The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-01

ktThnNeu Along tno OuIef tuRe OF In0 pIhJIOfm.
The back OF the platform was q great garden Of
palms, Of all sizes. from little ones less than q
yard high TO palms worthy to DO called trees, ten
and fifteen feet high. p.
Mr.. Georges body rested In a black broad.
cloth casket, with oxidtzed Affver bars running
along the side and at each end. Tho onskst was
placed on ~trestles In the middle Of the centre
aisle within fifteen feet OF tho platform. The
trestles and tho floor on which they rested were
covered with black voIvet.
Until daylight the mon who brought the body
down from tho Union Square Hotel kept watch
oft. and then one Of the members of Mr..
Georges family arrived. It was his daughter.
She had expressed o wish to arrange thu flowers
that wero to DO placed around the caskct. She
selected from the offerings an immense bunch
of white and pink roses. With the stems, this
bunch was nearly three feet long. This she
placed at the head Of the casket, near tho stage.
1t was tho gift Of Mrs. Francis @. Shaw, Mrs.
Charles Russell Lowell. Miss Charlotte Russell
Lowell, and Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Markham.
Along each side Of tho basket she placed chrys.
anthomums and palms. aud resting against 1t at
the end another bunch of roses, which were
twined with palms. A few feet further down
the aisle sho placed a dozen or more potted
palms.
SUPERB POLICE ARRANGEMENTS.
This work was finished at about tho same time
Na- eNS hoh Az "a obihk IL YIN u
finished their work, and everything was ready
for the reception Of the crowd. Some time be.
fore this Deputy Chief Cortright had arrived,
and after him came some 500 uniformed men
from various precincts In tho city. These men
Hyero drawn up in the lower corridor and were
assigned to their places in Forty second, Forty.
third. Forty.fourth, and Forty. fifth streets and
in Lexington avenue at Forty.second street.
Chief McCullagh and Deputy Cortright had
not received notice of the arrangements for tho
funeral until late, but they had arranged a plan
for handling the crowd, the like of which hasn't
oeen seen in Now York city in n good many
years. Their arrangement was superb. They
made of LeXing on avenue n great funnel, the
tor. of which was ut Forty.sixth street and the
entof which was Mt the palace. On both sides
of the avenue, at all the cross streets, were sta.
toned men with orders to let no one pass except
persons who lived in the streets. Lexington
avenue. at Forty.second street was closed ex-
cept for the cable cars. The only way to
get TO the Grand Central Palace was from up.
town in the avenue or through Forty
sixth street at either side. At Forty
sixth street there was q great SQUAD
of police prepared to handle any crowd that
might come. Along down the avenue at both sides
there were lines of policemen with Instructions
to keep everybod, moving down. At the entrance
to the Palace there were lines of police on each
side, and inside the corridor eight or ten moro
men were stationed. On the stairway, at the
head OF the fl st flight, there were men at either
side to direct the crowd, and inside the hall
there were men at the doorways and near the
stage. Spread out as they were there didn't ap-
pear to be a great many police, and yet they
were so arranged that at n moments warning q
great company could be gathered in less time
than it takes to tell it.
THE CROWD BEGINS TO COME.
The policemen got to their stations before 7
o'clock. and the doors of the Palace were opened
Immediately for the reception of the crowd.
For half an hour before this the people had
been gathering at Third avenue, at all of the
side streets, and in Forty-second street. They
were most Of them on their way to early mass.
They were all sent up to Forty-sixth street, and
were then turned into Lexington avenue. There
were perhaps 500 Of them all told when the
word was given to let them come on.
The first of them arrived at tho Palace a few
minutes before z o'clock. Fifty ushers were
prepared to receive them. These ushers were
stationed at each of the entrances and along the
aisle and around the casket. All the seats had
been roped OFF, 80 that 1t was impossible for any
one to sit down. This was done at tho sug-
gestion of tho police, who called attention to
the fact that il the seats were left open they
would be filed quickly, and no matter how
long delayed the funeral services might be |
those persons who got them first would |
not give them up. unless they were forced to.
Tho first ten men to arrive at the Palace includ-
ed one colored mau. They were directed up the
stairs, down the aisle, alongside the casket. each |
having a chance to look at the face of MI.
George. and were then quickly sent around the |
: right of the stage, back of it and thence down
stairs, and were turned out in Forty-third street.
where a line of police was arranged so that in
order to get away they had to go through Depew
place to Forty-second.
DRovEs OF CHILDREN.
Once the stream started down Forty-sixth
street and into the building it never stopped.
At times during the first hour it thinned
out a bit. but it was always contin-
uoua The only difference was that when
1t was thin the people in it were per-
mitted to stop an instant beside the casket
II they 80 desired. In the first hundred that
passed into the building and around the casket
there were seven women-all the rest were
w~orkingmen-and this was about the proper
ton for the first half hour. Then for a
half hour there came children in great
droves. Where they came from they didn't
say. but they almost monopolized the line. They
ranged in age from 8 to 10 years. Some of them
were so small that they toddled along. Many
OF them were not tall enough to see the top of
the casket. These little ones were lifted by the
ushers'stationed there, and were each permitted
to look at the face of the dead man. A close
count was not kept of the people who passed in
this first hour. between 2 and 8 o'clock, but 1t
was estimated by the police and by tho ushers
that the number was between 1. 200 and l, 500.
The beginning OF the second hour brought the
persons who were coming homo from early
mass, and the crowd increased perceptibly, One
OF the men who came dropped a bunch of vio-
lets on the glass Covering of tho casket. A wo-
man dropped a little bouquet Of red and white
pinks- There were 1000 persons who passed
In the second hour. II was plain that they were
all Of them workingmen dressed in their Sunday
clothes, though now and then there would
be little punches of men in greasy over.
alls and blue flannel shirts. or men who
although they wore white shirts, wore no col.
lars. Most o! these men appeared to be deeply
affected. Few shed tears beside the casket ii.
seif, but 1t was a common occurrence lor men 10
begin to weep when they had passed the casket
and were disappearing around the side of The
stage. Some OF them broke down and sobbed.