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Show I' STRANGE REQUEST REGARDING HIS BOOK llcmarkahle Docuiueiif Devising Disposition of Remains of Laic Warren Foster. EXPRESSES A DESIRE TO HAVE BODY CREMATED Otherwise lie Orders That, It, Be Laid Away in Potter's Field. A remarkable document is the one by the late Warren Foster, (lie well known Salt Lake newspaper man who died at the homo of his brother in Ogden, on Saturday morning. This document vns in an envelope, bearing Ibis, inscription: in-scription: ".To bo opened on the ilav that Warren Foster dins; not before." and contained minute instructions regarding- the disposal of bin body. A synopsis of iho document appeared in Tho Tribune Sunday morning. As said, the document is such a. remarkable ono and in view that he desired it priuled, it is given herewith in full: February 21. l:'0:-Note: l:'0:-Note: The?e Instructions are Intended lo annul rind supersede all other Instruction, Instruc-tion, oral or written, slven by too on this subject. I Immediately after death It Is inydeslro In bo embalmed If convenient. My body 1 desire to be placed in n cheap casket of wood and nl once conveyed to the Odd Fellows ball. I menu the hall room whore 1 havo met the Brethren so often, place the casket In tho center of- the lodge-oom lodge-oom wIit'! 1 greatly desire thai It bo left for a whole wee!: to the end that I may "visit" each of the lodges aftor my death. 1 want no special religious scrv-1' scrv-1' cs held. It Is my deslro every brother iii all tlf; .lodg he. permitted to say a word If he lias anything to say. A't the final servient lot the regular forms bo used. r'Joase sine. "Lead Kindly Llirht," and "When the Mists Have Kolled Away." s I havo every reason to believe now that I shall die a very poor man. It Is my fervent wish that no expense ho Indulged Ir. that can be omitted. Make everything .is cheap as possible. I would much rather to leave what few dollnrs 1 may have at the lime to' those dependent UTm me. My desire is that all Urmher Odd Fellows attend my funeral. This Is inv last roriuest, I hope you will grant mo this. For the final disposition of my old body, inv llrsr wish Is that It be cremated. If Inronvenlent or expensive, then lny me away In what is known as the Potters Flfld In Mt. Olivet cemetery- My next choice Is that my friends impiovlse a rrenintory of dry pine log's and thus dispose dis-pose nf my mortal remains, IH'T IX NO KV15NT. IWDrZTt ANY CONDITION AM I TO RE BFRIKI") IN MT. OLIVKT OK OTHER CEMETERY WHERE THEY Ill'Y AND SELL LOTS OR CHARGE A RENTAL OF ANY. KIND FOR KEEPING KEEP-ING THE LOT IN CONDITION. ANY FVASION OF THIS REQUEST WILL l MEET WITH MY MOST HEARTY DISAPPROVAL. DIS-APPROVAL. AND FOR WHICH THERE "WILL BE NO FORGIVENESS EITHER IN THIS LIFE OR THE NEXT. I have paid null all my life; I mean to quit It when I die. Rather than pay one cent of r-?nt on my grave to any ghoul I would request that my body be conveyed t the top of the mountains and there consigned con-signed to the use of the fowls of the ;ilr and the ravenous beasts of tho mountain?. mount-ain?. THERE Ml'ST RE NO EVASION OF THIS REQI'EST. Don't let friend step In at the trying moment and offer to purchase a lot for me. I WOl'LD NOT FAY ONE FARTHING FOR A LOT MYSELF IF I WERE WORTH A MILLION MIL-LION DOLLARS: SO LET NO ONE MAKE THE OFFER. If my life service has not been sufficient for the community to furnish a place, to rest this body when 1 get through with It. then l"t them feed It to the more merciful and more kindly ovotes. The Potters' Field is cood enough for me. It la good enough for. you. brother. This Instruction applies In the event that I die In this Hty, but In the event tha 1 should bo called while tJsewhcr--b t It be followed as nearly as pontile, particularly tlx; lot. Do not spend one rent fur a lot, directly or Indirectly, here or elsewhere. 1 "WANT NO LANDLORD CALLING ME CP from my rest to PAY 111M HIS KENT. 1'pon my demise I want the dally r wspapors to print this In full lo the end th-it people may know that it was my dvlng request tnat I be buried In Potters Pot-ters Flold and tho reason why. Trusting that my friends will see to it that my wishes are. compile.! with as fur as possible I subscribe myself your friend. WARREN FOSTER. The order to have tho body cremated rrill be complied with and will be taken to the Denver crcinntory. Tho body will arrive here this (Monday) afternoon, after-noon, and will be taken to Odd Fellows Fel-lows hall as directed. It will lio in state as is also directed, but whether for a week, has not been decided. When, taken to Denver, it will be accompanied 1v, Dewitt Foster, his son, and by his daughter, Mrs. C. E. Cope and her husband. |
