Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-08-04
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GEN. GRANTS FUNERAL.
SERVICES AT MOUNT McGREGOR.
REV. DIR. NEWMAN'S SERMON.
ON MOUNT M'GREGOR.


The Last Day Upon the Mountain
Ushered I'm With Booming Guns-The
Private Funeral Services In Cloud.
land-Dr. Newman's SermOn-The De-
Parture OF the Funeral Train.
MT. McGREeoR, N. Y, August 4.-On the
mountain brow, by the eastern lookout, gun
doomed sullenly at o'clock this morning. The
artillerymen had begun firing thirteen guns to
mark the sunrise of Gen. Grants last day upon
the mountain. In quick succession and at
short intervals the guns were fired. Many
arose when aroused by the guns to learn the
weather outlook for the day. On the mountain
summit were thick gray walls of fog on every
mana. The valley was q blank sea, and the
slope OF the mountain summit disappeared be-
meath 1t for some distance. The pelting rain Of
the early night had ceased long before this
weird twilight in cloudland. From the hotel
be seen.
The morning crept on to 8 o'clock and again
the halt-hour gun doomed It's solemn token OF
breeze came up from the direction Of the Cats
Kills and famed openings in the low lying
e en% ana 9Th they began moving: The cottage
artists for illustrated papers were enabled to
catch their outlines. The soldiers received
orders to break up camp, and In less than 20
among the trees and were packed away in
boxes ready for shipment. Notwithstanding
Inc neavy and continuous rain Of the night the
had an abundant supply of dry straw to place
under their blankets, and the tent covers being
waterproof, they had little uneasiness from
Down on the mountain side at 5:45 o'clock q
6uge rang out on the still air; 1t was the assem-
bly, call for trumpeters. Fifteen minutes later
the buglers OF the four companies of troops were
sounding the reveille. and as the last strains
hoated over the mountain they were swallowed
up In the booming Of the gun that every half
hour through all the day will thus tell the val
ieys the significance of this day, and at sunset
es Mitn n Sa Then the sS
roll-call down where the battery of guns are
planted, close by the path of Gen. Grants last
the gun awoke clear echoes over the mountain
and down the slope. The puff of the heavy
air.
THE MORNING SCENES AT THE COTTAGE
The family at the cottage were astir AS the
morning touched 8 clock, and correspondents
and guests were moving at the hotel; The
Ing up people, and every hour thereafter the
little engine drew up at the depot. The funeral
car TO carry the remains from the mountain to
Saratoga came up early and lay waiting the
burden 1t should carry. The hustle OF an active
day had begun early.
had taken their final farewell Of the remains of
the dead general, and today they give up his
body to the nation: At O'clock the family,
return Colonel Grant and his his wife
and Mrs. Sartoris paused upon the ridge at the
scan the bright picture OF mountain and
valley, fresh fields and glistening leaves away
to the eastward, and then the family entered
the funeral journey. Maids and men servants
were busy, and SO was Stenographer Dawson,
E who was receiving closing suggestions from
remain on the mountain at the cottage
at Col. Grants request, Even this morning
when the family Were at breakfast at the hotel
determine to do: She had had her trunk
packed Yesterday in the event of her deciding to
60 with the remains, but her decision, if known
to herself, had not been shared with her family
he Grant cettsss oe Rsd
been ad thrown ., open and q stream OF visitors
nine O'Clock the head Of a long line OF buggies,
wagons, omnibuses and various kinds OF
vehicles appeared climping up the steep incline
the vicinity of the cottage was thronged with
horses and wagons and farmers with their
ARRIVAL OF DISTINGUISHED VISITORS.
At $3.50 train of two cars brought Gen. Han
cock and number of distinguished visitors, the
line to receive them. They proceeded from the
Gen. Hancock and Col. Jones, Admiral Rowan
Gen. Rufus Ingalls,, Senator Miller and Mr..
Joseph DrexeI, Gen. Hancock's staff, Miss
Drexel, her aunt and cousin, dressed in deep
mourning. On the same train came the Loyal
Legion, under Passed Assistant Paymaster
Gilbert A. Robinson Brevet Brig Gen. Charles
ton, Brevet Lieutenant colonels FLOYD s clarT i
son and Augustus NJ. Clark and Captain Ed
mund Blunt
THE SERVICES AT THE COTTAGE
At 10 o clock the services at the cottage were
held In the presence of over thousand per-
before the cottage Those who failed to secure
leafy shade used their umbrellas. The ceremo.
MES opened with the reading of Psalm No 80.
prayer by Bishop Harris. " The n'fi hymn.
" My Faith Looks Up to Thee" was Joined in by
the whole assemblage present with fine effect.
a sermon on the subject OF the dead general the
family meantime sitting about the remains in
the parlOr.
DR.. Newman's Sermon.
DR.. Newman read as his text Matthew XIV,
81: "Well done, thou good and faithful SER
want, enter thou into the joy of thy Lord" God.
he said, was ever in search for character,
which in His sight outweighs the transitory
distinctions of earth and time, and out of
which are the issues or life Recalling the
character of the fllustrious man whose
''Some cOmrade in arms shall speak Of the
splendor OF his martial genius; some statesman
snail review the majesty OF his civil adminiStra-
ton; some historian shall place him on the
pedestal of his renown; but let me- as the min
lister of religion, dwell upon that great charge
ter which Will ever be his crown of glory and
the imperishable heritage of the country he
loved so we'll"
Could you, he said, rend the veil that obscures
our mortal vision, you would see him in his
better form OF immortality; with all his mighty
faculties in full play, unchanged in his individ-
uality, the same calm, earnest, sincere soul,
purified and exalted and intent on the real
tiles of his better life. The doctor ana
and the elements OF the character of the dead
mortal. God had, he said, endowed him with
an extraordinary intellect. His was the genius
est in the presence Of the unforeseen eT6en
came an inspiration as resistless as the march
Of whiriwind, as when on the second night OF
the battle of the Wilderness, when he changed
the entire front of the line of BATTLE and quietly
my rear, am in his"
He is one Of the few men in history who did
more than was expected. Some men excite
great expectation by the brilliancy of their
preparations; but this quiet, meditative, un-
by doing more than he had promised, and by
doing what all others had failed TO do.
THE FOREMOST SOLDIER.
He spoke of Grants love Of peace, and said he
had saved bloodshed by shortening the time Of
the war and by the greater vigor of his attacks.
DOUBTLESS" he said, "he will be best known in
coming ages as the foremost soldier OF the re-
public. Unknown generations will read his
battles with wonder and admiration. In every
hamlet, In every metropolis, his martial form
will be cast In bronze and sculptured In mar.
Bile. Historians will vie with each other In pay.
Ing homage to his genius; but the time will
come when men everywhere will recognize the