The New York herald., 1872-12-01
THE DEAD PHILOSOPHER.
Removal Of Mr.. Greeley's Remains from
PleaSaxtVille to New York.
The Body to Lie in
State To-Day.
THE FUTURE PROGRAMME.
Action of Societies i'm
the City.

the city.
The remains OF Horace Greeley lay in the bed
room where he died, at DR.. Choate's, all day yes
terday. They shrouded by white cloth,
through which the larger outlines OF his
face and form ceuld be vaguely defined.
few personal friends called to offer their services
in the last sad offices for their friend, among them
Samuel sinclair, Isaiah 7. Williams and Alvin T.
Johnson, but nothing could be done until the coffin
in which ne was to be enclosed could be forwarded
from New York. and the friends returned to town.
IDA GREELEY
remained secluded in her room at DR.. Choate's all
day, tended only by Mrs. Gibbons, an old lady
friend OF the family, with whom, as she
herself said, touchingly, "Mr. Greeley used
to always take tea on sundays She minlstered
in a tender motherly way to the needs and COM
forts OF the afflicted daughter, who throughout
presented a calm, courageous aspect hardly to oe
hoped for from one whom disaster has so perss-
tently pursued,
THE ROOM IN WHICH MR. GREELEY DIED
remained as 1t was during his last hours, except
that the shapecss thing, with Its white shr0ud,
resting upon rough board, occupied the centre or
the room. The long, gaunt son of the Doctor, In
showing the room to the HERALD reporter, said,
with sign OF impatence, "We have another pa
tient for this room as soon as it is ready.' The
room was soon afterwards made ready by the re-
moval OF the body OF Mr.. Greeley.
The friends in charge Of the arrangements had
decided that 1t should be taken to New York city
and
LAID IN STATE
at Mr. Sinclair's house on Sunday, and arrange
ments were made to that effect. The
same undertaken who prepared everything
only month ago for Mrs. Greeleys
interment had made the casket, and
1t arrived at Peasantvlle on the six O'Clock train,
enclosed in large pine box. village hearse,
drawn by two horses ana driven by man in an
army overcoat, trotted brisky over the hardened
snow to the Doctors retreat, mile and half
away, and there the body was transferred from its
rude resting place to the narrower confines OF the
casket.
THE BODY
was dressed neatly In black, the hanus crossed
upon the breast, and thus, looking as peaceful
and quiet in life, the face, behind its oval case,
might have been mistaken Tor a medallion alto re-
heuo of the great philosopher. The city friends
had not come up with the coffin, and when 1T was
finally transferred to the village hearse to be taken
to Pleasantvile and thence to New York, the
only mourners to follow it were the daughter and
her friend The black hearse and the sleigh IN
which the mourners rode formed
THE FUNERAL CoRrEGE
OF the recent recipient Of a million votes, and as
the low black carriage, with its soldier driver, and
the undertaken, from whose neck the
long ends Of muller noated like
the drapery OF the old time mutes- came rasping
over the hard crisp snow. followed by the iinging
sleigh bells OF the vehicle in which the bereaved
mourners followed, it looked like
WEIRD PHANTOM OF A FUNERAL.
In this order the procession reached Pleasant
Vile at about halfpast seven O'Clock, and from
this time until the arrival Of the train, at
eight, the long box in which the coffin was
enclosed lay upon the platform, unguardcd save by
the undertaken with the long muiler who walked
his beat alongside OF 1t like sentinel while Miss
Greeley and her kindly comforter shivered over the
dreary stove in the uncomfortable "Ladies' Room"
of the little station. On the arrival OF the train at
the Grand Central depot, at nine O'Clock, the body
was taken in an undertakers wagon to the house
OF Samuel Sinclair, SO West Forty-fifth street,
where it Will be visible to those friends OF the dead
Philosopher who may desire to look upon his fea-
lures to-day. The future programme depends in
part upon the action the municipal authorities
may take; but il they take none the body Will lie
In DR.. Chapin's church on Monday, free to the
view OF the people. and the funeral ceremony will
be preached in that church by DR.. Chaplin on
Tuesday.