The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-05-31

Of the Eighty fourth regiment company
OF .ored troops, the Veteran Guard
few "Continentals," the children o.
the Union Home and School, comprising nearly one
hundred and twenty-five boys and sixty girls, or
phans OF soldiers killed in the war OF the rebellion
and the battle nags OF various regiments
carried by the different posts OF the Grand
Army. The soldiers orphans presented
an extremely pleasing appearance. the little
girls being attired In white with gypsy hats,
and the boys In a neat military uniform OF
gray with fatigue caps. They rode In Eve
large wagons, decorated with the national
colors. Among the battle flags we're the
old tattered and torn standards OF the
Forty fifth Forty-seventh, Filty-eghth and sixty
eighth regiments OF New York State volunteers,
the slaves OF the Forty-seventh and Sixty-eighth
being cut and shattered by bullets. Some OF the
naes were brown, dirty. iaied snreds OF silk, but
halo or glory seemed to surround them all. Con
spicuous IN banner borne by summer Post, G.. A.
H., was the motto
For country then,
For our comrades now
All along the route or the procession a vast con
course OF people followed, and was constantly rein
forced from the streets intersecting the line OF
march. when the column arrived AZ trinity
Post Phil Kearney, No. s. G. A. r., filed into the
and BY the Ee Horace
the rear OF the church to the southwest
portion Of the churchyard, where the vault
eral Philip Kearney. The vault is covered by a
plain, time-worn, brown stone slab, bearing the
inscription, ''John Watts family vault, 1870"
Kearney The Post, numbering slxty-fonr
Comrades formed IN a circle around the
ate prayers, after which the grave was
decorated with a few pots OF flowers. The Post
then reformed and marched to the southern en-
trance OF the churchyard; near which is the tomb
of the lamented Captain Lawrence (Don't give up
the ship'D, OF the frigate Chesapeake, and
out any special ceremonies. The Post then
entered the churcn, the organ pealing q funeral
drge, and formed in front OF tablet erected to
the memory OF Captain PercIyal Drayton who was
Chief OF the Bureau OF Navigation during the war,
and VINO died In Washington August 4, 1862 Here
after which the Post filed out OF the church and
reloined the procession on its way to the Jerry.
The processlonsts passed through State street
to the South Jerry, where boats were In the slips
waiting TO receive them, but the transfer or the
column to the Brooklyn side was rather slow
and laboriOus undertakng.;N No commissioner
however and in the course or three-quarters of an
hour the Whole procession had been borne across,
amid the booming OF minute guns from the Cover
nOr'S Island batteries, the crash OF drums and the
martial music or at least a dozen bands
There was one feature OF the procession which
was o defect which IL will take some, years to
avoid. Nearly all the wagons In which
were borne owers, MANNED MANNED veterans ana
longing to various sewing machine, soap
manufacturing and express companies. Now,
while it was unquestonably kind on the part
Of the propretorss Of these vehicles to loan
rily and gratutously, it was ditlcult not to
fancy that they had taken advantage OF the
occasion advertise" their business concerns by
parading their finest painted vehicles and glossest
horsehesh in pubic display. II looked like "busi-
ness" in quiet sort OF way. The most noticeable
wagon in the line was large vehicle filled with
Mowers and vases ana drawn by ten superbly har-
messed horses. The ''cataalque' was rather
cheap looking concern. evinclng no artistic taste
whatever.