The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-01
GRIEF FOR A LEADER
NEW YORK IN MOURNING ALL YES
TERDAY FOR HENRY GEORGE.
Funeral Services in Grand Central
Palace Made the Occasion of an Un-
usual Display of sorrow.
EUL0GIES OVER THE REMAINS
AND SINCERE TRIBUTES FROM Pull
PIT AND PLATFORM ORATORS.
Addresses by Drs. Lyman Abbott, Ed
ward McGIynn, Felix Adler, He
ber Newton and Others.
BODY VIEWED BY THOUSANDS
WHO MARCHED IN SADNESS PAST
THE FLOWER BIER,
And the Streets ThrOnged While the
Funeral Cortege Wended Its Way
to Brooklyn City Hall.
Addresses by Drs. Lyman Abbott, EN-
ward McGIynn, Felix Adler, He
ber Newton and Others.
BODY VIEWED BY THOUSANDS
WHO MARCHED IN SADNESS PAST
THE FLOWER-COvERED BIER,
And the Streets ThrOnged While the
Funeral Cortege Wended Its Way
to Brooklyn City HALL.

NEW YORK, Oct. 31.--A mourning city, a
grief-stricken people, to-day showed honor
TO the man who had fallen in the battle
for what he believed to be the right. Henry
George, apostle of the single tax, leader of
the new Jeffersonian Democracy, stricken on
the eve of election, was honored as no
private citizen of America was ever honored
before. Public griefs have been many in
the great metropolis of the western henis-
phere; many have been sincerely mourned
but none save he who went to eternal rest
after having served his people as a leader
of soldiers and chief executive of the
land, had laid at his bier such evidences of
public grief, widespread sorrow and sincere
regret as were laid at the bier of Henry
George No one would permit a reminder
that he had been a candidate for public
Office and had been carrying on a bitter war
fare on those who he believed were enemies
of the public veal; no one recalled the
strong words of denunciation that fell from
his lips while on the political rostrum; he
was remembered only as a man who so
loved the people that he gave his life for
them.
From the beginning of the day until far
into the night, the outward manifestation
of grief lasted. Thousands gazed upon the
familiar, beloved features, cold in death, yet
smiling serenely as in sleep, and other
thousands heard stirring orations, magnif-
cent eulogies on the martyred dead In
every temple of God, wherever men gath
cred to worship or gathered to
hear lectures and philosophy taught,
garlands of fulsome praise were bestowed
on the memory of the revered dead. In the
vast auditorium where the dead rested. in
spired men, teachers of all faiths, Jews
Christians, Catholic and Episcopalians, with
hearts wrung with pain. spoke words which
confessedly fell far short of the great waves
of emotion that sought to find utterance
Not a dissenting voice was heard to the
declaration that Henry George was lover
of the people, who he believed, were being
oppressed, and that he gave his life that
humanity might live.
The eulogies uttered, the day gone, the
streets became filed with people who
wished to see the funeral cortege as it
passed in solemn procession down New
York's greatest streets, thence across
Brooklyn bridge, and through Brooklyn's
streets to the Brooklyn City Hall. There
the public gave over the body to the family
and the casket was taken to the modest
will be borne to their final resting place in
Greenwood tomorrow morning. At the
lowest estimate f25,0O0 people saw the casket
as it wended its way to that point where
the public was compelled to stand aside In
reverence and sympathy while the family
claimed its own.