Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-08-06
ON TO NEW YORK.
PROGRESS OF THE coRTEGE.

General Grants Remains viewed by 60, 900
People % Albany - Departure from the
Capital and Arrival a. New York.
lBy telegraph TO the Dispasch.l
ALBANY, n. Y, August Sup 10
10 o'clock this morning sixty thousand
persons had viewed the remains Of
General Grant. From early morning
throngs Of strangers who had found
places for watching the funeral process
non maintained their positions upon
steps and porticos and awnings and
curbstones. Guns were fred early and
all through the forenoon the heavy
booming at intervals bore to the crowds
the added suggestion of the occasion
that had drawn them together. IL is
estimated that one hundred thousand
strangers are in the old Dutch city.
Field pieces and limbers drawn by
powerful horses rolled through the
streets TO Capitol Park, aud mounted Of
fcerS and their trappings were eonspic-
uous in the streets. Business was par
tally suspended. A committee from
New York, about fifty members Of
which were present at the meeting this
morning. was presided over by ex-Gov-
ernor Cornell.
A letter from Mayor Grace was read
stating that the funds to provide for the
expenses Of the committee have been
obtained, and that the place in the fune-
raj procession from Forty-second street
to the City Hall had been assigned
them. The undertakers and emGAlm-
ers who have immediate charge Of the
body Of the dead General are alert,
and not little anxious to-day. The
jolting Of the body over the cobble-
stone payements on its passage
to the capital had no good effect.
The lower jaw Of the Generals
face is being kept in place, it is be-
lieyed, by strong rubber bands. The
face has CHASTITY appearance. Every
effort and means known to their craft
is being employed by the embalmerG
and undertakers 10 preserve the re-
mains in such condition as will make it
both possible and proper to display the
remains in New York. Those in charge
say that there is no doubt but this will
be done. But there is some ground for
apprehension. The remains will doubt
less be displayed to-day in the City
Hall, New York but obviously this is
contingent upon the care exercised in
Transporting the remains over the pave
mentS of New York. At 1920 o'clock
this morning the Capitol doors were
swung shut. The compact line Of
waiting visitors, which extended over a
block, was thus shut OIL, and those who
had entered were permitted to pass
rapidly out, when the State-street doors
were shut. None but the guard Of
honor from |. s. Grant Post, Wheeler
Post, Of Saratoga, and six men of the
military order Of the Loyal Legion, were
allowed to remain. The undertakers
now took charge, and, so far as pos
sblc, prepared the remains for the last
stage Of the journey. Outside the
Capitol building, in the park, the mill
taIy and other organizations (all of
which were named in yesterdays dis
patches were forming at their stations,
aud many companies were filing to the
side streets, from whence to move at
the word Of command.
TIE PROCESSION MOVES.
1t was halfpast ii when the great
doors Of the Capitol swung open on
the Stato-street side, and the guard of
honor from [. S. Grant Post were seen
by the waiting crowds with the re-
mains inside the corridor, At this
moment the funeral procession was
formed on state street, with the right
Of the first division on the street the
second division on State street, with
the right resting on Eagle street, and
the third division on the south side Of
State street. Slowly and TO the strains
of trumpets the regulars and guard of
honor moved out into the sun
light upon the upper steps Of the
Capitol, thirteen men touching the
caSket and 50 surrounding and almost
hiding It from view. The sombre car
was waiting at the foot Of the steps in
the street. Four men we're inside the
car, and assisted in lifting the remains
to the black dais within the mounted
catafalque. Then Colonel Beck and
Major Brown ranged their companies
of regulars on either side of the car.
The Grand Army guard took their pO-
sitiOns; trumpets rang out, and the
procession started at a measured pace
down State street, various organizations
falling in to form the procession, reach
ing Broadway amid the dull boom Of
cannon and tolllng and Ginning Of bells
in the steepleS. The march lay thrOuga
Broadway to Steuben street and thence
to the depot. Everywhere were dense
throngs.
on THE FUNERAL TRAIN.
The son, Of General Grant AMI their
companions Of yesterday were driven
TO the depot, where long black fune-
raj train was awaiting its burden.
Guns doomed while the remains were
beng placed IN the car WOodlawn,
and bells toled slowly. The commit
tee from New York entered their cars.
General Hancock and staff were
aboard, the regulars were quartercd,
and the great train was ready TO start.
1t the front of the funeral train as
il lay at Albany, snd while its burden
was being PLACED on 1t, was one Of the
monster locomotives that are ran on
the limited express Of the New York
Central. 70 say it was richly draped
aud perfect IN everything scarcely gives
an idea OF the labor expended upon it.
The train was constituted and occupied
a. follows:
First, locomotive; second. the
WoodlaWn," with the remains
thnd car, sons of the GeEerdl,
with Rev. Or. Newman and DR..
Douglas; fourth, General Hancock
end staff; fifth, Governor Hill and stat
and committees of the House and
Senate, twenty-five in number; sixth
and seventh, New York committee Of
one hundred; eighth, car OF public IN
formation ninth and tcnth, regulars
under command Of Colonel Beck and
Major Brown.
4 little pilot engine left Albany AZ