A memorial of Horace Greeley . d, the body was carried once more to the hearse andremoved to Mr. Sinclairs. Mr. Stewart and Mr. Carpenter followedit, and watched with it through the night. The estimates of the number of people who took part in thedemonstration of yesterday vary greatly, as such estimates alwaysdo. The conjectures of unskilled observers are invariably extrava-gant. Many placed the figures as high as 150,000. It is generallyagreed that the crowd exceeded that at the Lincoln obsequies in thesame place. Close counts of the people who entered the GovernorsRoom at various hours of t
A memorial of Horace Greeley . d, the body was carried once more to the hearse andremoved to Mr. Sinclairs. Mr. Stewart and Mr. Carpenter followedit, and watched with it through the night. The estimates of the number of people who took part in thedemonstration of yesterday vary greatly, as such estimates alwaysdo. The conjectures of unskilled observers are invariably extrava-gant. Many placed the figures as high as 150,000. It is generallyagreed that the crowd exceeded that at the Lincoln obsequies in thesame place. Close counts of the people who entered the GovernorsRoom at various hours of the day give from forty to seventy-five aminute, the speed being considerably greater toward evening thanin the earlier part of the day. A fair average would doubtless beabout fifty a minute, or 3,000 an hour. As the stream flowed with-out an instants intermission for more than thirteen hours, we havea total of about 40,000. If we remember that, so far as can bejudged from appearances, a very small proportion of these thousands. /-^^ THE CLOSING CEEEMONIES. 159 came through idle curiosity, we shall understand the true signifi-cance of the tribute to Horace Greeleys memory. THE CLOSING CEREMONIES. THE FUNERAL. { [From The Trzdune, Dec. 5.] Before ten oclock the friends and associates of our departedchief began to gather in great numbers at the residence of Mr,Samuel Sinclair, in West Forty-fifth Street, where the remains hadrested since their removal from the City Hall. The cofiin was stillopen. It was placed in the front parlor, and all about it was thegreatest profusion of rare and beautiful flowers, ofierings from thebereaved children, from friends and admirers, from the difierentdeyjartments of The Tribune, and from various clubs and is not too much to say that the house could hardly contain themultitude of flowers that were brought to it. As the invited guestsarrived, they passed through the room, looked for a moment on thedead mans face, and went out by another
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