The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1885-08-20
SOLEMNLY LAID AWAY.
The Remains Of Americas Great Soldier
Rest in Their Narrow Home.
AFuneraI Pageant Such ms Was Never
Before Witnessed i'm
Country.
The Procession and at the Tomb.

New York dispatch: The crowd on Fifth
avenue remained on the sidewalks with re-
markable persistency until the long parade
had passed. There were a few cases ofpros-
tration in the ranks, but so far as known,
none fatal. The regimental ambulances
were called into requisitionfor slight causes,
perhaps half a dozen times. At the corner
Of Fifty-seventh street, where the line
turned to the west, the crowd swelled from
the side to the open way and blocked the
t~horoughfare on twenty occasions. There
was some trouble when the catafalque
reached that point. Everybody was more
interested in the approach of this than in
any other procession. 1t was watched for
blocks away, it's conspicuous height max
ing it plainly visible as far as about Fiftieth
street. As it neared the corner The crowd
naturally bulged to the sidewalk, and Off
GERS had to threaten with their clubs to
make the spectators recede, and it was a
difficult process. The people were standing
eight and ten deep, and some
OF those in the front rank had
raised their umbrellas to keep off the
sum- rays. Some women stood with babes
in arms and fathers had hoisted their little
OhO coiOhC1I OOoUl OlO WOlO
numerous, and those at the rear were be-
coming indignant. but as the catafalque
came up the annoyance was forgotten, and
only respect was felt. AS it was the leaders
OF the horses were ordered to make a
sweeping turn, and that was the only way
in which the interested gathering could be
driven back. People fell back from the
horses as though a spirit had appeared
and ordered a retreat. With a s~pontaniety
kl44 x@JI - xI4s-
raised his hat as the first horse came
abreast OF him, and remained uncovered
until the body had passed him.
After the president, the cabinet, judges
OF the supreme court, senators, members
OF the house OF the house of representa-
tives, governors and the stalls, ex-presi-
dents, foreign ministers, diplomatic officers
and representatives of the army and navy
had passed, the procession began to break
up. The veteran and civic organizations
left Fifth avenue by any OF the streets be-
tween Fifty-third and Fifty-ninth streets
and gradually fell out OF line.
From noon to-day on for hours into the
afternoon the vicinity of the tomb and
Riverside park was q scene OF discomfort
for the waiting thousands. Heat followed
the cool of the day and the succeeding
hours added heat, and hundreds and thou
sands OF people. The latter suffered much
in their cramped positions of waiting in
the blazing sun there. One o'clock came
and went, but the funeral car was yet a
long way off and moving very slowly. Be-
meath a fir tree at the crown of the knoll
rested a small charcoal furnace, and nearit
were tools and materials with which to seal
the leaden lining of the cedar case into
which the casket and remains OF Gen.
Grant should be placed. Down the slope
nearer the vault was a portable furnace,
such as is used by workmen for heating
bolts. In a group near by were five men,
mechanics, who should rivet fast the steel
easket within which both coffin and cedar
box should finally be preserved. The steel
case rested upon two marble blocks two
and one-half feet high, three feet wide and
eighteen inches thick. Similar marble
blocks lave been sunk in the floor, flush
with the surface, and upon these the re-
mains of Mrs. Grant are expected to re-
pose. Many persons were permitted to
peep into the tomb where the steel recep-
tacle was waiting the body then being
borne up town.
Soon after 1 o'clock the drnm's beat and
blare OF trumpets was heard from the lower
end of the park and a carriage came into
view. In it was Gen. Hancock. He was
the only occupant. and stood erect.
Trooping behind him, or horseback, were
the members of his staff. The general rode
to a point near the tomb, when he alighted
and was met by Superintendent Murray,
Commissioner Crimmins and others of the
park board. Gen. Hancock's staff and
aides swept past. There were among them
Gen. Fitz-Hugh Lee, and Gen. Gordon,
whom Gen. Sheridan met SO warmly, in
other times and under other circumstances.
Upon q commanding slope, a hundred yards
north Of Gen. Grants tomb, the staff Off
GERS and aides drew rein beneath a clump OF
spreading trees. Meantime helmets were
gfistening and plumes waving over the slope
TO the southwark; the trapping upon the
MANY horses shone in the sunlight, the can
non and limbers, drawn by horses that
we're ridden by artillerymen, came over the
brow of the slope, and orderlles gallopedto
and fro, and sabres and accoutrements clat-
tered and ratified. The regulars and
marines with light battery f OF the Fifth
artillery, were coming down the drive.
They marched out upon the slope, where
Hancock's staff were halted, and there the
infantry and marines assumed positions OF
rest in the shade and out upon the slope
toward the Claremont hotel, which was
covered with black drapery. Mounted
men with plumed helmets, marines with
the uniforms of the tars, the United States
marine corps with bright uniforms, sad
died horses, with ridders ~dismounted, but
hOlQlng Unelr Drlule Telu, hiO AhuIHiSo
thrus. rom behind the lower bend of hill
locks, pyramids of stacked guns with glis-
tening bayonets interlocked alongt the drive,
solid walls of people upon centering lines OF
bobbing umbrellas; through the trees a
vista in which the brown and rugged rocks
OF the palisade pierced the woods and
iutted above the river; the Hudson, too,
elinting and flowing in the sunlight. So
looked the scene northward from the tomb.
The Twenty-second and Seventh regiments
marched up from the east anddown by the
tomb and were drawn up in line on the
brow of the bluff overlooking the river.
The line reached beyond the view from the
tomb around the slope. The two regiments
stacked arms and were at rest.
A4:20 p. m. a s~trainfrom trumpets, and
soon the sound of muffled drums. The car
riages came in sight, and rolled slowly
through the park to the tomb. DR.. New
man and Bishop Harris occupied the first,
and clergy and then Drs. Douglas, Shrady
and Sands; the pail bearers came after
these. Gen. johnson rode beside Gen.
Sherman, and Buckner and Sheridan were
paired, then Gen. Logan and ex-Secretary
Boutwell, followed. Distinguished men came
also. The pail bearers and those invited
aliehted and took places near the tomb.
Dayid's island band playing Chopin's
saF,neral March" came next in view, while