Frederick Douglass, the Orator - Monroe County Library System

Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Monographs Collection
LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS. 255
prominent citizens. The pupils of the public
schools, accompanied by their teachers, were given
an opportunity to view the remains, special
arrangements having been made for them.
The guard of honor at the hall consisted of
Corporal Ray Crane, and Privates John Bricker,
A. Birdsell, J. W Sherman, and B. R. Ordway,
of the Eighth Separate Company of the National
Guard; Lieutenant Schwartz, and patrolmen
Kron, Moore, Maguire, Johnson, Moran, Mc-
Alester, Mullane, Shephard, Scholl, Klein, Sheehan,
and Sullivan, of the Police Department.
The funeral cortege, leaving the City Hall at
2 o'clock, marched slowly to the Central Church.
The Fifty-fourth Regiment band, playing the
funeral march, led the procession. Then came
the Eighth Separate Company, under command
of Captain H. B. Henderson, followed by a platoon
of forty-eight policemen in charge of Captain
McDermott. The next in line were the active
and honorary pallbearers in carriages, Mayor,
and members of the Common Council, and exmayors.
After these followed the hearse, drawn
by four white horses, richly caparisoned. Members
of the Douglass League acted as an escort
to the hearse.
When the cortege had reached the church the
casket was carried to the front of the altar by
the body bearers, the organist playing the funeral