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[engraving drawing with caption: LAKE HIBISCUS, WITH CHADWICK TOMB ON LEFT. FOREST HILLS.]

CEMETERIES ARE NEGLECTED Chairman J. Albert Brackett of the Cemetery Committee Says That They are Dangerous for Visitors - Recommends That Some Be Opened Daily to the Public - Relic Hunters the Worst Foes.

Possibly the most interesting article in the third number of the City Record published today, is a communication from Chairmain J. Albert Brackett of the Cemetery Committee, who calls attention to the condition of the burial grounds of the city, now under the control of the Cemetery Committee, and urges an immediate appropriation in order to restore them to a respectable condition. For many years they have suffered from neglect, owing to lack of appropriations to keep the property in a decent condition.

"The older burial - grounds," says the communication, "are the resting places of many of our illustrious dead. Visitors in times past have noted with wonder the neglect of these grounds. The city´s relation to the burial-grounds is in every instance peculiar. The city has the care and custody of the grounds, while private owners claim the lots. The old form of graves consisted of a trench, in which the casket was placed, planks were laid over it, and the earth put on the planking and graded. Because of the rotting away of the planking, the visitor to the older burial-grounds is in danger at any moment of breaking through and incurring injury. Inasmuch as paths have been made and from time to time closed and then reopened again, in various portions of the cemeteries, it is impossible, owing to the displacement of headstones and markers, to say whether or not any particular spot in any cemetery is safe. For this reason, the department has felt it necessary to keep the gates of many of the older cemeteries closed to visitors except on special application, when an explanation is given the visitor before entering the ground of the danger he is likely to encounter. During the past summer, owing to this precaution, no accidents of any moment have occured.

"Plans of some of the older cemeteries exist, but they are of litle value, for the reason that they were not prepared till long after interments had begun in the cemeteries and that they have not been added to or corrected since they were originally prepared. In some instances the proprietors of graves and tombs are known, and their names recorded in this office, but the owners of the greater number of the graves and tombs are unknown. In many instances the tomb doors, originally of wood, have rotted away and fallen in, and the city has been obliged to seal them up. The older headstones are of slate, and time and weather have obliterated the lettering upon them. It would be well to have some of these stones recut because of their historical interest. The board has felt for some time that the burial-ground on the Common, and the King´s Chapel and the Granary burial-grounds, should be open daily to the public. But for reasons already stated, it is not safe to open them, nor will it be safe until proper soundings have been made and proper paths laid out.

"This board recognizes the need of a record or catalogue of the various tombs, headstones and interments in the older cemeteries, accordingly it has collected much information. Such a record, however, cannot be accurate, as it is impossible to locate interments where headstones have disappeared. In the older days it was a family custom to remove the coffin-plate, hence many of the caskets and tombs are without any mark to identify the remains which they cover. This record, incomplete as it is in many ways, will give to the public everything that can be found out at the present day in relation to the older cemeteries. Work on this record was begun early last summer, and is being pushed as fast as the funds of the department allow. We have found that a suprisingly large per cent of visitors to the city are interested in the older cemeteries, and during the summer a great many applications were received and granted to visit them. This board is of the opinion that all of the older cemeteries should be enclosed by proper walls and iron fences, not only for the sake of appearances, but for the protection of the property. Relic hunters are the worst foes that we have to contend with, as they do not hesitate to deface property and break monuments. For this reason it has been deemed advisable to station someone in the burial-grounds when visitors are present.

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A NEW CHAPEL AT MT. AUBURN. ------ Receiving Finishing Touches= = =An Administration Building Connected with It

[image: Engraving of Chapel] THE NEW CHAPEL AT MT. AUBURN CEMETERY.

[left margin sideways:] MT AUBURN'S NEW CHAPEL In the description of the new chapel at Mt. Auburn, printed in the Boston Herald on Dec. 9, it was erroneously stated that the woodwork was of dark oak. The entire woodwork, including beams and panelled ceiling, trusses, carved figures of angels and doors, is of Florida gulf cypress

On the right hand side of the main gate to Mt. Auburn cemetery, and near the high iron fence which separates the city of the dead from the busy thoroughfare, stands a group of red stone buildings on which the finishing touches are being put. The principal structure is the new chapel, and the other is an administration building, the two being connected by a cloister.

