The San Francisco call., 1897-11-01
THIRTY THOUSAND
VIEW THE BODY.
People of All Glasses Crowd Grand
Central Palace to Pay Last
Tr,bu to Henry George.


Tr,bu to Henry George.
NEW YORK, Oct. 31.-The body OF
Henry George lay in state to-day in the
Grand Central Palace, and 10000 people
reverently passed the casket an6 looked
upon the face OF the dead philosopher
From o'clock in the morning TILL 3 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 of all religious opinion. On
eyery face was stamped the unmlstak-
able signs of sincere regret, while hun
dreds of faces were drawn with suffering
and pain. To thousands OF those who
passed by, Henry George was personally
known. and 1t was these who fingered Tor
a longer moment TO gaze again on the lace
of the man whom they knew was TO love-
Some OF them wept. The children, OF
whom there were hundreds, were raised
along the guard and held up while they
gazed at the features OF the man who dleo
fighting 20 brighten their lives.
Ia the early dawn the body was moved
in a plain hearse from the Union-square
Hotel to the Grand Central Palace unat-
tended save by the guards OF honor and
four policemen. Behind the hearse came
a single carriage carrying 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 bit
terIv. she stood at the head of the stairs
at the hotel and begged to be permitted
to go. She wished to arrange the howers
upon the casket in which her fathers re-
mains reposed. Pleadings proved in vain
and she became i'm mportunate and refused
to permit the body to be taken away un-
less she accom- panied 1t. The other me m :
bers of the family, their grief emphasized
by the child's utter abandon OF anguish,
Welded and Richard George, her brother,
accompanied her TO the palace. There she
arranged the flowers as she would have
the M and permitted no one to lend the
slightest aid.
Ate o'clock the doors opened and i'm
mediateIy 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 Il ,ral
tri butes, a plain heavy black cloth COW
cred casket resting on dais. Through
the glass they saw the remains OF the
great man reposing calmly, his features
unruff1ed as if in sleep. The left arm
rested lightly on the breast the other by
his side. The remains were clad in black
broadcloth, rundown collar and plain
black tie.
For the first half hour the throng filing
up the hall in twos passed at the rate Of
1900 an hour but shortly the mum bers
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 concou1se which was vending its
way down from Forty-sixth street to the
palace, anc which filled FoTty-sixth street
and Third avenue for many blocks. For
the last two hours the crowd came at the
rate OF 5000 an hour. This is the highest
rate obtainabie under such circumstances
as these. ANY greater ceierity would
have meant an undignitied, irreverential
rush.
August Lewis, a prominent single taxer,
wept bitterly as he passed by, and ten.
derly laid bunch OF violets on the glass.
A woman who followed in the line an
hour later placed a modest bunch of pinks
inside the vioiets. 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 care.