Evening journal., 1897-11-01
MANY MOURN GEORGE.
Enormous Concourse Views
the Economists Clay.
MANY EULOCISTS PRAISE HIS NAME.
Solemn Scenes In the Grand Central Pal
ace and Along the Route OF the
Civic Funeral Erom New York
to Brooklyn City Hail.


who did not agree with his TEACHINGS, |
but admired his honesty and manhood, |
heard the public funeral services In the |
Grand Central palace yesterday after |
noon.
In the carly dawn the body was moved |
In a plain hearse from the hotel TO the |
palace. unattended save by the guards
of honor and four policemen. Behind |
the hearse came a single carriage. Allia |
George, the youngest daughter. insisted
upon accompanying the body 70 the |
Grand Central palace. No persuasions |
could sway her from her purpose Weep
ing bitterly. she stood at the head OF
the stairs at the hotel and begged to be
permitted to go. She wished to arrange
the flowers about the casket In which
her fathers remains reposed.
Pleadings proving vain, she became
importunate and refused 20 permit the
body to be taken away unless she ac-
companied 1t. The other membots Of
the family, their grief emphasized by
the chlld's utter abandon of anguish,
yielded. and Richard George, her broth
er accompanied her TO the palace.
There. with loving hands. she arranged
the flowers as she would have them and
permitted no one to lend the slightest
aid.
About $4,000 persons viewed the body
during the early hours of the day. Few
such Impressive civic funerals have
been known In the history Of the world.
The services were particularly im-
| pressive. Able representatives of many
denominations united their praise Of the
man who had died In his battle harness
The eulogiums dealt with remarkable
! life. The spirit Of politics for q time In
that hall bowed before the greater spir-
it OF united humanity.
When the protecting ropes We're .e-
moved, few minutes after o'clock,
frantic rush was made for the seats on
each side Of the aisle and for moment
all decorum and order were broken.
Men, and women, too, scrambled over
the backs Of the benches and crushed
and crowded in their anxiety to obtain
good places.
The FIVE front seats on either side Of
the casket were reserved for the
mourners and friends 1t was with dif-
fculty the ushers prevented these be-
ing appropriated. Within ave minutes
the whole of the big hall was densely
} packed. every available seat being oc-
: cupied.
The family and Intimate friends ocou-
} pied the reserved seats on the right
= hand. facing the platform. Henry
George, Jr., occupied the chair next 70
the aisle in the front row. and his moth
er was seated next to him. Mrs. George
was heavily yelled when she entered
the hall, but during the speaking she
? raised her ven and followed the re-
} marks Of each speaker attentively.
While showing plainly the strain that
she had passed through. Mrs. George
r maintained her composure with stern
! fortitude. To the right Of Mrs George
. were seated the other members Of the
family and relatives. Including Richard
= George. a son OF the deceased, and his
S sister. Miss Anna George: John w.
/. George a brother Of the deceased and
81 other relatives some Of whom had
COME quite a distance to attend the fu-
q neral.
The reserved seats 10 the left were oc-
n cupied by the pallbearers and the ush-
. ers. The pallbearers had entered the
o hall a few minutes before the family
4 came in, and. like them, they came In
/, by the Forty-thrd street entrance. The
paIlbearers were Tom L. Johnson Au.
q | gust Lewis. Andrew Mclean. Thomas
6. Shearman, Arthur McEwen Louis F
d. Post, Jerome O'Neiil and Charles Fred
y ericl1 Adams.
: Tho honorary panbearers, some OF
z whom sat on the platform, included
Mayor William L. Strong Of New York
u Mayor Frederick W. Wurster Of Brook
lyn, Willis J. Abbot, Albert L. Johnson
T John p. Crawford. Charles w. Dayton
- George Cary Eggleston. Horace White
Edward McHugh. Bolton Han, Johr
e Filmer, Charles O'COnor Hennessy
e John Swinton, Lawson Purdy, John II
{ Giraner, A. Van Deusen, John r. Wa
ID ters. NJ. R. Ieverson. Frank Stephens
| and Robert Schalkenbach.
IS Mayor Strong sat at the center Of thl
le platform, and ne was surrounded by Z
g number of the more distinguished per
DeI sons present Behind the mayor sat Setl
n. Low. with Colonel George IS. Waring b,
0 his side. Among others present wer'
" John Jeroloman, president Of the boart
|: of aldermen: Mayor Patrick j. Gleason
Long Island City; Austen G. Fox, Ed
" ward King. +. M. Grout. NathaI
IT Straus, Joseph Larocque. ]. J. c
lel Clarke. Senator Charles L. Guy, Sherif
all Tamsen. Oscar Straus c. Augustu
vl Haviland, A. J. Wolfe. Stlllman Double
n. day and Clinton Furbish.
10 Floral decorations were profuse.
n mass Of wreathed flowers from the Chi
A cago Single Tax club. a wreath OF whit
s. roses and immortelles from the propre
' tor of the Union Square hotel and an
q other wreath from Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
, ward Markham. These tributes wer
Iv grouped around the casket.
The caslSet itself was devoid OF an,
II, ornament save the heavy silver handle
4 and the plate. the inscription on whicl
/, read. Henry George, died Oct. 20, 1897.
At the back of the platform. on
heavy crepe background, was a portrai
40 of Henry George surrounded wit
American flags. At the front Of Til
platform stood bust of the fallen lead
er. modelled by his son Richard.
i. At the foot of the pedestal upon whic
III the bronze rested We're these floral trih
he utes: Immortelles in the shape Of
he book. inscribed Progress and Poverty,
er from DR.. j. Julio; a cross, from one arr
he Of which hung a wreath Of white an
e. pink roses, from Mr.. and Mrs. Tom /
r johnson: a wreath Of immortelies an
IN pink orchids. from Joseph Pulitzer;
large pillow Of white roses inscribe
Rest in double immortelles fror
Michael and Annie Dwyer; a sheaf {
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