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Show An Unusual Funoral Rite. Before Gustav Rlx, a well known builder and botanist of New York, died In January of 1902, he asked his wife that his body be cremated and that tho ashes be scattered to the winds, half in Bronx park and half at Heide, Germany, his birthplace. After his death it was found that his will made provision for carrying out his wi6h. Mr. Rix's body was cremated; but his widow kept the ashes In the home till this week. Then, with officers of the Bronx Botanical gardens gar-dens and some friends, Mrs. Rlx scattered scat-tered over the ground, at a spot which had been a favorite resort of the dead man, part of the ashes from the funeral urn. Gardeners raked them Into the |