The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-11-02
GRIEF FOR THE DEAD
New York Became a City of
Mourning.
.EULOGIES OVER GEORGE
PROMINENT DrvINES
SPOKE SUNDAY.
THE SORROW APPEARED TO BE UNIVERSAL

NidHt -NciIIdi hdulc UcIiuHSudUOnS- ! tc
Remains are Now Quietly Resting
in Greenwood Cemetery. 4
New York, Nov. IA mourning city,
a grief-strcken people, Sunday showed
honor to the man who had fallen in the
battle for what he believed to be the
| right. Henry George, apostle of the
lsingle-tax, leader of the new Jefferson
ian Democracy, stricken on the eve of
election was honored as no private citi-
zen of America was ever honored be-
fore.
In the vast auditorium where the dead
rested, inspired men, teachers of all
faiths, Jews and Christian, Catholic and
Episcopalian, with hearts wrung with
pain, spoke words which confessedly fell
| far short of the great waves of emotion
that sought to find utterance.
There the public gave over the body to
the family and the casket was taken to
the modest home in Fort Hamilton, from
which it will be borne to it's final rest
ing place in Greenwood tomorrow morn
ing.
| Before o'clock in the at
ternoon the people were per-
mitted to occupy the seats in the hall
where the body of Henry George lay in
state and where oulog;es were to be
pronounced. The front six rows in the
main part of the audience were reserved
for the family, the immediate friends
Of the deceased, the pall-bearers and the
ushers. All the rest of the main floor
was open to the crowd, and it took but
short time to fill the hall. The plat
form, Of course, was reserved, and the
galleries, which hold a comparatively
small number, were likewise reserved for
the holders of tickets and Oscal Strads.
| The exercises began at 1926 with the
singing Of the hymn LEAD Kindly
Light" by the Plymouth church quar-
tette.
| Rev. DIR. Heber Newton, who was
Mr.. Georges warm personal friend as
well as pastor, then read the burial
service. Mr.. 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. 1t was, howevr, the regu
lar burial service of the Episcopal
church. The only music rendered in
connection with it was the chanting of
the Lords Prayer.
! AT the conclusion of the burial service
Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott spoke briefly
upon the character and public service OF
Henry George.
| DR.. Abbott spoke in his customary
manner, calm, critical and judicious, yet
with much earnestneSs. He avoided
anything like extreme eulogy, especially
as regards Mr.. Georges political teach
ings, but his praise for him as man
had no bounds. He began with the state
ment that those who agreed in part and
disagreed in part with Henry George,
and even those who disagreed almost
entirely with him could unite in the ex-
preston for admiration of his character
and their love of him as a man.
What is it to follow Christ?' asked
Dr. Abbott. '.Is it not to show the spir-
it of Christ himself? No one, / think
was animated more clearly by his spirit.
No one more faithfully followed his
statements than he whose sudden death
we are called here to mourn"
Rabbi GOtheil spoke next saying:
Before the civic contest is decided,
In which this brave man staked his life,
death has cast his irrevocable vote In
favor of him and crowned him victor in
the race for crown that outshines and
will outlast the transient triumps of
the coming battle. 1t is a race for a
worthy manhood and benefactor of his
kind.
"He advocated a social order in which
every toiler shall be sure of his due re
ward and poverty and degradation shall
be unknown.
After another hymn by the choir, the
Rev. DR.. Edward McGlynn spoke.
DIR. McGlynn said: I'VE stand upon
ground that is made sacred by the re-
mains of a man who was raised from
among us by our Father in Heaven to
spread the messages of truth and righte-
BUSINESS and justice and peace to all.
He died in a struggle for the cause of
humanity, especially that of New York,
but it was altogether too small for his
bread mind and indomitable energy
The struggle he has always been en-
gagged, was for the rights of man and
for justice to all.
Il believe | am not guilty of any pro-
fanation OF the sacred scriptures when
l say there was a man sent from God
and his name was Henry George"
Henry Georges gentle heart, the ora
tor said, was ready to break because he
saw that nothing came from the pro-
fessors of the schools of political econo-
my which could improve the condition
of the people, because the limits of the
knowledge of those economists was
hardly to be considered within the bounds
of science at all.
THE BURIAL.
| New York, Nov. 1-After short, sim
] pie funeral service, the body Of Henry