New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-09-23
STILL BOWED WITH GRIEF
THE CITps WOE UNMITrGATED.

THE CTrY'S WOE UNMITIGATED
THE WORK OF DRAPING THE CITY STILL IN PRO-
GREss-NoURNISG EMBLEMs FROM RIVER TO
RIVER AND FROM HARLEM TO THE BATTERY
PUBLIC MEETINGS cALLED-MoRE REsoLU-
IioNs OF SYMPATHY AND soRRow-DEPAR-
TUREs TO ATTEND THE FUNERAL
lhe deep grief in this city over the death
sot President Garfield is still umassuaged, and
I continues to find expression in visible signs of
mourning. All day men were engaged in
draplng houses and buildings which previously
mad borne no tokens of woe, and in adding
! to the emblems already displayed. Many or
carnations held meetings, and passed suitable
resolutions of sorrow and sympathy. Various
delegations appointed to attend the funeral OK
the dead President either started on their sad
journey or made all preparations to do So
DIR. Hamilton spoke with TRIBUNE reporter
OF the result OF the autopsy in President Gar
I fields case.
TOKENS OF GRIEF WIDELY DISPLAYED
ADDING TO THE EMBLEMs OF MoURNING-scENEs
IN UPTOWN sTREETs-oPFIcIAL ACTION.
The city is not yet content with its display of
mourning emblems In most of the uptown streets
yesterday many ladders seen resting against
1 the houses. and men busily at work drapIng
entrances and cOrnces. From one end Of the city
to the other there is continuous display of black
and white The demand for mourning goods is al
most greater than the supply. Pictures of General
] Garfield were largely sold in all the principal
thoroughfares, aud many, women particularly on
their way home from shopping were seen
with pictures of President and Mrs.
Garfield, carefully folded, in their hands.
with few exceptions every building in Broadway is
draped and in some of them the window displays
are appropriately arranged. The stores in Third
sixth and Eighth-aves. are extensively draped
The principal clubs began yesterday TO display
mourning Black velvet covers the balconies of the
Union League, and the entrance to the Lotos Club
is ornamented with black aud purple. Long stream
ert hang on the Flfth-ave. front of the Union Club
and there is also purple shield with the letter &c"
III white. Except the club-houses, hotels and
shops there is not much display IN Fifth
ave. many residents have not Yet returned to the
city. The houses of the Asors were draped yester-
day. On the east side of the city, however the dis
play profuse, and increases daily On every tene-
ment house some sign of mourning can be seen with
pictures of the dead President borered with Grape
In one house are the pictures of Washington Lin
cold and Garfield with the words: Father"
" Saviour" Martyr" In South Fifth-ave, among
the negro population, the houses are extensively
covered with black and whitemusla. The mourning
decorations at Castle Garden are now complete.
On the front of the rotunda, in a large frame of
black alpaca, double ife-size portrait of Presi-
dent Garfield lent by Bernard Biglin. IL seemed to
be great attraction TO arriving immigrants. Post
master Pearson yesterday issued instructions in
compliance with the Presidents proclamation MAX
ing Monday day of humiliation and prayer. The
general Office the branch offices and all outgoing
mails viii be closed at IL O'Clock. The
3etter-carrers will make their last deliveries
below Canal-st. at O'clock and above that
street at 8 o'clock in the morning. Commodore w.
A. w. Stewart of the Seawanhaka Yacht Club. has
ordered the yachts of the Club display their flags
at half-mast for thirty days.
Donald Mackay yesterday, at the Stock Exchange,
read the following cable dispatch:
LONDON Sept %.
! PRINCE & wEIrELY: Please notify TO the proper
authorities our Exchange viii close AT O'Clock
lay or all business The American Department will be
clio scd all day. CnTNNEKY BRoTuEAS
Under instructions received FROM Secretary VIM
dom yesterday. the Custom House and Sub-Treas-
ury will be closed at noon to-day, aud all day on
queStcd all employees of bis Office to wear
Grape upon the until further orders.
Colonel f. +. Unbekant. Of the llth Regiment has
issued an order reyokIng the permission granted to
Companies and for the eucampment projected
by them to take place Monday. The arrnory will be
drapcd and the officers of the command viii wear
the usual badge of mourning the sword hilt and
left arm for six months.
At a conference of large number Of the pastors
the churches of this city yesterday afternoon il
Mondav at he hour appointed for the funeral of
The late President Garfield al Cleveland. IL was
also agreed 10 hold union for PRAYER IN the
evening OF the same day, at the Madison Square
Church. the Broadway Tabernacle the Rev. DIR.
Reeds Church, AT Madison-ave. and Flfty-Seventh-
ST., and the Church Of tho Strangers, down town,
a "a mt the Harlem Presbyterian Church, OF which
Dr. Ramsey Is pastor.