The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1872-12-13
"lT is pONE.D
Funeral of Horace Greeley-Im.
posing 0bsequies.

distribution of tickets for admission
to the Greeley obsequies was made
at the Common Council Chamber
this morning to the distinguished
personages previously determined
upon, President Grants ticket hav
ing been sent to him at the hotel,
and thereafter, at about half-past
ten o'clock, the party took carriages
and left for the church according tc
the programme.
The procession down Fifth avenue
was in the following order, police
having previously cleared the road
way from the curb to curb: Mounted
police. broadway squad, Super
intendent Kelso, Mayor Hall, In
spectors Dixie and Walling, Fourth
precinct police, Capt. Ullman, one
hundred members; Fire Department
under command of Engineer Shay,
Rev. DR.. Pullman, officiating clergy
man at the grave, the pail bearers,
hearse, Ida and Gabrielle Greeley
and other mourners in carriages; the
President Of the United States, Vice
President Colfax and Vice President
elect Henry Wilson in an open Ian
dau surrounded by fifty policemen
as a guard of honor; Governor Hof-
man and Governors of adjoining
States, the Tribune editorial and re-
portorial staff, Typographical Socie-
y, Union League Club, members Of
,he Common Council, heads of de-
oartments and distinguished officials
rom adjoining cities in carriages
NO deep to the number Of eighty
I've, members of Liberal Republican
General Committee, Union Repubh-
IAN General Committee, Cameron
Association, Song of Temperance
delegations from Arcadian, Lotus,
Farmers and Rural clubs, and citi-
ems generally.
THE CROWD.
No music was in the line, but the
procession, as it slowly moved down
he avenue, presented q magnificent
The door steps of all
he houses along the avenue, with
'ut exception, were thickly crowded;
windows and balconies were full, and
lotels, club-houses and public build
Dgs of all kinds presented sea of
lumsn faces. The gathering was
,reater than the mU 'titude which
Velcomed the Grand Duke Alexis
# watched the funeral of Abraham
lincoln. From DR.. Chapin's church
0 Madison square, a distance of |
lst a mile, the avenue was nearly
lockaded. On the outer edge Of
f the sidewalk the crowd was hud- |
led two and three deep. On the
ak within there was barely room
D pass.
DECORATIONS OF THE CHURCH.
The building had been appropri- |
tely decorated. Over the door in |
ront hung a flag draped with black.
n the vestibule was portrait of
fr. Greeley with Grape around the
rame. The screen behind the pull
it was covered with black cloth,
angling in graceful folds and reliev-
d by festoons, while from the top
f it depended graceful strings Of
milax. The pulpit itself and rail
a front were fully draped. Drapery
an around the front Of the gallaries
nd from bracket to bracket. Along |
he side walls serge dropped
,om the center Of the ceiling to
ne spring of each arch, twined
bout the columns and hung from
ne pinnaeles of the organ. The
lock, stopped at ten minutes before
even, the hour of Greeley's death,
as surrounded with black, and
bove it in a green wreath was q
hite cross of flowers. The pew
hich Mr.. Greeley used to occupy,
bout MIDWAY of the north aisle,next
, the wall, was draped with Grape.
he figure in flowers of Tyre with
roken strings hung at the head.
he seat was thickly strewn with
hite flowers, camelias being placed
the spot which Mr.. Greeley him
If used to occupy. This pew will
e left empty for thirty days. The
ost
REMARKABLE DECORATIONS i
f the church, however, were the
1wers. There was a beautiful ap-
-opriateness and personal signife- 7
ice in many of the devices which {
his bier. At the back L
the pulpit door at is DONE" with {
hich his great life closed, was a G
reath of ripened wheat,a fit emblem |
the rich harvest the keen scythe z
death had so lately reaped. Be t
" this was a shield of white flow Z
8, with the arms of the State of
ew York in purple blossoms, the l
# of the Common Council. Still I
low the last an axe and q pen were t
ranged in the form of a cross. A 3
agnifcent arch Of white flowers, e
by the ladies of DR.. Chap Il
s congregation, spanned the pull 0
over the speakers head. On its . o
lite ground was wrought in Grim c