Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1885-08-15
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FROM CHICAGO.
Nh Interesting Letter From q For
mer honjanian.
Especial Correspondence
CHIcAGO. july 30. 1885

Especial Correspondence.
CHICAGO, July so, 1885.
Grant is dead After months o1
sutfering,ss the grand old hero ha:
passed over the silent river in that
mysterious land to meet and greet the
thousands Of brave spirits who sal
lantl y marched into the fercest strife
at his command to do, and dare, and
die. Chicago mourns the departed
chief profoundly. Sable draperies
deck and faunt from all public build
lngs and many private ones. Many
business houses have expended large s
sums in this mute testimony Of their
appreciation Of the worth Of the dead
General while living and profound
sorrow at his death. Some Of the dry
goods palaces have no goods display
ed on their counters except black and
white. Flags float at half mast from
every staff. Even the majesty Of the
law has displayed sentiment rather
than justice in the punishment of
man who tore down memorial pic
tUre Of Grant and trampled it under
his feet. He was promptly arrested
by one Of our shooting police and
fined seyenty-fFe dollars, and was told
| by the justice that if he had not been
little drunk when he committed the
crime that he would have fined him
one hundred dollars.
1t is thought that the family of the
late General will have to have a build
ing constructed to hold the volumes
pathy and coincidence that are being
mailed to the mourners at Mount Nc
Gregor. Every association, corpora
/ ton and company are expressing
words Of love, praise and reverence
for the dead and sympathy for the
living. Chicago will erect an eques-
trian memorial statue to the memory
Of the nations greatest son. The
| statue will stand at the enterance OF
Lincoln Park near the Lake Shore
drive. Contributions are now being
received by all the leading neWspa-
pers Of the city It is proposed to
raise fund Of about 100000 and to
do it in two weeks, and the statue will
be begun Immediately and will be the
first one erected in the United States
to the memory Of the loved COM
mander.
The weather has been anything but
pleasant here during the past two
weeks. The mercury has been linger-
ing in the nei ghborhood of 80 degrees
above, aud the cold waves said to be
peculiar to this summer resort have
been conspicuous by their absence,
Ninety degrees above zero here means
sweltering, you bet! The word hot
entirely fails to convey an idea Of how
that reading Of thermometer feels
here.
Old Lake Michigan throws a damp
cloud Of mist over the city every night
and the morning sun makes it boil,
and suffering humanity perspire and
mop and swear and look like parboll-
ed mutton. About twenty people
were laid out yesterday from the ef-
fects Of the heat and too much actiy-
ity. Chicago is the personification OF
activity. Everybody is in q hurrJc
and leaning longingly toward the al
mighty dollar without rest Or let up
!, despite the melting weather.
General Grant died at $50 a. N
and at 8 q. m. newsboys were selling
extra editions Of the principal daily
papers containing over forty column
sketch of the dead Generals life, to
gether with.a column Of dispatche:
giving the last sad scene at the mo
: nent Of dissolution. That is journal
} istic enterprise Cor you. It has since
/ transpired that an extra force OF me1
o have been kept at the newspape1
offices in readiness to set up the sae
news as soon as the wires flashed !
q here from the cottage by the Hudson
]: and that the biographical portion 0
,. the matter had been set up and wait
= ing for mouths
3 An hour after the news arrived hel,
J men and boys Were hawking litho
d graph portraits Of the dead command
! er, which gave at the bottom the dat
!. Of his birth and death Il is beyone
= estimate how many Of those 1.-the
! graphs We're sold
9 The Pail aIall Gazette scanda
' promised to become a source G
:. wealth to some of our active and spec
: ulative journalists, but the Chicag
y edition was not allowed - be sold, 5
e the press is stopped for time q
q least. il.