The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-08-09

atoms OF guns from men-Of-War could
be heard and the troops broke colum n
from the left marching 10 the right OF
east side of the road. After forming in
line, arms were presented and the cata-
falque slowly passed.
The crowd on Fifth Avenue remained
on the sidewalks with remarkable per
sistency until the long parade had
passed. There were few cases of heat
! prostration in the ranks, bat so far as
known none fatal. Regimental ambu-
lances were called into requisition for
slight cases of mishaps half dozen
times. At the corner of Fifty-seventh
street, where the line turned to the
west, the crowd swelled from the sides
to open the way and blocked the
thorOughfare on twenty occasions.
There was some trouble when the cata-
falque reached that point. Everybody
was more interested III the approach of
this than any other part of the process
sion. 1t was watched for blocks away,
its conspicuous height making it plainly
visible as far as about Fiftieth Street.
! As it neared the corner. the crowd
naturally bulged into the highway, and
the officers had to threaten with their
clubs to make the spectators recede,
and it was difficult process. People
we're standing eight and ten feet deep.
and some of those in front had raised
their umbrellas to keep off the
sun rays. Some women stood
with babes in arms, and fathers had
hoisted their little ones to their should
ers. Distractions were numerous and
those at the rear were becoming indig-
nant, but as the catafalque came up the
annoyance was forgotten and only re-
spect was felt. AS it was the leaders of
the horses were ordered to make a
| sweeping turn and that was the only way
| in which the interested gathering could
be driven back. People fell back from
the horses as though spirit had ap-
peared and ordered their retreat with
! spontancety that told their reverence
| Every man raised his hat as the first
horse came abreast o. him and remained
uncovered until the oody passed. After
the President, Vice President. Cabinet,
| Supreme Court Judges, Senators and
members of the Houseof Representatives
Governors and their stats, Ex-Presi-
dents, Foreign Ministers, Diplomatic
officers and Representatives of the Army
and Navy had passed, the procession
began to break up. Veterans and civic
organizations left Fifth Avenue by any
of. the streets between SD and 59th
Streets and gradually fell out of line.
From MONDAY on Tor hours into
the afternoon, the vicinity of the
tomb and Riverside Park was
scene of discomfort for the
waiting thousands. Heat had fol-
lowed the cool of the morning, and the
succeeding hours added heat and hun
dreds and thousands of people. The
latter suffered much in their cramped
positions of waiting in the blazing sun
shine. One O'Clock came and went, but
the funeral car was yet a long way off,
and moving very slowly. Beneath fir
tree at the crown of the Knoll rested
small charcoal furnace, and near it the
tools and materials with which to seal
the leaden lining of the cedar case into
which the easket and remains of Cen
eral Grant should be placed. Down the
slope nearer the vault was portable
furnace; such as is used by workmen,
and forge for heating bolts. In the
group near by were five men.
mechanics who should rivet fast
the steel casket within which
both the coffin and cedar box should
finally be preserved. The steel case
rested upon two marble blocks 213 feet
high, feet wide and Is inches thick.
Similar marble blocks had been sunk in
the floor flush with the surface, and up
on those the remains of Mrs. Grant are
expected to repose. Many people were
permitted 10 peer into the tomb where
the steel receptacle was waiting the
body, then being borne up town. Soon
after l O'clock the drums beat and the
blare of trumpets was heard from the
lower end of the park. 4 carriage
came into view. In it was General
Hancock He was the only occupant
and stood erect. Trooping behind him
on horseback were members OF his
staff. The General rode to point near
the tomb. When he ahghted he was
met by Superintendent Murray, Com
missioner Crimmins and Others of the
Park board. General Hancock's staff
and aides swept past. There were
among them General Fitzhugh Lee and
General Gordon, whom General Sheri-
dan once met so warmly in other times,
and under other circumstances. Upon a
commanding slope a hundred yards
north of General Grants tomb, staff
officers and aids drew rein beneath
clump of spreading trees. Meantime
helmets were glistening and plumes
waving over the slope to the southwark.
The trappings upon many horses shone
in the sunlight. Cannon and limbers
drawn by horses that were ridden by
artillerymen, came over the brow or the
southern slope and orderlies galloped to
and fro and sabres and requirements
clattered and ratified. Regulars and
marines with light battery T of the
Fifth Artillery were coming down the
drive. They marched out upon the
slope where Hancock's staff was halted,
and there the infantry and marines as
sumed positions of rest in the shade
and out upon the slope toward Clare
mont Hotel, which was covered with
black drapery. Mounted men with
piumed helmets, marines with the uni
forms of the tars, the United States Ma
rine corps with bright uniforms, saddled
horses with riders dismounted, but
holding their bride reins, Cook
cannon muzzles thrust from
behind the tower bend of the
hillocks, pyramids of stacked guns with
glistening bayonets interlocked along
the drive, solid walls of people upon the
curbing, lines of uneasy and bobblng
umbrellas, through the trees, vista OF
which the brown and rugged rocks of
the Palisade pierced the woods and
iotted above the river; the Hudson too
glistening and flowing in the sunlight,
so looked the scene northward from
the tomb. The 22d and 7sh regi-
ments marched up from the east and
down by the tomb, and were drawn up