The National tribune., 1885-08-13
OBSERVANCE ELSEWHERE.
Imposing Funeral Services I'm Every Part OF
the Country and in Foreign Lands.

Imposing Funeral Services I'm Every Part OF
the Country and in Foreign Lands.
There were special memorial services and
exercises at all the cities and large towns of
New Jersey on the 9Th. Conspicuous among
the audiences at all these places were the COM
rades of the Grand Army.
AT Utica, Troy and Chautauqua, N. Y, ap-
propriate services were held.
In Washington there was very general sus-
pension of business. At the Metropolitan
Church memorial services we're held, the pew
formerly occupied by Gen. Grants family being
draped with the American flag bordered with
mourning.
In Philadelphia there was a general sus-
pension of business, and at the other cities and
towns in Pennsylvania the day was observed
with sOlemnity.
AT st. Louis over 10000 persons marched in
line past the old Dent mansion, where the Gen.
eral and Mrs Grant were married in 1913. 1t
had been deliberately draped for the occasion.
The parade finally halted in Lucas square,
where addresses were delivered by the Mayor
and other prominent men.
In Chattanooga, Tenn, the flags were draped
in mourning and at l o'clock in the day
there was d general suspension of business.
In the procession many ex-Union and Exon
federate soldiers marched side by side.
At Knoxville and other cities in the State
services were also held.
At Boston Sabbath quiet reigned all over
the city, and mourning emblems were exhib-
tied to an extent never known before.
At Atlanta the church and fire bells were
tolled in honor of the dead soldier, and the
Legislature adjourned.
At Savannah memorial services were held.
Flags were at half-mast, and artillery doomed
from sunrise to sunset.
At Leavenworth Kan, memorial services
were held. notable figure in the procession
at this place was 19-year-old horse, which
was once owned by Gen. Grant.
At Augusta, Me-, Hon. James G. Blaine de-
livered the grafton, which was listened to by a
vast concOurse of people.
At Lowell. Mass, Benz F. Butler delivered a
eHlogy on Gen. Grant, whom he spoke OF as a
soldier who had performed his duty with
fidelity, courage and determination.
In Baltimore memorial services were also
held. Half-hour guns were fired all day, and
at sunset there was a National salute of 80
guns. Throughout the entire State of Mary.
land the name of Gen. Grant was appropriately
honored
At Cincinnati, Cleveland, Wilmington, Del, !;
Indianapolis, New Orleans, Providence, Il. L.;
Charleston, S. c.; Raleigh, N. c.; Hartford,
Conn.,; Louisville, KY; San Francisco, Cal, and
in fact the whole length and breadth of the
land echoed the Nations mourning.
The observance of the day was not confined
y,
Mexico an eloquent eulogy was delivered by
the United States Minister Gen. Jackson, and
besides the American residents there many
prominent Mexicans attended the service.
In Paris memorial services were held at the
American Chapel. Many French officials and
the representatives of foreigS powers attended
the ceremonies.
NOTES.
The Governor of California was represented
by State Senator Clay w. Taylor, of San Fran
CISCO He rode with the Governor of West Vir-
ginia.
Gen. Sherman's stubby sandy hair has become
whitened with years, but he is as erect and
active as he was 20 years ago.
Lieut. Frank Z. Brownell, OF Cleveland, who
avenged the death of Col. Elmer Ellsworth at
Alexandria, was in attendance at the obsequies.
He is now on the retired list.
The members of the Grant family who at
tended the funeral remained at the Fifth Ave-
nue. Hotel until Tuesday, when they returned
to Mt. McGregor and joined Mrs. Grant, who
had remained there.
The ceremonies at the grave could only be
witnessed by a very small proportion of the vast
concourse of people assembled in the park
President Cleveland was jostled by the crowd
in quite a lively manner. He bore it with ex-
treme good nature, but when the echoes of the
salute had died away a passage was made for
MIN, anu ue ana Cne freSlu6uClal party went
on board the Despatch and sailed up the river.
An estimate of the number of people On the
streets and at Riverside Park on Saturday fixes
the number at 100000. Every State in the
Union, and almost every country in the world,
was represented. The South alone sent more
than 10000, and New York State New Jersey
and Pennsylvania 100000. Half million peo-
pie crossed the Brooklyn bridge.
Col. Henry c. Wright, of st. Louis, one of the
persons who assisted Gen. Grant to build his
log house on the Dent farm near that city, at
tended his old friends funeral. "There were
several of us who assisted the General" said
Col Wright, "and l am the only one now liv-
ing. can look back and remember it as if it
was but yesterday"
While the bolts were being riveted into the
steel coffin citizens who had managed to steal
thru lgh the line begged and tried to buy bits
of coal from the furnace at which the bolts
were heated pieces of burnt candle, rings of
rubber from the bolts, and even splinters of
wood from the box in which the bolts were
packed. They wanted them for relics.
During the day large numbers of the visitors
to the tomb were old veterans, a great many of
them clad in the uniform of the Grand Army,
with the badges reverently covered with Grape.
Among the cranks who visited the park at
the funeral was a woman dressed in white,
who said she had attended the funerals of Ma
poleon, Garibaldi, Theirs, and Garfield, and
now wished to enter the tomb Of Grant and
wet the coffin with her tears.