The administration building is the one [text cut off]

illustration. Enclosed cloisters connect the chapel with the administration building, all forming two sides of a rectangle.

Entering from the porte cochere, one finds himself in a low vestibule, with a

As the pews and pulpit are not in place, one can as yet get only a fairly good idea of the chapel as it will appear when finished.

The feature which first attracts attention is the roof, ceiled with dark oakwhich, by the way, is the finish throughout the buildingand supported by hammer beam trusses, the ends of the hammer beams being carved into the figures of angels, each of whom holds

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DESIGN FOR A NEW CHAPEL AT MT. HOPE.

It Is Expected That the Necessary Funds Will Be Provided to Build the Much Needed Structure Early in the Coming Year. -

[image of a church with caption: The above cut represents the proposed design for a new chapel for Mt. Hope cemetery. This chapel has long been demanded by the large number of owners of lots in this cemetery, and has been recognized by the present board of trustees as one of the most important needs of the cemetery. Mayor Quincy has several times urgently recommended an appropriation to meet this want of the cemetery, and it is expected that the necessary funds will be provided early in the coming year.]

KEPT INTACT FOR CENTURIES. - Proposed New Plan for Disposal of the Dead. - Bodies to Be Desiccated and Given a Permanent Resting Place in a Mausoleum - Natural Expression Preserved - No Danger of Burial Alive - Expense Not Large. [From Our Special Correspondent.]

NEW YORK, Jan. 8, 1898. At last science has awakened to the horrors of the grave and the need of a more modern and less grewsome method of disposing of the dead. For ages the question of this disposition of humanity's mortal remains has attracted the attention of learned men of all countries, but without a solution any more satisfactory than cremation.

Now, however, a body of scientists have invented a plan that, it is claimed, will dissipate much of the gloom of death and abolish the barbaric custom of interment. They propose to build huge mausoleums in the suburban districts of this city that will be "homes for the dead" - buildings fashioned after the pattern of great palaces, and as artistically and commodiously arranged inside as any library. To these sumptuous quarters the future dead of New York will be taken and placed in handsome private rooms, where they will be subjected to a simple, yet effective, process that will preserve or "mummify" them for all time to come. Years after a person is dead his or her friends may drive up to the magnificent building, through its flowered lawns, and by simply entering one of its scores of private apartments gaze upon the lifelike form and features of the departed, whose remains lie there as if in sleep.

Mr. Reese Carpenter, head of the Kensico Cemetery Company, pronounces the new method an admirable one. He says that by it the bodies of the dead

can be preserved intact for an indefinite period of time - forever if desired - that it will take from future funerals and last ceremonies all their most harrowing features, and will enable relatives and friends to participate in the rite without detriment to their own health, as is now so often the case. It will make it impossible, he says for a person to be buried alive.

When a body is taken to the proposed mausoleum it will immediately be placed in a specially prepared sepulchre, made ready to receive it. This sepulchre is a little larger than an ordinary coffin, and the body is placed in it prone. At the head of the sepulchre is a small hole to which is attached a tube, through which by means of a fan wheel a current of dry chemicalized air is gently driven over the remains, escaping through a similar hole near the feet. Prior to entering the sepulchre the air passes through an open vat of sulphuric acid. The chemical action of the acid upon the air removes all moisture from it. After leaving the coffin or sepulchre the air passes through a hot furnace and returns to the outer world through a tall chimney. The furnace kills any infectious germs which the air might have caught up in passing through the coffin.

The body is subjected to the dry air process for 30 days. Then the current is stopped, the tubes are removed and the body is in a state of preservation in which, it is claimed, it will remain for centuries. The features do not alter in the least, nor does the skin discolor. The latter, it is said, attains a white, marble-like appearance, and the flesh becomes hard and firm. While the process reduces the weight of the body, it does not seem to reduce its bulk. - The first experiments were made upon the bodies of animals. In the case of even a pig, despite the thickness of its cuticle, the effectiveness of the process was demonstrated to the satisfaction of the experimenters. In nine weeks the pig was reduced in weight from 22 pounds to 7 1/2 pounds, although it remained to all outside appearances as plump and rotund as at first. This experiment was particularly interesting on account of the discussion that followed the completion of the process. The effect of desiccation upon the tissues was ascertained; interstices were left where the fatty matter had been, and the drying of the muscular and fibrous tissues had changed the interior of the subject to a cellular and spongelike structure.

