Show increase in cred cremation aaion cremation Is one of the oldest foresi tanas oi of disposal of the dead yet it Is a form that lapsed from use tor for cen con turl es it appears to be in process of restoration true it has made but little bead head against the custom of bur lal yet there Is an increase every year in such proportion that we may look for a wide adoption of it within the next quarter century there are in this country but twenty six crema torlea tortes yet this Is against but two eighteen years ago and the number of cremations Is 2 or more a year when statistics were first collected on the subject eighteen years ago t the h e annual cremations numbered six teen it Is because they are common and have so ceased to be an occasion of comment that an impression may have been created which Is contrary to this fact of growth but the truth that about 14 incinerations have occurred in the united states which added to the large number in europe certainly indicates an increase |