Morning journal and courier., 1885-08-10
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. GRANT LAID ID REST. The Last Hon0rs To The
 Dead. SCENES AT THE FUNERAL, A Sunday Rush To The
 Tomb. REEL RESIGNED TO HIS FATE. Hotel Guests Driven Out
 By Fire.
THE NATIONS HERO SLEEPS

| Immense Rush of People To 70
 Him Honor Thousands Make -2z1-
 grimage To The Shrine On Sunsay
 NEW YORK, Aug 9-Genera1 Grant .ies at rest in Riverside Park after the most in pressive funeral pageant that has ever bee1 presented to the American people. From al querters of the reunited country, from No 5h and South, from East and West, came thou
 sands on thousands to do honor to the man | who had brought back the country from the
 tumults and chaos of civil strife to the peace
 and glory of powerful and united nation
 In all it's history New York has not witnessed
 so imposing a demonstration as that w:tt
 which nations tears followed its saviour ta
 the tomb. And so well conceived were el
 the arrangements carried out that review suggests no possible improvement in plan, nc possible bettering in execution.
 The weather was in harmony with the oc
 casion. A brief shower at midnight led uI to cool and delightful morning, and nc better day could have dawned on the anxious hearts whose hope it was that their honored | hero might take up his last resting place amid the peace that his life had so well earned. From early hour the ely ws7
 
 streets. Every incoming train was pcr, = 2 loads of human freight into the crowded | tropolis; every boat that came gave rE a l great cargo of living humanity. Soldier al citizen, rich and poor, the great and the lore l ly were in the throng that had le, 1 it's face to the metropolis to do honor to him | whom all the world had learned to honor. Battery place was alive with people at sum- rise who had come to witness the ls 1dilS O. I General Hancock and his troops. Promptly on time the troops came, but before their arrival General Fitzhugh Lea and | Major Smith, of his old staff, were there l6 | cordially greeted General Hancock and his officers. Promptly the line was formed and l the march was taken up to City Hall Ps~k: l while the crowds along the sioewalks oa 1 Broadway were swelled by constant addi- | tions. From every side street, to the music l of fife and drum, with battle flags draped and bows of crape on the left arm, came the l veterans of the war and the members of | the Grand Army of the Republic. The Grand Army posts formed on the west side of Broadway, while on the east side the military got themselves in position. The | T | southward down Fifth avenue from Twen. \ ty-eighth street, and the remaining troops | continued the line down Broadway to City Hall. At the City Hall there was a division | of New Jersey National Guard, looking like ] regulars in their uniforms of light and dark | blue; the Veteran ,Zouaves were shoulder to shoulder fanked against them. Company ' D, First Minnesota Guard, Captain Bean, | with left resting below Grand street, was 1 next in order of line, with the Capitol City | Guards, left resting on Grand street, next The Union Veteran Corps, Captain A. E. l Thomaston, of the District of Columbia, rest ed on the right of the Capitol City l Guards. At Broome street there was 8 battalion of four companies oe | Virginia State troops and the First l regiment of Massachusetts infantly-twc bod ! ies that during the war would have been | fighting each other to death, but which wee | now joined in brotherhood. Another sin , contrast was next in line-the Second ,7 ment of Connecticut National Guards, bo oT Prince street, and the State City Guard of Atlanta Ga-which with the two preceding troops made picture of blue and gray. I ne1 came the Second division of the State Nav C al Guard left resting on Bleesker street, w companies of veteran guards composed or ',e race the hero had fought to free, their let resting on Eleventh street. Following them on the way up town were the Columbia Guard, the Garibaldi Legion. the Italian Rifle Guard, the Columbo Guard, the Second company Washington Continen- tai Guard. the Tenth regiment New York Volunteer Veterans, the Veteran Zouave sociation and the Veteran association 16oth New York Volunteers. The Governors Foot Guard, Hartford, Conn, and the Firstt division of the State National Guard com pleted this front of soldiery.
 The pallbearers and other distinguished persons met at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, riages awaiting them in Twenty third street. President Cleveland and Secretary Bayard took seats at 10 o'clock in their carriage 1 drawn by six bay horses, Vice President Hendricks and the Cabinet, and ex-F-esidents Hayes and Arthur being ranged immediately behind. After them were General Grants old staff and cabinet, Supreme court judges, United States Senators and Congressmen, Governors of States and their staffs, Mayo1s and representatives of city governments At o'clock company of the Twelfth infantry, composing =, guard of honor, took up position facing --Az entrance to City Hall. Thirteen men : U. s. Grant post, the body guard who nGI ohiciated at Mt. McGregor, placed themselve7 on either side of the casket. A hundred voices from the Leiderkranz chanted in low, sweet tones the ''Geisterchor'' of Schubert the song of the spirits over the water, fol- lowed after a short interval by the pilgrims chorus from Iapnhauser. Now came the clergymen, the physicians and the pallbear- CTS. In the first carriage rode the Rev. Dr. Newman and Bishop Harris, representatives of the Methodist church The second car riage contained Bishop Potter, representing the Epscopalian communion, and the Rev. Dr. Field the Presbyterian. The Rev. Dr. n, Ii D,14 Dofor and Dr. West, of the Congregational, were in the third carriage The fourth carriage at tracted general attention. The Rev. .Dr. Coll yer, representing the Unitarian church, was seen sitting there alone, while by it's side and on foot walked the representatives of the Jewish faith, which forbids it's adherents to ride on the Sabbath. Father McGlynn, the Catholic clergyman, was in the next carriage, and by his side sat the Rev. Dr. Bridgman, the Baptist. The physi- cians-Drs. Douglass, Shrady, Sands and Eliott-were together in one coach. Then cooked hat and gold lace, rode beside Gener al Johnston, the southern leader, in plain civ ilian's clothes. In the next carriage General Sheridan, also in uniform, talked with Gen. eral Buckner, his old time adversary. George w. Childs and Anthony J. Drexel were in the succeeding coach, and Admirals Porter and Worden in the one following. Oliver Hoyt and George Jones and General Logan and MT. Boutwell, were in the last two carriages
 At 9:35 the funeral car drove in. Twenty four black horses, with black trappings and each one led by colored groom, moved slowly across the plaza and stopped with the catafalque directly in front of the entrance to the City Hall. Dr. Newman appeared in the gateway and announced that the clergy and pa1lbearers were ready. Senior Vice Commander John H. Johnson, of Grant post, G. A. R., quietly gave the word to his twelve men, They took hold of the silver handles of the casket and raised it from it's resting place. Carefully they lowered it, and were ready for the transfer to the waiting funeral car. The little procession was ar ranged as follows, with the pallbearers end clergy in advance and Commander Johnson heading his men:
 Left Of the Casket. Right ofsthe Ce jket
 Comra ie Corwin, Comrade Tebbitts
 C,omrade Howatt Comrade McKellar,
 Comrede McDonald, Comrade McKelvey,
 Comrade Squires, Comrade Brodie,