Pottsville Republican of September 27, 1889
COLONEL ZULICK DEAD
Colonel Thomas C. Zulick died at his residence in Schuylkill Haven this morning at one o'clock, aged sixty eight years. He had been suffering from general debility for over a year and recently contracted pyaemia, or blood poisoning, from a wound inflicted while paring a callous on his foot. Colonel Zulick was formerly collector for the Schuylkill canal at Schuylkill Haven and about 1870 when the canal was leased to the P. & R. Company, he was made superintendent. Several years ago he retired from active life and has been living quietly at his residence in Schuylkill Haven since. During the war he was one of the foremost in raising troops and caring for the families of the absent soldiers, for which offices of kindnesses the old veterans still retain a kindly feeling for him and his memory. He was married twice and his first wife was a sister of the late James Newell of Pottsville. His present wife, an estimable lady, formerly resided in Norristown. He left no children.
Pottsville Republican of October 2, 1889
COLONEL ZULICK'S CREMATION - An Authentic Account of the Incineration by a "Republican" Representative Without wishing to intrude upon the privacy of the grief of the sorrowing relatives nor belittle the solemnity of the occasion, the "Republican" has garnered a few facts incident to the cremation of the body of the late Colonel T. C. Zulick. The remains were placed on the 3:00 p. m. Pennsylvania train Monday, accompanied by a few male relatives, arriving at Chelton Avenue Station, Philadelphia, at dark,whence carriages were taken for East Washington Lane, several miles distant on the outskirts of Germantown, reaching the Philadelphia
Cremation Society's works about seven o'clock. The body was at once taken into the preparing room and made ready for incineration by removing the outer clothes but leaving on the underwear, after which the whole was encased in an alum sheet, and when all was ready
placed within the retort and allowed to remain there about nine hours till next morning, when the ashes were removed and all that was left of the mortal remains of our late friend and fellow citizen placed in an urn for future preservation. Previous to leaving the house at
Schuylkill Haven, the full Episcopal Church service was read and in the language of one present "was the most solemn funeral service I've ever seen or heard".
To give general information in regard to this method of disposing of bodies of the dead, the "Republican" can state that this aesthetic method of the disposition of our dead is highly endorsed by the professors of our medical institutions and eminent physicians and clergy.
The Cremation Society is now in the third year of existence. The building erected on the grounds of the Chelton Hills Cemetery is the finest of its kind in the United States and the only one which contains a chapel with a seating capacity for three hundred persons. It has an extensive columbarium, with niches for the preservation of ashes of the dead and has the most approved apparatus for the incineration of bodies. The retort in which the corpse was placed was heated to a temperature of twenty six hundred degrees Fahrenheit
and the confined heated air reduced the corpse to clean white ashes in about ninety minutes. This corrects a popular fallacy that the corpse comes in direct contact with the flames. In order to have the ashes clear and white it is best to use a shroud made of any white
material. The charge for the incineration of one body is fifty dollars, but anyone can become a member of the society by purchasing a ticket of cremation for thirty five dollars. Services of any denomination can be held in the chapel, from the floor of which the body sinks
unobserved to the crematory after the service. A receptacle for the ashes is furnished without extra charge.
COLONEL ZULICK DEAD
Colonel Thomas C. Zulick died at his residence in Schuylkill Haven this morning at one o'clock, aged sixty eight years. He had been suffering from general debility for over a year and recently contracted pyaemia, or blood poisoning, from a wound inflicted while paring a callous on his foot. Colonel Zulick was formerly collector for the Schuylkill canal at Schuylkill Haven and about 1870 when the canal was leased to the P. & R. Company, he was made superintendent. Several years ago he retired from active life and has been living quietly at his residence in Schuylkill Haven since. During the war he was one of the foremost in raising troops and caring for the families of the absent soldiers, for which offices of kindnesses the old veterans still retain a kindly feeling for him and his memory. He was married twice and his first wife was a sister of the late James Newell of Pottsville. His present wife, an estimable lady, formerly resided in Norristown. He left no children.
