New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-15
ALICE CARYS FUNERAL.

The funeral of Miss Alice Cary took place
at the Church of the Strangers Merccrs at o'clock
yesterday afternoon and despite the snOwstorm
which must have prevented many from coming was at
tended by very large number Of the friends aud ad
mrers Of the deceased poet The service opened with
organ voluntary from the Messiah" followed by the
anthem. "Vtal Spark of Heavenly Flame" DR.. Deems,
the pastor Of the church. read selection from the 18th
chapter of ST. Paus Epste TO the Corinthians and then
said
have not thought Of single word TO say you to-
day. and do not that it is necessary to say
word more than is set down in the church service Most
OF knew and loved Alice Cary and TO those who did
not know her my words would fail in describing the
sweetness and genteness OF her disposition and temper
1t seems indeed. that instead OF standing here. l. too
speaker then described the patience with which she had
borne her last Sickness i5 ana tod now ne
intense that the prints of her fngernais would lie LETT
in the palm Of his hand he holding hers But she
he who very close my heart In her suffering and
sorrow. how good and true she and the in
teres she had in all the work had IN hand; aud feel
IL assistant had died out OF my family The people
OF my congregation who did not know her ought 10 he
glad that did. How many traits OF tenderness have
come before you here, how many observations have
l been able TO make to you, because had
been with herl To-day can only make my lament over
her you do in the simplicity of affection. Men loved
Alice Cary, and women loved her. When man loves
"A woman 1t is of nature when a woman loves woman
IL is OF gTace-Of the grace that woman makes by her
oveness and it is Of the finest things that can be
y
Of her own sex On the public side OF her life she had
honor the private side honor and tendereS affection
And now she has gone from our mortal SghP put not
from the ewes of souls She is gone from her pain,
she desired to die in sleep and after deep sunner
time her took down her works and aiigbted on
this passage full of c0nsonance with the anthems Just
sung by the choir and almost Ike "a pi0phec! OF tue
manner i'll which she passed away -
Ny blindness is ny sight
Tie shadows bal i VA, l i ieI 50 long
There was one thing IN Alice Cary of which we had
better remind ourselves of now because many Of MS are
working people, and people who work very much WIN
our brains and l number OF young people who
of tenderness IL her memory t. the church
to-day and there may he among them literary mop9
Just commencing their career, and they say, would
could write so beautifully ana so easily as she ga;
II not easily done. She did nothing easily but IN
all this that read she was an earnest worker she
faithful panstaking careful Of improving herself
up to the last moment OF her me- Yesterday
looked into the drawer, ana the last piece OF
Ms she wrote turned up and said TO PheDe Laa' y,
copied" and she said, No. that is Aces wiring IL
was exceedingly plain 10 looked ike PRINT III large
type though she wrote very Mletr9eu manu-; b I h
told that when she came 70 lie so weak tha she
couldn't write much any longer she 9egah 10 laguoe
She worked 10 the very last not only WIN Tue Drains
but the fingers. -.
pie and there was sob heard that went through the
cOngre CATION II was from al old lady friend OF hers
who often told about her and spoke OF her ho1y q"
soul. Alice Cary thought of making cap for her
aud she said will make "a cap fOi Mis-. blowh Out
her fingers ached and her ann became So tired sac
had TO drop it; and the needle IS sticking III that nm
ished it, hut they had finished her own crown IL glory
and she could MT stay away from her coronation An
we will keep that with care; ana thlnK Jesus VIII
remind her OF IT, and say, Child inaslnuch as you al
to of the least ones, yon did t unto me- Shoua
sneak for hours could only tell you now IONcu Icl:
she came TO the Winter Of my fortunes, when nd
very few friends nG lo's9 ad ng 61 s v "t Shed
tear for Alice Cary; am glad she is gone te, nv oc
like aaying Thanks be TO God when heard tmt the
main Wa 0yer and il was so delightful 20 30 TO stand over
her and zoe her face without single fOw ana 10 thhk
She is gone to her Father and my Father ana Into
Hi hands commit her
After the Episcopal Burial Service had been read, the
choir sang hymn composed by Miss Phebe Cary called
s.Wbat swcety Solemn Thoughts" Then the friends OF
Alice Cary requested to look upon her for the last
time The body taken 10 Greenwood cemetery iOr
,rternent The palbearers Horace Greeley
Bayard TAYLOR z. T. BaTnum. Oliver Johnson Dr.
W F. Holcombc, A. j. Johnson, f. b. Carpen-
ter aud Richard b. Kimbal Among the persons
present were WIN Ross Wallace, the Rev o. b. Frothng
ham. the Rev C. f. Lee, the Rev. Dr. Goodman, James
Parton. Fanny Fern Mrs Prof Botta, Theodore Iitoh'
DIR HaJlock Jennie June Croly, Mrs. Wilbour, John
savage, aud many others,
The caske was plain having merely silver Plate on
which was inscribed: Alice Cary, A. d, 1920 a. d.
1911"
Ataspecal meeting OF sorosis, yesterday morning, the
following preamble and resolutions were read and
adopted
10 Mss rys inaugural address 70 sOros occurs passage made
sB wishes concerning he growth aud position when woman O
which they should YET lHl't
,i..t cannot hope
fr our feet are the down bill SIDE me- Ine "ooS
behind gathering before snd ere long e W"
% AID close places that have known us shall IN us 10
M vb, our Door those who CONE aer u s4
~ - "a n I'M Of usefulness toward nohler lives and better aud more
enduring work for ourselves rest content -- -
rba. than she then thought the began To mario" ana
M t "a s,er on the road leads immortal ie and,
Bsas Tl change ieeegy alluded to by Miss Gary d" nh'!
her In the Of her aboTs therefore,
R,sotpn That in removal this Society not only NOUNS tn M
a.. a.. President and most gifted member but Hynpshies WIN al
In the loss helper and most de- oe ehd
d rst her e1ceng Kindness her enlarged charity her Aso
her wonderful patience her CORDIAL recognition ~ "
good work. endeaTed her neIpess 70 het Heh
admiration OF ~ those cApDe Vi
s.eete married TO nOtles Thought
~ ~, ber yslty 10 woman Industry
c,e ~ 10 earnestnss Of EFFORT each ~ on" "" 0l
Mace 70 hasten when shall receive no. 1
III s,b Wokers but d class faithful aud true 10 t@th
other ,-.et, .uu,st,v % =. ie-rayed
i.lv ,.r aid loving hope that even - me sha'N
been swept from brs upward pathway Of i1g uep'
soTowing heart by 81 sDluk s'h III
t.st love VI .cl orIerrtL sl things we'll