River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1872-12-20

made him unspeakably generous. Per
haps he erred on the side of mercy
against justice, but if man must err
at all, that is a good side to err on.
Whatever may have been the mistakes
of him who lies dead before us, there
was no mistake in the main current OF
the principle which characterized his
life, and therein is lesson for us also.
How faithfully he did his work and
led his life it is superfuous for me to
say. 1t was an emlnently practical one.
What various interests OF art, CT labor,
of education, OF temperance, of domes-
tic pollty. of freedom, go mourning for
him to-day. WELDING the mighty
power of the, mightiest engine of the
times, placed in the editorial chair
that he was, it is no light thing to say
that, however strongly--some may
think severely-he used his pen as an
instrument of his thoughts and princi-
pies, he never debased it as the stimu-
lus of impurity, or made it the vehicle
OF a single social wrong.
While Horace Greeley had many an
tagonists, he had few, if any, enc
mics and may / now, without violat-
ing any of the proprieties of this oc-
casion, express my satisfaction that
while political differences lay within
those Enclosed lids, the highest repre-
sentative of the nation to-day, here
bows his head in honor of the thinker,
the worker, the patriot and the man. "
Attempted applause, which was sup
pressed.
The address was followed by an earn
est prayer and another hymn, angels
ever bright and fair"
Rev. Mr.. Chaplin then pronounced
the benediction, and the choir sung a
most beautiful and touching chant so,
what is life 2"
THE PROCESSION
moved down Fifth avenue in the fol-
lowing order, the police having pre-
yiously cleared the roadway from curb
to curb:
Mounted Police Broadway Squad.
Superintendent Kelso, Mayor Hall, Inspectors
Dilks and Waling.
Fourth Precinct Police, Capt. Ullmann.
One hundred members of the Fire Department
under command of Engineer shay.
Rev. DIR. Pullman, officiating clergyman at the
grave.
The Pail bearers.
Hearse.
Lizzie, Ida and Gabrielle Gree.ey, and other
Mourners,. in carriages.
The President of the United States, Vice Pres
ident Colfax, and Vice President elect
Henry Wilson, in an open landau,
surrounded by fifty Police as
a Guard OF Honor.
Governor Hoffman and Governors of adjoining
states.
The Tribune Editorial and Reportorial staff.
Typographical Society.
Union League Club.
Members of the Common Council.
Heads of Departments.
Distinguished Officials from adjoining cities in
carriages two deep to the number OF
eighty-fiye.
Members of the Liberal Republican General
Committee.
Union Republican General Committee.
Tammany Hall General Committee.
The Simon Cameron Association.
Sons Of Temperance.
Delegations from the Arcadian, Lotus, Farm
ers' and Rural Clubs ana American In
stitute.
Citizens generally.
THE PAIL BEARERS.
The following gentlemen were pail
bearers Chief Justice Chase, Senator
Trumbull, Thurlow Weed, J. Chamber
lin, Rev. DIR. Bright, VIM. Orion, ID.
w. Bruce, Sinclair Tousey, Dudley S.
Gregory, II. j. Johnson, Hon. VIM. NJ.
Evarts, John E. Williams, Senator Fen
ton, Hon. Erastus Brooks, Robert Bon
ner, r. NJ. Hoe, Peter c. Baker, J. G..
Lightbody, Charles Storrs, John r.
Storrs.
No music was in line, but the pro-
cession, as it slowly moved down the
avenue, presented grand and impos-
ing appearance. The doorsteps of the
houses along the avenue, without ex-
ception, were thickly crowded, and the
windows and balconies were full. The
hotels and club houses and public
buildings of all kinds presented a sea
of human faces. The gathering was
greater than the multitude which well
coined the Grand Duke Alexis or the
funeral of Abraham Lincoln. From
DIR. Chapin's Church to Madison
Square, distance of just mile, the
avenue was nearly blockaded. On the
outer edge of the sidewalk the crowd
were huddled two and three deep; on
the walk within the area there was
barely room to pass.
In Madison Square and on the space
before the Fifth Avenue Hotel the con-
course was still greater. All along
Broadway from 18th street, through
which the procession moved, to Ham
ilton ferry, there was a dense mass of
people. About Bowling Green and
the Battery and the Ferry House, the
crowd still stood patiently waiting
On the Brooklyn side the same scenes
were repeated. Along Union street TO
Fourth avenue, and down the avenue TO
the cemetery, stretched the wonderful
double lines of watchers. At Green
wood there was a still more surprising
SIGHT. Here an enormous cOncourse