The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-08-13
VOL. XVUI--NO. 80

Sands. Colonel Beck in charge of tho reg
ulars commanded his companies, as indi-
Gated above, to positions. Company A on
the right and Company E on the left of the
OF the twenty-four horses, sixteen men of
Meade Post, Philadelphia, of which General
Grant was member, were almost directly
In front of the team of black leaders and
the David's Island Band preceded them.
A signal was given and the line Of coaches
with clergymen moved of the plaza on to
Broadway.
The band stood waiting at the head Of
the funeral cortege. Colonel Beck ad-
vanced to the head of the line of black
horses before the coach. .Move on" were
his words of command, with uplifted sword.
The leaders stepped forward lead by col
ored men, and in an instant the black line
of horses had Strengthened their races
and the wheels beneath the remains were
moving. The hour was 9:47. The band
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 9:52, Mayor Grace, Comp
troller Loew and Aldermen Sanger and
Jachue emerged from the City Building
and entered 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 as disposed
of in carriages, and when it was 10 O'Clock
the police lines were withdrawn and the
people streamed across the plaza without
hindrance.
All night long, carpenters, with saw and
hammer, were busy in Broadway, and
when. this morning, the sun climbed up
upon the dark corners and alleys of the
city, it revealed the presence of hundreds
of hastily erected reviewing stands from
which the great procession could be seen at
prices ranging all the way from 81 to $40
head. The decorators, too, had not been
idle. On the fronts Of many a great ware
house were displayed emblems of mourn
ing which were not there the night before.
The reviewing stands were located in all
sorts OF places. Nearly every empty stand
along the route had been gobbled up by the
spectators. Some of these were rented
outright, while others contained numbered
seats,t to be had at the small sum of five dol
lars each.
When at length the hands of the great
clock of Trinity Church approached the
hour of 8, Broadway presented an ami
mated spectacle. As far as the eye could
reach the sidewalks were thronged with
people. Every train and every steamer
poured its load into the great artery of
travel. Bronzed faces from the country,
white faces from city counting -roons and
offices, and dirty faces from the tenement
districts were in the crowd. Rich and
poor, rogue and rascal, dignitaries and
nonentities jostled each other on the curb
stones and sidewalks. Everybody seemed
to be good d-natured and took the jostling
and jamming as a matter of course. The
police tried to keep the people off the
street, but it was hard work. There were
than there was width of passage to con-
tain them.
Madison Square was long astir and
troops of sightseers were trailing up
Twenty third street as early as half-past
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 mild-looking
gentleman in military uniform, who proved
to be the Marshal of the Presidential and
Gubernatorial carriage party, Lieutenant
Colonel Gillespie. Their presence attracted
an enormous crowd to the draped entrance
to the hotel on Twenty third street, and
the police were soon called upon1 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 men
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 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 a file
OF attendants of the Japanese Minister en-
tered. The big marble hall was completely
choked with humanity long before So'clock
In the big parlors, upstairs, all was sti1
and hustle. While the President and his
Cabinet Ministers were at breakfast in one
end of the building, and the Grant family
| quietly preparing for the pageant at the
other end, committees, organizations and
here, there and everywhere. Badges
sashes, and military orders found way for
the members in the seemingly inextricable
confusion of swarming humanity. In a
/ quiet little parlor off the ladies' parlor,
facing the square, group of serious men,
most OF them gray-haired and old, but
nearly all erect and of vigorous physique,
were putting on broad silken sashes OF
white and black. They were the pail
| bearers, and were a striking group.
| General Sherman, summoned up from
| his friendly confab below, resplendent in
military toggery, stood in friendly conver.
| sation with a tall man, in whose white
mustache and chin beard and soldierly bear.
ing one recognized at a glance the gallant
| Confederate General Buckner, from whom
Grant wrested his first hard-wo laurels al
Fort Donelson. General Buckner was il
| ordinary black citizens dress. A smaller
man, similarly attired, at the other end o.
| the room, whose gray hairs formed strik
| ing contrast to the leonine name and fierce
black mustache of General Logan, with
whom he was talking, was the famou.
General "Joe" johnson, the bravest of tn,
brave, who succumbed to General Grant,
sword. Hamilton Fish was not among tn,
pall-bearers. He was sick, and the Presi
| dent had appointed A. j. Drexel, of Phila
delphia, in his stead. At the last momen
it was said that Admiral Worden had beer
appointed a pail bearer in place Of Admira
| Rowan.
At half-past 8 O'Clock Colonel Hodge,
summoned the pall-bearers to their car
| riages. The Presidents carriage, draw
by six horses, was called up to the dool
next, but it had fully an hour to wait Th,
President had sign1fied his intention o
riding with Secretary Bayard. He was a
that time, having finished his breakfast
quietly conversing in his parlors, on tn,
third floor, with ex-Governors Cornell anC
Robinson, who had called. In anticipation
of his coming out, an enormous crowd
which the police found it difficult to man
age, gathered opposite the hotel entranc
on Twenty third street, and yells of Her
they comeW went up every time delega
tion of Grand Army veterans, a Guberna
torial delegation or committee of Stat,
delegates, who burrowed in the big hote
apparently in countless numbers, came out
The Grant family were quietly gathere'
in their parlors overlooking the square, ant
strangers were rigidIy excluded from tn
hall leading to their rooms. Mrs. Gran
had not arrived, and it was announced tina
she would not attend the funeral, but ha
concluded to stay at Mt. McGregor. Sh
was reported by DIR. Newman to be sti
weak and ill, though not confined to he
bed.
At 900 O'Clock President Clevelend calle
his Cabinet together and arrangement
were made for the order in which the
, were to leave the hotel to take their place
: in the procession. The hands on the cloc
, in front of the hotel pointed to five minute
: after 10 o'clock when General Hancock an
. General Shaler rode under its windows
3 the head of the procession.
/. The sun was reflected from the maze
: glittering gold on the uniforms of the
t staff as it trooped on behind, followed
the regulars, who, in passing, reverse
/ arms, while the bands played mournf
: dirges. Along the line of the avenn
i where the troops of the First Divisio
i | National Guard were drawn nm. pur