Experiments were then tried upon human bodies, with the same satisfactory results. One of these bodies, that of a man who weighed 164 pounds, was

watched continually for a period of eight months after having been subjected to the treatment, and at the end of that time the skin had not discolored in the slightest. It was as white as at first, although dry and hard, and when touched had a feeling somewhat like leather. The face and features were as perfect as when the man died.

From this and other tests scientists claim that desiccation by this method will preserve a body from all traces of decomposition and transform it into a condition in which it will remain an indefinite length of time. In this climate moisture is not regained in sufficient quantity to reinaugurate decay.

The architectural design of the proposed mausoleum is very elaborate. The building is to be surrounded by lawns and flower bordered drives, and if the intentions of the men who are to erect it are carried out it will, to a visitor, appear very much like one of our great public museums or libraries. Nowhere will there be any semblance of mourning or anything to indicate the presence of death.

On entering the great building the visitor will find himself in a beautifully decorated hall, not unlike the main halls of our big hotels. The walls will be frescoed, not with scenes of sorrow or images recalling unpleasant memories, but with bright, rich and delicate designs, and at the end of the hall will be a spacious and beautifully arranged conservatory. On either side of the hall doors will open into reception and retiring rooms, and elevators, as in a modern hotel, will take visitors to the floors above. Here, as well as on the main floors, doors will open into private rooms, and in these rooms the "mummified" remains will be found in placid repose. Each will be in a compartment having a glass front, over which curtains will fall. By simply drawing these apart the relatives of the dead may look upon the forms of their departed dear ones whenever and as often as they desire.

To render premature burial, or more properly, premature desiccation, impossible, as soon as a body is placed in the sepulchre an electrical apparatus is adjusted to it, so that the slightest movement of limb or muscle will start an alarm in the chief watcher's room and also in the office, which will continue ringing for hours, or until the body is visited. A specially devised indicator will direct the attention of the custodian to the particular sepulchre in which the movement has taken place. In addition to this, a custodian will regularly visit each sepulchre.

Another feature of this scientific process of the disposal of the dead, which the promoters claim to be a very impor-

tant one, is the inexpensiveness of the method.

The entire cost of desiccating a body and giving it a permanent resting place in this mausoleum will be but $70. Private rooms will, of course, cost more, and the rich man who desires such an expensive apartment for the sepulchre of himself and his entire family will be charged accordingly, and he may lavish as much money for decoration and rearrangement as he desires.

The estimated cost of the first mausoleum to be built is somewhat over $300, - 000, exclusive of land, it will accommodate 1500 bodies. Should it prove successful, larger ones will be constructed capable of holding no less than 10,000 mummified remains. Unlike the ancient Egyptian method, which necessitated the swathing of the body in endless bandages, the bodies subjected to this process will be laid out without other clothing than such garments as are now used when they are placed in the coffin.

WANT A CREMATORY. At the annual meeting of the proprietors of the Mt. Auburn cemetery, held yesterday afternoon in Horticultural Hall, Israel M. Spellman and Jerome Jones were re-elected trustees to serve until 1904. The annual report showed that the repair fund has increased $40, - 473.77 during the past year, and now amounts to $937,886.85; that the permanent fund is now $378,172.48, and that the general fund is $140,168.96. It also announces that the new office building and chapel will be completed by spring, and that the trustees have petitioned the Legislature for authority to establish a crematory.

[handwritten: Herald. Feb. 8, '98.]

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THE COST OF BURIAL. - Funerals All the Way from $28 up to $6000. - What Is Required of and by Undertakers. - The Process of Embalming Explained. - Notable Progress Made by Cremation. - A Fashion in Caskets - OneCent Burial in the West. - "What happens to us after we are dead?" was asked of one of the principal undertakers of Boston the other day.