Pottsville Republican of October 2, 1889
COLONEL ZULICK'S CREMATION - An Authentic Account of the Incineration by a "Republican" Representative Without wishing to intrude upon the privacy of the grief of the sorrowing relatives nor belittle the solemnity of the occasion, the "Republican" has garnered a few facts incident to the cremation of the body of the late Colonel T. C. Zulick. The remains were placed on the 3:00 p. m. Pennsylvania train Monday, accompanied by a few male relatives, arriving at Chelton Avenue Station, Philadelphia, at dark,whence carriages were taken for East Washington Lane, several miles distant on the outskirts of Germantown, reaching the Philadelphia
Cremation Society's works about seven o'clock. The body was at once taken into the preparing room and made ready for incineration by removing the outer clothes but leaving on the underwear, after which the whole was encased in an alum sheet, and when all was ready
placed within the retort and allowed to remain there about nine hours till next morning, when the ashes were removed and all that was left of the mortal remains of our late friend and fellow citizen placed in an urn for future preservation. Previous to leaving the house at
Schuylkill Haven, the full Episcopal Church service was read and in the language of one present "was the most solemn funeral service I've ever seen or heard".
To give general information in regard to this method of disposing of bodies of the dead, the "Republican" can state that this aesthetic method of the disposition of our dead is highly endorsed by the professors of our medical institutions and eminent physicians and clergy.
The Cremation Society is now in the third year of existence. The building erected on the grounds of the Chelton Hills Cemetery is the finest of its kind in the United States and the only one which contains a chapel with a seating capacity for three hundred persons. It has an extensive columbarium, with niches for the preservation of ashes of the dead and has the most approved apparatus for the incineration of bodies. The retort in which the corpse was placed was heated to a temperature of twenty six hundred degrees Fahrenheit
and the confined heated air reduced the corpse to clean white ashes in about ninety minutes. This corrects a popular fallacy that the corpse comes in direct contact with the flames. In order to have the ashes clear and white it is best to use a shroud made of any white
material. The charge for the incineration of one body is fifty dollars, but anyone can become a member of the society by purchasing a ticket of cremation for thirty five dollars. Services of any denomination can be held in the chapel, from the floor of which the body sinks
unobserved to the crematory after the service. A receptacle for the ashes is furnished without extra charge.
Pottsville Republican of September 27, 1889
COLONEL ZULICK DEAD
Colonel Thomas C. Zulick died at his residence in Schuylkill Haven this morning at one o'clock, aged sixty eight years. He had been suffering from general debility for over a year and recently contracted pyaemia, or blood poisoning, from a wound inflicted while paring a callous on his foot. Colonel Zulick was formerly collector for the Schuylkill canal at Schuylkill Haven and about 1870 when the canal was leased to the P. & R. Company, he was made superintendent. Several years ago he retired from active life and has been living quietly at his residence in Schuylkill Haven since. During the war he was one of the foremost in raising troops and caring for the families of the absent soldiers, for which offices of kindnesses the old veterans still retain a kindly feeling for him and his memory. He was married twice and his first wife was a sister of the late James Newell of Pottsville. His present wife, an estimable lady, formerly resided in Norristown. He left no children.
Pottsville Republican of October 2, 1889
COLONEL ZULICK'S CREMATION - An Authentic Account of the Incineration by a "Republican" Representative Without wishing to intrude upon the privacy of the grief of the sorrowing relatives nor belittle the solemnity of the occasion, the "Republican" has garnered a few facts incident to the cremation of the body of the late Colonel T. C. Zulick. The remains were placed on the 3:00 p. m. Pennsylvania train Monday, accompanied by a few male relatives, arriving at Chelton Avenue Station, Philadelphia, at dark,whence carriages were taken for East Washington Lane, several miles distant on the outskirts of Germantown, reaching the Philadelphia
Cremation Society's works about seven o'clock. The body was at once taken into the preparing room and made ready for incineration by removing the outer clothes but leaving on the underwear, after which the whole was encased in an alum sheet, and when all was ready
placed within the retort and allowed to remain there about nine hours till next morning, when the ashes were removed and all that was left of the mortal remains of our late friend and fellow citizen placed in an urn for future preservation. Previous to leaving the house at
Schuylkill Haven, the full Episcopal Church service was read and in the language of one present "was the most solemn funeral service I've ever seen or heard".
