New-York tribune., 1885-08-09
FROM THE TRIBDNES WINDOW.
ruc PICTURE PRESENTED IN THE FORE
.-ooN ny f,IIY HALL SQIIARE.

THE PICTURE PRESENTED IN IhE rONH
NOON BY CITY HALL SQUARE.
For all that goes on in front Of the City Hall no
finer po,nt of view can be found than that onereo
by the windows of The TRIBUNE ONCE oin's
wednesday morning the Park has been the scene Oh
a constant if noiseless activity The crowds have
now deserted II. At daylight Yesterday there were
hundreds of people standing in the walks gazing al
tho facade of the building which had acquired
new interest and beauty from the fact that IL
was Grants resting place. The police were on
hand and were vieilant but their services were not
needed for this was ordinary outdoor assem-
blace. II was made up Of quiet. orderly mouTheIs
who had come together 10 pay homage to tho deaa'
AS the morning advanced the crowd Increased
distributing itself as on the two previous days
around the fountain, on the benches under the
trees and in tho streets opening ".
the Park At O'Clock the booming OF
s,unal gun started the Federal troops up Broad
way. few minutes earlier General Hancock ana
his staff we're seen to ride up to the CITY Han anu
hold brief conference with the guard NJ the
catafaloue A little later the German LiederRranA
marched TO thcsieps of the building ans taxing
up position there sang an exquisite
frneral hymn. This tender and most
annrorriote tribute of respect and affection
served sensibly to deepen the soemnity OF the oc
casion The people in and about the Park listened
70 the music with close and respectful attention
and with faces bearing the impress OF sadness AT
precsey $50 at this point the interest and excite
,nent of the funeral scene eliminated III the arrival
of the car that was to bear all that was mortal
of General Grant 10 its final resting-piace
II entered tine Park from the east under the escort
of a company of infantry. and as II dicw up in
front of the City Hall steps the bells o old TRINITY
heran IN toll Al the same moment another company
of Infantry marched into the Park from the south
and formed in two lines on the steps leavn9 ane
ten or twelve feet wide between the lines Attor
deiay of not mere than five minutes tho CONN was
carried 10 the funeral car down this lane oil soldiers
preceded by representative clergymeh wearing
4 The picture was marvellously beautiful and i'm
rrcsslye. Just below on the plaza stool the car.
dark as n funeral scarf" an OBJECT OF majestic
Gloom with It's twenty four sable horses with thcI
4 bic trappngs In the PARK. IN Btoadway. iaIs ~
4 Row aud the contiguous streets were cioMuS -, y,
men women and children OF MI cOnGltlohs' ou'
4 evidently control ed by tho same SAD ieeing.
From the City Hall. from the ost once from tns M
Registers OfGc; from numpeIe,, nd es, 20 s,n
scores Of vessels aoat IN the North hivcT uu'teIe
flags at hali-mast On every SIDE were dlspiayeu
the dark habiliments OF woe W. i1''
4 grief had oyer;akcn the city. In Broad"ay com
panies of soldiers TO bc seen slowly maTchinl
TO solemn dIrges. And over al AS IL 10 conui '"'
& truth OF the poets assertion that
q @Nature laughs AZ our calamities.'
q shone the bright sun in a sky at unclouded blne
Ii was not until the funeral car had reached Broad
4 way that the assembage around the CITY nan
4 began to disperse. But with the disappearance o
the car and with the eazaton that IL was started
on ITS way TO the tomb the largest part OF the crowd
3 moved toward Broadway and was soon lost tc
Wow in the vasior concourse that lined the gea'
4 boronghfare Before noon the Park, which sine,
the hour when the City Hall opened lis doors ic
receive the ashes of the dead commander had liter
4 ally swarmed with people day and night was com
naratively deserted All through the day. however
groups of people. moet of them evidently strangers
we're to be seen pausing on tho plaza ana looAinI
at the building with eyes full OF respectful curiosity
They seemed 10 forget that II was the New or
CITY Hall; they remembered only that the deat
Grant had lain there.