His eyes twinkled, as he replied: "I suppose that depends a great deal on how we live before we die. Any clergyman can tell you about that better than I am able to."

It will be seen by this that undertakers are not always as serious as they look when professionally engaged.

"How cheaply can you bury me?" was the next question.

The man in black closed his eyes this time, and, after a moment's reflection, asked in return: "How much money have you? And how much will your friends contribute to have you put away?"

But, seeing that the reporter was not a man to be trifled with, the undertaker proceeded to answer his questions categorically:

"If you are not a pauper - in which case the city will pay for your interment with no ceremony to speak of - the cheapest funeral you can have in Boston will cost you or your surviving relatives or friends $28. Your mortal remains will be neither iced or embalmed. Buried at Mt. Hope cemetery, opening and filling your grave will cost $5, your coffin $10, your hearse, $8, and one carriage to follow it $5." - "And what is the costliest funeral that Boston can furnish?"

"That depends. About the best casket you can purchase here costs $1000. A great deal of work is put into the highpriced caskets. They are made of the finest English quartered white oak or mahogany, with carving so elaborate as to employ a skilled workman five or six weeks. Bevel plate glass is inserted in the lid, and the interior is lined, top, bottom and sides, with the very best of white satin, tufted by hand; this lining alone costs $100. There is a copper lining next to the wood; all its joints and seams are carefully soldered, and when the lid is screwed down a strip of pure rubber, acting as a washer between the metal edges, renders the casket perfectly air and water tight. Other caskets, interiorly finished as I have described, are covered on the outside with cloth - usually broadcloth of the best weave, and cost little less than the carved wood.

After you have got your casket, you can have $1000 worth of solid silver trimmings put on it. The silver on the casket of a western railroad man recently buried, weighed 64 pounds. A mahogany or red cedar box to inclose the casket will cost $75. Temporary embalming is $10 more. If the corpse is clad in a robe, a great deal of money may be laid out on it; I have seen women buried in robes of the richest silks and velvets, trimmed with hundreds of dollars worth of real lace. The use of a hearse will cost from $10 up. The best hearse in Boston, I may say, parenthetically, cost $2000 to build; but more expensive ones are occasionally to be found in other cities. The body of Carter Harrison, the murdered mayor of Chicago, was carried to the grave in a $15,000 hearse, that was exhibited at the World's fair and has since been sold to New Orleans parties.

"But to get back to Boston: Carriages for a funeral may be had in any number for $5 each. The price of a grave, of course, depends on the cemetery and location; you could probably have a $2000 grave if you wanted it - and could pay for the lot. To brick a grave - that is, to lay a slate slabe at the bottom, line the sides and ends with brick set in mortar, and cover it with another slab - costs about $25. A quartet to sing at the funeral or grave, or both, costs from $25 up to $200, according to the ability or reputation of the vocalists. Clergymen never make any regular charge for conducting funeral services, whether the deceased were members of their congregations or not; but it is customary to give them a gratuity, and this may run all the way from $5 to $100, according to the wealth or liberality of the family. Some clergymen, however, will not take anything; there are several such in Boston. Sometimes crape for the hats and arms and black kid gloves are supplied to the honorary as well as the actual bearers. Then, if services are held in a church, the edifice must be heated in cold weather, and the sexton and his assistants must be 'remembered.'

Flowers? Oh, those can hardly be reckoned into the legitimate expenses of a funeral, because they are mostly sent in by friends, and the family pays only for a few pieces, say, in extreme cases, where expense is no object, $100 to $200. On the whole, I fancy something like $5000 to $6000 may be paid for a funeral in Boston - a private funeral, I mean." - "Whaqt is the average cost - the sum most frequently paid?"

"About $110. Of this sum, $10 goes for the embalming, $60 for the casket, $4 for the box, $10 for the hearse, $20 for four carriages, and $5 for opening the grave." - "And children's funerals?"

"The cheapest will cost $13 - $5 for the coffin. $5 for a carriage, and $3 for opening the grave at Mt. Hope. The price of the dearest casket for a child runs from $150 to $200, and with the figures I have given you, you can easily arrive at the total cost." - "How about a pauper funeral?"

