New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-02-09
THE PEABODY FUNERAL.


PRINCE ARTHUR AMONG THE M0URSERs.
PEABODY, Feb. s.-George Peabody is buried.
Thel ast funeral have taken place In ths
his native town. and the casket containing all that 10
Of the phanthropst Of the present century now
In a tomb IN Harmony Grove There will the body
main until the relatives upon some spot where
grave may be dug aud the dust be literally returned to
dust = 4s-------.~-ss-
Since the first announcement that the Monarch had
sailed from England the public mind has been more or
less directed to the funeral but the long delays when
seem TO have been necessary have coyed IN measure
the desire to the deceased In the manner when
his prineey gifts called for Some OF the Boston news
papers have facetous in their methods Oh aindag
to the supject, while ventures the remark that
Mr.. Peabody has been more thoroughly buried thah
any other known TO this generation, another says
that the tresome DELAYS and extreme length OF the
funeral services will wealthy men against sueh
muncence II it IL to he rewarded after death IN TINS
manner Boston newspapers would not print sneh senu-
they did feel the public pulse with the incest
precision enable to give utterance to public feel
Ing The talk which hears in the hotel, counting
rooms stores borsecas aud private dwellings sho"sthat
the people are unanimous in the belief that the bus-
ness" they ca IT, has been sadly oyerdone, but Just
whom to blame ventures To say.
IL would be ndecorous speak OF this feeling were
the public muttering less universal; but after ALL tho
people In this who have been loudest In their
dsapprova OF 80 much fuss" over Mr. Peabody wero
In the front rank OF the
Institute and opened their widest when viewing
the cataallue the casket and the sk.velvet decora
tlons During the week many thousands OF people have
visited the town, aud some days, by actual count
1909 and passed In and out OF the Institute
hours time. II s not exaggeraon TO say that the
Institute has literally packed with humanity and
people many miles to satisfy their curiosity
There are few persons in this quiet town W no knew
George Peabody a schooboy; but there many who
knew him personally later years OF his life,
whose acquaintance they delighted to cultivate, aud
whose memory they will always respect "a that OF one
who during life HIS belief that
| 4" education Is debt due from present to
since the deceased philaBthropst made his first
public charity the form OF gift to his native town for
educational purposes Mr. Peabody visited this town In
1885, he had public reception, at which the late
Everett delivered Of the best OF his shortest
orations The VISIT and that which Is stl fresh In
the minds people OF this section made IN tho
Summer of 1869, when he invited number Of personal
friends several OF the Of his various chart
ties 20 meet him at the Institute The list Of visitors in
cluded the Hon. Charles SUMNER Gov. Clafin the Hon.
Robert c. winthrop ex-Goy. clifford, Mr. Oliver Wendell
Holmes Mr. James L. Bebee, Mr.. Stephen sausbury. and
others famed for political distinction wealth. The ag.
gregate wealth represented by twenty thirty gentle
that occasion amounted TO more than hfty NIL
lions dollars The day not one Of unaoyed pleas
ure, however Mr. Peabody was Ill, his digestive Or
being impaired tnat Deer Tea ABOUT
nourshment Perhaps the visitors may have entertained
the idea their distinguished friend would not long
remain on the shores time, but the tenure Of life IL
uncertain and prolon ged under most un
favorable circumstances that hardly !of them ex.
pected 10 participate such ceremonies as have trans
| Iired to-day, 10 SO brief space Of time.
1t this visit which the citizens Of this place and the
| surrounding country have remembered to-day, and
nearly every man you meet has anecdote trnina
incident to tell audo to- which under other circun-
| stances might have passed from memorys page In
month One gentleman tells that the last time he
saw Mr. Peabody he sitting In the meanest seat on
the whole train OF and he does this to show how
democratic wealthy man could be- Others tell you OF
his personal appearance how perceptby he had failed
physically since his 1885, when he strong ana
vigorous and babe far to live score OF years beyond
the length the earthly career allotted 10 man. Other
men have other anecdotes which are not 80 pleasing az
Just this time, but their statements only show how OH
cult is for all men to look the good which the dead
have done and not that which they have left undone
for II is impossible for many throw the mantle Of char
ty over tho departed and remember them for they
| were rather than for what they were not
The weather was duh and damp this morning. and tho
day opened most spiclousy the Snow
began TO fall 1t O'clock and il again remarked thas
Il stormed WI en- body placed on tho Monarch In
| England, when It was landed at Portland. when the
funeral ceremonies took place in the latter city, and to
day when the dual ceremonies held. Thousands Of
the time the special train containing Prince Arthur aud
SUITE Minister Thornton tho several British naval
officers Cows Clafn OF Massachusetts, Sterns OF New
Hampshire, Chamberlain OF Maine numerous military
officers and citizens ~ distinction the town was crowded
| with visitors.
| After their arrival at Peabody, the Prince and his
party proceeded the residence OF Col A. A. ABBOTT
Cha rinan of Funeral Committee. and the other VS.
itos were escorted the Institute. Snow was falling
brisy at this time and nterfered materially with the
The body removed late last night "
facilitate the arrangements today but the visitors Wis
tied the room In which the body had lain In state The
decorations we're tasteful and appropriate The caa-
faaue resembed that Portland. tho silver trimmings
beng rather elaborate The Prince aud MS party
examined tho rooms with interest, aud shortly
after II O'Clock The visitors left the building The Prince
wore the undress uniform OF his regiment and rode with
uncovered head all the way to the church MT rhorn-
ton appeared his court Dress and other officers OF tho
suite and Navy in full uniform. No regular order
OF procession observed from the Institute to the
church All along taken there we're thousands
of people throngng the sidewalks, the windowa and
every available point OF observation On arriving ~ the
church, considerable difficulty was experienced, Tia
| crowd at that point being very dense.
The church plain cosntry meeting house. with seats
for about 500 people The front Is supported BY heavy
dated columns and the heads of these columns wero
to-day concealed by curtain Of black suspended across
the front and ooped up at intervals The Interior WAS
draped with good The wide recess In when the
pulpit partly stands hung In black, with srca'
white cross in the This was eanopied by
wide and heavy fold of black reaching across the sn
nit of the arch aud borered either edge with whtee
long curtanke folds at sides completed the design.
The decorations Of the other portions OF tho church toon
| their character from this leading feature, and
| gave to the whole neat aud Impressive sp'
pearance Tho casket was placed on the eoinmahi"n
| fable. in front OF tho pulpit. There were large
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