The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1885-08-13

PRICES THAT WERE SIMPLY AMAZING,
and q chance to stand upon a flight of steps
was worth from 81 to So. Some single
windows brought $75, and one balcony ca
pable of holding twelve or fifteen people,
near the Hotel Brunswick, brought $500.
Peddlers in the crowd sold hundreds of foot
stools. about eight inches high, and they were
eagerly snatched up at so cents each. Peo-
pie who were fortunate enough to secure
one of these and to elevate themselves
above the level of the crowd were much en-
We'd by those who could only see the horse
men and the tops of the folded flags. Those
lucky ones were kept busy calling out the
names OF the organizations as they passed
along. person of ordinary height a few
feet from the line of march, could see very
little. Now and then he caught the Hash
of plume, and all the time he heard
the solemn music and the tread of marching
feet 1t is probable that many thousands
who stood for long hours hardly saw the
procession at all Added to the difficulty
was the fact that all the people occupying
front places kept up their umbrellas and
parasols all the time, regardless OF the re-
quests and entreaties and aften 1mpreca-
tions of those in the rear. The promptness
with which the procession appeared before
the Fifth Avenue hotel was astonishing: Al
1890 o'clock to the minute Gen. Hancock
e'--~ ~."f came in sight, when nobody ex-
pecCeu MIN IOr un An,1r This showed the
good OF having the procession headed by
and under the management the regulars.
ALMOST EVERY NATION ON EARTH,
even China, with her violet and white, the
mourning colors of the Orient. horse, foot
and artillery, civic, public and private;
music OF muff1ed drums, of brass bands, of
bagpipes, of flies and cymbals and so
through the long hours the mighty pageant
passed by. All the conditions and oiroum
stances were colossal Men grew to greater
stature by hours that interviewed To be
part and parcel of such stupendous dem
onstration was to have higher ideas of man.
kind and its capacity to exult in the pride of
common humanity capable of such
scenes as these A great deal the
most impressive feature of the event
was the vast silence It was comparatively
absolute. No matter how softly the
muftied drums were rolled you could
hear them squares away: The only heavy
sound was the rumbling of the cannon
wheels When the band Of the Third New
Jersey regiment passed by, playing Nearer
My God to Thee" the sweet, solemn strains
were distinctly audible far up Fifth avenue,
many squares beyond where they would
have been lost in the noise of an ordinary
day. The wailing sound of the flies of the
Fourth Connecticut drum corps, playing the
sad, sweet notes of @Pleyers Hymn" could
be heard almost from the time they swung
into Fifth avenue from Fourteenth street
The drum corps of the Sixth New Jersey
band played "Flee US Bird to the Noun
tain, and the band of the Continental Foot
Guards of Massachusetts played Sweet
Spirit, Hear Ny Prayer" AS general thing,
THE CHOICE OF MUSIC
by the bands was not good and was of too
high an order to appeal to the emotion of a
general gathering From the hundreds of
musical organizations that passed but few
played the simple and tender airs familiar to
the people, and dozen of the bands played
the dead March in Saul, and more than that
played Chopin's "Funeral March" The funeral
hymns of the operas were the favorites, but
when SUCH an air as "Nearer my God to
Thee" was played, the effect could be seen
at once, the deepened hush, the uncOvering
of heads and tears in the eyes of the women.
The bands about the catafa1que played
Chopin's Funeral March, and played it mag
niiicently, but would have touched the hearts
of the people more tenderly had they played
@Rest Spirit, Rest" or @Rock of Ages" 1t
was ! o'clock when the catafalque
passed through Madison Square 1t was the
moment of the day: For that all waited;
about that oil interest conferred; from that
radiated and influences reaching to deeper
and holier depths of human emotion than
all the music, all the trappings of grief, or
all the vast display could go. There was
long break and open space before the car of
DEATH and the suspense in the presence of
that advance was almost painful. Down that
open channel between the living banks could
be seen the great black plunles upon the
funeral car approaching; the glitter of the
silver trimmings in the sunshine; the purple
of the casket that contained all that is NOR
tai and perishable. of Gen. Grant Around it
the guns OF the guards shone. At every mo-
mept, from the pavement to rooftree, 900
faces gazed upon it
APPEARANCE OF THE TROOPS
NEW YORK, Special Telegram, Aug: g.
There were few glitteri4g bayonets in the
parade Warlike signs were concealed
rather than displayed The soldiers went by
with reversed arms and slow tread to the
roll of the mutfled drums The corps was
marked not only by the long line of people
who stood, with uncovered heads, on the
oAA~
umns of national corps and the battle flags
draped with Grape. The soldiers took part
In q soldiers funeral, and more devoted
tribute was never paid by warriors to hero
dead 1t was shortly after 8 o'clock that
Gen. Hancock, with his staff close behind
him, looking neither to the right nor to the
left, and sitting upon his horse like CEN
taur, rode slowly up Broadway. Already the
military Were astir, many companies belong
ing to state organizations were pouring in the
side streets of Fourteenth street. and the Sec
ton OF the city from the city hall plorthward
was beginning to ring with the sounds of
martial music. Suddenly following Close
upon Gen. Hancock and his staff came Capt
Randolph, his light artillery battery F, with
guns glistening and horses
eAVeRT4NG n THE MORNING AIR
Col Henry L. bbott, of United States en-
gineer corps, and Lieut. Kimball's jolly tars,
from the Omaha, the Swatara, the Tennessee
and the Powhattan Jolly tars they were,
though depressed in spirits, and every inch
sailor was each of them in appearance, and
as they marched up i4 double lines in
their sea rig, dragging 2 FURNISH twelve
FOUNDER behind them, they presented Q pict-
uresque appearance. When after these with
swinging UACdu UAC IuC1AlAACS du1 Uu4C0
more battalions of sailors keeping step to
the music of fife and drum corps,
matters for the time being grew lively along
the thoroughfare, to be travcrsed short
while later by the catafalque bearing the
body of the man they had been called upon
to honor As Hancock's prancng steed led
the procession that followed over the miles
and miles of streets, it was probably the
most REMARKABLE that ever gathered to pay
tribute to mortal map. Following the tars
dragging the cannon end carrying the
stretchers, came the First New York division
of the National guard, Gen, schaler's pride
1t was division to be proud of, and the
First battery and the Ninth, Eleventh,
Twelfth and Twenty second regiments and
the Second battery wheeled into line with
precision Of etep and measure of discipline
that is seldom equaled. Quickly following
came the Second brigade Of !GeR. Louis Fitz-
gerald, with the Second battery III the lead,
and then the grey haired veteran guards
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