"I don't know exactly what the city pays, but I have an idea it is about $5. Seems small, doesn't it, for a man who has paid taxes in the city for years to be able to get only $5 from the municipality when the end comes? But I fancy there are few indigent persons buried with only what the city allows. Friends generally hustle around and raise money one way or another to keep the body from going to the Potter's field. In war times the goverment used to pay $14 for the burial of a soldier, and in a good many cities as much as $20 is now allowed for the interment of paupers. On the other hand, in some parts of the West, undertakers contract to bury the city poor, unidentified bodies and persons from out of town who die in their baliwicks for very small sums - in many instances only a few cents per corpse is the rate. But the men who accept these trifling amounts make their profit when a body they have interred is subsequently claimed by relatives. I was reading in The Herald the other day of a case where a resident of Bristol, Ct., died in the city hospital at Denver, Col., and was given a 'one-cent burial' by the contracting undertaker. This undertaker was so stiff in his charges when the dead man's relations sent for the body that their attorney, a Denver lawyer, placed the funeral arrangements in the hands of a rival. Undertaker No. 1 refusing to surrender the corpse, the county commissioners were appealed to and gave undertaker No. 2 an order to take it. Then No. 1 swore out an attachment and carried the remains back to his place, whereupon No. 2 obtained a writ of replevin, put up a redelivery bond, and once more got the body, into this establishment, where, at last accounts, it had been embalmed and was prepared for shipment East. No. 1 has not given up, howeverm and declares he will take the case to the court of last resort."

"What is the first proceeding when you are notified to take charge of a funeral?"

"We send two men to the house to lay out and embalm the body. It is first washed and, if a man, is shaved; but these duties are not generally performed by undertakers' men. After the embalming, underclothing is put on, and sometimes the clothing that the body will be buried in. Then certain information is obtained of the family, the nature of which I can best explain by giving you one of the blank forms which our men take with them, for it shows what an undertaker must do:

Name.......................................... Died..........189.....Aged.....Y.....M.....D. Color......Sex.....Single...Married...Widowed. Place of Death..................................... Residence....................................... Birthplace...................................... Wife or Widow of...................................... Occupation....................................... Name of Father...................................... Maiden Name of Mother..................................... Birthplace of Father............................................ Birthplace of Mother............................................ Cause of Death........................................... Physician's Name............................................... Address (St. and No.)........................................... Place of Interment............................................. Date of Interment............................................ ......Ft.........In.............Coffin or Casket How Lined............{White^{Cream..............}............^{Whole Length}Half Mattress.........Pillow........ Plate, solid silver or silver plated?.................. Handles, " " " " " or Textile?.. Copper or Zinc Metallic Inner Lining............. Packing Case: Cedar, $60 to $70; Oak, $20 to $40; Chestnut, $15 to $25; Pine, $4; Pine, zinc lined, $15. Shall we carry Box to Cemetery?................. $..................{^{Black....................}White...................} Robe ......Pairs......{^{Black Kid Li le Thread} White Cotton} Gloves Shaving?......Laying out?.......Dressing?..... Preserving Remains?.................................. Paid woman for laying out?................................. Hearse or Wagon to Office?............................. " " " " Depot or House?........... " " " " Cemetery?.......................... How many carriages?...Best or ordinary..... What flowers, if any?...................................... .................................................................... Is music wanted?.....Will they see to it?..... Will they see to Clergyman?...................... Where shall Carriage go for him?.....When... Will they attend to ordering Church and having pews reserved?...................................... Will there be Ushers at Church?.......................... Shall we furnish pall bearers?.........If so, how many?...................................................... Any chairs?...........If so, how many?........ Any police?............................................... Brick or common grave?..Cover with green?... Location of grave?.......................................... If in a Lot, mark location on diagram, marking Graves already occupied with names of persons buried in them, if possible. [diagram of Front lots with numbers]

