New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-11-01
THE LINE or MARCH.
IN THE FUNERAL PRO
CESSTON.
LED ny COLONEL GEORGE wARING. JR. GRAND
MARsIIaI,-sCENEs ALONG THE ROUTE
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MARsHAL-SCENEs ALONG THE ROUTE
THE ARRIVAL ~ BROOKLYN.
When some great general Of the Civil War has
died. or citizen holding high official place New
York City has occasionally witnessed public fu-
neral, with It's attendant procession. Henry George
neither warrior nor statesmen. although his name Is
known tie world over In his death seemed TO par
take o, the attributes OK both, fsllng as he did In
the thick OF the battle In which he had been 50
Jealous contestant for purity and liberty and
efficiency IN the conduct Of the affairs OF the Greater
New-York. And 50 T. not wonderful thing
that many thousands walked past the body %
this pain citizen view FOR the last time his face.
and thronged the great hall TO attend his funeral.
and at night walked IN procession, escorilng his
body to the city o. MS residence filed the streets
on the line ~ march to honor his memory
The funeral procession was In one sense dis
appointment, 10 Mr. Georges friends. for 1t was FAR
TO the extreme shortness OF the notice which could
be given 70 the organizations which naturally would
have desired TO participate In II. many OF the men
who actually did walk in the line having had no
other notification than the announcements which
appeared IN the public press II was n Few minutes
before o'clock when ushers came out OF the
Grand Central Palace. bearing the many floral
pieces which had been massed around the coffin
within. Some OK the pieces were put into wagon,
but all that could he used were fastened onto
,hc sides of the fuQuo-great masses OF white
chrysanthemums and lilies and orchids and red
roses Then the coffin was borne forth from the
tall and placed on tho catafalque. which LOFTY
IN four tiers above the body OF the vehicle.
START OF THE LINE.
II was precisely o'clock when the catataquc
with to sixteen horss drnped In heavy black me-
ting. each horse led by an attendant dressed IN
back. moved from tho entrance OF the Grand Cen
trail Palace down Lexngton.aye. to Forty-second
st. preceded hy Colonel George t.. Waring Jr. the
grand marshal. John Brisben Walker the assist
ant marshal and Richard Watson Glider S 5
Mcclure and Messrs Woodward and Brown. the
mounted aida
Mrs. George and her children. Henry ana Richard
George and Miss Anna George: Mr.. Georges broth
ers John Valentine George. Thomas l.. George and
Maurice Reed George. and mis- sisters. Mrs Joseph
Shoemaker. Miss Clrollre Pratt George and Mrs
J. T. Chapman. aud tho immediate friends % the
family entered carriages late I'm the afternoon
AZ the Union Square Hotel. and were driven 70
nepcw Place. where their carriages we're ,olned By
those Of the palbcarers and the honorary pail.
bearers. who had escorted the coffin containing Mr.
Georges body from the hall In which II had been
lying state TO the cats.alque, in front OF the main
entrance OF the Grand Central Palace.
The pallbearers were Tom l.. johnson. Angus,
Lewis Andrew Mclean. Thomas O. Sherman,
Ar;hur McEwen. Louis +. Post. Jerome ONoill and
Charles F. Adams.
Inc honorary piIIu'afefs were MAYOR william
l.. Strong. Mayor Frederick w Wurster OF
Brooklyn. Willis J. Abbot. Albert L. Johnson.
joan L. Crawford. Charles w Dayton. George
Cary Egeicston Horace White, Edward McIIugh
Bolton Hail. John Fimer. Charles OConor Hen
messy. John sw!nton. r. Lawson Purdy. John II.
Glrdner. y. Van Deusen, John X. Waters NJ Il
Levcrson. Frank stephens and Robert Schalken-
bach.
BEHIND THE FIFTY UsHERS
At Depew Place and Forty-second-st the fourteen
carriages entered the line behind the nifty ushers
who. with broad ribbons stamped with the name
Henry George" walked Immediately behind the
catafalque. on past the sympathetic and respect
fu crowds which lined both ades of Forty second
ST. moved the procession into Madison-ave.. where