The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-08-17
Cranka N Craul,s Fnneral

NEW YoRR, Aug. S-A feature of
tho day was the remarkable number
OF cranks along tho line Of the process
sion. They swarmed everywhere. One
at Chambers street and Broadway en-
deavored for half hour to join the
march and gave much trouble to
che police. His clothes were a
yellow muslin duster, blue
waistcoat end Brown trouge ra, On
his breast was q buli-dozeu bsdgee,
and around his neck AiOsary Of black
horn, terminating in 4 Urge white
ivory cross. The crank alternately
cursed tho policemen snd prayed on
his cross and Beads a club finaly
disposed OF him. Another crank wore
a waist-cOat made of tho stars and
striges, and displayed mourning on his
his hat, breast, shoulders, elbows,
and handkerchief In Union square,
the men whose boots Indicated New
Jersey mud and hgyseed were weep
ing copiOuslN 1T 10 H. NJ, snd on
three substqQeut occaa oug, when the
reporter pasged them, weeping mon
were not uncommon. Many OF them
wore pieChorlc Germans, Who probably
had not been IN tho country long
enough to be naturalized. JUet aDDvO
Union Square a nOllow-evCd man,
dressed in clerical suit OF shabby
black, intOned tho Episco-
pal burial service and the
LOrd'G Prayer To tho hmuse-
meat of 81 group e street Arabs. In
the neighborhoOu OF Broadway and
Franklin street, over 100 Cinnamon
from Mott stree wore I'm tho crowd,
Many OF them displayed tho mourning
cross pf the East, white aud violet. L.
Quong Fats lodging house, Ia Hark
street., near Baxter street, u portrait N
the dead was fastened 10 the
wall, and IN front OF it joss
sticks were burned 10 insure his
happy arrival in The next world. A
Respondent crank attracted much at
tenlion Mt Broadway and Leonard
street. From 4 sheet Of gold linael be
had fashioned himself hat-b8nd, col
lar, epaulets and irOusor stripes.
Those not sutiicing h8 rad sewod a
dozen lines and pieces OF tho tlnsel up
on his waislcOat. He might have
created awe, had u not BEEN tlr a card
attached Ia his back, Which,
in sprawling characters rcsd, "Gsneral
Tiffany" American enterprise
cropped out here and there. Ia thd
WY AAdlA pam tllAbb IllitiNlAi NI tAl
ers, with instantaneous Instruments,
"shOp every stage Of the proceedings.
Ono OF tho operators said TO the ro-
porter: "We have Instruments like
these oil along the lines, and belOyo
tomorrow night VIC will have the on
tire event In pictorial form. Window
spectators were, IN many instances
heavy losers. Az an carly hour an
army OF seated wagons, platformed
carts and vehicles that r0som bled trnv-
cling stopladders put in an appear
anco at almost every crossing. The
supply ut many points exceeded The
demand, and prices Toll accordingly
At noon broad seat on a high wagon
brought only a dime, whilU window
seats dropped Off to 81. All day long a
crowd OF respectfully drossed mon and
women fingered In tho park, looking
up ut the mourning decorations
and In through tho iron gates
Just after tho funeral IL was noticed
that little children and women took
out scissors, and, believing themselves
unO bserved, began to snip off bils OF
mourning drapery about the big stone
columns. When this was discovered,
the police again drove everybody away
out beyond the plaza. A woman, owl
IDENTIFY froml no country, was foremost
in the crowd that crossed tho Brooklyn
bridge at noon. She WAS caught In the
thrOng and carried along with 10
ACROSS Chatham street 10 She foot OF
the elevated road stair8. Slowly she
assembled the staircase, and WNa about
20 pas by tho tlcEet-bOK, whom tho ut
tendanta stopped her. "DrOp your
ticket hore, please" al haven't any
ticket" she sail. "Have 20 buy ono,
thOu." al didn't know you charged
anything TO geo him. "See who2'
"General Grant. Isu't ho lying horo?'
"Thls IL the twentieth umo / have
been asked that" remarked theucket
talier. "Ono man CamOin horo 40 mid
nigAt last night with large fora
wreath and wanted to put 10 Oh
che coffin. He said no had PAID
man 81 for permission TO 70
up those stairs. There Is nc
doUbt that a lot of rascals made u nice
thug by selling places IN tho liuo At
tho foot oy these stairs TO country
people. We mover hAd any
ono arrested. We arc MOI expected
TO DO tioket.takors, detectives and 20,
hcemon, hope, on the salaries we Ret
The people got mixed in the similarity
between tho names of places. CitS
Hall station sounds enough ike CITY
HAL park % fool most any ono whI
doesn't live hore. Probably the hos
Giro ulated document of all tho print
and badge presented to the 25IOO
people that viowed General Grants re
mains as they lay in state wer
leevel Of the New Testament
untirlngly handed out by younl
evnngolista, who stood along Cham
bers street, More than 100 copies o
the testament were delivered by thi
single sheet process. What must hay
been highly gratifying was the fsc
that rarely was a lear thrown unde
foot, but, II not read while on the sloN
march, was carefully folded and pu
away. Perhaps tho solemnity OF IN
occasion procured such marked n
suita for these leaves OF holy writ
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