Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-07-24


General died of sheer exhaustion and per-
dfectly painless sinking awsv. Yes" inter-
rap,ed DR.. Shrady. quietly, "the General
Threaded pain when he felt that he had begun
sinking. and he asked that he should not be
permilted TO suffer. The promise was made
and il has been kept, Since he commenced
20 sink, Tuesday night, he was free from
pain" Toward the last no food WAS taken
but when a cloth was placed TO his mouth he
would suck from it TO moisten his lips.
A Plaster Mask of the Dead Mans
Face Taken.
A few minutes after the Generals death,
= Gerhard OF Hartford, sculptor who has
been making study here of the General,
was summoned 20 the cottage at the sugges-
uon OF DIR. Newman TO make plaster mask
OF the dead mans face. He was highly sue
cessful.
Within halt and hour after the General s
tecease, the waiting engine at the Mountain
2depot was on its way to Saratoga to bring an
undertaken, who will take charge of the re-
mains today to await the arrival of New
York undertaken who was summoned and
is now on his way here Until the remains
: Harrive in New York they are in charge of
j. W. Drexill and w. j. Arkell. At this
+ writing the physicians are desrous of having
"a post mortem examination, but to that the
family are averse and that is a matter yet TO
2he determined. A week ago the General is
said to have intimsted that should he die
during the hot weather he would prefer that
his remains should remain here until cooler
: weather. His purpose being to spare his
Hfamily sad aud fatguipg journey in the
4.ultrv weather. 1t is doubtful, however, if
E3the suggestion is carried out. though it is not
4unlikely that the remains may repose here
Ssome days. This. however, is entirely at the
4 disposal of Col. Fred Grant to who is left the
entire control of all arrangements. 1t is not
funhkely that the proposition from the City
Hof New York to accord burial plot at River
3side Park for the General and his widow
E3when she shall have passed away, might be
&considered by Col Fred Grant. The i'm
Expression that Washington may be chosen as
= the burial place is believed to be founded on
the present inclination of Col. Grant. The
Monty condition made by the General and that
las long ago as Jnne 24:h, was that his re
Amains should be inferred where those of
Mrs. Grant might be in time placed beside
&hls own. The embalmer is on his way from
New York in response to a telegram
Quietude prevailed the mountain this fore
Ean0on when 1t was a .nounced that Gen Grant,
chad ceased his long struggle This feeling ]
Nhowever, gave place later TO a sense of relief
that the struggle was ended and that tn,
3tired mind and body were at rest. Whie|
Qthere was no heart that warmed not in sym-I
Xpathy towards the Generals family vet therei
Twas strong feeling of gratitude that thej
lman who suffered SO bravely and so patien,l,
had earned the quiet of long rest. The cot i
Itage was deserted house, save that theI
I shutter blinds at the parlor windows were
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through the room in which the dead Genera
y lay. The members of the family wereI
scarcely seen during the Gay, except as they!
walked almost silently from the cottage upI
through the grove on the ridge to luncheonl
: Hor dinner at the hotel
Late in the afternoon squad of uniformed
men from Wheeler Post, G. A. r., of Sara
toga, came up the mountains to guard thel
cottage. tent was pitched on the needless
beneath the pine trees, where last night theI
anxious correspondents bvouaced. Guard
ines were established and at dusk patrol
of the beats was begun. The guard will be
Temporarily maintained, and thus morbldly
curious persons will be kept from the cot |
tage.
DIR. Shardy remained today in order that
DR. Douglass and himself might, after quiet d
: had been restored in the household at the|
cottage, converse with Col. Fred Grant,
on the subject of post mortemI
examination of the remains of hsl
father. The physicians, therefore, this event
ing, repaired to the cottage and met the
Colonel with the formal preference that anI
autopsy might be held. They stated tina,
their purpose was not in the least to confirm
their opinion of the disease. Col. Grant re
piled that the entire family were so firmly
united in their confidence in the diagnosis
and treatment of the physicians they could
not conceive the necessity for au-
Itopsy, and their request was declined by tbeI
Colonel. and there will be no autopsy over
the remains of Gen, Grant.
'Sympathizing Dispatches Received att
Mt. McGregOr.
WASHINGTON, July 90.
|Col +. ID. Grant
| will send representative this afternoonJ
to New York bearing letter to Mrs. Grant,
and in order to confer with you in respect toI
Funeral ceremonies.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
New York, July 90.
Col. +. ID. Grant:
Please present your mother with the as
sursnce of our sincere sympathy. Can II
serve you in any manner? Please command
me without hesitation.
ALoNzo B. CORNELL.
NEW YORK, July 23.
To Col. +. Grant:
I svmpathize with you most profoundly inI
your great sorrow. Any further facilities
over the N. Y Central that may be required
will be placed at your disposal.
CHAUSCEY VI, DEPEw.
WINDSOR, VT, July %
|Col. Grant:
I shall wish to attend the funeral. Please
telegraph me when the time is fixed.
WIN. NJ. EvARTs.
JAPANESE LEGATION.
WAshISGToS, July %.
|Col. Grant
am deeply grieved to hear of General
I1rant's decease and hasten to tender to Mrs
lGrsnt assurance of my sincere AMI deep feltI
Isympathy with her in her great bereavement
X. KUKE,
japanese Minister.
Fremont, o., July 90.
| n. +. Dawson:
Please assure Mrs. Grant and the sorrow
iing family that they have the deep sympathy
/ IF Mrs. Hayes and myself. / wish to attendf
the funeral; advise me as to the arrange
|ments. X. B. HAYES.
WAsHTSGTos, July 20.
4Col. Fred Grant
The board of commissioners of the United
States Soldiers Home, are unanimous in their
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