In cases of doubt as to location of Grave, it is best for one of family to go to Cemetery and personally locate Grave on Lot. Sexton of church charges?............................. Give minister?......................................... Telegrams?....................................... Express charges or fares?................................ Bill to...................................................... Address (St. and No.)?...................................... INSCRIPTION FOR PLATE. Name..................................................... ..........Died........................................18 ..........Aged.........yrs......mos......days. NOTICE OF DEATH. Died in this city..........inst....................... .............................................................. .............................................................. ....Aged......yrs......mos......days. Funeral services from........................................... .............................................................. .....day......inst., at.....o'clock. Relatives and friends are invited to attend without further notice. Notices in what papers? Herald, Transcript, Globe, Post, Journal, Advertiser, Traveler, Record. BY RAILROAD. Mark box.................................................. ................................................................. Train leaves...................R.R. depot at ...............o'clock................day.................. CARRIAGE ORDERS. One carriage call for Rev............................. at......................................at.............o'clock. Shall this carriage take him home or go out?................................................... Any carriage for choir?..................Are they to be sent home?....................................... Any other calls?......................................... ................................................................ ................................................................ ................................................................ Whole number of carriages wanted.................. Have......of them at house at.......o'clock..... - I have carefully read over this report and certify that it is correct. Signature..................................................... Relationship to Deceased.............................. Postoffice Address.........................................

I certify to correctness of all facts in this paper. (Signed)................................................. - "There!" resumed the undertaker, "with one of those cards you can set up in the business yourself. You see that with the signature of one of the family appended after the blanks have been filled out, there can be no dispute about the items, and, beside that, one of our own men attests to the correctness of the whole. Then the undertaker must send to the cemetery superintendent, at least 24 hours before the time set for the burial, an order for interment signed by a proprietor or some authorized person. These orders we have printed, as you will see by this sample:

To the Superintendent of FOREST HILLS CEMETERY: The undersigned wishes on the......day of .............18.. to deposit in Lot No..... situated on.......................owned by.............the remains of............... late of...................who died at................ on the..........day of..........18 aged.......years, ...... months, ...... days. Dated at ....... this ..... day of .......18 (Signed)....................Proprietor of Lot No.... Address....................................... Funeral procession is expected to arrive at cemetery at............... o'clock. (Signed......................Undertaker.

"This order is not valid, however, unless accompanied by a city permit for interment, which can be obtained only on a physician's certificate as to the death. If the body is to be carried out of town for burial elsewhere, a permit for transportation must be procured, together with a certificate that death was not the result of infectious or contagious disease. Otherwise, the railroad, steamboat and express companies would not receive the corpse, for in most, if not all, the states the laws forbid entrance upon or transfer across their territory without such permit and certificate."

"Any more blank forms?"

"Only one, and that is for our own convenience - a 'list of carriages,' on which the names of the people who are to ride together are written against the numbers of the vehicles, so that they may be called at the door of the hosue or church as each carriage drives up. This saves a lot of confusion." - "I notice that you have said nothing about the cost of ice in your list of expenses. How is that?" was asked of the undertaker.

"We haven't iced a body in several years," was the reply, "and I suppose the same is true of other Boston undertakers. Temporary, embalming has taken the place of ice."

"A member of the United States Cremation Society recently declared in print that 'embalming is a butchery of the body.' Is there any truth in that?"

"Not the least. Only an ignorant person would say that. If we opened the body and removed any part, such a remark might perhaps be justifiable. But we do nothing of the kind, our process being merely the injection of a preservative fluid into the arteries. This may be done through the brachial artery in the arm, the femoral artery in the thigh, or the carotid artery in the neck. The latter, however, is rarely touched, and the femoral not often, the brachial being the artery commonly operated upon. The arteries, you know, carry the blood from the heart out to the extremities, whence it is returned through the veins; consequently, if the fluid is forced into one of the principal arteries, it permeates every part of the body. The operation, which should take place not later than six or eight hours after death, is very simple. A small incision, not more than an inch long, is made inside the arm at the elbow, the artery which is close to the surface, is lifted with a hook, and an opening made in it just large enough to admit the point of the nozzle of the little force pump that injects the fluid. About a pint of the fluid is used for temporary embalming. There are almost as many different fluids as there are undertakers, each having his own favorite preparation, the constituents of which he keeps a secret; there ar also numerous preparations in the market.

