New-York tribune., 1885-08-09
SALUTES IN BROOKLYN.
GENERAL SUSPENSION OF BUsINEss-NEw-JERsEY
CITIZENS VISIT NEw-YORK.


CITIZENS VISIT NEw-YORK.
Brooklyn was almost as quiet as on Sunday,
yesterday, for the jInging bells upon the many
hundreds OF crowded street which to the
Bridge ferries But the street well
the streets were almost deserted at midday and two
hours before and after All through tho early morning
hours the facilities Of the street railroads taxed to
treir utmost The Fulton-st ran
on q minute headway. and all the rolling stock
Of the City Railroad Company the largest street rail-
road corporation in the country. was ia use.
The city Offices the City Hall and tho Municipal
Building closed, no judges sat in the courts and
only police aud nre departments attended to their
usual business All the leading stores closed out Of
Difference to the dead. Every nsg in the city at
halfmast church bells solemnly toled Early
in the norning tho preparations began for the assem-
bling of the military aud civilians who to
tend the funeral In body Before O'Clock the city and
county officials the City Hail and took carriages
20 the Twenty-third-st ferry. at Broadway. E. d.
Mayor Low Joined them In NewYork. Among
those present were Aldermen Oiena. Dimon. Nichols.
Cor~in; Qantsrd. Conner: Sterling, Cnrran. Bowers
CiIy Treasurer Wheeiock Tax Collector Tanner Health
Raymond Building. sy Gay
Pratt. Clement and Van wyck. County Clerk Thursby.
The nve brooklyn regiments met their respective
armories At 7So M and crossed the river ~ the most
% sSs sssh,!ns is1gy Ths 47.s and ssd hssiSs%s:
sSss''s s y s .ass did ss
furnished to MaorGeneral MolineuI from members
The q The Troop vas stationed in Fort Greene
and minute guns for two hours In the afternoon
Jersey City the morning, especially !. tho vicn
tty Of the railroad dep0Is and ferries. From early
s.rs Ss
. M but
even with them tho accommodations werc inadequate
for 70 Il: ta,ss who s: to snry
suspended the few stores which opened in the mornug
" 10 $
al ss dGs forced
Dickinson marched to the Adams Express pier at tho
Of
The soldiers were taken 70 Now York on the steamer
IT,: A%s
Ncw-York in barges from the Pennsylvana Railroad
the Jersey City posts and Co%mandsr SssiSs aud his
st.n had their patience tested Nearly every
s' sn the the veteran. NO carried Slass corps cansa s
nS.s and his 4
trsops and then this city In carriages Mayor
a Yes S .se Fire. Sc
mssioners and Public Works came TO this city by the
The Ore aud church bells Iord intervals during
The day and guns were fred By Z ers ttsry.
Hoboken was nearly deserlsd betwsc 3 and 4 p
M Mayer Timken and the Common Council sad other
Of d%sd 5ss s
church and nre bes were toed from 10 o'clock until g.
on the bluff aud found interest In watching the
neet Of vessels lying on Riverside Park.
cpa business OF Newark thousands Of peO
pie left the city by the early trains for NewYork The
Meera services we're held In ali the churches and syn
agosues aud the services largely attended Minute
s
procession had started and the church bells tolsd
In Elizabeth there was general suspension Of busl
bells churches were toiled Religious
s T..
teiis werc tolled during the funeral.
road depot, Patterson as early as No. some Of them
20 take carly start from tina city and others witness
In every little village and hamlet on Long ' island
some tribute Of respect to the memory Of General Grant
was paid In many OF the churches memorial services
hrld and Ia OF the villages sautes we're fired
The bells OF the churches were tolled At Henp:teaa
done the before ander General Grants orders Al
kveread appropriate services were held in tho Meth.
odist Epicopal Church we're attended by the vee.
rams Win their odarmy nags. An Grafton deliv-
At sunset last evening the Narrows and the Long
Island and staten Island shores ecnong With the
worth AMI Fort Hamilton, the nnsl tribute to Grants
tnemor,.
SERVICES THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY
CITIES AND TOWNS DRAPED-NEMoRIAL SPEECHES.
AND sERMoSs-PARADEs or SOLDIERS,
BALTIMORE. Nd, Aug. S.-Thc funeral Of General
Grant to-day has had it's marked effect in Baltimore
No business Is being lone, and while the streets
ihronged with people there is sadness pcrocptible
everywhere Before 10 o'clock the city bells began
TO toll and continued until afternoon In most of the
churches memorial services held. State and city
Offices closed.
Urea. Aug. S.-Appropriate exercises In memory
Of General Grant were hsld here to-day. Business
houses were closed and draped. There was Q parade
Of civic and military organizations ct 10 g. m. Al
salute of sixtythree guns was fired and the bells
toiled. At 6 meeting in the Opera House the Hon.
Samuel Campbell presided. There addresses by
tho Hon Francis Herman, tho Hon. Ellis H. Roberts
end others. letter read from the Hon. uorsto
Seymour.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Aug. Sat meeting of OK.