Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-08-06

Akew York dispatch says: Preparations
for the great military pageant, which is 10
be the principal feature ~ the Grant iuner,
al on the sth, continue with great zeal.
With the exception Of the vast number Of
details which will now take care OF them
selves, these preparations may now be
called completed. Gen. Hancock has APP
pointed all his aids, and is now occupied
during every working hour OF the day In
receiving and answering applications for
places in the line. So numerous are these
applications that tAe prfBeipls has been
adopted OF having organisatinns represent,
ed In the procession rather than march rs u
whole, for II the complete bodies we're adj
mitted the line OF march from tho city
hall to Riverside Park, distance OF
nine miles would not contain the mass
OF men. So important has it become TO
keep the procession within manageable
limits that very few carriages will be al
lowed. The decorations OF building OF all
kinds continue To increase in number. ex-
tent and variety. Many decorations which
We're al fEt put up hastily, have been re,
modelled aud deliberately amblen,ished
There is not building On Broad.
way without some token OF mourn
ing and the great thoroughfare be-
comes more and more fringed with
black. The advance demand for car
riages on the day OF the funeral has already
practically exhausted the supply. The APP
plication for windows along the line Of
march indicates that the demand viii he
immense. As much as $3.50 has already
been offered'ior agingle window on Broad
way. ~ ~ ' - tI''N Il. 81 ,ri,
Ii has been decided to abandon all
thought 81 conveying the remains from
Albany to New York by river, although had
this plan been the first suggested il would
have been accepted. IT was abandoned with
ienet; SaIEtqga made a last and unsuc-
esssiui effort 10 indulge tha family tn allow
the remains to lie in state in Congress Park.
Rev. =. V. Leeeh the chaplain OF the state
senate, came In representing the Saratoga
memorial committee, to make a last ap.
peal. He WIS told that the plans decided
upon were irreyocable.
Cyrus w Field cabled from London.
Mrs. Y. ). Grant: The duke Of Argyll
writes me; viii you kindly say To Mrs.
Grant how much | feel for her and how
much value the memory Of her husbands
Lisit 70 us in Scotland"
The people Of Manchester, England
through their mayor, cabled their condo.
lences
The Tribune publishes an interview With
Zen shsfHan, IN which he SAYS:
Tho parade viii bp tisa granIiest military
spectacle this city has ever seen. Gen. Han.
cock Is magniticenily fitted To organize Il
and be Is hard at work. Hswi leayenoth.
ing undone. II was good thing to do To
place all these things Ia his hands II iscer.
tain that Gen. Grant regarded Washington
as no ht place for young men. He has
often talked about il. My opinion il the
same. Why the army officers who have
been stationed In Washington long, have
never amounted TO anything. The men who |
have come up high have made their marx
an the frontier among the Indians on the far
on stations The Washington men become
distinguished ~ stan oihee,s aHiy, Aletlel. |
Ian y about the only exception and his |
case Is so slight an exception as 10 barely
prove the rule. Taylor and Jackson and |
those men came 10 the top from Indian and
border fighting.
The president, who, at the request OF
Mrs. Grant has selected pall bearers for