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Show FROM AN UNMARKED GRAVE. Precautions Tikcn to Preserve ErioMon'i Remains from Desecration. It seems ns though grave robbery must now bo classed among the crimes of science. sci-ence. At any rate, in these days of so called supercivilization, the first thing done after tho breath has left the body of a distinguished man is to arrange for tho safe guarding of his tomb. Grant's resting place is under surveillance night and day. So was for a long time that of Lincoln. Garfield's wasted body, it appears, lay for long months in the vaults of a Cleveland bank, and now it develops that for over a year the corpse of John Ericsson reposed concealed and unmarked un-marked in a private vault of the Marblo cemetery at New York city. Until tho day when the inventor's remains re-mains were brought out, with all the pomp and ceremony due from a grateful nation, for transmission to his native land, only five people knew tho whereabouts where-abouts of their receptacle. It transpired that the executor and sexton feurcd deso- THE CATAFALQUE ON THE BALTIMOHK. cration at the hands of some "scientist" who would havo delighted in adding the modern viking's skeleton to his collection, collec-tion, and in drawing wise theories from inspection of n skull that once thatched a mighty brain. But now all danger of that sort is over so far at least as the United States are concemil and Sweden will undoubtedly in the future watch well beside the last resting place of her distinguished sou. In recalling tho ceremonies attendant ! on tho placing of Ericsson's body tho other day in tho custody of the commander com-mander of the war ship Baltimoro for transfer to the land of the inventor's birth, it is pleasant to note that no accident acci-dent or mismanagement marred the solemn sol-emn magniflceucs of tho occasion. The big procession marched through the streets of New York from the cemetery to the Battery "on time." The coffin was lowered to its appointed place aboard the Baltimore "on time," and the great war ship steamed out to sea amid the thundering salutes of forts and vessels ves-sels "on time." The naval authorities who had charge of the affair had arranged a schedule. There was no unseemly haste, no disorderly disor-derly hurry, but a straightforward accomplishment ac-complishment of a planned purpose. Viewed in one way tho affair was a triumph tri-umph of disciplino and management. |