The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-08-12

SDAY. AUGUST /
seemed unending, stretching southwark as
far as theeye could reach. The streets all
the way to the tomb were packed with
people, and as the right of the column ap-
preached the tomb the dull revefberations
Of the guns from the men-of-wars could be
heard and the troops broke column from
the left marching to the right or east side
OF the read. After forming in line, arms
were presented and the catafalque slowly
passed.
EFFEcTs OF THE HEAT.
The crowd on Fifth avenue remained on
the sidewalks with remarkable persistency
until the long parade had passed. There
were a few cases of heat prostration In the
ranks, but as far as known none were fatal
Regimental ambulances were called INTO
requisitien for slight cases, perhaps hall a
dozen times. At the corner OF Fifty seventh
street, where the line turned to the west.
the crowd swelled from all sides to open the
way, and blocked the thoroughfare on
twenty occasions. There was some trouble
when the catafalque reached that point.
Everybody v was more interested in the ap-
proachof this than in any other part OF the
procession. It was watched Tor blocks
away, it's conspicuous height making 1T
plainly visible as far as about flftleth
street. As it neared the corner the crowd
naturally bulged into the highway and the
officers had to threaten with their clubs to
make the spectators recede, and it was a
difficult process. The people were standing
eight aEsa ten feet deep, and some of those
in fron6 had rahsed their umbrellas to keep
off thessun. Some women stood with abies
in their arms and fathers had hoisted their
little ones to their shoulders. The Obstruc-
items were numerous, and those at the rear
were becoming indignant, but as the cata-
falque moved the annoyance was forgotten
and only respect was felt as the leaders OF
the horses were ordered to do sweeping
turn and that was the only way in which
the interested gathering crowd could De
driven. back The peoplefell back from the
he rses as though spirit had apneo..su l4,.
ordered their retreat with spohtah!eoy
tba + fold their reverence. Every man raised
b;s hot a. the nrst horse came abreast OF
him Tund remained uncovered until the
body passed After the President, wee
President, Cabinet, judges OF the supreme
court. senators and members of the House
of Representatives, Governors and their
staffs. ex-Presideuts, foreign Ministers. dip
lomatic 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 between Fifty-third and Fifty
ninth streets and gradually fell out OF the
| line.
! = PREPARING FOR THE REMAINS.
From monday on for hours into the
Afternoon the vicinity OF the tomb and
| Riverside Park was the scene OF discomfort
| for the waiting thousands. The heat had
followed the cool Of the morning, and the
| succeeding hours added to the heat, and
hundreds and thousands of people suffered
much in their cramped positions OF waiting
| in the blazing sunshine. One O'Clock came
| and went, but the funeral car was yet a
| long way off and moving very slowly.
Beneath the fir tree at the crown OF the
knoll rested a small charcoal furnace, and
near it the tools and materials with which
| to seal the leaden lining OF the cedar case
| into which the easket and remains OF Gene
raj Grant would be placed. Down the
slope, nearer the vault, was portable fur.
mace, such as is used by workmen for forge
heating bolts In the group near by were
| five men. the mechanics who should rivet
| fast the steel casket within which both the
coffin and the cedar box should finally be
| preserved The steel case rested upon two
| marble blocks two and a half feet high
| three feet wide and eighteen inches thick
Similar marble blocks had been
sunk in the floor flush with the surface and
upon those the remains OF Mrs. Grant are
| expected to repose. Many persons were
permitted to peer into the tomb, where the
| steel receptacle was waiting for the body
| then being borne up town. Soon alter ]
! o'clock the drums beat and the blare o
| the trumpets was heard from the lower enc
| of the Park. A carriage came into view
In it was General Hancock. He was tht
| only occupant and stood erect; trooplns
behind him on horseback were the mem
bers of his staff. The General rode to
point near the tomb. When he a1ighted hi
was met by Superintendent Murray, Com
| missioner Cummings and others OF th'
| Park Board. General Hancock's staff ane
| aides swept past. There were among then
General Fitz Hugh Lee and General Gordon
whom General Sheridan once met 81
warmly in other times and under othe
circumstances. Upon a commanding slop
a.hundred Yards north OF General Grant
tomb the staff officers and aides drew rcli
beneath a clump of spreading trees. Mean
time helmets were gistening and plume
waving. Over the slope to the SOUTHWARK
the trappings upon many horses shone II
the sunlight The cannon and timber
drawn by horses that were ridden by al
tillerymen came over the brow OF the south
ern slope and orderlies galloped to and fro
and the sabers and accoutrements clattere
and ratified The regulars and marines
with light battery of the Fifth Artller
were
COMING DOWN THE DRIVE.
They marched out upon the slope, wher
Hancocks staff was halted, aad there tn
| infantry and marines assumed positions {
rest in the shade, and out upon the slop
toward the Clearmont Hotel. which wa
: covered with black drapery; mounted me
with plumed helmets; marines with the un
| forms of the tars the United States marin
corps with bright uniforms; saddled horse
with riders dismounted but holt
ing the bride reins; cannon mnzzles thrus
from behind the lower bend OF hlllock
? pyramids of stacked guns with ghtterl1
, bayonets interlocked along the drive; soh
r walls of people upon the curbing; lines
j. uneasy and bobbling umbrellas through tt
trees; vesta in which the brown and rugge
rocks of the palisades pierced tt
| woods and jotted above the river. The HUI
5 son, too, glistening and flowing in the SUI
/! light. So looked the scene northward frol
I the tomb. The Twenty second and Sevent
Regiments marched from the east an
down by the tomb, and were drawn up
line on the brow OF the bluff, over the rive
The two regiments stacked arms and We
| at rest; SO near IhH leuSe " oiie Jun :"
: the regiments drawn up that hundreds
! men in bright uniforms formed line
:. silhouetees against the sheen Of the broa
] river, in which the afternoon sun was
n fiected Suddenly gun doomed out ovt
e the water, a cloud OF blue and white smol
h pulled over. the stream. The "Powhattan
!. lying down under the bluff had fired tt
i first of salute. The hills were callil
= back in echoes and the guns OF the 9th
4 war vessels in the river anon shook tt
+ bluff and started echoes flying in the woo'
d in the Jersey hills.
NEARING THE TOMB.
Three and four o'clock passed. The ton
S yet waited, but there came bugle cs
n from the eastward at ago O'Clock; th'
; the strains from the trumpets, and th
= | CO.,, Al, % zo.,nd Of ,,,uHa ed drum Carriag