The herald., 1897-11-01
Press Special Wire.

Associated Press Special Wire.
NEW YORK, Oct. 81. "A mourning
city-a grief-stricken people - today
showed honor to the man who had fallen
in the battle for what he believed to be
right. Henry George, apostle of the sim
gle tax, leader Of the Jeffersonian DEM
ocracy, stricken on the eve of election.
was honored as no private citizen of
America was ever honored before.
Public griefs have been many in the
great metropolis of the western hemi-
sphere; many have been sincerely
mourned, but none save he who went to
his eternal rest. having served his peo-
pie as a leader of soldiers and as chief
executive of the land, had laid at his
bier such evidences of public grief. wide
spread sorrow and sincere regret as
were laid at the bier of Henry George.
No one would permit Iominder that he
had been a candidate for public office
and had been carrying on bitter war;
fare on those he believed were enemies
Of the public wcal no one recalled the
strong words of denunciatiop that fell
from his lips while on the political ros-
trum. He was remembered only as a
man who loved the people-as one who
gave his life for them.
From dawn of day far into the night
the outward manifestation of grief
lasted: thousands gazed upon the IA
miliar, loved features, cold in death.
yet smiling serenely as in sleep; other
thousands heard stirring orations, mag
ho a ~ Loo
In every temple of God, wherever men
gathered to worship or gathered to hear
lectures and philosophy taught, garlands
Of praise were bestowed upon the men,
ory of the revered dead.
In the vast auditorium where the dead
rested inspired men, teachers of all
faiths-Jews, Christians, Catholics and
Episcopalians-withh hearts wrung with
pain, spoke words which confessedly fell
far short of the great wave Of emotion
that sought to find utterance.
Not a dissenting voice was heard to
the declaration that Henry George was
a lover of the people who he believed
were being oppressed, and that he gave
his life that humanity might live.
The eulogies uttered, the day gone.
the streets became filled with people who
wished to see the funeral cortege as 1t
passed in silent procession down New
York's greatest streets, thence across
Brooklyn bridge and through Brooklyn's
streets to the Brooklyn city hall.
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 its final rest
ing place in Greenwood tomorrow.
At the lowest estimate 125,00 people
saw the casket as 1t wended it's way to
that point where the public was COM
PEELED to stand aside in reverence and
while the family claimed it's
own.
LYING IN STATE
NEW YORK, Oct. 31.-The body of
Henry George lay in state today in
sons reverently passed the casket and
looked upon the face of the dead phil
osopher. From o'clock in the morning
till in the afternoon a stream of men,
women and children poured into the
hall. The immense throng was COM
posed of representatives Of all classes,
of all shades of life, and of all religious
opinion. On every face was stamped
the unmistakable sign Of sincere regret, |
while hundreds of faces were drawn |
with suffering and pain.
To thousands of those who passed by, |
Henry George was personally known,
and it was these who fingered for a |
longer moment to gaze again on the face
Of the man whom to know 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
died fighting to brighten their lives.
At dawn the body was moved in a
plain hearse from Union Square hotel
to the Grand Central palace, unattend-
ed save by the guards of honor and four
policemen. Behind the hearse came a
single carriage, carrying Anna George,
the youngest daughter, who insisted up
on accompanying the body to the Grand
Central palace. No persuasion could
sway her from her purpose. Weeping
she stood at the head of the
stairs at the hotel and begged to be per-
mitted to go. She wished to arrange
he flowers upon the casket in which her
fathers remains reposed. Pleadings
proved in vain and she became importu-
nate and refused to permit the body to
oe taken away unless she accompanied |!
t. The other members Of the family. L
heir grief emphasized by the child's
litter abandon Of anguish, yielded, and Il
Richard George. her brother accom-
panied her to the palace. There she
arranged the flowers as she would have II
hem. and permitted no one to lend the
'lightest aid.