Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-08-13
Representatives of the Governor of Indiana,

two carriages.
General Franklin, Presid dent Of the Soldiers
Home, one carriage
| Board of Indian Commissioners, two car
Mayor and Representatives of the City o.
Mayor and Common Council of New York
City. thirty i've carriages
Mayor and Common Council OF Boston, siz
Delegation from ST. Louis, ten carriages
Mayor and Common Council of Hartford
Mayor and Common Council of New Haven
two carriages.
| Mayor and Common Council of Jersey City
twelve carriages.
Mayor and Common Council of Elizabeth
three carriages.
| Order OF the Cincinnati, five carriages.
| Wheeler and Grant Post, g. A. R., four car
riaSes.
I FALLING INTO LINE
| The catafalque passed Twenty third Street
that had preceded it was settled as it passed
by, and all heads were uncovered. Many
who had been pushed forward to the ecu, curb
| and stood there wedged in, essayed vainly
to kneei with tears streaming down her
| wrinkled face She was held fast by the
crowd and could not stir. On single tele-
| graph pole on the corner of Broadway and
Twenty third Street were perched not less
than twenty eight spectators. As soon as
| the catafalque had passed, the carriages con-
tanning Colonel Fred Grant, his wife and
fell quickly In line without confusion.
/ VETERANS.
| Almost the last carriage had wheeled into
line at Twenty third street when one fell in
| behind containing officer with a broad
| gold band across his breast Two crutches
| stood up in the carriage beside him and pro-
| claimed his name, as the gold scarf had an :
nounced his rank. He was Major General
| Daniel Sickles
| carriage there trOd a seemingly endless army
| with banners, without show, or gold, or gilt
gait and the SCARED faces that stirred men s
minds, as they passed, with deep and strong
emotion. These were the dead heros COM
rades, who shared his danger on the field of
battle, had marched behind his victorious
| banners over many a road, and now walked
him to hi ibis resting
they walked once more together. They were
old men, most of them, but they walked
some carried canes, more walked with out
support Of any kind. All had their badges
on the left arm. Their tattered banners were
yelled in black and many. posts carried as
! green's on their breasts.
The procession seemed amending, stretch
| ing south far the eye could reach. The
with people, and as the right of the column
| approached the tomb, the dull reverbera-
| tions of the guns from the men. of war
! could be heard, and the troops broke col
umn from the left, marching to the right or
| east side of the road. After forming in line,
slowly passed.
WAITING AT THE TOMB.
From noon on for hours in the afternoon
the vicinity of the tomb and Riverside Park
was the scene of discomfort for waiting
thousands Heat had followed the cool Of
| morning and the succeeding hours added
heat and hundreds and thousands of people.
The latter suffered much in their cramped
positions of waiting in the blazing sunshine.
car was a long way off and moving slowly.
Beneath fir tree at the crown of the knoll,
rested small charcoal furnace, and near it
case in which the easket. and re-
Down the slope nearer the vault was a
portable furnace such as is used by work
men for heating bolts. In a group near by
fast the caSket within which both coffin and
cedar box shall finally be preserved The
two and a half feet high, three feet wide and
eighteen inches thick. similar marble blocks
surface, and upon those the remain - of Mrs.
Grant are expected to repose. Many per
where the steel receptacle was waiting tn g
body then being borne up town:
Soon after one O'Clock drums beat and the
blaze of trumpets.was heard from the lower
end of the park. A carriage came in view.
In it was General Hancock. He was the
only occupant, and stood erect. Trooping
bers of his staff The General rode to .
xas met the By
d the rarF Beard Ten "9 eee
Lee and General Gordon, whom
other times and under other circumstances.
Upon a commanding slope 100 Yards north
of General Grants tomb the staff officers and
aids drew rein beneath clump of spread
ing trees. Meantime, helmets were gIisten-
Ing and plumes were waving over the slopes
many horses shone in the sunlight; cannon
and li1nbers, drawn by horses that were rid
the southern slope and orderlies galloped to
and fro and sabres and accoutrements ciat-
tered and ratified.
APPROACHING THE END.
The regulars and the marines, with a light
down the drive. They marched ont upon
the slope where Hancock's staff was halted,
positions of rest" In the shade and out
upon the slope toward the Claremount Ho-
st msd
liners with the uniform of the tars; the Uni
ted states Marine Corps with bright
dismounted, but holding their bride reins.
cannon muZzles thrust from behind the
lower bend of the hillock; pyramids of
stacked guns with glstening bayonets inter-
locked; along the drive solid walls of peo-
pie upon the curbing; lines of uneasy and
in which the brown and rugged rocks of the
palisades pierced the woods and jutted
and flowing in the sunlight. so looked the
scene northward from the tomb.
The Twenty second an seventh Regiments
marched up from the east and down by the
tomb and were draw up in line on the brow
of the bluff overlooking the river. The line
reached beyond view from the tomb around
the slope The two regiments stacked arms
and were mt rest. so near the ledge of the
cliff We're the regiment drawn up that the
hundreds of men in bright uniforms formed
line of lhouettes against the sheen of the
broad river, in which the afternoon sun was
rnf Su1dpnlv q hDnmp1
the water and Il cloud OF blue and white
smoke puffed over the stream The Pow
haitian lying down under the bluff, had fired
the first of u salute. Hills were calling back
in echoes and the guns of the other war YES
sells IN the river anon snoO< the bluff and
stan ted the echoes fiyins in the woods ON the
Jersey hills
Three and four clock passed. The tomb
yet waited: But there came busle call from m
trumpets, and soon the sound of muffled
drums. Carriages came into view and rolled
Newman and Bishop Harris occupied the
first, and then the CLERGY, and then Drs.
Douglas, shrady and Sands The bearers
beside General Sherman, and Buckner and
Sheridan were paired, while General Logan
and ex-Secretary Boutwell, followed. Dis
tin yuished men came also beside these. The
bearers and those invited alighted and took
places near the tomb: Then Dayid. s Island
into view, while behind the black plumes
the funeral car could be seem
AT THE TOMB.
The car stopped abreast the tomb, the
casket. Colonel Beck formed his two com
panies of escort into hollow square be-
| tween the tomb and the hearse. The family
carriages had drawn near. Their occupants
aiighted and took positions near the foot of
the steps of the car. So they stood while the
casket was being removed from the car, and
when it was borne into the hollow square
toward the vault the relatives followed lin
this order; Colonel Fred and wife Mrs. sar-
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