Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-12-12
The Tribune Editorial and Reportorial Staff.

AAo A''ounS Eo1toEei and keportorlal 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-hve.
Members Of the Liberal Republican General
Committee.
Union Republican General Committee.
Tsmmany Hall General Committee.
Tho Simon Cameron Association.
Sons Of temperance.
Delcgations from the .Arcadian, Lotus, Farm
ers' and Rural Clubs and American In
stituto.
Citizens generally.
THE PAIL BEARERS.
The following gentlemen wore pail
bearers Chief Justice Chase, Senator
Trumbull, Thurlow Weed, J. Chamber
lin, Rev. DR.. Bright, VIM. Orion. d.
w. Bruce, Sinclair Tonsey, Dudley S.
Gregory, H. j. johnson, Hon. VIM. NJ.
Evarts, John E. Williams, Senator Fen
ton, Hon. Erastus Brooks, Robert Bon.
nor, II. M. Hoe, Peter G. Baker. ]. e.
Lightbody, Charles Storrs, John Il.
Storrs.
No music was in line, but the pro-
cession, as it slowly moved down the
avenue, presented a grand and impos-
ing appearance. The doorsteps of tho
houses along the avenue, without ex-
ception, were thickly crowded, and the
windows and balconies were full. The
hotels and club honses 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
DR.. 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 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 wonder tul
double lines of watchers. At Green
wood there was still more SURPRISE ne
sight. Here an enormous concourse
had gathered, standing about the en-
trance gates and winding roads, and
concentrating sbout the open grave So
that the mourners, when they arrived,
had the greatest difficulty in followin e
the hearse.
DECORATIONS OF THE CHURCH.
The building had been appropriately
decorated. Over the door hung a flag
draped up with black. In the vesti-.
bu1e Was q portrait of Greeley, with
Grape around it. The screen behind
the pulpit was covered with black
cloth hanging in graceful folds, and re-
lieved by festoons, while from the top
of it depended graceful strings Of
smilax. The pulpit itself, and the rail
in front, were fully draped. The d1ap-
cry ran around the front galleries, md
from bracket to bracket along the side
walls. Lengths of serge dropped from
the center Of the ceiling to the spring
Of each arch, twining about the col
umns, and hung from the pinnaeles of
the organ. The clock, stopped at ten
minutes before seven, the hour of
Greeley's death, was surrounded with
black, and above it, in green wreath,
was white cross of flowers. The pew
Mr.. Greeley used to occupy, about
midway up the north aisle next to the
wall. was draped with Grape. The fig
ure in flowers of a Tyre with broken
strings hung ut the head. The seat
was thickly strewn with white flowers.
This pew will he left empty for thirty
days. . The most remarkable decora-
tions of the church, however, were the
flowers. There was beautiful appro-
priateness and personal significance in
many of the devices which surrounded
his bier. At the back of the pulpit,
under the words cit is DONE" with
which his great life closed, was o
wreath of ripened wheat, q fit emblem
of the rich harvest the keen sickle of
death had SO lately reaped. Below
this was shield of white flowers with
the arms of the state of New York in
purple blossoms, the gift of the Com
mon Council Still below the last,
an axe and pen were array
ed in the form Of cross.
A magnificent arch of white
flowers presented by the ladies of DR..
Chapin's congregation spanned the
pulpit over the speakers head. On it's
white ground was wrought in crimson
blossoms the legend, II know that
my Redeemer liveth," Indeed, these
words and the 1T is done," were re-
Deated again and aoain in decorations