River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-08-13

] with solemn TREAD LOT Il idFeWelI glance.
Then the Grand Army officers did the
same and gentle sigh rose from many
hearts as the casket was closed.
The Night Before the Funeral.
A New York correspondent writing
on the evening of the 9TH says: This city
is filled tonight with a restless,
moving crowd that makes its presence
felt among the million and half inhab-
itants and throngs every street and
avenue with mob of people that has
not been equalled in size within the
present generation. Indeed, there are
many who express the belief that it out
numbers any gathering of people in the
history of the country. Every houl
adds thousands to the throng already
here, and before the solemn march &c
the dead hero last resting place shall
have begun tomorrow morning, there
will be almost twice as many strangers
in the city as there are at present.
The railroads and steamboat routes to
the city are taxed to the uttermost.
| Extra trains and boats have been run
ming on all lines throughout the day,
but even with those additions their
carrying capacity has been insufficient
to accommodate the crowd. Estimates
of the number of visitors in New York
! tonight vary widely and range from
! half million to a million. As many
more are expected here on the early
morning trains, and twice New York 5
quoted population will witness the cere-
monies tomorrow. Preparations for
their accommodation along the line OF
march are being pushed rapidly to
night.
THE MIGHTY DOLLAR.
Thrifty shepkeepers have given up
their show windows to an army of car
penters whose hammers and saws can
be heard for blocks away, and even the
tenants of private houses have had
seats erected in the balconies and win
dows. Big trucks loaded with chairs
already block up many cross streets
and their owners will spend the night
on them in order to be ready for bust
ness in the morning. Spectators are
| hawking tickets for seats about the
streets and in the hotels, and find a
ready sale for them at from So to $40
piece, while vendors of all sorts OF
rubbish are shouting at the moving
mob at the top of their voices.
THE CROWD IN THE STREETS.
The scene in the uptown streets to-
night is without parallel in the history
of the city. On Broadway, between
Twenty-third and Thirty-third streets,
crowd. People are walking four and
| five abreast, but even then the pace IS
| slow and tiresome. Nine-tenths OF
| those on the streets are visitor who
straggle along while leisurely admiring
| the decorations, and stumble over one
another almost every step. 1t is an
orderly, good-natured crowd, however,
and the tender mission that has brought
| them here seems to have subdued what
ever turbulent spirits there may be
among them. 1t goes on its tour of in
spectiOn around town in very quiet
manner, making little disturbance and
moving along with slow, mOnotonOus
| shuttle which reminds one of the tread
| of great army of SOldiers.S 1t was
midnight before any diminutiOn in their
numbers could be noted. BY that time
only men remained on the streets. The
hotels are simply jammed full of peo-
pie. Even the most obscure house has
twice as many guests rs it ordinarily
accommodates, and it is even impossi-
BILE to secure cots at the more promi-
nent ones. The crowds in the cOrrl-
doris of the Fifth Avenue hotel are SO
great that the place is packed almost
to suffocation, ard fifteen minutes
would be consumed in pushing through
it. The clerks say they have never be
fore witnessed such a throng in the
house. Between 8 and 8 o'clock to-
night q line reaching almost out to the
sidewalk was waiting, gripsacks III
hand, to register Only those who had
telegraphed for rooms days ahead. how
ever, found them. In the corridors
groups of politicians and prominent
men in other walks of life are gathered
exchanging "reminiscences and anec-
dotes of the dead hero. 1t is evident
that the majority of them have broken
their vacations to come on here, fol
they are all red-faced and sun-burned.
THE PRESIDENT AND OTHER DISTIN-
GUISHED VISITORS.
Secretary Manning arrived early this
morning and took rooms at the Fifth
Avenue. just before 5 o clock a closeC
carriage drove up to the ladies en-
trance on Twenty-third street, and the
bi O form of President Cleveland was
instantly recognized by the crowd. He
disappeared quickly through the oper
doorway and up stairs, and he does
not intend to get down to the grounC
floor again until he joins the process
sion tomorrow morning. The Other
members of his cabinet have rooms
there also. There is great curiosity
among the thrOng to get a glance a
the prominent visitors. Gen. Sherman
descended into the corridor for nom
ent tonight and was at once snr-
rounded by such mob that he had tC
retreat. He had scarcely disappeared
up the marble steps when Senator,
Logan and Sherman sauntered IN to
oether. A similar reception awaited
them. But they braved it and walked
down the street. Ex-senator Barnum
of Connecticut, with hair closely
clipped. and his stubby whiskers almos
| SHdNtl OIL tlDOWCu IiS way lDOh
among his fellow Democrats, and Gov
Pattison, of Pennsylvania, busted him
self about the representation of the
keystone State George w. Childs
with the Misses DreXel, Miss Stanley
and Miss Peterson, of Philadelphia, was
among the early arrivals, and numerous
other Philadelphians sauntered through
the big hallway. An Interesting calcu
lation shows that thirteen hotels ART
accommodating tonight nearly two
thousand more guests than their adver
tised capacity.
From Albany to New York.
All through Tuesday night Gen
Grants remains lay in state at thu
capitol at Albany and it was only from
= to A. NJ. that there was an.
cessation in the throng of visitors WHIT
passed by the casket to take iina
look at the remains. BY 1921
Wednesday morning it was est
mated that 1900 persons bad yiewe1
the remains. The doors were thei
closed and thousands of waiting peOpl'
were shut out At l1.30 n. IN. Wednes
day the procession started from thu
capitol for the Albany depot to take th'
train tn Nav York