The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-02-05
M,ALLISTER EUNERAL.

I tANAN@
 morning at Grace church, Fashionable
 society in New York city was well rep
 resented, but it was the general public
 which was chiefly in evidence.
 At 9:9O o'clock the doors of the church
 were opened. Two friends of the dead
 man stood at the door, and by slight
 mods of recognition let into seats on the
 center aisle those who had a right to be
 there. Others were shown to seats on
 the left or right.
 The chancel was beautifully deco-
 rated with palms, and with wreaths
 crosses and other floral pieces sent by
 friends. They had been sent to the
 house, 16 West Thirty-sixth street,
 and the services of half a dozen florists
 were needed to get them to the church,
 where they were laid in the chancel.
 By 10 o'clock the church was crowded,
 and the timely arrival of a squad of ten
 policemen from the Fifteenth precinct
 station house, in charge of Roundsmen Strausner and McGinley, kept the crowd from pressing into the seats reserved for those invited to be present. Shortly after 10 o'clock the coffin, fol- | lowed by the mourners, arrived The pallbearers had already assembled in an ante-room, and the clergymen, Bishop Thompson of Mississippi, the Rev. pr. Huntington of Grace church, and the Rev. Dr. Platt of Rochester were in waiting at the door. Headed by the clergy, who began the burial service, | the procession passed into the chancel. | Flowers covered the coffin completely. At the head was a cross of white roses. This reached to the center of the coffin, and huge wreath of American Beauty roses, tied with red satin ribbon, cov- cred the remainder.
 There was not seat to be had by this time, and many persons were stand ing in the side aisles. As the last of the family party followed the casket up the aisle half a hundred curiosity seek CTS pressed forward, eager to get into the church along with them.
 "Get back there" yelled the policeman who was stationed in the vestibule. No one obeyed, all crowded ahead The policeman did not barley any longer, but, raising his arms, began showing right and left.
 In this way enough room was made in the vestibule to allow the sexton to close the door and to keep out the intruders.
 Still the crowd stayed in the vestibule while the services were going on, and when the coffin was borne out they had to be pushed out ahead of it. One woman clung to an urn and would not move. A policeman seized her by the arm and dragged her out in short or der.
 In the family party which followed the body, were Hayward Hall McAllis- ter, the dead man son, supporting Mrs. McAllister
 Then came Rev. Francis Marion McAl- ter, brother of Ward McAllister, and his family. MT. and Mrs. Colin M. In- gersoll of New Haven, the Dexters of | this city, and the family servants were the others in the funeral party,
 The pallbearers were: Ex-Governor | John Lee Carroll, Chauncey M. Depew, | Edwin A. Post, James A. Burden, J. | F. Loubat, B. K. Stevens, De Lancy | Astor Kane, Cornelius Vanderbilt Fred | erick Sheldon, B. Randolph Robinson, | James w. Gerard, Bradley Martin, Sir | Roderick Cameron and F, Dindate | Thompson.
 As the coffin was carried from the church, a band of eight French horns, | two tubas and four trombones began playing the Dead March" from Saul
 Lander asked the privilege of furnish sc +I,i Ia ocf frta af.Ir OF and conducted in person.
 The remainder of the musical pro- gram was rendered by full choir of boys as follows:
 Chant-'Lord Let Me Know My
 End" ...................-.. Anthem-"T Heard Voice from
 Heaven" ...............,........ Goss Hymns-"Jesus, Lover of My Soul'
 and Jesus Lives" .........,......
 Archie Fuller the boy soprano. sang the anthem, and James M. Helfenstein presided at the organ.
 As the last notes of the horns died awy, the crowd pressed up tSe aisle. Some made straight for the chancel, where the floral offerings of MT. McAl- listers friends lay
 Others hurried to pew 113--the Mo- Allisters-whlch was filled with wreaths and cut-1owets and was unoccupied.
 A woman in a long sealskin snatched up big violet wreath near the altar and hid it under her cloak, but not quickly enough for a choir boy not to see her. He told the sexton, who quick y stopped her. "I want that wreath" he demanded.
 What wreath?" she asked innocent y. "The one under your cloak" This was enough, and the woman rave 1t back. Others took single flow ITS and punches, and some got away with them. One woman grabbed handful of white roses from the McAllis- er pew. You can't have that" announced nan who was guarding it. Cant I have one flower?" pleaded he woman. The man took all the flowers from her { without another word. ( The interment is temporary one in z he receiving vault at Greenwood, pend ( ng the family's decision as to whether ( he remains will receive final burial in ( his city or at Newport. f Some of those who were present were: f