CREMATION IN PARIS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 214, 3 April 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

CREMATION IN PARIS.

So great has been tbe growth of feeling in Paris in favour of cremation as a means of disposing of the dead that decorative artists and sculptors are preparing to adapt themselves to the crematory movement, which has now iv its favour a vote of the Municipal Council adopting the plan of a mortuary furnace, and granting a site in Pgre la Chaise, where it will operate early in 1886. The expense of cremation is not. it is settled, to exceed 15 francs. The municipality will at % future sitting vote the construction of m sort of lay temple, where families will be allowed to keep urns or other funeral vessel containing the ashes of dead relative*. This will not neoessarily do away with any religious ceremony short of that of consigning the dead to consecrated ground ; but, as M. Koechlin Schwartz says, there is no reason why urus may not be consecrated, or why Protestants, Catholics, Jews, and Freethinkers may not subscribe to build a vast Mausoleum in which the ashes of thousands could be deposited in beautiful vessels without injury to the living. It is probable that cremation being now legal in such an art centre as Paris, new and beautiful forms of artistic decoration will grow out of it. The time reqnired for the combustion of an adult at Pgre la Chaise will bn two hours. — Paris correspondent Daily News.