Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1885-07-29
IN CENTRAL PARK
THE BODY OF THE OLD COMMANDER
WILL BE INFERRED.
Programme Of the Obsequies-tireat Mill
tary and Civic Demonstration TO
he Held the Day of the
Euneral-Notes.

he Held the Day of the
Funeral-Notes.
MT. MCGREaoR, n. V, July 27.-In re-
ply to dispatch from here to Mayor Grace
announcing the determination of Gen.
Grants family to carry out the wish OF the
general that his wife should lie beside him
at her death, the following dispatch was re-
ceivsd from New York:
Your two kilograms just to hand, and
understand the matter to now be definitely
settled that Gen. Grants body is to be in
tered hero. We can not take any more
definite action In regard to tho matter of
Mrs. Grant untp later date The faith of
the president of the board OF aldermen and
my own is pledged that we will 500 when a
little time has passed away that the wishes
Of tho family are gratifiad By formal reso-
lN:ion of the board. Answer immediately,
SO may appoint committees to make my
quota for grand national monument.
G,s4 w. R GRACE.
This was shown to Col Grant, and he said
that it was entirely satisfactory to him as
the representative Of the family, and this
Mr.. Turner at once telegraphed to the
mayor. 1t is thus settled that Gsn. Grant
is to have his last resting place among the
people Of New York, of whose kindness in
his affiiction he spoke with so much earnest
ness on many occasions during his illness.
... PROGRAMME OF THE OBsEoUIES.
Gen. Grants body has been embalmed,
and will remain in the cottage where he
died until one week from next Tuesday,
guarded by special detail of thirteen uni
formed men from Grand Army post, No
SCI, of Brooklyn. Before the removal of
the remains a funeral service will be con-
Quoted on the veranda of the cottage by
DR.. Newman, i'll the presence IF the
family and immediate friends. The
body will arrive at Albany Tuesday even
ing, and will lie in state at the capitol
until Wednesday noon. 1t will then be con-
veyed to New York and will lie in state at
city hall until the following Saturday, when
it will be inferred in Central park. Ar
rangsments are making for great military
and civic demonstration at the metropolis
on that day, and memorial exercises will be
held in the leading cities and towns of the
country. The cottage in which Gen. Gran!
dicd will not again be occupied as a domi.
cils, but will be presented by the owner, j.
W. Drexsl with all its present belongings
to the government. The condolences of
Queen Victoria, the prince and princess of
Wales, and x-President Arthur were among
those telegraphsd to Mrs. Grant Friday
al 4HE
After tho funeral the family will probably
return to the summit AMI summer at the
cottage around which cluster so many
associations Mrs. Nellie Sartoris will
about the latter part of August return to
her husband and children in England. Each
train to the mountain carries throngs of
visitors anxious to obtain visw of the
place where Gen. Grant closed his eyes in
death. The members of the Grant family,
almost worn out in their devoted attention,
have kept themselves almost exclusively iu-
side of the cottage Mrs. DR.. Newman is
with Mrs. U. s. Grant, who begins to exhibit
signs of the protracted strain upon her d dur-
ing the dreary months of her husbands ill
ness. Senior Romero is with the family, as
are also DR.. Newman and his wife.
THE EMRALMING PROCESS
has filed out the veins of the head so that
the face is more natural, more like the Gen.
Grant as the people picture him, than it has
been in many months before. In fact a year
ago Gen. Grant looked almost as haggard a.
he did a month before his death, and his ap-
pearance was exaggerated by that hunted
anxious look which touched the heart of all
who saw it The face is perfectly calm and
peaceful now. and the expression is one Of
rest and peace. --.
A REMINIsCENCE OF THE SICK ROOM.
DR.. Douglas says that week before last
Gen. Grant handed him a note in which be
indicated that he knew there was no hope
for hin and that he was ready to go" He
had noticed, in spite of an apparent i'm
proyement that day, that he was growing
weaker. He said his work was
dona-bis book completed. He wanted
20 many days to finish it,
and 1t looked like the time had not only
been vouchsafed him, but that he had been
granted more strength than ever before
since his illness begun strength to do the
work The former work had been hastily
done but he had been given time to do it
over again In part. The doctors tried to
cheer him up, but the general insisted that
there was never q man more ready to cross
the dark river that he was There was
nothing more to do.
WHAT GEN. CAMERON SAYS