The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1897-11-02
HENRY GEORGES FUNERAL.
A DAY OF SORROW IN
GREATER NEW YORK.
EULOGlES FROM ALL SIDES
Solemn and Pathetic soones-No such
Grief Shown Since the Death of
General Grant-Rody Viewed
by Thousands OF People of
All Classes-Tbe Fua-
ersi Services
EULocIEs FROM ALL SIDES

NEW York, Nov. IA mourning
city, a grief-stricken people, yester-
| day showed honor to the man who had
fallen in the battle for what he be
/ lieved TO be the right Henry George
apostle of the single tax, leader OF the
new Jeffersonian Democracy, stricken
on the eve of election, was honortd as
/ no private citizen of America was ever
honored before
Public griefs have been many in
this great metropolis of the West
ern hemisphere; many have been
sincerely mourned, but none, save
he who went to the eternal rest
after having served his people as a
leader of soldiers and as chief execu-
tive of the land, had laid at his bier
such evidences of public grief, wide
spread sorrow and sincere grief, as
was laid at the bier of Henry George.
No one would permit remiule that
he had been a candidate To- public
office and had been Carrying ol bit
ter warfare on those te believed were
enemies of the public veal; no one re-
called the strong words of denuncia-
ton that fell from his lips while on
the political rostrum; he was remem-
bered only as a man who so loved the
people that he gave his life for thems
From day until far into the night
the outward manifestations of grief
lasted. Thousands gazed upon the
familiar, beloved features, cold in
death, yet smiling serenely as in sleep,
and other thousands hear stirring
orations, magnificent eulogies upon
the martyr dead. In every temple of
God, wherever men gathered to wor-
ship or gathered to hear lectures and
philosophy taught, garlands of praise
were bestowed upon the memory Of
the revered dead.
In the vast auditorium where the
dead rested, inspired men, teachers of
all faiths, Jews, Christians, Catholics
and Episcopalians, with hearts wrung
with pain, spoke words which CON
fessedly 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 a lover of the peo-
pie, who he believed were being OPP
pressed, 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 il passed in so lemn procession down
New York's greatest streets, thence
across Brooklyn bridge and through
Brooklyn's streets to the Brook lyn
city ball.
There the public gave over the body
to the family and the caslSet was
taken to the modest home in Fort
Hamilton, from which they Will be
borne to their final resting place in
Greenwood this morning.
Al the lowest estimate I25, 900 peo-
Pile saw the casket as IL wended its
way to that point, where the public
was compelled TO stand aside in rev
erence and sympathy while the family
claimed its own.
The exercises began at 1925 with the
singing Of the hymn, Lead Kindly
Light, by the Plymouth church quar-
tette. The Rev. DR. Herbert Newton.
who was Mr. George's warm personal
friend as well as pastor, read the
burial service. DIR. Newton did not
wear his priestly robes, and he had
no reading desk. The service was,
therefore, in way, entirely informal.
there being also no responses, how
ever, the regular burial service of the
Episcopal church The only music
redered IN connection with it was the
chanting OF the Lords prayer
At the conclusion OF the burial serv.
ice the Rev, DR.. Lyman Abbott spoke
briefly upon the character and public
services Of Henry George.