Huntsville gazette., 1885-08-15
AT THE METROPOLIS.

General Grant at New York-An Impos-
ing Military Escort-The Remains Lying
In State at the City Hall-An Immense
ThronE.
NEW YORK, August 5.-At five min
utes to five O'Clock yesterday the pilot
engine Monitor, in charge OF Engineer
Nat Sawyer, rolled into the Grand Gen.
tral Depot, and eight minutes later the
funeral train, consisting OF eleven
draped cars, drew up at the east plat
form. Among the first to alight were
General Hancock and staff. They were
followed by Governor Hill and staff,
Rev. DR.. Newman and DR.. Douglas, the
Senate and Legislative Committee, the
Committee of One Hundred and the
members of the press. The casket was
then taken from the funeral car by men,
bers of the Grant Veteran Post and car
ried through the station to Forty-third
street and Vanderbilt avenue, where it
was placed upon the funeral coach.
Owing to the rain that commenced falling
shortly before the arrival of the funeral
train, the crowd around the depot was
not so large as was anticipated, and the
police had little difficulty in keeping
clear passage for the funeral cortege.
At $3.50 p. m. the funeral Car was
drawn by twelve black horses to Fifth
avenue. Twenty-four colored grooms
stood at the horses heads waiting word
to move in the procession. 1t was not
until $40 p. m. that the order was given
to march. The procession then moved
in the following order:
Twenty mounted policemen.
Major-General Hancock and staff.
Battalion consisting of four baster les
of the Fifth United States Artillery,
armed as infantry, namely, Batteries l,
L and Nj, from Ft. Hamilton; and Bat
terry HI, from Ft. Columbus; also Light
Battery f, Fifth Artillery, all under COM
mand of Major A. c. Wildeck, Fifth
Artillery. These batteries were preced,
ed by the battery band from Governors
Island.
Naval detachment, with band, con-
sisting of two companies of marines and
two of blue jackets, commanded by Lieu
tenant-C Commander VIM. w. Meade, U.
S. N.
Maior-General Shaler, N. G. S., N. T.,
and staff.
Second Battery, N. G. S., N. Y, mount
ed without gun.
General Ward and staff, commanding
First Brigade N. G. S., N. Y.
Colonel Porter and Twenty-second Reg
| iment N. G. S., N. Y, and band.
| Colonel Seward and Ninth Regiment,
| N. G. S., N. Y, aud band.
| Colonel Stewart and Eleventh Regi-
ment, N. G. S., N. Y, and band.
| Carriage containing Rev. DR.. Newman,
DR.. Douglas and General Horace Porter.
| Funeral car, containing the bodytof
General Grant.
Guard composed of the members of
| the U. S. Grant Post.
Carriages containing Senate and Leg
| tslative committees.
Committee OF 100 citizens in carriages.
Post No. S27 G. A. r.
General Fitzpatrick and staff, com.
manding second brigade, N. G. S., N. Y.
Colonel Clark aud Seven tn Regiment
and band.
Colonel Cavanaugh and Sixty-nnth
| Regiment and band.
Colonel Scott and Eighth Regiment
and band
File of policemen.
The line of the procession was as fol-
| lows:
From Fifth avenue to Waverly Place /;
thence to Broadway, and down Broad
| way to the City Hall.
The crowds along Fifth avenue in
creased at every block, and when the
| head of the procession reached Madison
| Square, the sidewalks were packed, while
| all the steps and windows in the vicinity
were crowded with spectators.
| NEW YORK, August 6.-As the funeral
cortege moved down Fifth avenue the
scene was an unusually impressive one.
The bells of the brick church at Thirty
ninth street, the Dutch Reformed Church
at Twenty-ninth street and other churches
could be heard tolling. The military
marched with reversed arms, while the
bands of the different regiments played
solemn dirges. The crowds continued to
increase as the procession moved toward
the City Hall, and in the neighborhood
| of Houston street the sidewalks be-
came impassable, ard when the head
of the procession reached the City Hall,
fully 100000 persons were present.
The funeral coach was conveyed in front
of the City Hall at twelve minutes past
/ seven U ClOCk. McfUDcIb VI dIdub L Ooe
carried the casket up the steps OF the
| ball and placed it on the catafalque in
the LOBBY. Mayor Grace, General Han
cock, DR.. Newman and DR.. Douglas, and
number Of military officers were at the
head OF the steps to receive the body.
| At twenty minutes past seven O'Clock
| tie iron gates leading into the vestibule
of the hall were closed, and ten minutes
later the military were dismissed and
left for their respective quarters. The
casket, after resting few minutes on
| the catafalque, was taken into a
rear room of the building where the
undertaken and his assistants were
| engaged tor some time in trying to i'm
prove the appearance of the dead Gener-
al's face. The casket was then removed
| to the vestbule and placed upon the
catafalque, and in few minutes throng
of persons assembled and gazed upon the
| features of the dead hero.
| At first it was decided not to admit the
public to view the remains, but at ten
minutes past nine o'clock two OF the
| iron gates were thrown open and the
| immense throng that had remained in
front of the building began to pour in a.
fast as the police would allow them. A
steady stream of persons OF all
classes in double file passed the remains
of the General from the time the gates