St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-06
Over Seventy Thousand People at Albany
Take Final Look at the Dead
General.
The Funeral Train--Incidents of the Jour
ney--New York Reached Without
Mishap.
An Immense Throng Views the
MournfuI Procession as 1t Moves
to City Hall.
To Lie in State TIL Saturday. Noon--
The Funeral to Cost About
100000.
wing i'm State.

Gen. Grant in the senate corridor at the
capitol when the doors were first tn row
open Yesterday afternoon had not dlmln-
ished at midnight. The solid tide of visit
ors entered from Washington avenue, split
at the foot of the caSket and two streams
filed out through the State street portals
until 10 O'clock this morning, when it was
estimated that the remains were be-
ing viewed by 100 persons per min
ute and that up to that hour 10000
persons had seen the face of the dead gen.
eral AT the executive mansion the sons
OF Gen. Grant. with Drs. Douglas and
Newman, breakfasted quietly with the gov
enOr. The morning papers were afterward
scanned i'll silence by the party, the volum-
inous details calling forth no comment of
the SONS, except among themselves. The
day had dawned bright and from the cOun-
try farmers and their families had come in
early to see the great dead general. Trains
east and west added to the number of the
strangers in the city, and the morning boats
brought many more. The committee of
one hundred prominent citizens of New
York city, appointed by Mayor Grace to
represent that city at Albany and
TO ACCOMPANY THE REMAINS
from this city to New York, arrived, each
wearing across the lapel of the black coat a
white badge, at the top of which were the
words City of New York" Underneath
this the arms of the city, and at the bot
tom ''Gen. Grant" The committee wore
white hats with black bands. Spectators
have made efforts to secure possession. of
the catafalque and funeral car after the re-
mains have departed. An offer of $4,000
has been made for the catafalque. AS
they are the property Of the national gov
ernment, however, it is not likely that relic
hunters will obtain them. The steel casket
built at Troy was completed last evening at
6 o'clock. The undeTtallers and embalmers
who have immediate charge of the body
of the dead general were alert and not a lit
tie anxious to-day. The jOlting of the body
over the cObble-stone pavements on its pas
sage to the capitol had no good effect. The
lower jaw Of the generals face is being kept
in place, it is believed, by strong rubber
bands. The face as described last night
has the same ghastly appearance. Every
effort and means known to their craft is
being employed by the embalmerS and un-
dertakers to preserve the remains in such
condition as will make it both possible and
proper TO display them in New York
Those who are in charge say there is no
GOubt this will be done, but there is some
ground for
APPREHENSION.
At 1880 the capitol doors were closed
and the preparations for continuing
the Journey commenced. Slowly the
funeral car, drawn by six black
horses with their mourning trappings.
moved to the State street side of the capi-
tol. Gen. Hancock, mounted upon black
charger from West Point and followed by
his staff, approached the capitol, as also did
Gen. FanswOrth and staff. Gov. Hill and
staff had gathered at the capitol and were
III waiting. Eleven o'clock had passed and
it was half hour later when the great
doors of the capitol swung open on the
State street side and the guards of honor
from U. S. Grant post were seen
by the waiting crowds with the remains
the guard of honor moved out into
the sunlight to the slow strains of music
and the sounds of the trnmpets of the regu-
lars upon the upper steps of the capitol,
thirteen men bearing the casket and SO sur
rounding and hiding it from view. The
sOmbre car was waiting at the foot of the
steps in the street. -Four men were inside
the car and assisted in lifting the remains
to the black dais within the mounted cata-
falque. Then Col. Beck and Mai Brown
ranged their companies of regulars on either
side Of the car, tie front being level with
the heads of the horses. The Grand Army
guards took positions, the
BLARE OF TRUAIPETs
rang out and the procession started at a
measured pace down State street, the vari-
Gus organizations falling into the process
sion, amid the dull boom of cannon and the
tolling and Ginning of bells in the steeples.
The line of march through Broadway TO
Steuhen street and thence to the depot was
everywhere denSely thronged. The sons
of Gen. Grant and their companions of yes
terday were driven to the depot, where the
long, black funeral train was awaiting its
burden. Guns doomed while the remains
were being placed in the car Woodlawn and
the bells tolled slowly. The committee from
New York entered the cars, Gen. Han
cock and staff went aboard, the regulars
were Quartered and the great train started.
Hundreds of persons standing nearest the
tracks laid coins on the rails to have them
fiattened beneath the wheels of the train
that carried Gen. Grant on his journey. On
the roofs of the houses in the vicinity hun
dredS witnessed the start, and as the black
train rlmbled across the long bridge of the
Hudson it was between two dense lines OF
people, who filed the footpath on either
side. The long, sweeping curve was
rounded and the black train Strengthened
out level with the Hudson on its way to
the metropolis. Looking back from the
engine cab, as the trailing train swept
around the curve at GTeenbuSh, the i'm
pressive effect was thrilling.
ALL THE EMPLOYEES
of the New York Central Railroad COM
pany who receive their pay at Pough-
keepsie were drawn up beside a work train
of the road at that station. and every brown
and blue-shirted fellow stood with uncov-
cred head as the train passed. The river
had narrowed, and upon the bluffs and
mountains across the water there were
dark fringeS of human figures, from which
j.. the occasional flutter OF a handkerchief
could be seen. The white. pOrtentous
clouds had become leaden-hued beneath,
and they had spanned the river after Pough-
keepsle had been passed. Over the surface
of he river there were black shadows, and
the water was feathering with deeper rip
pies. y little later. as Newburg was
passed, the mountains westward were en-
veloped by clouds that poured down rain.
Just in the shadow of old Storm King, at
Cornwall, a steamboat from New York.
loaded With people, was seen following the
train. Cold Spring had been passed at
3:21 o'clock, and West Point was only six
minutes away. Col. Grant. Gen. Porter
and others in the car took seats on the
river side. Soon deep reverberations of
thunder were heard among the mountains.
The storm had centered directly above the
military post. The
TRAIN ROLLED ON
and was passing through the deep cut Just
north of Garrison's. which is the railway
station for West Point. Suddenly the re-
port of cannon shook the heavy atmos-
phere Then at 3:27 the train rolled slowly
past the little station at Garrison's, and