furnace, where the last looks were to be taken aud the last ceremonies to be carried out. The silence was impressive; the srowd bo demonstrative aud excited a lew moments before, standing with uncovered heads in respectful -aud reverential silence. The decenai-d being a disbeliever in fixed forms of religion, the usual ceremonies of burial were not observed. No prayer was uttered, no sermon preached, no funeral anthem sung. Some tastefully taste-fully wrought wreaths of flowers were laid upon tbe temporary casket and lent the only Boftening iuflueuce to the scene; yet though the conventional forms of religion were dispensed with, one could not help realizing tbe solemnity of the occasion nor forget that a human being, once full of life and intelligence, lay there cold, silent and dead a portentious contrast to the excited and inconsiderate throng which surrounded his remains. The funeral assembly, if it may be so called, was first addressed by Dr. Hamilton to whose untiring exertions the success of the undertaking is mainly due. The doctoi explained the cremation to be brought about by the desire of the deceased as expressed in his will and on previous occasions tor the past forty years, and epofcfe leelingly of his many virtues, his native and acquired abilities aud ot tbe good motives and Christian conduct con-duct which had made hia whole existence exist-ence satisfactory to himself and beneficial to his race. Dr. Hamilton, on concluding his remarks, introduced General Bane who eloquently eulogized the character charac-ter of his late friend, whom he pointed out as a model worthy ol imitation to ttie young. The general then spoke of the sentimeuts entertained by Dr. Winslow relative to tbe subject of siveness and evil Banitary results of slow decay in tbe earth. Dr. Smart of Camp Douglass followed, fol-lowed, and showed himself to be an able speaker and a thoroughly scientific and earnest advocate of cremation. With regard to views entertained by people on this subject, he made a division of two classes: first, the majority who uphold as a result of early education and inherited sentimentalism, the conventional forma of disposing of the body, and who regard cremation aj'asacriligiouH interference with established aud diviue rules; and second, the exceptional ex-ceptional few who believe in cremation crema-tion as a Banitary measure and as a natural and proper disposition of the body, and who claim that by this process no noxious gases are evolved, no complex organic substances produced pro-duced to taint the air and poison the water for the living. Dr. Smart made a strong argument against the old form o( burial, shuwing that me-lalic me-lalic and air tight colli us and processes of embalming prevent a natural decomposition of the bjdy and retard the return of dust to dust. After the conclusion of these remarks re-marks the body was removed from the casket, deposited on a plate of iron and devoted to tbe consuming fires of the furnace. The time oc cupied by the process of incineration was 2 hours aud 35 minutes, and the weight of the ashes after a thorough and successful reduction, was four pounds, four ounces. Hie weight had been reduced from arout 185 pounds at the time of hia death, to 126 pounds when tbe body was put into the furnace. fur-nace. The fires had been kept up for some hours previous to the commencement com-mencement of the cremation, hence the furnace waa extremely hot when the corpse waa placed in the chamber. Tbe burning itself was devoid of interest, in-terest, or rather without "points." Toe furnace being reverberatory, the flames passed all arouud the body, whicb, viewed through the plates of isinglass in the sides of the chamber appeared to be a mass of blazing fire from a tew moments after tbe florae touched it, until the 1 flesh had vanished and the bones began to crumble. The ash is a clear white, aud after being removed was reduced in bulk in a mortar. It will , be preserved in a case, as directed in the doctor's will, and sent east to be placed on his wife's coffin. During the buring a moat oflensive odor escaped from the flues and waa ' observed by people fifty or sixty ruda ' tistant from the furnace. |