The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-08-15

Meade Post, Philadelphia, of which General
Grant was O member, were almost directly
in front of the team of black leaders ana
the David's Island Band preceded them.
A signal was given and the line OF coaches
with clergymen moved OIL the plaza Oh W
Broadway. .,.,a -
The band stood waiting at the head OF
the funeral cortere. Colonel Beck ad-
vanced to tho head of the line OF black
horses before the coach. "Move on" wele
his words of command, with uplifted sworI'
The leaders stepped forward !ead by G T;ma
ored men, and in an instant the ple'A ,.ns
of horses had Strengthened their Ta1 .o
and the wheels beneath the remains weis
moving. The hour was 9:47. The bal'
played a dirge. the tramp Of the regulars
and honor guards beat upon the pavement,
thousands beneath trees and crowding
sides of the square looked silently on the
black funeral car rolling over the curb into
Broadway.
The black corridors of the City Hall were
silent and General Grants last journey was
begun. Then, at 1859, Mayor Grace, Comp,
troller Loew and Aldermen Sanger and
Jachue emerged from the City Building
and en- cred a carriage that had drawn up
in front. The members of the Common
Council followed and entered carriages, as
did also the Police Commission. They fol-
lowed out of the plaza as fast az disposed
of In carriages, and when 1t was 10 O'Clock
the police lines were withdrawn and the
people streamed across the plaza without
hndrance.
Madison Square was long astir and
troops of sightseers were trailing up
Twenty third street as early as half-past
7 o'clock, when an officer on horseback
dashed up to the ladies' entrance of the
Fifth Avenue Hotel and, dismounting, took
his stand at the door. The pearl grey sash,
denoting an aide of General Hancock was
across his breast. The officer was Colonel
Hodges, of General Hancock's staff. He
was followed shortly by mldlooking
gentleman in military uniform, who proved
GubernutOrial carriage party, Lieutenant
Colonel Gillespie. Their presence attracted
an enormous crowd to the draped entrance
to the hotel OH Twenty third street, and
the police were soon called upon, to clear
the sidewalk.
The crowd then surged around toward
the main portal of the hotel, which shortly
became impossible. Inside an increasing
throng of gold-laced and uniformed tnet
blocked every hall and corridor In the
main hall General Sherman, tall, erect and
smoking big cigar, was the center of an
admiring throng. He stood in h group Of
naval officers, chatting pleasantly with old
friends. The party were all in full uni
form. and attracted universal attention,
that tagged only for moment when file
of attendants of the Japanese Minister en-
tered. The big marble hall was completely
cboked with humanity long before o'clock.
General Sherman, summoned up from
his friendly confab below, respondent in
military forgery, stood in friendly CONVEX
sation with tall man, in whose white
oh 4 oh, hnor u,,1 snrlxy hao
ing one recognized at glance the gallant
Confederate General Buckner, from whom
Grant wrested his first hard won laurels at
Fort Donelson, General Buckner was In
ordinary black citizens dress. A smaller
man, similarly attired, at the other end Of
the room, whose gray hairs formed a strik-
ing contrast to the leonine name and fierce
black mustache of General Logan, with
whom he was talking, was the famous
General "Joe" johnson, the bravest of the
brave, who succumbed to General Grants
pail bearers. He was sick, and the Presi-
dent had appointed A. J. Drexel, of Phila.
delphia, in his stead. At the last moment
| it was said that Admiral Worden had been
appointed pail bearer in place of Admiral
Rowan.
At half-past O'Clock Colonel Hodges
summoned the pall-bearers to their car
riages. The Presidents carriage, drawn
by six horses, was called up to the door
next, but it had fully an hour to wait. The
President had signified his intention of
that time, having finished his breakfast,
quietly conversihg in his parlors, on the
third floor, with ex-Governors Cornell and
Robinson, who had called. In anticipation
of his coming out, an enormous crowd,
which the police found 1t difficult to man.
age, gathered opposite the hotel entrance
on Twenty third street, and yells of "Here
they comew went up every time a delega-
tion of Grand Army veterans, Guberna-
toral delegation or committee Of State
delegates, who burrowed in the big hotel
apparently in countless numbers, came out
At $50 o'clock President Cletelend called
his Cabinet together and arrangements
were made for the order in which they
were to leave the hotel to take their places
in the procession The hands on the clock
in front of the hotel pointed to five minutes
after 10 O'Clock when General Hancock and
General Shaler rode Under It's windows al
the head of the procession.
The sun was reflected from the maze Of
glittering gold on the uniforms Of theii
staff as 1t trooped on behind, followed by
the regulars, who, III passing, reversed
arms, while the bands played mouthfu
dirges. Along the line of the avenue
where the troops Of the First Division
National Guard were drawn up, guns
were shouldered as the General passed
The regiments of the First Division
stretched southwark from near Twenty
eighth street, in b continuous line
on the east side of Fifth avenue
and in the side streets, the Second Battery
Captain Earle, mounted, but without guns
occupying the extreme right. On the west
| nf "a n
Grand Army organizations extended dowI
as far as the eye reached. Between thes,
files of citizen soldiers-one side In uni
forms, ready to do battle for their coun
try, and confidently looking towards tn,
future; the other, battle SCARED and worn
its work done, and proudly looking back
ward over the heroic past-passed the Ions
procession, with yelled flags and muffleC
drums, arms reversed, in sadness.
THE GRANT FAMILY.
At 1910 precisely the Grant family cam'
out of the ladies' entrance in the FIFTH
Avenue Hotel, and took their carriages
Colonel Fred Grant and his wife rode will
General Grants favorite daughter Nelli,
i Mrs. Sartoris); U. s. Grant and his wifi
and Senior Romero occupied the next car
riage together, Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse Gran
the third, and the Cramer family the fourtl
carriage. AS the carriages received thei
occupants they rolled away toward tn
avenue, and remained there closely wedget
in and waiting for their turn in the line
They had been waiting for more than
quarter of an hour before President Cleve
land came out and took his seat in his car
rage with Secretary Bayard.
, A four horse carriage that followed, re
ceived Vice President Hendricks and hi
private secretary. Ahead of them hat
gone number of carriages, following tn
Grant family, in the following order: Mrs
, | Po uo1p,on Aonrhtor nf Gaporo