Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-08-14

displayed emblems of mourning which
were not there the night before. At 9
O'Clock Broadway presented an animated
spectacle. AS far the eye could reach the
sidewalks We're thronged with people.
! Every train and every steamer poured its
load into the great artery OF travel
Business was practically suspended in
the city a sabbath day stiffness reigned
in Brooklyn, Jersey City and other sur
rounding towns. An immense number
of people crossed the Brooklyn bridge to
see the funeral procession. Extra precau-
I lions were taken to prevent an accident or
| blockade. At the navy yard the flags
were ut half staff. and saiutes We're fired
from the battery at the ordnance dock.
The hands on the clock in front of the
hotel pointed to 1905 O'Clock Il. m, when
Gen. Hancock and Gen. Shaler rode under
the hotel windows at the bead of the big
/ procession The sun was rejected from
the maze of glittering gold on the uni
forms of the staff It's it tIoopCd on behind,
/ followed by the regulars, who in passing
reversed arms, while the bands play ed
mournful dirges. Along the line OF the
avenue. where the first division, national
guard, were drawn up, guns were shout
dercd as the General passed. The rcgi-
mentS of the first division stretched south
ward from near Twenty-eghth street IN II
continuous line on the east side of Fifth
avenue and in the side streets, the second
battery, Capt. Earl, mounted, but without
guns, occupying the extreme right. On
the west side of the avenue Il continuous
line of Grand Army organizations extend
ed down as far as the eye reached.
At 1910 O'Clock, precisely the Grant
family came out of the ladies' entrance in
the Fifth avenue hotel and took their
carriages Col. Fred Grant and his fami-
lN rode with Gen. Grant ; daughter, Mrs
Nellie Sartoris [. 5. Grant. .Jr., and his
wife and Senior Romero occupied the next
carriage Mr.. and Mrs Jessie Grant the
third, and the Cramer family the
fourth carriage. AS the carriages received
their occupants they rolled away toward
the avenue and remained there closely
Wedged in and waiting for their turn in
the line.
They had been waiting more than Il
quarter of an hour before President
Cleveland came out and took his seat in
his carriage with Secretary Bayard. a four
horse carriage that followed received Vice
President Hendricks and his private sec
rotary. Ahead of them had gone num-
Der of carriages following the Grant
family in the following order: Mrs. Raw
lins-lIolman, daughter of Gen. Grants
friend and first Secretary of War the
Generals old staff in four carriages his
eX-cabinet officers in four carriages de-
tachments from Wheeler and [. :. Grant
posts, &. \. r., in four carriages j. w.
/ DreXel and members OF the Aztec club,
| survivors of the Mexican war.
| Next there came the residents car
riage, the Vice President and CABINET in
carriages, the members OF the supreme
| Court, United States Senators, the House
congressional committee in II score of cur
riages, Gov. Hill and his suite in five
carriages, the committee OF the State leg
lslature in thirty carriages, eN-Presidents
Arthur and Hayes and members of their
Cabinets, then the foreign ministers
and diplomatic and consular officers I'M
der Gen. Grants administration these
flled ten carriages. Then came the gov
errors of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Con-
nectcut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire,
Rhode Island, Vermont, Indiana, Illinois,
Maine, Michigan, Iowa, Wisconsin, Min
nesota, West Virginia, Colorado and Da-
kota with their staff in seventy car
rageS. Following were the heads of
bureaus of the war and navy departments
in six carriages; then came. Generals
Sheridan. Schofield and Merritt Admirals
stevens and Jouett and Commodore
Chandler, with their staff the president
of the soldiers home and Ii. w. Slocum
| United States district attorney, the cOllec-
tor, surveyor, naval officer and assistant
treasurer United States district judges
and commissioners and postmasters;
board of Indian commissioners ; mayors of
Brooklyn, Boston, st. Louis, Jersey City,
New IIaven, Hartford, Elizabeth, Hud-
son, MY, Ntcnield, Conn. : committee
of 100.
The catafalque passed Twenty-third
street at O'Clock. All heads We're uncov
cred as 1t moved along toward the final
resting place. As soon as the catafalque
had passed, the carriage containing Col.
Grant his wife and sister fell III and the
mourners followed without confusion.
The congressional committees and other
officials from Washington were distin-
gulShed by broad white sashes. Speaker
Carlisle and eN-Speaker Randall rode with
congressman HiscOck and Reed of Maine.
one carriage held Congressman ID. Long
OF Massachusetts, Randolph Tucker OF
Virginia, Ben. ButterWOrth of OHIO and
Gen. King of Louisiana.
The senatorial delegation went off as
follows, the senators riding in tvOs: Sen