The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 9, 1898, Page 25

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1898. . Preserves the Bodies in a Life-Like Gondition and Surpasses Any Process Known to the Egyptians. WONDERFUL PROCESS OF EMBALMING THE DEAD DISCOVERED. Body of a Child in Life-Like From a photograph. OF FOOT AND HAND. tograp bodles so treated if ly and in sson ined in his yathetic en- little ) f the bal one wh ouches for wing extract of August| is in one take Many other peace- Poggio- ncet has v shown | ay. 3 , whose bod was not twenty fashion stive of has on something magical occurred. This one that of which improve prac the rigidit { they had moment. to in n to the profession, = ts them and flexible as soft form the absence of ou lift the hand of a “Marin- n and hold it against the light it is seen to be of a transparent r Ferrara says that in looking foot of a woman that had been nized” he saw that it had ss of marble. Instead of think- tion of the body s whieh, in D tive that the s0 pre- 5 consistency of of the his thoughts dwelt much that upon its beaut and he wondered how n this en that foc had whirled in the mtact w ‘thmic waltz and how many men had ietallic ring from the | admired the ankle when they saw it peeping out of a dainty shoe. e restoration to this desiccated | Placed under the Roentgen rays, fied subject of the freshness, bodies preserved in this manner are s, the flexibility and completely transparent. When living | bodies are subjected to the fluoroscope of the natural state. A SOME OF FROST HAZARD. of death. |? the | S PICTURES OF A GO Preservation. bones very plainly; h revealed by a slight they show the they are only darker tint. One point that is noteworthy about the process is shown by this experi- ment. The hands of a woman suffe: |ing from dropsy were ‘“Marinized. eristics. value of the application of what ¢ be termed the “life-like” process 2 evident in medical Jjurisprudence. | Bodies that are not identified may be | preserved indefinitely. In case of a | murder the corpse of the victim might | be produced in court months | death to show the nature of the Wounds. In Marini’'s collection he has a heart plerced by a dagger, which looks as fresh as the day on which it beat for | the last time. It is in such a condition | that it might be handed to the jury in | a murder trial for their examination. In the Guldensuppe murder case and in the Bridgeport mystery the value of UNLUCKY “JACK” JUST ASHORE. | Tricks That dre Played Upon the Man-of-war's Man by Unconscionable Rascals to Rob Him af His | | after | | | HE return of our torfous squadron from Cuba ated in New York a condition of affairs | which requires a new reading of two homel saws to do it jus “All roads lead to the Bower ‘Jack and his money are soon 1” tell the stor quipped with nforced accumulation of four or months' salary, the sailors of son’s and Schley’s fleets were in full possession of that portion of the city dear to the blue jacket's heart. cer, who was standing by watching the | it s¢ that your | operation. *Better put it away in some | Bracé up, man; you must go at onc | safe bank and let it draw interest for| “We talked it over, Millie and me,” | your old age. Another cruise of the | mumbled the fo: on the mattress. *It same—"" | was a farm we decided on. I was to Saving your pardon, can‘ain, I ain’t aptain and Millie was Fror e hour when the first liberty boat touched the dock on the direct route to the Bowery, a new order of | affairs have prevailed. It has been a | dry and desolate season there since the | 1ate gged so many geod cus- tomers away in haste. The Bowery that famous stretch of coast which many a naval sailor has to his own undoing, and who: cobblestone could giv in fights and frauds 1d midnight crimes, was a symmer resort in De- cember. The news that the sallor heroes were coming home again caused a wave of everish activity throughout the Bow- ery, stores were rented and hastily fitted up with counter and shelves and experts with corkscrew or club were en- d, ; preparation necessary to luring of the sailor's dollar was Then a stillne settled over the famous street. It was the calm before the storm. \.\thn a warship was paid off at the York street and war dr 2 every g the mad Marini is most prou Heproci o & |1 Wb LD s keeps the bodies perma- |, s harks. Thefts 1tly sweet and supple, he igering became so frequent that more than one captain arranged ave his crew taken from the yard New York City on a Government But this was a_wasted precau- In those days the brutal high- robbery of the navy-yard's envi- ronments compared with the more sub- tle thievery of the Bowery as a lead pipe does with a jeweled dagg Jack was ashore to be robbed, and he seldom is destiny. aped In 1883 the corvette Nipsic reached | 1‘;]4. Brooklyn yard from a long cruise | pink. In the case of a woman all the |on the European station. In her crew | Qelicate tints are there, changing In|was a seaman who had managed to i 1 the nalls are reached. The the rating of chief quartermaster subjecte the softness of that of a |} ot attention to duty. His pay ; or demonstratior » and instead of suggesting a 35 a month, and he contrived to ATl el ed or a tomb the human clay |save $30. On previous cruises he had e i s feelings of sympathy. | Been a spendthrift and a “fourth class | man” of the worst description, and this | change of attitude surprised his ship- mates. “What's up with Bill?” they ked. “He's either getting nutty or | else some widdy's got him in tow. He | wouldn't draw any monthly money last | time, and the