Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-08-10
DUST TODUST.
The Worlds Hero Laid to
Rest.
TRIBUTE OF THE PEOPLE.
The GTandeSt ObSequies Eyer Seen in
America
OYER FORTY THOUSAND MEH IN LINE,
Business Suspended Throughout the
Nation.
BURIAL SERVICE AT THE GRAVE.
Great Gathering OF the Country's
Distinguished Citizens.
The GTandeSt ObSeQuieS Eyer Seen in
America.
OYER FORTY THOUSAND HEF IN LINE.
Business Suspended Throughout the
Nation.
BURIAL SERVICE At THE GRAVE.
Great Gathering OF the Count1.y's
Distinguished Citizens.

NhS"t odtittiIhS OF the Country &
Distinguished Citizens.
SPECIAL sY TELEGRAPH To TIE EEcoRD.uY1oyl !
NEY YORK, August Sth.-As I O'Clock
had passed, the strains Of dirge music
crept on the morning air-at first distant,
they drew nearer and nearer and as the
red deepened in the east and sunrise was
near tho strains, slow and sad, grew more
distinct. When the blue-ooated veterans
OF Meade Post Of Philadelphia, 500 strong,
came t-amping to the dirge music Of
trumpets, the east was suiTused with tints
of orange and the dawn was closer-the
dawn Of the funeral day. The veterans en-
tered the Plaza and marched past, while
muiiled drums timed their footsteps. A
heavy gun doomed out toward the sea. the
chimes Of Old Trinity pealed its mournful
tones, and the sound of muflled drums
grew fainter and then died away.
At S O'Clock nature was putin. forth
signals Of an intensely warm day. The
crowds grew denser and denser around the
Plaza The muflled drums and dirgeful
trumpets marched in at one side and took
positions at the east end. The PLAYERS
constituted the Davids Island military
band. At $50 General Hancock and staff
Uamped slowly into the Plaza from Broad
way, presented front to the CITY Hall, and
then marched to the end of the Plaza III
Broadway, where they rested. At this time
100 members Of the Leiderkranz Society
filed up 10 the steps of the City Hall. and
led By four instruments sang with i'm
pressiye effect the Chorus of the Spirits, -
from Over the Water and the Chorus
OF the Pilgrims (Tannhauser). The honor
guard Of regulars filed into the open space
ut o o'clock, consisting Of Company A,
Fifth Artillery, under Colonel w. B. Beck,
and Company Z. Twelfth Infantry, under
Major Brown. The regulars took position
beneath the trees at City Hail, ana stood at
rest. Then came the original guard of
honor that was on duty at Mt. McGregor,
and which alone should lift the remains
tO-day. Filing into the corridors of the
City Han, they took their places beside
the remains, under command of John H.
Johnson, Senior Nice-COmmander of the
Grant Post of the &. i. X. of BROOKLYN
The City Hall gates had been closed to the
people shortly after l o'clock this morning,
and the remains of General Grant left alone
with the guard. On his coffin rested a
plain wreath of oak leaves. formed in the
shape Of the letter c." The leaves grew
on the oaks in the forests ot Mt. McGregor,
and on the afternoon of Thursday, the day
he died, little Julia, his granddaughter.
md little Josie DR.. Douglas child, had
altered the Oak-leaves on the mountain
roads Then, a. the children prattled, they
knit with their innocent fingers and loving
hearts the wreath of oak-leayCs that TO-DAY
is the only tribute that touches the Gen
erals casket. The little ones, when their
offering was finished had taken it to
Colonel Grant whose eyes filed when his
daughter asked, Papa, Josie and I have
made this for grandpa and please won't
you give ii to him?' The Colonel placed
the oaken wreath on the casket, and there
II rested in Albany, and still remains as the
childrens, Offering
At 955 the imposing funeral car, drawn
by twenty-tOur iet-black horses in black
trappings, halted on the Plaza directly in
front Of the City Hall steps Inside the
corridor Commander Johnson was waiting
The columns We're in position, right and
left, and at his command the guard Of
honor was erect. Lift the remains" d" was
the next command, in clear but low tones
The twelve men stopped 10 the silver rails
with GiUved hands. March - was the
word. The guard moved out upon the
portco, where were borne the remains,
Commander Johnson Immediately at the
head, down the steps with measured tread
and across the open space to the steps Of the
car, when Commander johnson stepped
aside and the silver mOuntings glstened as
the burial case and its hOnOred burden were
carried up and placed upon the dais in the
mounted catafalque. The veterans then
retired down the steps. The body was
alone for all to view, but deeply guarded.
Il. I Il
on either side took the same relative posi-
tion they had maintained to the remains
while they were being borne to the car
The steps were drawn away from the
hearse, and Commander Johnson took his
place in the center Immediately behind
The funeral car. AT his left and right in
either rear corner ofthe car were Comrades
Doing and Armsbee OF Wheeler Post, Sara
toga. respectively. Next and directly be-
hlnd these We're representatives of the
Loyal Legion, abreast rs follows: General
John }. NIlkan, General c. 4. Carbon. Pay
master George ID. Barton, Lieutenant-ColO
mel Floyd Garrison, Lieutenant-Colonel A.
NJ. Clark and Captain L. Blunt.
The clergy and physicians had paid their
respects TO the remains by alighting from
their carriages and ACCOMMODATING Them
from the steps to the car They entered
carriages on either side OF the Plaza. near
Broadway, as follows: Rev. Dr. Newman.
Bishop Haines, Bishop Potter, Rev. DR..
Chambers, Rev. Or. Field, Rev. DR. Bridge
man, Rev. DR.. West, Rev. Father Desh0n.
Rev. Robert Collyer, Rabbi Browne, and
Doctors Douglas, Shrady and Sands. Col
onei Beck. III charge of the regulars, or
dered his companies TO their positions
Company A on the right and Company L
on the left of the hearse. Colored men
were at the brides of the twenty-four
horses. The sixteen men of Meade Post
Philadelphia, of which General Grant was
amember, were almost directly in front of
the team of black horses. A signal was
given. and the line of coaches with the
cIerCymen moved Off the Plaza ON to
Broadway. The band stood waiting at the
head of the funeral cOrtege. Colonel Beck
advanced TO the mead of the line of black
horses before the coach. Move on !"
were his words of command, with uplifted
sword.
The leaders stepped forward, led by col
0red mer, and in an instant the black line
Of horses had Strengthened th ir traces, and
the wheels beneath the remains were mov-
ing. The hour was 9:47. The band played
dirge The tramp of the regulars and
honor guard beat upon the pavement
Thousands beneath the trees and crowding
the sides of the square looked silently upon
the black funeral-car rollingsover the curb
into BROADWAY. The black corridors of the
City Hall were silent General Grants last
journey was begun.
ALONG THE LINE OF MARCIts
NEW YORK, August Sth.-All night long
carpenters with saws and hammers were
busy on Broadway, and when this morn
ng's sun climbed up out of the sea and
shed It's brilliant light upon the parks, the