Cremation
It is nóteworthy that, though in each of the American crematorles more men than women have been cremated, the movemont abroad was practically begnn by women, Lady Dilke of England and a Germán woman having been cremated at Dresden. Wnen efforts were made in the years 1873-74 on the continent of Europe, in England, and in the United States, in favor of the crematlon of the Cead, Lady Rose Mary Crawshay was one of its prominent ad■ocatee. A number of well-known romen in tfcle country have expressed themselves decldedly in favor of cremation. Among them are Olive Thorne Mlller, Mre. Lippincott, Mra. Í. C. Croly, Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Mrs. Alice D. Le Plongeon, the late Kat Field, Rose Eliáabeth Cleveland and Edith Thomas. At a public nneting Mrs. Ballington Booth referred to the time when her body should be carrled to the crematory. The total nuniber of cremations in the United States from 1876, when the flrst crematory was established, to the close of 1895, wae reported to be 4,647. Nearly 1,000 perBons were cremated In the laat year in twenty-one crematories. In the crematory at Fresh Pond, N. Y., eighty-five boys and elxty-glrls we?8 incinerated. The number of men cremated in New Yorfc is more than doublé the numbci of women.
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