Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-08-13


and q chance 10 stand upon flight OF steps
was worth from ~ 70 So Some single
windows brought $40, and one balcony ca
pable of holding twelve OF fifteen people,
near the Hotel Brunswick, brought 800.
Peddlers in the crowd sold hundreds OF foot
stools about eigh. inches high, and they were
eagerly snatched up at 80 cents each Peo-
pie who were fortunate enough 70 secure
one of these and 10 elevate themselves
above the level OF the crowd were much en-
Wed by those who could only see the horse
men and the tops OF the folded tiags Those
lucky ones were kept busy calling out the
names OF the organizations as they passed
along person Of ordinary height few
feet from the lipe OF march, could see very
little. Now and then he caught the Hash
OF a plume, and all the time he heard
the solemn music and the tread of marching
feet IL IL probable that many thousands
who stood for long hours hardly saw the
PROCESSION st nil. Added To the difficuity
was the fact that all the people occupying
front places kept up their umbrellas and
parasols all the time, regardless OF the re-
quests aud entreaties and aften impreca-
tons of those In the rear The promptness
with which the procession appeared before
the Fifth Avenue hotel was astonishing At
1880 o'clock To the minute Gen, Hancock
and staff came ia sight, when nobody ex-
pected him for an hour This showed the
good Of having the procession headed by
and under the managemento 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 mufied drums, of brass bands, OF
bagpipes. of Iifes aud cymbas; and so
through the long hours the mighty pageant
passed by All the conditions aud circum-
stances were colossal Men grew To greater
stature by hours that interviewed To be
part and parcel OF such a 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 silenca IL was comparatively
absolute No matter how softly the
mufiied drums were rolled you cenid
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 sNearer
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 fifes OF the
Fourth Connecticut drum corps, playing the
sad, sweet notes OF sPleyers 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 Slice as Bird TO the Noun
TAIN" and the band OF thu Continental Foot
Guards OF Massachusetts, played sweet
Spirit, Hear Ny Prayer" As a general thing,
THE cEoIoz Up MUSIC
by the bands was not good and was of too
high an order 10 appeal to the emotion Of
general gathering From the hundreds of
musical organizations that passed but few
played the simple and tender airs familiar to
the people, and n dozen of the bands played
the sDead March in Saul, and more than that
played Ohopin's @Funeral March The funeral
hymns of the operas were the fayontes, but
when such an air AS Nearer my God TO
Thee" was played, the effect could be seen
at once, the deepened hush, the uncoyering
Of heads aud tears IN the eyes of the women.
The bands about the catafnlqpe played
Chopin 8 sFunoral March, ? and played 1t mag
niiicently, but would have touched the hearts
of the people more tenderly had they played
~Rest Spirit, Rest or "Roek of Ages IL
was ! o'clock when the catafalqde
passed through Madison Square, IL was the
moment OF the day. For that all waited;
about that all interest centered; from thai
rsdiated and Influences reaching to deeper
and holier depths of human emotion than
all tho music, all the trappings of grief, or
all the vast display could go There was a
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 plumes 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 1t
the guns Of the guards shone At every mo-
mept, from the pavement 70 rooftree, 10, 600
faces gazed upon it.
APrsARAScE or THE TROOPS
NEw YoEg, Special Telegram, Aug. 81
There we're fow glittertpg bayoRets IN the
parade Warlike signs were concealed
rather than displayed The soldiers went by
with reversed arms and slow tread TO tho
roll OF the muiiled drums The corps was
marked not only by the long line OF people
WIZ stood, with uncovered heads. on the
street, but b. the guidon, the bobbing col
umns of national corps ard the battle flags
drapett with Grape The soldiers took part
In a soldiers funeral, and more devoted
tribute was never paid by warriors to hero
dead u was shortly after o'clock that
Gen. Hancock, ETitb his staff close behind
him. looking neither 10 the right nor TO the
left, and sitting upon his horse like cen
tRur, RODE slowly up Broadway. Already the
military wese astir, many companies belong
ing TO state organizations weie pouring In the
side streets OF Fourteenth street, and the sec
ton " tine city from the city hall porthward
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 +, with
guns glistening and horses
cAyoRTISa IN THE MORNING AIR
Col Henry l. 4 bbatt, Of United States en-
gineer corps. and Lieut. himbalps Jolly tars,
from the Omaha, the Swatara, the Tennessee
and the PeShattap Jolly tars they were,
though depressed IN spirits. AND every inch
sailor was each Of them IN appearance, AID
as they marched up in double lines in
their sea rig. dragging a burnish twelve
FOUNDER behind them, they presented pict-
ulNsIgB appearances hilcH hibef tncht Win
swinging tread came the marines and three
more battalfqns 81 sailors keeping step to
the Eusic Of tfe and drum corps,
matters for the tiae being grew lively along
the thoroughbred, TO he Hayersed short
while later by the catafalque bearing the
body Of the man they had been called upon
70 honor. As Hancock's prancing steed led
the PROCESSION that followed over the miles
aud miles Of stree.s. Il was probably the
most remarkable that over gathered TO pay
tribute TO mortal man Following the tars
dragging the cannon and carrying tho
stretchers came the First New York division
Of the National quart Cen. schalers pride
Il was division 70 DO proud OF, and the
First battary and tbs NiatA, Eleventh,
Twelfth and Twenty .sec0,sd regiments aad
the Second battery wheeled into line with y
precision OF step and n measure of discipline
that is seldom equaled Quickly following
came the Second brigade of Gen Louis Fitz-
gsrcl1, with the Second battery IN the lead,
and then this grey haired veteran guards
Col Austin and his staa ,2ere as
eRAr HAIRED As rHg yErEaAss
,,sb. .arno affair than ON foot nn1 with he