Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1885-08-09
Scenes on Broadway, at the Fifth Ave.
nue. Hotel and Along the Line
OF March.
The Final Services at the TOmh-The
Body Of the Dead Geacral
Consigned 20
Its Last Resting Place with All the
Pomp azd Ceremony Of Mill.
tary Heners,
How the Day Was Celebrated Else.
where-BusiHess Almost Unlver-
sally Suspended.


comre and OF the men and affairs at the
City hall. At that hour the iron gates
were about to be closed, when he observed
that there were SEQ or 1000 people vet
waiting at the foot of the stairs and across
to the piazza. "L.et them come in" COM
maIded the superintendent to the officers,
who, at the command, had shut off the
people; and then followed ten minutes Of
the most expeditions husiling of human
beings that has probably been known since
the emancipation proclamation. The ma
terial was coaposed almost entirely of
men, and tasty policemen supplemented
their ndmonitions of haste with exceed
ingly ffective persuasion of a muscular
character. Men and boys were shot
through the City Hall with such celebrity
as will render the occasion to them doubly
memorable. The last person had at last
crossed the well-worn threshold, and the
iron gates changed shut.
THE PUBLIC HAD TA&KN ITS LEAVE OF THE
DEAD GENERAL.
eficers of the Seventy-first Regiment
were on duty and the usual detail of Grant
Post was present as immediate body
gard, while the Loyal Legion was repre-
sented by one of its members, who stood
at the head Of the casket. Qae Of Wheeler
Post of Saratoga, which first mounted
guard detail about the mountain cottage
the day OF Gen. Grants death, was also
present. The last of the general public
had shuffled away through the black
draped corridors eud out of the building.
The hour was i .lS o'clock am. None but
the police and guards and all-night report
ers were present. When the undertaken
took charge of the remains, he said
"Any here who desire to view the remains
will step forward st once" and his voice
echoed through the dark, still corridors.
All presant passed by the caskot. and the
LYING IN STATE OF THE Ex-PREsIDENT HAD
ENDED.
Undertaken Merritt then brushed the
glaes plates above the body, and drew
from their places the two lids which cover
the casket. The .our screws in each were
turned down, and the face Of the dead had
bean closed forever from yew, unless
there shall in the future come from the
family request to remove the lids. Then
the dead was left in care of the guard.
who stood erect and silently within the
closed iron gates and bep.sasn the black
drapery. The night rcre on. and tho gray
OF daylight w. creeping TIP the east. The
still air Q. The tertb!,ike corridor became
heaTy With the perfume of whitening
. nowete near the dead. A huge piece
t'"rhe Gates Ajar'o had a place at the
1 head of the casket, and
THE SWEET SMELL or THE LILIES
was borne down to those who stood and
watched. Great horseshoes of yellow
| rosebuds edded their fragrance, and b cross
and crown from Major F. G. Latrobe oi
Baltimore sent out It's quota to the heavy
perfume thai settled on the eepulchura
4 air. But there was one tribute that bore
! no fragrance except such as viii come
/ tenderly to the family of the dead. II
bore no perfume cave that which lives In
| its memories. This token was a pisiu
| wreath of oas leaves pinned together with
stems Of oak leaves and formed in tht
shape of letter G.. The Leaves grew OF
the oaks in the foeessa OF Mount Me
Gregor and Huttnte6 in the mountain
breeses Wills Gen. Grant was dying OF
the Afternoon Of Thursday. The day he
little Josie, DR.. Douglass child, had gath
cred the oak leaves in the mountain roads
Then as the children prattled they kni
with innocent Fl fngers and loving hearts thu
wrea h Of oak leaves that to-day is the onl,
tribute that touches the generals casket
The little ones, their offering finished, hsS
taken it 10 Col. Grant, whose eyes 6lie(
when his daughter said, Papa, Josie anC
have made this for grandpa, and pleas
won't you give it to him" The coione
placed the oaken wreath on the casket
and there it rested in Albany, and still re
mains as the children's offering.
-FOUR O'CLOCK HAD PASSED,
the gray of dawn had deepened to red
daylight was near, the strains OF dirg
music crept on the morning air. At frs
dist ant, they drew nearer and nearer. Tn
| red deepened in the East, sunrise wa
near. The strains of music, slow and sad
grew more distinct. Then the blue-eoate'
| veterans of Meade Post, Philadelphia, so
strong, came tram ling to the dirge must
| of the trumpets. The EAT was suffuse'
with tints of orange. and dawn was closer
the dawn of the funerai day. The vel
erans entered the pliza and marched past
while mufiled drums timed their fool
steps. A heavy gun doomed out towar
the sea. The chimes of old Trinity pesle
mournful notes, and the sound Of mutfle
| drums grew fainter and then died away
| 1t was sunrise; the day was born; tn
last day for the dead upon earth before tn
tomb should have opened to shelter hin
Six O'Clock, and Wilson Post of Baltimor
marched by with Chicago organization
The corridors had been picketed by fiftee
policemen, while outside 125 more were 9
rest under command of two sergeants. Th
last guard ofthe Grant Grand Army of th
Republic Post, cave the thirteen who wi
attend the body to the tomb, had bee
mounted at o'clock. At $50 o'cloc
Capt. A. @. Barry and men Of the Sevent.
first Regiment went on duty as the
LAST MILITARY BoDY-GUARD BEFORE RI
MovAL.
II Inspector Steers, with three houI
sleep in as many days, was in charge.
al am awaiting the coming of the militi
and shall have $40 men here at s o'clock,
/ said the Inspector. At o'clock the strair
solemn music hoated in at the CRATE
iron doors from many directions; at
o'clock nature was putting forth signals
an intensely warn day. The crowds gre
denser and denser around the plaza, mu
: | fled drums and dirgeful trumpets nserche
in at one side and took position at -
east end. The players constituted th
; David's Island military band. At 80 Gel
/ Hancock and staff trooped slowly into Il
| plaza from Broadway and presented frol
10 the City Hall, then moved bas
to Broadway. where they reste
At this time 100 members of the Liede
traDz society filed up to the steps of Il
: City Hall, and, led by four instrument
, | sang with impressive effect, "The chorI
OF the spirits from over the water" al
n THE chorus of the Pilgrims" by Tan
III hauser.
A THE HONOR GUARD OF REGULARS
6led into the open space. At 8 o'clot
Company A. Fifth Artillery, under Col.
B. Beck, and Company Z, Twelfth /
fantry, under Mai. Brown. The compani