"You must understand that there are two kinds of embalming; one which is merely to preserve the body for a few days until its interment, the other of a more thorough and permanent character, calculated to preserve the body until it can be shipped, or until the arrival of friends coming from a long distance, or something of that sort. It is often the case, however, that the process intended for only a temporary preservation keeps a cadaver without perceptible change for many months. The greatest care must be taken in injecting the chemicals to prevent any air from entering the arteries. Should air get in, even though it be the smallest of bubbles, decay immediately begins wherever it stops; and in case it should lodge under the skin or the face, the results are likely to be deplorable.

"Temporary embalming requires from one to two hours; thorough embalming, that will preserve the body for a long period, takes much more time. Not much of the latter is done in Boston. In New York they have a school to which

STRONG MAN LOVERI Harvard's Young Giant in His Tests of Strength. The Journal this morning gives exclusively the only photographs taken of Arthur Lovering, the strong man of Harvard College. These photographs were taken at the Harvard Gymnasium while the student was under the supervision of Prof. Sargent, and therefore show clearly the development of the various muscles. Superb half-tone photographs of Mr. Lovering will be printed in the art supplement of the Sunday Journal of Dec. 27. These will be genuine photographs, obtainable only in the Sunday Journal. [Image: Drawing of man in shorts posting with his arms up to flex bicep muscles]

One of the most important athletic events that have occurred this year at Harvard is the magnificent showing made by Arthur Lovering, '97, last Friday at the Hemenway Gymnasium. It was made by the young student whose various muscles and whose physique are so admirably shown in the Journal's exclusive pictures today. It was reported that Lovering had broken the phenomenal record made by E. Klein in 1895, but on examination it was found that an error amounting to 10 points had been made in the calculation, so that the young Harvard Hercules fell just three and one-half points behind the famous Klein, instead of being six points ahead of him. This error, however, has made no difference in the eyes of the authorities at the gymnasium, who are confident that Lovering is capable of beating his previous record by some hunddred points, when he is in the best condition. As a matter of fact, Lovering has already broken the record by several points, although the test was an unofficial one. The advantages which Lovering has over his former competitor is in his all-round physical strength, and this, in the opinion of Dr. Sargent and the authorities at the Hemenway Gymnasium, is enough to rank him above Klein. The honor which Lovering can justly claim, however, is that of being the strongest man in Harvard today, and that this is no empty honor can be seen by his magnificent all-round showing. Klein made his record mainly through the great power of his legs, this strength enabling him to pull up much more than any previous competitor. Lovering, on the other hand, is finely developed in all particulars and is weak in none. In physique Lovering appears to the casual observer to be rather slight and would hardly be taken for the strongest man in Harvard. Even when stripped, Lovering has by no means a massive build, as can be seen by the accompanying pictures, which are all faithful representations of the young athlete in several different positions. Far from being muscle-bound, Lovering possesses an agility and pantherlike quickness in all his movements, which, in the opinion of the best judges, entitles him to a much higher rank than Klein. Lovering is a moderately fast runner, and it is not easy thing to beat him out even in a sprint. A "strong man" who can use his strength to good advantage in ordinary forms of exercise is by no means common, but Lovering surely falls under the title of useful. In foot ball he has done not a little. When he was at the Cambridge Latin School he was on the school eleven for several years, and always played a fast game behind the line. In his Freshman year at Harvard he made the '97 Freshman eleven, and played in the game against Yale until an injured wrist forced him to retire. Since that time Lovering has not played foot ball to any extent. He has, however, coached his old school eleven to a great extent. Lovering has also been identified with the Harvard Mott Haven team in the hammer and shot events. This fall Lovering formed the idea of trying for the crew, and Capt. Goodrich favored him for a trial the day after Mr. Lehmann left his pupils. Lovering is new to rowing, but if his immense strength can be utilized, he will be a strong oarsman. He will go on with the crew after the Christmas recess. Lovering is not tall and is rather slight. Perhaps the most striking point in his whole make-up is his small waist, which measures only about 28 inches.