St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-07
The Remains of Gen. Grant Lying in State
in New York, Surrounded bya
Guard Of Honor.
Thousands Of People Form in Line at tht
City Hall to Gaze Upon the Illus
trious Dead.
incoming Trains Heavily Loaded
With Human Freight to Pay the
Last Tribute
PERSONS From All Parts of the Coun.
try Floclxing to the Crowded
Metropolis.
VicNvfne the IPemnins.


NEW YORK, Aug. G.-People loitered in
City Hail park all night, and soon after G
O'Clock this morning began filing past the
remains of Gen. Grant, where they lay in
the city hall. Two lines of policemen were
placed across the plaza from the city hall
to the fountain. These two lines formed a
passage way through Which four men might
walk abreast. All within the gloomy cor
ridors was in readiness. Outside on the
top step of the city hall and in the middle
of the channel Of officers to the fountain
stood big, brawny police officer. He
would act as a wedge to split the current of
the people and send them in lesser streams
through the gates where they should flow
past the caSket a. detailed. Ten or twelve
hundred people had iammed up against the
officers who barred the channel at the edge
OF the fountain circle. but when the gates
swung open the officers ceased to hold the
people in check and the stream began to
flow past the remains and through the
building. The first person to view the
remains to-day was a spare but Sweet-faced
little woman who led with each hand lit
tie boy. She was anxious her children
Should see the generals face, and the chill
dren were permitted 10 halt an instant and
gaze over the side OF the casket and peer
into it. y little boOtblack with his box Oh
his shoulder came along to see
THE DEAD GENERAL.
His face shone and his hair had been
freshly wet and smoothed out 10y the foun-
tain. Many women came, too, and they
caused delay. They must needs examine
every detail and would fain put their noses
to the flowers. Men and boys and wan
faced women with lunch baskets OF dinner
pals filed along. At $40 the running aver
age per minute was 81 and the total then
passed was between ,, 700 and ,. 800 persons.
The channel was even full. with no clogging
or crowding. The hour from to 7 O'Clock
was employed by working men and women.
boys and girls in viewing the remains They
were on the way to work. After Z o'clock
the line changed as 10 its personnel. There
we're less women and girls; they had gone
through and were at work, when the line
began 10 iengthen. At S o'clock there was
another change taking place i'll the COM
pCXiCn Of the visitors. The labOrerS had
gone: the clerks coming down We're stepping
from elevated and surface ears into the line
that was moving then at the rate of 10 and
120 per minute. The police were reinforced
at s o'clock. The guards at the casket were
Fastening the people: $50 per minute were
being hurried through. Every car and train
coming down town added its quota to those
anxious TO look upon the face of Gen. Grant.
BY the remains the i. S. Grant post had
mounted
ANOTHER DETAIL
of thirteen men, and some of the men of
Wheeler post of Saratoga. which first
mounted a guard about the Mt. McGregOl
cottage after the generals death, were stand
ing at the foot of the caSlet, while mem
bers of the military order of the Loya
Legion were likewise represented. Rapidly
the people were augmenting. The crowC
was fast becoming a thromg. At II O'Clock
between 80, 900 and 81, 600 persons haC
passed the caSlet and looked toward the re-
mains. though many coming i'll from the
bright sunlight were scarcely able to dis
tinguish them in the Sombre shadows of the
black draped corridor. The floral otferins
of the board of aldermen was set up during
the morning beneath the rOtunda dome
where the light Streamed down upon it
The central column rose ten feet. and was
flanked by stands of cOlorS while the base
was bed of ferns and palms, among whicl
were placed huge rows of white buds. a.
the morning wore on to midday NOR,
women, young and old, appeared in the
line OF visitors. Many carried little hand
bags and some had been shopping, ant
their discomfort was increased by the carr
of parcels and packages. Observers con
cluded quickly that these had come from
hamIetS ard towns in the outlying country
Farmers there were in the line undoubtedly
and many had come to town with entire
families of children, in order that in year,
to come they might have it to say that they
had seen the remains of Gen. Grant. Tn,
increasing heat had melted the ardor o
many who had secured places in the line
and not a few dropped out.
Att o'clock tonight the crowd wa
stopped, and the corpse was left in charg
Of thirteen veterans of Grant Post No. 237.