Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-08-14
EARTH TO EARTH.
Last HOnOrS TO Americas Great
Soldier.
New YOrk'S Great Procession.
An Unequalled American
Funeral Pageant.
THE LAST SAD RITES.
North and South Meet i'm Mourn
full Fraternity.
THE LAST SAD RITES.
North and South Meet i'm Mourn
full Fraternity.
SERVICES AT THE TOMB
The March of tho Great Procession fro IN
City Hall to Riverside Park-Noted
Men of the Nation Present-G.
A. X. Ritual at the Tomb.

NEW YORK, Aug. 9.--Ten minutes after
O'Clock Saturday morning the iron gates
of the city hall We're closed, and the un-
tortunates who were in the line still press
ing forward to see the body of the great
American hero, found themselves de-
barred. The casket was surrendered to
the undertaken and the double glass cas-
ing was removed and the fine dust that
had found its way through them both
was removed with a sponge from the face
Then the casket was closed and the velvet
lids were replaced over the glasswork.
The night wore on and the gray of day
light was creeping up in the east. AS day
light approached the strains Of dirge
music crept on the morning air. At first
distant, they grew nearer and nearer. The
red deepened in the east. Sunrise was
near. The strains of music, slow and sad,
grew more distinct. The blue-coated
veterans of Meade Post of Philadelphia,
800 strong, came tramping to the dlrge
music of the trumpets. AS the veterans
entered the plaza a heavy gun doomed
out toward the sea. The chimes of
old Trinity pealed mournful notes and
the sound of muffled drums grew fainter
and died out. 1t was sunrise. The day
was born, the last day for the dead upon
earth before the tomb should have opened
to shelter him. At 6 o'clock Wilson Post
of Baltimore marched by with a Chicago
organization. The corridors had been
picketed by fifteen policemen, while ont
side were 125 more men under command
of two SergeantS
Seven O'clock and the strains of solemn
music tloated in at the grated iron doors
from many directions. Eight o'clock, and
nature was putting forth signals of an in
tensely warm day The crowds grew
denser and denser around the plaza,
Mut1ed drums and dirgeful trumpets
marched in at one side and took positions
at the east end. The players constituted
the Davids island military band. At $50
O'Clock Gen. Hancock and STAFF trOOped
slowly into the plaza from Broadway and
presented front TO the city hall, then
moved to the end of the plaza at Broad
way, where they rested.
A 9:35 O'Clock the imposing funeral car
was drawn i'll by twenty-tour jet black
horses in black trappings 1t halted on
the plaza directly in front of the city hall
steps, and the burial case with its hOnored
burden was carried up and placed upon
the catafalque. The casket was alone for
all to view, but deeply guarded The
honnor guard next to the hearse on either
side took the same relative positions they
had maintained to the remains while be-
ing borne to the hearse The steps We're
drawn away from the hearse. Commander
johnson and comrades took place in the
centre and Immediately behind the fune-
raj car.
The clergy and physicians had paid re-
Spect to the remains by alighting from
their carriages and accompanying them
fro ha fan N "a
entered carriages on either side of the
plaza near Broadway, rs follows The
Rev. Dr. Newman, Bishop Harris, Bishop
Potter, the Rev. Dr. Chambers, the Rev.
DIR. Field, the Rev. DR.. Brdgeman, the
Rev Or. West, the Rev Father Deshon,
the Rev. Robert Colyer, Rabbi Browne
and Drs, Douglas, Shrady and Sands.
Gen. Grants Last Journey Begun.
Col Beck, in charge of the regulars,
commanded his companies TO positions,
company A on the right and company +
on the left of the hearse. COlored men
were at the brides of the twenty-four
horses. Sixteen men of Meade post, Phila-
delphia, of which Gen. Grant was IA mem
her, were abreast directly in front of the
team of black leaders, and the David S
island band preceded them. a sig
nal was given and the line of coaches
with the clergy moved off the plaza to
Broadway. Col. Beck advanced to the
head of the line of black horses before the
coach. "MOVe on were his words of
command with uplifted sword. The lead
ers stepped forward, led by the cOlored
men, and in an instant the black line of
horses had Strengthened their traces and
the wheels beneath the remains Were
moving. The hour was 947. The band
played drge. The tramp of the regu-
lars and the honor guard beat upon the
pavement. Thousands beneath the trees
and crowding the sides of the square
looked silently on, and the black funeral
went over the curb into Broadway. The
black corridors of the city hall were silent
Gen. Grants last journey was begun
Then, at 9:j2 O'Clock, Mayor Grace
Comptroller Loew and Aldermen Sanger
and Jachue emerged from the city build
ing and entered Il carriage that had drawn
up in front. The members of the common
council followed and entered carriages, as
did the police commissioners, They fol
lowed out of the plaza as fast rs disposed
of in carriages, and when it was 10 O'Clock
the police lines were withdrawn and the
people streamed across the plaza without
hindrance. The last scene there wa'
ended.
All night long carpenters with saw ant
hammer were busy in Broadway, anC
when day dawned it revealed the presenc,
of hundreds of hastly-erected reviewing
stands The decorators, too, had not beer
idle for on the front of many houses WERE