Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1885-08-12

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Hodges summoned the pall-bearers to their
drawn by six horses, was called up to the
door next, but it had fully an hour to wait.
The President had sisnifed his intention
to ride with Secretary Bayard. In antici-
patton of his coming an enormous crowd,
| which the police found it difficult to man.
age, gathered opposite the hotel-entrance
on Twenty-third street, and yells of 'Here
they come" went up every time a delega-
cation of the Grand Army veterans, guber-
material delegation, or committee of
State delegates, who burrowed in the big
hotel, apparently in countless numbers,
came out.
The Grant family were quietly gathered
in their parlor overlooking the Square, and
strangers were rigidly excluded from the
halls leading to their rooms. Mrs. Grant
had not arrived, and it was announced that
she would not attend the funeral, but had
concluded to stay at Mount McGregor.
She was reported by DR.. Newman to be
still weak and ill, though not confined to
her bed The party gathered at the hotel
ready to take carriages for their position in
| the parade when the column should have
advanced so far as to permit the carriages
to fall in line from the hotel, were Colonel
and Mrs. Fred. Grant, Mrs. Sartoris, Mr..
and Mrs. U. S. Grant, Jr., Mr.. and Mrs.
Jesse Grant, Mr.. Cramer Mrs Dent Miss
Cramer, General Creswell, Mr.. Stephen L.
Moriarty. Senior Romero, and Mr.. W. J.
Arkell, members of the party, who from
time to time appeared at the windows. AS
the head of the column began to move up
past the hotel the bands, playing as they.
passed, were the object of general atten-
ton on the part of multitudes gathered in
! the square.
| At 9:25 the imposing funeral car drawn
by twenty-four jet-black horses in black
trappings, halted on the plaza directly in
front of the City Hall. Inside the CORR
doris Commander johnson was waiting
| Columns in position, right and left"
was his command. Veteran guard of
honor were erect. cliff remains" was
| the next command, in clear but low tones.
Twelve men stopped to the silver rails
with gloved hands. "March'' was the
word, and the body moved. Out upon the
portico were borne the remains, Com
mander johnson Immediately at the head.
Down steps with measured tread and across
the open space to steps of black and the
waiting car. Commander johnson stepped
ASIDE Silver mountings glistened as the
burial case and its burden were carried up
and placed upon the dais upon the mounted
catafalque.
| At 9:20 President Cleveland called his
| Cabinet together, and arrangements were
made for the order in which they were to
leave the hotel to take their places in the
procession. The hands on the clock in front
of the hotel pointed to five minutes after 10
when General Hancock and General Shaler
rode under the windows at the head of the
big procession. The sun was reflected from
| the maze of glittering golden uniforms of
their staff as it trooped on behind, followed
| by the regulars who, in passing, reversed
arms, while the bands played mournful
dirges. Along the line ofthe avenue, where
| the troops of the First division of the Ma
| tional Guard were drawn up, guns were
| brought to a present as the General passed.
| The regiments of the First division stretch
ed southwark from near Twenty-eighth
street in continuous line on the east side
of Fifth avenue and inside the streets, the
Second battery, Captain Earle, mounted,
but without guns, occupying the extreme
right. On the west side of the avenue a
continuous line of Grand Army organiza-
| tiOns extended down as far as it reached
| Between these files of CT izen-soldiers-one
side in uniforms and in arms, ready to do
| battle for their country and confidently
| looking toward the future; the other battle
Scared and worn, its work done, and proud
| ly looking backward over the heroic past,
passed the long procession with yelled flags
and muffied drums, and arms reversed in
sadness. The great silent throng watched
| it go by from the street and square, from
windows, house-tops, balconies and perches
| that seemed hanging in the air, so daringly
had they been thrustforward from the build
ipgs by sight-seers, anxious not to miss the
memorable pageant.
l Thnrn Ira Of nd
in sight, and how the police made way for
the carriages, military, and marching thou
sands in citizens dress seemed iucompre-
hensible. But they did.
| After the President, Cabinet, Judges of
the Supreme Court, senators and members
of the House of Representatives, Governors
and their stats, ex-Presidcnts, foreign
ministers. diplomatic officers, and represen-
tatives of the army and navy had passed the
procession began to break up. Veteran and
civic organizations left Fifth avenue by the
streets between Fifty-third and Fifty ninth
streets, and gradually fell out of line.
| When Information reached Riverside Park
| that the procession had begun to move the
naval vessels in the river on line with the
park were signalled, and salutes were fired
by the dispatch Powhatan, Omaha,
Swatara, and Alliance-the guns of one YES
i
preceding one ceased.
After the undertaken had tried the keys
One for the casket and one for the outer
door of the tomb-he handed them in bag
| OF black velvet to Park Commissioner Cum
minis, to be in turn handed to General Han
cock, and by him to Mayor Grace, who will
again coudde them to the care and custody
of the Park Commissioners. The strains of
the approaching procession were family
audible before the final touches were put to
the casket of steel and the temporary tomb.
| From monday for hours into the after
noon the vicinity of the tomb and Riverside
Park was the scene of discomfort for the
waiting thousands. Heat followed the cool
of the morning, and succeeding hours add
ed heat and hundreds and thousands of peo-
| pie. The latter suffered much in this cramp-
ed position of waiting in the blazing sun
shine.
| The steel case rested within the tomb up
on two marble blocks % feet high, feet
| wide and IS inches thick. Similar marble
| blocks had been sunk in the floor, flush
| with the surface, and upon there the re-
mains of Mrs. Grant are expected to repose.
| Soon after o'clock drum beats and the
| blare Of trumpets was heard from the lower
end Of the park. carriage came in view.
| In it was General Hancock. He was the
only occupant, and stood erect. Trooping
behind him, on horseback, were the men,
bers of his staff. The General rode to a
point near the tomb, when he alighted. He
was met by Superintendent Murray, Com
missioner Cummins, and others of the Park
| Board. General Hancock's staff and aides
swept past Among them were General
Fitzhugh Lee. aud General Gordon, both
exc Confederate Generals. They wore sashes
of gray silk. Upon the commanding slope,
one hundred yards north of General Grants
tomb, the staff officers and aides drew rein
beneath clump of spreading trees. Mean
| time helmets were glistening and plumes
were waving over the slope to the south
ward. The trappings upon many horses
shone in the sunlight. Cannon and limbers,
drawn by horses that were driven by artil-
| lerymen, came over the brow Of the south
ern slope. Regulars and marines, with
Light-Battery F., of the Fifth artillery,
were coming down the drive. They march,
ed out upon the slope where General Han
cocks staff was halted, and there the in
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