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Show Tbc 1'irst New Yorker Cremated. New York, December 4. The incinerating apparatus at the crematory at Mount Olivet has bt,Qn completed, and the building will be formally opened at 2:30 to-morrow, when the body of Eugene Lievre will be placed in the resort for incineration. Lievre died about; a month ago, and his body has been in a vault in Greenwood since. Before death he asked to be the first one cremated. The building committee decided to have the opening on Saturday, but a telegram received re-ceived from Boston since then, requesting the cremation of a corpse from that city on that day, made a change of date necessary. Admission to the building to-day will be by ticket only. About 100 invitations have been issued. |