The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-11-02
LYING IN STATE.
The Remains of Henry George Viewed
by $4,000 People.
Floral Tributes Were Numerous = The
Funeral Ceremonies Were Impressive,
After Which the Remains Were In
tered on Ocean Hill, Greenwood.

Henry George lay in state Sunday in
the Grand Central Palace and 10000
people reverently passed the caslxet
md looked upon the face of the dead
philosopher. From 9 o'clock in the
morning till in the afternoon a
stream of men, women and children
poured into the hall.
The immense throng was composed of
representatives of all classes of all
shades of life, and all religious opin-
ion. On every face was stamped the
unmistakable signs of sincere regret,
while hundreds o. faces were drawn
with suffering and pain. To thou
sands of those who passed by Henry
George was personally known, and it
was these who fingered for a longer
moment 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 guard and held up
while they gazed at the features of the
man who died fighting to brighten
their lives.
In the early dawn the body was
moved in plain hearse from Union
Square hotel to the Grand Central Pal
ace, unattended save by the guards of
honor and four policemen. Behind the
hearse came a single carriage, Anna
George, the youngest daughter, who
insisted upon accompanying the body
to the Grand Central Palace. No per-
suasion could sway her from her pur-
pose.
Weeping bitterly, she stood at the
head of the stairs at the hotel and
begged to be permitted to go. She
wished to arrange the flowers about
the casket in which her fathers re-
mains reposed. Pleadings proving
vain, she became importunate and re-
fused to permit the body to be taken
away unless she accompanied it. The
other members of the family, their
grief emphasized by the child's utter
abandon of anguish, yielded, and
Richard George, her brother, accompa-
MED her to the palace. There, with
loving hands, she arranged the flowers
as she would have them, and permitted
no one to render the slightest aid.
At 9 o'clock the doors opened and i'm
mediately 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
dais. Through the glass they saw the
remains of the great man reposing
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 broad
cloth, rundown collar and plain
black tie.
For the first half hour the throng fl
ing up the hall in twos passed at the
numbers swelled and grew until at one
time so passed each minute. At this
rate, 4,S00 an hour, the crowd passed
until the churches emptied their audi
ences into the vast concourse, which
was winding its way down from
Forty-siXth street to the Palace,
and which filed Forty-sixth street
and Third avenue for many blocks
For the last two hours the
This is the highest rate obtainable I'M
der such circumstances as these. Any
great celebrity would have meant an I'M
dignifed, 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 Ines 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
clergyman praise Henry George. Dur
ing the last hour an orchestra played
Copin's funeral march, Handels
Largo" and 1.-The Lost Chord"
At the back of the platform, on a
heavy crepe back ground, was a por-
trait of Henry George surrounded with
American flags. At the front of the
! platform stood a bust of the fallen
leader modelled by his son Richard. At
the foot of the pedestal upon which
! the casket rested were numerous floral
tributes, including a cross, from one
arm of which hung a wreath of white
, and pink roses from Mr. and
Mrs Tom l.. Johnson; a wreath
of immOrtelles and pink orchids from
Joseph Pulitzer; roses and chrysanthe-
NUNS in a wreath, from John G. Milhol-
land. On the card was written: ''This
to his memory, for L hold him dear. He
was honest, he was brave and he loved
the people," Chief McCullagh was in
personal command of the police ar
engagements. There were 655 police
men on duty in the neighborhood
and in the Palace. By the gentlemanly
conduct of every patrolman it was pos
sible to handle the greatcrowd without
any disagreeable circumstances.
The crowd came down the avenue
five deep and was passed through the