Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-08-12

the preserved marching spaces were
swept back like reeds before the floods.
Men were thrown down and women
tainted, and policemen frar tically strug-
gled to preserve the open ground, pro-
tect the people, and save themselves at
the same time. There was little ap-
pearance of the funeral while the reg
ulars were passing. The flood had
come unexpectedly, and there was tur-
MOL and contention, and mad rushes
to and fro and fighting for points of ad-
vantage, and overwhelming curiosity
to see the regular soldiers and sailors
The parade of these branches of the
defenders of the country was the
grandest ever made in time of peace,
and probably in any other time. There
were about $50 soldiers, 400 marines
and 1000 sailors. The latter were from
the Tennessee, the Vermont, the Oma-
ha and the Minnesota. To-day, with
their white duck and blue flannel,
clean and fresh, they looked much bet
ter than on last Wednesday, when they
were soaked through with rain and be-
draggled with mud.
Gen. Hancock in full uniform, wear
ing his big gold -epaulets and broad vel.
low scarf, and mounted upon his black
stallion, is as martial figure as the
democratic republic can furnish. No
handsomer man or better rider eyer sat
a rearing and plunging horse. With
the passing of Hancock and the regu
lars of the army and navy the inter
ests ceased, for there came wait of
over half an hour. The regulars had
been too prompt for the militia, and
had left them couple of miles behind
All this time the Twedty-second regi-
ment was drawn up in two lines, facing
the Fifth Avenue hotel and holding
back the people, waiting to wheel into
line at the head of the first division of
state troops.
PASSING MADISON SQUARE.
At 1915 the state troops began pour
ing into the square, and the handsome
Twenty-second, in white coats and tu-
MICS and helmets, swung into place, and
the great march began again, to be al
! most unbroken for six hours, during
which time nearly or quite sixty thous-
and people in movement passed through
| the hundreds of thousands massed in
Madison square. Hour after hour the
moving mass passed, regiment after
regiment, brigade after brigade, regi-
ments in white and regiments in blue
and regiments in gray-caps, hats,
| helmets, turbans, shakos and hussars.
The uniform of America, of England,
of Germany, of France; the baggy scar
| let breaches of the Turks, the green
plumes of Ireland, the long, dropping
feathers of the Italians, Union blue and
Confederate grey, the colors of almost
every nation on earth, even China, with
| her violet and white, the mourning col
ors of the Orient, horse, foot and artil-
lery, civic, public and private; music OF
muff1ed drums, of brass bands, of bag
pipes, of flies and cynlbals; and SC
through the long hours the mighty
pageant passed by. All the conditions
and circumstances were colossal.
| THE MUSIC.
| A great deal the most impressive
feature of the event was the vast
silence. 1t was comparatively absolute.
No matter how softly the mutfled
drums were rolled you could hear them
squares away. The only heavy sound
was the rumbling of the cannon wheels.
When the band of the Third New
Jersey regiment passed by, playing
"Nearer My God to Thee,' the sweet,
solemn strains were distinctly audible
far up Fifth avenue, many squares
beyond where they would have been
lost in the noise of an ordinary day.
The wailing sound of the flies of the
Fourth Connecticut drum corps, play
ing the sad, sweet notes of ''Pleyels
Hymn could be heard almost from
the time they swung into Fifth avenue
from Fourteenth street. The drum
corps of the Sixth New Jersey band
played "Flee as Bird to tho Noun
tain.' and the band of the Continental
Foot Guards of Massachusetts, played
"Sweet Spirit, Hear My Prayer
THE INTERESTING MOMENT.
1t was o'clock when the catafalque
passed through Madison Square. Il
was the moment Of the day. For thai
all waited; about that all interes
centered; from that all radiated ant
in fluences reaching to deeper anc
holier depths of human emotion thar
all the music, all the trappings of grief
or all the vast display could 60. There
was a long break and open space
before the car of death, and the sus
pense in the presence of that advance
was almost painful. Down that ope1
channel between the living banks
could be seen the great black plume
upon the funeral car approaching; thu
purple of the casket contained all tina
is mortal and perishable of Gen. Grant
Around it the guns of the guards
shone. At every moment, from thu
pavement to rooftree, 10000 face
gazed upon it. In the deep silence
broken only by the rumble of tn
wheels, the regular cadence of march
ing feet, the slow music of the dirg
timing the step of the advancing thou
sands. With the passing of the cata
falque, interest perceptibly lessened an
there was melting away of the crowt
in the rear of the solid lines that face,
the curbstones
AT THE TOMB.
From noon day on for hours into tn
afternoon the vicinity of the tomb an
Riverside park was the scene of discom
fort for thousands waiting in the blaz
ing sunshine. Beneath fir tree at tn
crown of the knoll rested small char
coal furnace, and near it were the tool