Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-08-08
ASST VIEW OF THE DEAD HERO.
Greatest Funeral Pageant OF Mod
eTn Times.

Urn AlIlltS.
SPECIAL Ia TELEGRAPH TO The E1coRD-US UNION
New YORK, August 7Jh.-The City Hail
sstes were closed at o'clock dis morning,
and the remains Of General Grant left
alone, watched by the guard of homer
Between and > O'Clock the. crowd had be.
come throne and i,s line reached from
me fountain along Park Row 10 Center
street turning the corner OF Chambers
street. Every train on the big bridge
brolsht recruits, who hurried across Chat
ham and Center streets 10 the point where
the loose crowd was being made into a solid
procession. Al the same relative hours
to-day there We're thousands more in the
stream than yesterday and the tacy was due
o. the belief and experience that the early
ones had yesterday the least time to wait.
50 it was that the early downtown cars.
between . and 9 o'clock brought hundreds
ID ladies' ami gentlemen, who had thought
20 be in advance Of the great crowd. The
City Hal. clock marked 5.2j o'clock when
iic covers from the caSi;et were it,el, and
&. Paul was tOlling 6 o'clock when the
iron gales We're thrown back The first 10
ia-5 through were, rs 0u yesterday, women.
THE SITE FOR the uEBo's BURIAL.
When Mr.. Walters, proprietor Of the !
london Tunes. was ia this country a few |
gears ago he was taken through Riverside |
bar., by a friend. on reaching the place |
"uere General Grant is to rest the distin- |
-tl-ha., editor TUNED to his host and said !
thank y0u for showing me tu:s spot |
haze Travelled over the world in many
..H o. . g.
,r.re as this
Long before the Revolution. said
gentleman. The English aristocrats erected
,Aer mansions on these grounds The
Iteration is 80 feet above the river and the |
scene unsurpassed. on a clear day one has
lu unbr0ken view of the Hudson from |
Nyacll 20 Staten Island. Here was the
aForite hunting ground of the English
gentlemen. Here were their deer parks
ni their country seats. The building now |
allied tie hotel is the old Claremont
@a-. a. -H' BEGINNING Of the century
MAS -nowu s .lare0'ont Hill.
nai ,1.-~a was - p. s'r Pest
.. E. w uCgHr ,ga..-..
.a.y, 4re.Va,t u Devon lie
sent hitIe. iur ls1-'eai reasons Ha-.l:,-
planned of Great Aarnsu,ps because n!s [,
allowance was only $4,000 year Among /.
ther persons of emineEce wa0 lived ia /
he historic house was the ex-Kjng Of |
pain. Joseph Bonaparte, brother Of Napo- |
con l. lie came to America after the |
downfall of the conqUerur ID would re- /
gUire columns of space to give detailed |
account ot Nlaremont and It's interesting |
past. All It's traditions VIII 60 into the an /
r...s af General Grants death and burial
There is a singular appropriateness |
ab Pgt the site for the t0mb.4 said visitor
70 tle Park yesterday. d" ii is on the HUd- /
''h, tAe great river that marks TWO great
events iA General Grant life. lie got his
military education on The Hudson; ne died
lose oE the valley of the Hudson, and now
ans tomb is 10 be plaeedon the banks OF the
salninE stream,
As one stood IN the sunlight yesterday at
-aFemont scene more beautiful than any
mat imagination could conceive was un-
/ iolued. twenty miles oi silver water
twenty miles OF highlands; villages towns
and cities showing spires ana curling
smoke me waters OF Long isiah0 sound
Ni-lle sans t"inhlnS III jhe Tar oil blUe
ships, Steamboats,, countless s3l-bOatS fitted
/ p and fro swift trains OF cars rushed
'.ong; and me churches Of New ork, Jer-
sey CITY, Harlem HOh0ken and Gonkers
/ pointed with their spires toward heaven.
while the bells OF the Convent OF the Sa-
| cred Heart reminded one that the chief
tam $ death was hon0red by Catholic and
FloleStdnt &ilEe.
This is lit home Tor the man We all
love, said gentleman from Philadelphia,
rs ne gazed on the rapturous scene.
All the great ships Of war can sail up
.he bay, pass in procession before Grants
tomb or salute it with their guns on great
occasions. There viii be landing at the
foot of the grounds The New York Cen
raj Railway will build station at the foot
Of the slope. 4 more central location
| place easier of access could not have been
| selected. If Won are a stranger down town.
you take any of the trains on the L"
road and get off at I25th street 4 walk of
! Two or three blocks brings YOU 70 the top
! Of the hill You are in a beautiful park.
Through the branches of the oaks and elms
/ sparkle the waters of the Hudson. The
gray palisades project behind the nights of
| Fort Lee, like sentinels guarding the river
/ In word, all that IS grandest in the bavs
4 and rivers around ~ :,