Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-08-13

large stands there were many smaller
ones. The windows of many of tho great
warehouses along Broadway had been
cleared of the fancy goods which they
contain 365 days in year and the empty
space filled with chairs for the accommo-
dation of the friends of the several firms.
Nearly every empty stand along the route
had been gobbled up by the speculators.
Some of these wererented outright while
others contained numbered seats to be
had for IS each. The speculating fever
even got hold of the newsboys, several
of whom stuck notices in their chairs to
the effect that seats from which to view
the parade could be procured. 3u
- BROADWAY AT 0 o'orooK.
When at length the hands of the great
| clock of Trinity Church approached the
hour of ., Broadway presented mn 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 grent artnry of
/ travel. Bronzed faces from the country,
white faces from city counting-rooms
and offices and dirty faces from
the tenement districts were in the
crowd; rich and poor, rogue and
rascal, ,dignitaries and nonentities jolted
each other on the curb-stones and side
walks. Everybody seemed to be good
natured and took the jostling and jam
ming MS q matter of course. The police
tried to keep the people off the street, but
/ it was hard work. There were more who
wanted to pass along the walks than there
was width of passage to contain.
| MADISON SQUARE
Madison Square was long astir and
| troops of sight-seers were travelling up
| Twenty-third street as early as 7.30
o'clock. When an officer on horseback
dashed up tothe ladies' entrance of ble
| Fifth Avenue hotel and dismounting took
his stand ut the door. The pearl gray
sash, denoting an aide of Gen. Hancock,
crossed his breast. The officer was Col
Hodges of Gen. Hancock's staff. He was
followed shortly by mild looking gen
tleman in military uniform, who proved
to be the marshal of the Presidential
and gubernatorial carriage party,
Lieutenant Colonel Gillespie. Their
| presence attracted IN enormous
crowd to the draped entrance to the hotel
on Twenty-third street, and the
police were soon called upon 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 centre of an
admiring throng. He stood in a group
of naval officers chatting pleasantly with
old friends. All were in full uni
form and attracted universal attention,
that tagged only for moment when a
file of attendants of the japanese minis
ter entered. The big marble hall was
completely choked with humanity long
before 8 o'clock. The access to the
upper stories was guarded by
policemen and attendants posted on the
stairs with orders to admit no one
except those duly provided with author
ity. In the big parlors upstairs all was
astir 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 delegations
were gathering and getting ready here,
there and everywhere. Badges, sashes
and military orders found way for the
/
confusion of swarming humanity.
THE PALL-BEARERs.
In quiet little corner of the ladie,
parlor facing the square group of seri
ous men, most of them gray haired ant
old, but nearly all erect and of vigorous
/ physique, We're putting ON broad silkei
sashes of black and white. They wer,
! the pill-bearers and n striking group. Gen
Sherman summoned up from his friendly
confab below resplendent in military dresi
, stood in friendly conversation with Z
, tall man, in whose white mustache and
chin beard and soldierly bearing ont
recognized at glance the gallant Con
federate, General Buckner, from whom
Grant wrested his first hard won laureli
. at Fort Donelson. General Bucknel
, was in ordinary back civilian
: dress. small man similarly attiret
ut the other end of the room, whose gray
! hairs formed n striking contrast to til,
I leonine man with whom he was exchang
) ing "reminiscences of the past campaigns
was the famous Gen. Joe Johnston, tn,
: brlvest of the brave, who succumbed tt
Gen. Grants sword. Hamilton Fish wai
not among the pall-bearers He was sicl
and the President Ind appointed A. j
Drexel of Philadelphia in his place. Al
| the lust moment it was said that Admira
Warden had been appointed pall-bearel
: in place of Admiral Rowan. At $50 Col
Hodges summoned the pall-bearers tc
. their carriages.
+; CLEVELAND AND BAyARD TOGETHER.
The Presidents carriage drawn by sly
i horses was pulled up to the door next
i; but it had fully an hour to wait. The
President has signifed his intention to
: ride with Secretary Bayard. He was al
that time, having finished his breakfast
quietly conversing in his parlori
! Nos. 50 and SO, on the third floor, witt
ex-Governors Robinson and Cornell wht
had called. In anticipation of his coming
: out, an enormous crowd which the police
: found difficult to manage gathered oppo
site the hotel entrance on Twenty
, third street, and yells of "Her'
!. they come" went up every tint
i delegation of Grand Army veterans, {
: gubernatorial delegation or comlnitte,
t of state delegates, who burrowed in tn
: big hotel apparently in countless mum
!; bers, came out.
d THE GRANT FAMILY.
J. The Grant family were quietly gathere,
l
and strangers We're rigidly excluded iron
the halls leading to their rooms. Mrs
l. Grant had not arrived and it was nm
nounced that she would not atten,
!, the funeral but had concluded
!: to stay ut Mt. McGregor. She was re
q ported by DIR. Newman to be still weal
s- and ill though not confined to her bed
3; The party gathered at the hotel, early +
W take carriages for their position i
d the parade when the column shoul
i. have advanced so far as to perlni
!. their carriages to fall in line from tn
K hotel, were Colonel and Mrs. Fred Grant
If Mrs. Saitoris, Mr.. and Mrs. U. s. GRAM
r Jr., Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse Grant, Mrs
., Cramer, Mrs. Dent, Miss Cramer, Genert
< Cresswell, Mr.. Stephen L. Moriarity
. Senior Romero and MIR. w. .
tv Ardell. The members of til
Il purity who from time TO tim
IN appeared ut the windows as the head {
l. the column began to move up past I'll
hotel, the bands playing us they passed
% were the object of general attention o
y the part of the multitutles gathered in I'll
pt square.
n; FIFTH AVENUE.
~ ~ Owing to the absence from the city {
a the majority of Fifth avenue residents
Q. the lack of mourning emblems on thi
o; thoroughfare was noticeable until to-da.
d. rs compared with other streets. Thismori
ing, however, many of the finest residenc,
were appropriately draped by order I
d, their owners among them being that
IN Jay Gould, at Fifth avenue and Fort
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