The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-10-30
tributing cause, asphyxia; duration of
disease, one half hour"
FUNERAL SUNDAY.

New York, Oct 29.-The committee in
charge of the funeral, ceremonies of
Henry George have arranged the follow
ing order of services:
| From sunrise on Sunday, October 81,
| till sunset of the same day, the body
of the great leader will lie in State in
the Grand Central Palace. Ushers will
be present to direct the people in their
passage before the platform upon which
the body will rest, every one who feels
the nobility and single heartedness of
! Henry Georges life work is invited
to be present at this ceremony. During
the afternoon, beginning at 3 o'clock,
the funeral services and orations will
take place.
Grand Central Palace at Z o'clock on
Sunday evening and proceed by a route
to be announced later, via the Brooklyn
Bridge to the Brooklyn City Hall. In
this informal procession every friend and
admirer Of Henry George is invited to
take part.
The committee earnestly desire that no
torches or transparencies be displayed.
Banners without notices designating the
| organizations may be carried.
Al la5c-- ors2a:za tions intending 10
take part in the procession of Sunday
evening are requested to communicate at
once with John Brishen Walker, chief
marshal.
The pail bearers have not yet been
selected. Mr.. George was an Episco-
palian. but was not very regular in his
attendance at church. His widow is a
| Catholic and it was often said that her
Husband intended to embrace Catholic
| ism.
| The widow and her daughters remain
| ed in the room with the body until 10
O'Clock when they were induced to retire
for much needed rest Mrs George is
bearing mp well under the strain, but
her friends fear that she will soon give
way There is talk of taking her out
of town Immediately after the funeral.
A guard Of honor, composed of promi-
nent George men win watch the body
until its interment.
DEATH NOT UNEXPECTED.
The Rev. Edward McGlynn reached
the Union Square hotel shortly before
| IL o'clock. The dispatch which sum
moned him merely announced that a
dear friend" was dead, but, bearing in
monitions that Henry George had con-
fided to him, he concluded rightly that
his great associate in the single tax bat
tie of other years had expired. When he
looked upon the dead face of his friend
he burst into tears. The scene was a
distressing one. Afterwards DIR. Nc
Glynn said:
Henry George died as Abraham Lin
Fcoln died. Lincoln was assasinated just
after his great work of saving the
Union was consummated. 1t was said
that he was mercifully spared the petty
annoyances and chickering's of the re-
construction period.
Henry George was struck down by
fate in the zenith of his powers But
the great work that he inaugurated will
go on.
"As man and a philosopher, it will
be long before his like will be seen
again. His goodness and gentleness
singled him out among all men, and,
with others, / almost worship him"
When DIR. McGlynn was able to think
calmly over his recnt intercourse with
the dead man, he recalled that his friend
frequently expressed to him his pre-
monitions that his end was approach
ing and had used language that he now
saw indicated a presentment that ne
would not outlive his campaign.
GEORGES BIOGRAPHY.
Henry George was born on September
=, 1889. He received a common school
education and then went into a counting
room. He was also a sailor, and learned
the printers trade. In 1858 he reached
California, where he worked at the print
ler's case until 1866, when he became a
reporter and afterwards editor, working
at different times on the San Francisco
Times and Post. He returned to New
York in 1880, and went to England and
Ireland the following year, where he
We. t..rico arrested as a suspect, but
afterwards released when his identity
became established. Mr.. George is best
known to the world at large through his
writings upon economic questions, nota-
bly, his work entitled Progress and
Poverty" published in 1879. His other
works are Our Land and Land Policy"
1871; Irish Land Question:" 1881;
Social Problems" 1883; Property in
Land" controversy with the Duke of
Argyle, 1884; "The Condition of Labor"
an open letter to Pope Leo VIII, 1891;
and "A Perplexed Philosopher" Mer-
bert Spencer), 1892.
In 1886 Mr.. George was nominated by
the United Labor party for Mayor of
New York, polling 6S,000 votes against
10000 for Abram S. Hewitt, the Demo-
cratic nominee, and 10000 for Theodore
Roosevelt, now Assistant Secretary of
the Navy, Republican.
After his nomination for Mayor by the
Jeffersonian Democrats a month ago, Mr..
George made an extremely active cam
yass, speaking several times every even
ing and working from early to late at
his headquarters. He gave to the cam
paign its most sensational incidents, its
attacks on Richard Croker and Senator
Platt, whom he threatened to prosecute
for various crimes, such as lcvying
blackmail upon city contractors and
aspirants for office. should he be elected
Mayor. His candidacy gave to the com
ing election its greatest element of I'M
certainty, for according to expert poll
ticians it was practically impossible to