St. Paul daily globe., 1885-08-09

contained numbered seats to be had at the
small sum of So 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. When at length the
hands of the great clock of Trinity church
approached the hour of Broadway pre-
sented an animated spectacle. As far as
the eye could reach the sidewalks were
thronged with people. Every train and
every steamer poured its load into the
great artery 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
jOstled each other on the curb stones and
sidewalks. Everybody seemed to be good
natured and took the joStling and jamming
as a matter of course. The police tried to
keep the people of 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 them. Madison
square was long astir and
TROOPS OF sIGHrsEERs
were trailing up Twenty-third street as
early rs 7:3O o'clock, when an officer on
horseback dashed up to the entrance of the
Fifth Avenue hotel and, diSmounting. took
his stand at the door The pearl grey
sash, denOting an aide of Gen. Hancock.
was across his breast. The officer was
Col. Hodges of Gen. HancOck's staff. He
was followed shortly by a Withholding
gentleman in military uniform. who proved
To be the marshal of the preSiden-
tial and gubernatOrial carriage party.
Lieut.. Col. Gillespie. Their presence
attracted an enormous crowd to the draped
entrance to the hotel ON Twenty-third street,
and the police We're 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 uni
formed men blocked every hall and cOrri-
dor. In the main hall, Gen. Sherman. tall
and erect and smoking big cigar, was the
center of an admiTing thrOng. He stood in
a group of naval officers, chatting pleas
antly with old friends. The party were
all in full uniform and attracted univer-
sal attention that tagged only for moment,
when a file of attendants of the Japanes e
minister entered. The big marble hall was
completely chOked with humanity long be-
fore 5 o'clock. In the big pdrlOrs, up stairs.
all was stir and hustle. While the presi-
dent 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. commit
tees. organizations and delegations were
gathering and getting ready here, there
and everywhere. Badges. SaSheS and
MILITARY ORDERS
found way for the members i'm the seem
ingly ineXtricabie confusion of swarming
humanity. In a guest parlOT, off the ladies
paTlOr. facing the square, a group of serious
men, most of them gray-haired and old, but
nearly all erect and of vigorous physique,
were putting on broad. silken sasheS of
white and black. They were the pail
bearers, and they were a striking group.
Gen. Sherman, summoned up from
his friendly eOnSab below, reSplendent
in military tOggery, stood in friendly con-
verSatiOn with a tall man, in whose white
mustache and chin beard and soldierly bear
ing enc recognized at a glance the gallant
Confederate, Gen. Buckner. from whom
Grant wrested his first harIl-wOn laurels at
Fort DonelSOn. Gen. Buckner was in or
binary black citizens dress. A smaller
man. similarly attired. at the other end of
the room. whose gray hairs formed strik-
ing contrast to the leOnine name and fierce
black mustache of Gen. Logan, with whom
he was talking, was the famous Gen.
Joe Johnston, the bravest of the brave
who succumbed TO Gen. Grants sword.
Hamilton Fish was not among the pail
bearers. He was sick. and the president
had appointed A. j. DreXel of Philadel-
phia in his stead. At the last moment it
IS said that Admiral WOrden had been ap-
pointed a pall-bearer in place of Admiral
Rowan. at $3.50 o'clock Col. Hodges sum-