To give general information in regard to this method of disposing of bodies of the dead, the "Republican" can state that this aesthetic method of the disposition of our dead is highly endorsed by the professors of our medical institutions and eminent physicians and clergy.
The Cremation Society is now in the third year of existence. The building erected on the grounds of the Chelton Hills Cemetery is the finest of its kind in the United States and the only one which contains a chapel with a seating capacity for three hundred persons. It has an extensive columbarium, with niches for the preservation of ashes of the dead and has the most approved apparatus for the incineration of bodies. The retort in which the corpse was placed was heated to a temperature of twenty six hundred degrees Fahrenheit
and the confined heated air reduced the corpse to clean white ashes in about ninety minutes. This corrects a popular fallacy that the corpse comes in direct contact with the flames. In order to have the ashes clear and white it is best to use a shroud made of any white
material. The charge for the incineration of one body is fifty dollars, but anyone can become a member of the society by purchasing a ticket of cremation for thirty five dollars. Services of any denomination can be held in the chapel, from the floor of which the body sinks
unobserved to the crematory after the service. A receptacle for the ashes is furnished without extra charge.
COLONEL ZULICK DEAD
Colonel Thomas C. Zulick died at his residence in Schuylkill Haven this morning at one o'clock, aged sixty eight years. He had been suffering from general debility for over a year and recently contracted pyaemia, or blood poisoning, from a wound inflicted while paring a callous on his foot. Colonel Zulick was formerly collector for the Schuylkill canal at Schuylkill Haven and about 1870 when the canal was leased to the P. & R. Company, he was made superintendent. Several years ago he retired from active life and has been living quietly at his residence in Schuylkill Haven since. During the war he was one of the foremost in raising troops and caring for the families of the absent soldiers, for which offices of kindnesses the old veterans still retain a kindly feeling for him and his memory. He was married twice and his first wife was a sister of the late James Newell of Pottsville. His present wife, an estimable lady, formerly resided in Norristown. He left no children.
Pottsville Republican of October 2, 1889
COLONEL ZULICK'S CREMATION - An Authentic Account of the Incineration by a "Republican" Representative Without wishing to intrude upon the privacy of the grief of the sorrowing relatives nor belittle the solemnity of the occasion, the "Republican" has garnered a few facts incident to the cremation of the body of the late Colonel T. C. Zulick. The remains were placed on the 3:00 p. m. Pennsylvania train Monday, accompanied by a few male relatives, arriving at Chelton Avenue Station, Philadelphia, at dark,whence carriages were taken for East Washington Lane, several miles distant on the outskirts of Germantown, reaching the Philadelphia
Cremation Society's works about seven o'clock. The body was at once taken into the preparing room and made ready for incineration by removing the outer clothes but leaving on the underwear, after which the whole was encased in an alum sheet, and when all was ready
placed within the retort and allowed to remain there about nine hours till next morning, when the ashes were removed and all that was left of the mortal remains of our late friend and fellow citizen placed in an urn for future preservation. Previous to leaving the house at
Schuylkill Haven, the full Episcopal Church service was read and in the language of one present "was the most solemn funeral service I've ever seen or heard".
To give general information in regard to this method of disposing of bodies of the dead, the "Republican" can state that this aesthetic method of the disposition of our dead is highly endorsed by the professors of our medical institutions and eminent physicians and clergy.
The Cremation Society is now in the third year of existence. The building erected on the grounds of the Chelton Hills Cemetery is the finest of its kind in the United States and the only one which contains a chapel with a seating capacity for three hundred persons. It has an extensive columbarium, with niches for the preservation of ashes of the dead and has the most approved apparatus for the incineration of bodies. The retort in which the corpse was placed was heated to a temperature of twenty six hundred degrees Fahrenheit
and the confined heated air reduced the corpse to clean white ashes in about ninety minutes. This corrects a popular fallacy that the corpse comes in direct contact with the flames. In order to have the ashes clear and white it is best to use a shroud made of any white
material. The charge for the incineration of one body is fifty dollars, but anyone can become a member of the society by purchasing a ticket of cremation for thirty five dollars. Services of any denomination can be held in the chapel, from the floor of which the body sinks
unobserved to the crematory after the service. A receptacle for the ashes is furnished without extra charge.
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