The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-01

New York, Oct. 31.-A mourning
city. a grief-stricken people. today
showed honor to the man who had
fallen in the battle for what he be-
Heved to be the right. Henry George.
apostle of the single-tax. leader Of the
new Jeffersonian Democracy. 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 eternal rest after having served his
people as q leader OF soldiers and as
chief executive Of the land, had laid
at his bier such evidences of public
grief. Widespread corrow and sincere
grief as was laid at he bier of Henry
George.
No one would permit a reminder that
he had been a candidate for public
1 Office, and had been carrying on a Bit
ter warfare on thOse he believed We're
enemies of the public wealth: no one
recalled the strong words of denuncia-
ton that fell from his lips while on the
political rostrum: he was remembered
only as a man who so loved the people
that he gave his life for them.
From dawn of day TO far in the night
the outward manifestation Of grief
lasted. thousands gaZed upOn the IA
I rniliar, beloved features, cold in death,
/ yet smiling .serenely. as in sleep; other
thousands heard stirring orations,
magnificent euIOgies upon the martyr
dead. In every temple Of God. Wher-
I ever men gathered to worship, or gath
( cred TO hear lectures and philosophy
/ taught, garlands Of praise were be-
slowed upon the memory of the re-
vcred dead In the vast auditorium
Nhe-a til.- dad sst5fC, l0syired men,
| teachers of all faiths-Jews. Christians.
! Catholics and F,piscopalians-with
/ hearts Wrung with pain spoke words
which confessedly fell far short of the
/ great waves Of emotion that sought to
[ find Utterance-
! Not a dissenting voice was heard to
| the declaration that Henry George was
/ &. lover of the people. who. he believed,
were being oppressed. that he gave his
I life that humanity might live.
/ The eUlOgies uttered. the day gone.
the streets became filed with people
I who wished to see the funeral cortege
as it passed in solemn procession
( through New YOrl's greatest streets,
I thence across Brooklyn bridge and
through Brootlyn'S streets to the
Brooklyn city hall.
There the public gave over the body
I to the family and the casket was taken
to the modest home at Fort Hamilton.
I from which it viii be borne to its final
/ resting place in Greenwood tomorrow
morning.
At the lowest estimate. $4,000 people
saw the Casket as it wendell its way to
that point where the public was COM
PEELED to stand aside, in reverence and
sympathy, while the family claimed its
BODY LYING II STATE.
New York. Oct. s1-The body OF
Henry George lay in state today in the
Grand Central Palace, and $1,000 peO-
pie reverently passed the caSket and
looked on the face Of the dead philos-
opiier. From O'Clock in the morning
till in the afternoon, 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 every face was stamped
Z the unmistakable signs Of sincere re-
grat, 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 q
/ 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 vera
/ hundreds, were raised along the guard
and held I'D while they gazed at the
I features Of the man who died fighting
to brighten their lives.
/ In the early dawn, the body was
moved in a plain hearse from Union
/ Square hotel to the Grand Central
+ Palace. unattended save by the guards
Of honor and four policemen. Behind
/ the hearse came single carriage, car
I rying Anna George, the youngest
daughter. who insisted upon accom-
| pauying the body to the Grand Cen
! trail Palace. No persuasion could sway
her from her purpose.
| Weeping 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 upon
] the casbet in which her fathers re-
mains reposed. Pleadings proved in
vain, and she became impOrtunate and
/ refused TO permit the body TO be taken
away unless she accompanied it. The
other members of the family, sheir
( grief emphasized by the child's utter
/ abandon of anguish, yielded, and Rich
/ ard George, her brother. accompanied
I her to the Palace. There she arranged
the flowers as she would have them
! and permitted no one to lend the slight
/ est aid.
At o'clock the doors opened, and
Immediately several hundred persons
who We're in waiting without, entered
the hall
WITH BOWED HEADS.
They saw at the head of the hall. in
an immense bower Of floral tributes, q
PLAIN heavy black cloth-cOvered casket
resting on a dais. Through the glass
they saw the remains Of the great man
reposing calmly, his features unrufled.
as if in sleep. The left arm rested
1 lightly on The breast, the other by his
side. The remains were clad in black
broadeloth, a turn-down collar and
plain black tie.
For the first half hour the throns
fling up the hail in twos passed at the
rate of 1.500 an hour. but shortly the
numbers swelled and grew until at one