Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-11-01
1HEHENRYG[ORGEOBS
Thirty THOUSAND People Saw the Body
Lie in State,

~ AAvuoAnA AVoFA0 ~"
Lie in State,
And az Many Mora Were Unable
to Obtain a Glimpse of tho Re-
mains The Grief and Sorrow OF
a Vast Multitude Of Followers
and Friends The Funeral a
Popular Demonstration of tbs
Regard Of the People for the De-
ceased.
New York, October 31.-The body OF
Henry George lay in state to-day IN
the Grand Central Palace, and 30,0OO
people reverently passed the casket and
looked upon the face of the dead PM
losopher. From o'clock in the morn
ing till 8 in the afternoon stream OF
men, women and children poured into
the hail.
The immense throng was composed
of representatives of al classes, OF all
shades of life, andsall religion opinion.
taxable signs or sincere regret, Whlle
hundreds of faces were drawn with
suffering and pain. TO thousands OF
those who passed by Henry George
was personally known, and 1t was
those who fingered for a longer mo-
ment to gaze again on the face Of the
man whom to know was to love.
Some of them wept. The children,
of whom there were hundreds, were
raised along by the guards and held up
while they gazed at the face Of the man
who died fighting
TO BRIGHTEN THEIR LIVES.
In the early dawn the body was
moved in a plain hearse from Union
Square Hotel to the Grand Central
Palace, unattended save by the
guards Of honor and four policemen.
Behind the hearse came a single car
rlage, in which was Anna George, the
youngest daughter, who insisted upon
accompanying the body to the Grand
Central Palace. No persuasion could
sway her from her purpose.
Weeping bitterly she stood at the
head of the stairs at the hotel and beg
gsd to be permitted to go. She wished
to- arrange the flowers about the cas-
ket in which her fathers remains re-
posed. Pleadings proving vain, she
became importunate and refused to
permit the body to be taken away I'M
less she accompanied it. The other
members of the family. their grief EN-
phasized by the childs utter abandon
Of anguish, yielded, and Richard
George, her brother, accompanied her
to the palace. There, with loving
hands, she arranged the flowers as
SHE WONLD HAVE THEM,
and permitted no one to lend the slight
est aid.
at o'clock the doors opened and
Immediately several hundred persons,
who were in waiting without. entered
the hall with bowed heads. They saw
at the head of the hall, in an immense
bower of floral tributes, plain, heavy
black, cloth-covered casket resting on a
das. Through the glass they saw the
remains of the great man reposlng
calmly, his features unruffled, as if in
sleep. The left arm rested lightly on
the breast, the other by the side. The
remains were clad in black broadcloth,
a turn down callar and a plain white
tie
filing up the hall in twos, passed at the
rate or / $40 an hour, but shortly the
numbers swelled and grew until at one
time eighty passed each minute. At
this rate. 5000 an hour, the crowd
passed until the churches emptied
their audiences into the vast concourse
which was vending its way down from
Fixty-sixth street to the Palace, and
VIII ctr
Third avenue for many blocks For
the last two hours the crowd came at
the rate of
SIX THOUSAND AN HOUR.
This is the highest rate obtainable I'M
der such circumstances as these. Any
greater celebrity would have meant an
undignified irreverential rush.
August Lewis, a prominent single
taxer. wept bitterly as he passed by
and tenderly laid bunch of violets on
the glass A woman who followed in
the line about an hour later placed a
modest bunch of pinks beside the vio-
lets.
A little before o'clock the line was
stopped and those who could not get
in were compelled to turn back and get
out from the police lines. A careful
estimate of the number who could not
get in is 10000 This number is equal
to the number of those who passed the
casket. Then another throng came
those who wished to hear the eminent
clergymen praise Henry George. Dur
ing the last hour an orchestra played
Chopin's funeral march, Handlers
Largo" and "The Lost Chord.
THE FLORAL DECORATIONS
were profuse. A mass of wreathed
flowers was sent by the Chicago Single
Tax Club. On a card accompanying
the wreath was the following verse:
"oha We whose cheek the tear of pity
stains,
Draw near with pious reverence and
attend;
Here lie the loving husbands dear re-
mains.
The tender father and the generous
friend;
The plying heart that felt for human
woe,
The dauntless heart that feared no hui
man pride:
The friend of man, to vice alone a
foe:
For cen his failings leaned to vir-
tues side"
The casket itself was devoid OF any
ornament save the heavy handles and