New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-08-06
THE MARCH TO THE CITY HALL.
VAST MULTITUDE WITNESSING AN INrREssiv
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VAST MULTITUDE WITNESSING AN IMPRESSIVE
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Shortly after General Hancock left the funeral
train al the Grand Central Station. he rode down
Ffth-ave followed by his staff, to the head OF the
column in Madison Square. The stan officers were:
Colonel Charles Sutherland, Surgeon; Colonel
Alexander J. Perry, Assistant Quartermas'er-t'en-
eral; Major Asa Bird Gardner, Judge Advo-
cate General; Captain John :. wharton;
Captain q. S. l.. Ward, and Lieutenant Gnilin.
The funeral car bearing its precious burden anu
the carriages with representative oi'lzens having
taken their places in the line, the regimen =
wheeled into company and platoon 'front.' ana INC
line OF march was taken up.
Down Fifth-ave. with colors draped and tho
regimental bands playing dirges they marched be-
tween the lines of people who filled the sidewalks
from curb to railing and crowded one
another up the high stoops for more
elevated points Of observation. So many OF the
occupants of tins arisiocratic quarter being away
far the summer few of the windows III the
elegant mansions that line the avenue were
Occur pied. The workmen were still engaged III
decorating the Stewart and Astor houses and some
other dwellings were as yet in an unfinished con-
ditOn.
Captain Williams was ont at Madison Square
with an ample force OF police to handle any crowd
at this critical poiut, but they had very little WORK
beyond making room Tor Jacob Sharps horse car'
ND to $50, when General Hancock and stall came
in sight The big police captain al
once became active and, as the crowd incrensed
shot from point to point to ITS control. The
people were for the most part wholly IN
clmed to be orderly. but there was some
scraInbling for the best places. The Windows
OF the hotels stores and houses. and all the bal
COMES were full Of faces i he grandly dTapcd bal
conv of the Fifth Avenue Hotel was crowded. As
General Hancock sat on his horse, surrounded by
his aides, he looked the ideal OF Grand Marshal
and soldier. and murmurs OF adInlrd
ton frequently ran through the crowd Tho
column swept on, amid silence IKE that oil ihe
frave The funeral marches Of the bands, the
beat of mufled drums, the shrill whistle OF the
fes the hoof beats Of the horses, the tread many
| feet of marching men-these were the only sounds
| When the people spoke 10 one another 1t was III
whispers so low that they reached only the ears
| for which Oley were intended.
| One window only overlooking the scene was
screened. 1t Vas that III which portion of Cen
eral Grants household resting in the Fifth
Avenue Hotel 1t was IN Parlor 40 on the parior-fOor
| nj the corner of Twenty tbird-st and Broadway.
| General Hancock glanced that way as he rode on
| at the head Of the procession. DR.. Newman had
| eyes for no other lart OF the hourse.
| and IA DR.. Douglm discovered 1t he
| uncovered his gray head 10 the wind.
| At twenty minutes past tine head of the line
| turned into Waverly place, md marched downward
| toward Broadway.
| In the early afternoon Broadway from Waverly
Place down wore the aspect winch has grown 30
familiar IN the last two wees. Here and there
workmen could still be seen prched on ladders or
| clingne TO the fronts of tie high buildings
/ %bo GuiahiuO touches tho
evidences of mourning ,hich submerged
all architectural differences IL one vast sea OF
black. Along the sidewalks wee vendors selling
nedallions and mourning badge engrayings aud
| nictures of every conceivable $40 and style, all
nearing the likeness Of the great ero whose earth
| ,v rena,ps were so soon TO be borne
| along the thoroughfare in staely procession.
PEOPLE ON the sidewalks gazed aprehenslvely at
the clouds that from time to time oercast the SKY,
while an occasional cab worked It's way In ana out
| among the other vehicles, its occupants gazing NJ
| the more recent and elaborate mourning embicms
which had appeared since the havo OF Mondays
| storm.
| shortly after4 o'clock Jacob Sharls horse-cars
| stonped running down Broadway an switching
| ON to the old University place tracks.
| When the clerks who form the wave,f that tide
of humanity that daily GIBBS and lows along
| broadway. came from their offices. the found the
street lined with triple detail OF pace officers
who leaned on their heavy night clubs the street
corners or swung them carelessly as hey forced
nm and down the block. Doorsteps, Ugh stoops
and window seats were already being re-empted.
The raised PLATFORM bridging over the xcavation
at No. 6o3 Broadway, where a new bulldog is being
mt ND. was black with early comet Drays
hacked up in the side streets and were son loaded
with sightseers Lines began to form long tine
curbstone and were reinforced by the steay stream
of homcward bound laborers, clerks ana mop gifiS
until they doubled, tripled, quarupieo;