pay clerk almost turned a fit. Bill will be in the asylum at f\\':«slflnz(«'n before long.” | But “Bill” continued to save and also | to add to his income by making caps and fine mustering shirts for the less | thrift members of the crew. When the | Nip farm out on Long Island. When the Vandalia was paid off af- raising h—1 long enough, and now I'm | ter a cruise in the later eighties, a going to raise something more re-| iy Jittle Irishman named Duffy, a spectable. Those of his shipmates | framan on board, left the ship with within hearing grinned broadly. Bill|, ool $300 in his “monk bag.” He was | a8 a farmer was the best joke of the|,qhore for a good time, and he went cruise, As he went below to pack his| ¢, the Eowery to find it. That night { black bag he was the subject of much |y 0% SO, T DL S pea | good-natured raillery. upon | drifted | .xpert testimony | master-at-arms. = “It's mighty bad | ROliceman paid his carfare to DR. EFISIO MARINI uising nowadays along York street.” | e e e e | Wity don’t.yon CHatter & canal boal |t SEEF 0C BEE POR(er U GuC 00 to take you to Hayseed harbor?” said | covered some of his usual good spir-|of petrifaction. He changes a human another shipmate with mock concern, | \tS Duffy asked for liberty, but It Was | body to the consistency of marble—even | “I'd help to smuggle you out of the|denied him because he was In debt | the softest portions of the flesh, even | ship after eight bells if you pass the | fOF his new outfit. | the blood. word.” “I'll lay you a double eagle you | Shortly ter midnight he slipped | Perhaps the most remarkable achieve- are knocking at the navy yard gate |Over the side to the dock by way of a ment of Dr. rini in “marn.eizing” before this time next week,” was the | mooring hawser and made his escape |a human body was when he petrified ship’s cook’s comment, and at last | from the Yard through the “swamp,” | Cardinal Guillaume Sanfelice in the Bill's ire was aroused. | as the land north of the marine bar- | short space of four, days. “You blemed muddle-fingers don’t|racks was called. There was just a| As he was during his life so is the seem to understand the case, confound | touch of gray in the east when Duffy, | cardinal in his death. The face re- you!" he shouted. “This ain’t no sud- | hilarious and lurching, appeared on | minds one, by its serene sweetness, of den resolve, mates. When I got home | the dock again. He saluted the aston- | the mystic faces which Fra Angelico from the China station last cruise, I|ished sentry with a wave of his hand, | had the secret of depicting. It pre- found that my little girl had growed al- | staggered up the gangway, and |serves still the benign smile which most into a woman. She was staying|as he stepped on board his|made it so dear to the Neapolitans, with her grandmother, and it 'K | foot slipped and he fell prostrate | When bending his handsome forehead at the York street gate and demanded | SII 88 IS square wid him.” He sub-| The preservatio. of the Cardinal sug- | admittance. He was battered and |Sided Into a peaceful sleep in the gests that other great men may by the | bruised. a nondescript suit of rageed | Prig” and the mystery remained un- | Marini process be handed down to pos- | | overalls clothed him, and he spoke in | S0lved until the morning papers ap- | terity. The process seems to make un- a hesitating, r o as if his|Peared with a scare head article an- | necessary the work of the sculptor. | : 5 We can keep our heroes not in stone | made by the rope used to drag the vic- the Marini process would have been very great. Nelaton, the physician of Napoleon | gated the Marini discoveries. | Nelaton gave the Neapolitan two bodies to preserve, and this he did in 1868. One was that of an old man who | had been mysteriously murdered. The body looks to-day as it did thirty years ago. Round the neck is still the furrow a tim along the street to a spot remote from the place where he had met his end. The woman is of the same criminal type. She also was the victim of an a sin. The identity of n was known at the time Mar! i ed them to his proc and they endless. It can be applied to animals, never have been known had not the | and the natural history museums of doctor of Naples arrested the processes | the future will be practically a me- of nature. nagerie—not a collection of unnatural- The “life-like” process may be applied | 1 to a body that has been dried up; the | Accumulated Earpings. master stepped up to the table and , a drew the tidy sum of $1020. “I hope | vou will take care of that money, Cal- | kins,” spoke up the commanding offi- | t coming back,” interrupted Bill proudly. “I've had enough of the service, sir, I've got a little girl awaitin’ for me and me and her are going to start a I've been “‘Better steer a night, mate,” advised the course by me it was near time I helped he | c in the world. We talked it over and I| promised to save every penny and we'd | p start a little farm. I've saved the and I'm going to put that little i1 want, s'help me if I don't. fellers.” psic was put under re without going out of commission, preparations for shipping a new |t crew ambling way d “Want to ship?” a big discharge quartermaster. May be I'll buy mind was affected. he whispered. “Got and a ratin’ of chief Got a little girl, too. a farm fur her some day. We talked it over, and—say, want to go aboard the guardo and sign in. Had a terri- ble time 'shore and want to get back in service again. Lemme in, will yo “It's Bill Calkin 1id the watch man to the marine The sharks got | him after all. 1 heard he was pald off | with