The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-08-07
t H DEATH.

MOUNT McGREGoh, July 23.-Quietude per
vaded the mountains this morning when II
was announced that Gen. Grant had ceased
his long struggle. This feeling, however,
gave place later to . sense Of relief that the
struggle was ended and that the tried mind
and body were at rest. While there was not
a heart that mourned not in sympathy towarc
the generals family, yet there was stone
feeling Of gratitude that the man who suf-
fered &c bravely and SO patiently
had earned the quiet of a long rest
The day was a perfect summers Gay.
warm and clear. and the sun beat down upon
the cottage roof just the same as when there
was a weak invalid in the house to be more
weakened by the heat. Visitors came NJ the
mountain roads as they did yesterday, and a
squad Of workmen made some claIte- with
hammer and adj as they proceeded to buiid
a pavilion to which excursionists might come
to be gay and joyous. The cottage was ms a
deserted house save that the shutter blinds
at the parlor windows were turned q little to
allow the light breeze to daily through the
room in which
THE DEAD GENERAL LAY. r
The doors of the cottage were closed. the
shutters upstairs was fastened and the men,
beers of the family We're scarcely seen during
the day except as they walked almost
silently from the cottage up through the
grove or the nearby ridge to luncheon and
dinner in a private room at the hotel. Be-
tween 4 and 8 o'clock a deputation
from Gov. Hill called upon Col. Fred
Grant and rendered the state
capitol building at Albany for the laying in
state Of the generals remains. The gentle
men were informed that the plans for the
obsequies were at the time SO indefinite that
nothing could then be said in reply, but that
the courtesy was thankfully acknowledged.
Soon afterward Gen. Beale of Washington.
one OF Gen. Grants warmest personal
friends, called to tender to Mrs.
Grant the use of his house in
Washington during the stay of
the family there in the event of the generals
remains being taken to that city. Mrs.
Grant could not be seen. but Col. Grant
thanked his fathers friend for his kindly
thought Late in the afternoon a squad of
uniformed men from Wheeler post, G. A. r.,
OF Saratoga, came up the mountain
to guard the cottage. A tent was
pitched on the needles beneath the pine
trees where last night the anxious CORE
spondents bivouacked. Guard lines were
soon established, and at dark a patrol of the
peatS was begun. Inc guarQ Will be tenn
porarily maintained. and thus morbidly curl
GUS persons will be kept from the cottage.
H sCUI.PToR's WORK.
MOUNT McGREGoR, Special Telegram, July
23.-Karl Gerhardt will nave the first oppor-
tunity to perpetuate the general in stone or
metal. He has for a fortnight been studying
and making sketches of the face and has the
advantage of two very good photographs of
the general in his chair on the piazza of
the cottage in the position, and in the
dress which he has chosen. Yesterday he
put the finishing touches on his clay model,
and this morning he took a cast of the face
an hour after death, a work which st.
Gaudeno was most anxious to get. The
cast was a good one and shows the upper
part of the face admirably. The lower part
appears more sunken, and the lower lip has
fallen away. The clay model is half
size and represents the general as he
was when be came to Mount McGregor.
He is seen resting in his chair dressed in his
thick, heavy dressing gown of beaver cloth,
holding his pencil in his right hand and his
writing pad on his knee. The legs are crossed
and the thick, loose folds of the gown display,
but not too plainly, the shrunken limbs. 1t
is Mr.. Gerhardt's purpose to reproduce the
work in marble life size.