Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1885-08-13
IT'S OVER. "THE FEVER CALLED
LIVING is CONQUERED
AT LAST"
The North Honors Her Most Illustrious
Son. The South, the Magnanimity
ofthe Victor. Reconciliation is
Complete in Mutual Sorrow.

Morn Of toll nor night Of waking"
A little after one o'clock on the morn
ing of the 8th of August 1885 the un-
dertaker screwed the coffin lid fast up
on the face of General Grant. At $50
o'clock Col. Hedges summoned the Pail
Bearers to their carriages. The Presi-
dents carriage drawn by six black horses
was driven i'm front of the 5th Ave HO-
tel but it had fully an hour to wait. In
anticipation of his coming out, an enor-
nous crowd, which the police found it
difficult to manage, gathered opposite
the hotel entrance on Twenty-third
street, and yells of "Here they come"
went up every time q delegation of
Grand Army veterans, q gubernatOrial
delegation or committee of state dele
gates, who burrowed in the big hotel,
apparently in countless numbers, came
out.
THE GRANT FAMILY
were quietly gathered in their parlors,
overlooking the square, and strangers
were rigidly excluded from the hall
leading to their rooms.
Col. and Mrs. Fred ID. Grant, Mrs.
Sartoris, Mr.. and Mrs. U. S. Grant, Jr.,
Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse Grant, Mrs. Cra-
mer, Mrs. Dent, Miss Cramer, Gen.
Creswell, Mr.. Stephen L. Moriarity,
Senior Romero, and Mr.. w. j. Arkell
composed the party.
At 1910 precisely the Grant family
came out the ladies' entrance in the
Fifth Avenue Hotel and took their car
riages.
As the carriages received their occu-
pants they rolled away toward the
avenue and remained there, closely
wedged in, and waiting for their turn
in the line. They had been waiting
more than quarter of an
hour before Pres. Cleveland came out
and took his seat in his carriage with
Sec. Bayard. A four-horse carriage
that followed received Vice. Pres. Hen
bricks and his private Secretary, Hugh
East. Ahead of them had gone a num-
ber of carriages, following the Grant
family, in the following order; Mrs.
Rawlins Holman, daughter of Gen.
Grants friend and" first Secretary of
War; the Generals old staff, in four
carriages; his cabinet officers in four
carriages; detaehmcnts from Wheeler
and U. S. Grant posts, G. A. R., in
four carriages; Mr.. J. M. Drexel and
member of the Aztec club, survivors of
the Mexican war. Next came the
Presidents carriage, the Vice President
and the Cabinet in five carriages, the
members of the Supreme Court; United
States Senators, the House Congresion-
al Committee, in a score of carriages;
the committee of the State Legislature
in 80; ex-Presidents Arthur and Hayes,
and the member of their cabinets, then
the foreign ministers and diplomatic
and Consular officers under Gen.
Grants administration. These filled
ten carriages.
Then came the representatives of the
different departments of the National
Next came the Governors
of States, with Stats, and then the rep
ofvarious cities.
The catafalque passed twenty-third
street at o'clock sharp. The hum of
that had preceded it was
settled as it passed by. and all heads
were uncovered. Many heads were
bowed, and an old negro woman who
had been pushed forward to
the curb and stood there wedged in, es-
sayed vainly to kneel, with tears stream
ing down her wrinkled face. She was
held fast by the crowd and could not
stir. On single telegraph pole, on the
corner of Broadway and Twenty-third
street, were perched not less than %
spectators. As soon as the catafalaue
had passed, the carriages containing
Col. Fred Grant, his wife and sister fell
in, and mourners' coaches fell quickly
in line without confusion.
Both Mr.. Cleveland and Mr.. Hen
bricks had tired of the long wait after
sitting in their carriages, stared at by
the curious crowd till 11:30, and retired
to their rooms in the hotel. They OBJ
served the parade from their windows,
and did not again come out until the
had passed the hotel. Their
carriages had remained at the door.
Secretaries Endicott and Manning,
whose carriages followed the Vice Presi-
'l-nt's remained in their seats, and the
''riler cabinet ministers, who rode in
,irs, did the same. almost the last
r.trriage had wheeled into line atTwen-
ty-third, when there fell in behind one
containingan officer with broad gold
band across his brest. Two crutches
stood up in the carriage beside him and
proclaimed his name, as the gold scarf
had announced his rank. He was Mai.
Gen. Daniel Sickles. Following behind
the crippled veterans's carriage, there
trod a seeming endless "army with ban
ners," without show or gold or glitter,
but with the armless sleeves, the limp
ing gait and the scared faces that
stirred mems minds as they passed
with deep and strong emotion. These
were the dead hero's comrades, who
shared his danger on the field of battle,
had marched behind his victorious BAN
ners over many road, and now walked
with him to his last resting places
many of them soon to follow. Sadly
yet proudly they walk once more to
yether. They were old men most of
them, but they walked bravely, and
kept up with the youngest. Some car
ried canes, more walked without sup
port of any kind; all had their badges
tied with Grape, and wore bows of Grape
On their left arm. Their tattered ban
ners were yelled in black, and many
posts were veiled in black, and many
posts carried as distinctive badges sprigs
Of myrtle or evergreen on their breasts.
The procession seemed unending.
southwark as far as the eye
could reach the streets all the way to
The tomb were packed with people and
rs the right of the column approached
The tomb the dull reveiberations of the
guns from the men-of-var could be
heard and the troops b.oke column
rom the left, marching to the right, or
east side of the road. After forming in