a wad as big as your right ]eg'.l No use in talking, there are strings on ¢ b can’t nohow resist 'em.” Bill was escorted tq the recelving ship and permitted to sleep upon an old | it. hammock mattress spread on the for- | utive da: ward berthdeck. About eight bell | was paid off the chief quarter- ! midnight, the sergeant of the guard | hour he is punished by restriction. tissues will become soft again. Marini, took a fragment of an Egyptian mum- my, III, by order of the Emperor investi- | rc what wa feat the dried up human foot, sure its identit it to its natur and pink, the arteries and veins in such a state that liquids might have been tograph statement of these facts, is & valued famous the was a loud jingling of coin and a vast | half-dollars | shouted proudly to the anchor ws nouncing that the saloon of one Mi- entered during the night, that the cash that Murph and that a sailor’s knife lanyard had been found on the premises. A few |superior to anything the Egyptian ever detectives prowled around the yard |dreamed of as is the ocean greyhound for several dz but Duffy was kept |to an Brie Canal barge. This difference under cover by hi and the affair was finally forgotten. the naval sailor has it. the rum over in the Bowery and you | demned to pasy the greater part of his time on board a vessel much too small | of Egyptian mummies. He has a foot | and cramped for the crew occupying | which was mummified by nature and | He can seldom secure two consec- | which was taken from a vault in the ashore, and if he should | Cathedral of Venzone, where all the | Marbelized Body of Cardinal Guglielmo San From a Photograph. dead for five thousand years, and tored the flesh-like characteristics to left of the tissue For this apolitan received the cross »f the Legion of Honor. Nelaton, to test Marini, gave him a marking it to as- asking him to restore 1 condition. In a few ni handed back the foot, fresh days Mar njected. This foot, with Nelaton's au- xhibit in the collection of the embalme: The possibilitie overy are at ooking stuffed cr The second proc of Marini is that and the mate, acting as the officer of | deck, attempted to rouse him. “Here's a telegram, Calkir claimed he officer. “It’s from your home and little girl is dead. | And we was goi se garden truck and lept again. drugged and beaten. A the f every cent, 1 his hand to | with a gentle air he rai )n has some- )n the edge of the quarterdeck. There bless them. The expres thing about it spiritual, ethereal, which n of the late Cardinal f number of dimes, nickels fell from Duffy’s pockets | 8ives to the pers and rolled haphazard over the deck. | the simple, pure look of the saints A i i old. The face has a look which mak one think that the dead priest was | worn out with works of piety, which | | his ardent love for humanity made him accomplish, but still smiling, despite it, oop, which had ha ‘It's all mor hafe, Murph , Who kapes the gin mill or plaster, but in the flesh Some such motive, in addition to their | religious beliefs, doubtless influenced | | the ancient Egyptians when they made their mummies. But the proc hael Murphy on the Bowery had been irawer had been robbed of its contents, himself had been set upon s and beaten insensible, by the burg of Marini Is as far s admiring shipmates { is very well demonstrated in Marini's | little museum, which contains samples of the work of those who preceded him in his specialty. In his showcase are It there is any excuse for roystering He is con- many fragments overstay his leave by so much as an |dead bodies are perfectly preserved be- cause of a species of little fungus which Felice. OF NAPLES, Inventor of the Process. From a photograph. formed on the skin and living as a par- asite reduced it to a state of dryness that prevented decay. One of the most precious souvenirs which Marini petrified was some blood of Garibaldi. ~ He made it into.a-medal and offered it to the general in order that he, as Marini wrote him, might In looking at it, brace himself up for his last fight, and that others might remember it as a part of the same blood that the hero shed on the rocks of D’Aspromonte. In the middle of the medal are en- graved these words: “The blood of Garibaldi is forever red.” In spite of the honors have showered upon modest. For thirty years he has lived at Na- ples on’ his private practice. All sorts of oppertunities have been offered him td g0 to foreign countries, where he could cientific men Marini he is make large sums out of his abilities, but these offers only make n miser- able. He is a and they show own country appre- rison with others. him how little h clates him in comp He would consider it a crime to emi= grate with his discoveries. He thinks they belong But that country, unfortunat not m to be in the active intelle on neces- sary to appreciate at > worth a man of Marir capacity At one time it looked—that was In 1871—as if Italy were going to recognize his merit. The Minister of Public In- struction created a commission to in- vestigate his work, but nothing came ofs it except some flattering testimonials, In some places Marini has been de- nounced as a sorcerer and a devil—a man who used the black arts of the al- chemist of former da. spending his time in trying to extract from bodies the elixir of life. Others look upon him as a crank. Marini himself has often become discouraged. He saia recently to Ferrara, sighing, his white head bowed with grief: X “Believe me, my dear sir, believe me, I shall finish by throwing everything into the sea.” LIE LEER'S WOES. FOREII] PUBLISHED BY HARPER BROS. RO SCORE.