Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-08-08
AROUND THE BIER.
From Early Morn Until After Mid.
night the Living stream Flows b,
the Nations Dead.
"-ns, sheridan and GorI.n CLASP uand'
ov.r the Cha-m at Wears and
M"urn Together.
ruauNc,>e no st,r rnr man.

tau gales we're shut ai ! O'Clock this
morning, and when the shuttle of foot.
/ steps had ceased, The undrrlakcrS aud
cmbalmcrS came, The 6,ce of Gen.
Grant was scanned by them through the
double plates ot glass. Then ihe under.
takers observed that dust had settled ON
the lower plate OF glass, and removed the
top plate that the other might be cleaned.
surprise was expressed that such an nc.
cumulationo OF dust should have been nos.
sihlc through the fine closed joints mndc
by the closing oi the first plate. The
glass was cleaned and polished, new top
/ plate replaced aud the lids of the caskct
fastened down
tlih ROYAL, rCnrlr VELVET
that covers the caskct had become
dusiy with the rising particles from
all the shuiiiug of the thousands
who passed through the day. Carefully
II was brushed and cleared OF dust and
the nndertakcrs and others went ont.
The body has not hcen touched by them.
As early as O'Clock there were some
thousands rammed back by tho $50 police.
men then ON duty, between 1 and .
o'clock the crowd had become throng
and the line reached from the fountain
along Park Row 70 Center street, turning
the corner of Chambers street Az the
same relative hours to-day there were
THOUSANDS MORE IN InE STREAM
than yesterday, and the fact WAS due To
the belief and experiences that the early
ones had yesterday The least time to
walt. The clocks were tolliug O'Clock
when the iron gates were thrown back
The FIRST 60 pass through, rs ou yesiCr-
uS' NNs woman hach was
n ,,u oi'u '"ei' cou.u NOT appre'
o"'V pu, 'na, me Gay and me remains
WY ~ lcI uSPpNUu' several hohds and
Noi''S lV'"i''Vu luell olhefWlse Win
no, Hvl' suuuehh'ss' me Solid stream
uau "sai,i commenced lowing across tue
Pia"i " ,hc VU'I"l'c'' iho human stream
was noNihG luN' uS lhough lpo,uOu had
ho' shuihVu oNSr the same STONES yes
,er'aN. Nler nlleon minutes the entire
me was stepping, stepping, stepping,
rom away above Chambers street.
"reht crowds oi strangers arrive on
every ,lu,n ana POM IN anticipation OF
Satul,lnA ; lulieral pageant nut II h IN the
hotel loppies lbat the most extraordinary
assenDlages gather Friends OF twenty
years ago. VINO were lnadc enemies by
lhe war snake ilhus aud make u all up,
/ some Oh we scenes between the sol
ulerS OF thc Nortll ana me south are
hearl-stirring nnd.tliere are groupings OF
grand old hgures ON all sides In the
inlasl OF such scene stood Gen. I'M.
sheridan ms morning suddenly red
iaceu liau ADVANCED, lehulhg Zen lohn
u nor''pn 81 georgia toward We Union
soialcr' ihoh ne introduced theh, ana
tl'e TWO "id Wnrrlers sclHcd hands IN a
urn grip una looked each other fairly
y, tle eyes lhWr hands fenhled, Tor
lucy ulu no, rcluA lhelr friendly grasp,
Dul STOOD Illere looklhg az each other
WIN sparklhg eyes
Cen beiknap, inc eA"eocrctafy ol war,
came up WIN zen ,ufils' the onc-eyeu
cohqucrtr ol foft washer, ANA iormcd u
| pnlr oi the group. II was picture
worthy OF painter rs the southern gen.
efal' laIi' plack'eyed' long-halred and
scaItoui pressed llie mana al me famous
SoluIGr 81 tile NORTH
inns Is now lne soldiers ol INC North
nll'l ,he Nouth meet D-dnS,| SHld den.
Gurus GOD gram lilal U Is only an
elhpielh ol Wihi +" coming To lhe whole
1 country
Mlu'W9 passed. ana luefN was no ~
ullhlShllig OF me constant lrull oil people
so anxious 70 80" VIC almost uhfecoH'
nlhaDlc face oi the dead general, At J.
O'Clock the me reached up broadway to
y point near Canal street The tide was
Moving past lhe remains at about 100 a
minute, as yesterday, anu AZ O'Clock
nearly 10000 persons had viewed the
body since the gates were opened nj q
F, O'Clock this morning
Licnt. Col, smith OF The seventh regi-
ment this afternoon was seized with Il
tainting I'll while sitting In tile alder.
manic CHAMBER. Physicians were called
and restored him toconsciousness. Gen.
Shaler this afternoon officially stated that
ms near ~ can now De determined the right
OF the division VIII be al Twenty-scyentb
the escort, when Gen. Hancock passes