Morning journal and courier., 1885-08-06
N6WS Uy I6l6gId dpll FROM ALL QUARTERS. BROUGHT TO NEW YORK. The Remains Lying In City Hall. SCENES ALONG THE ROulr. Thousands Looking On
 The Dead. MRS. GRANT AT THE COTTAGE Pfestrated By Her Great
 Grief.
THE REMAINS IN NEW YORK.

THE REMAINS IN NEW YORK. Thousands Crowding Into The City Hall To View The DeaG-Hnci- dents Of The Journey From AL bany-Great Crowds View The Fly ing Funeral Train-The Elm balm Ing Of The Body a Failure Mrs. Grant Remains At Mt. mcGregor Prostrated With Grief.
 ALBANY, Aug. 5.-Great crowds visited l the Capitol during the morning hours before | the time for the funeral train and viewed the remains of the illustrious dead The city ] was crowded with strangers, and many who had been unable to secure accommodations last night walked the streets, sat on curb l stones and on house steps. or spent the night in saloons. By actual count the number of persons who viewed the remains was 77, 2OO and besides this number at least one thou sahd joined the procession just in front of the catafalque and were not counted at ths entrance. Precisely at eleven o'clock the
 organizations that yesterday brought the
 body to the Capitol assembled on the sur
 rounding streets, and the casket was borne
 to the funeral car by thirteen members of
 U. s. Grant post. At 11:30 the pageant
 moved slowly down State street to Broad
 way, into Steuben street to the Albany sta
 ton. The crowds which lined the streets
 yesterday afternoon were, if possible, more
 tightly packed. The loud booming of the
 minute guns and the tolling of every church
 and fire bell in the city solemnly announced
 the depar ture of the heroic dead from the
 Capitol. They reached the station at 1915,
 and at precisely 12:32 the deeply draped funeral train slowly moved from the sta
 tion.
 HUDSON, N. Y., August 5.-When the fu- neral train drew out from the depot at AL
 bany there were fully three thousand people assembled on the platform to witness it's de- parture. The men uncovered and stood in silent reverence until the train passed from sight. Two hundred members of the Jack son corps were drawn up in line along the edge of the platform and presented arms while their band played a dead march. Along the line of the road frem Albany to this place were assembled crowds of people at tracted by desire to see the funeral train the track SO that the train might pass over
 
 NEW YORK, Aug. 5.-The run from Alba ny was made without special incident. At Hudson several gangs of workmen from the factories were massed near the station with breasts barred, their brawny arms sleeveless, forming rude but impressive groups. The train gliding swiftly on approached Catskin where salute of several guns was fired and five hundred people were assembled on the platform, and Germantown, Tivoli, Rhine beck and Hyde Park were rapidly passed and only known to be railroad stations by the groups of people assembled at and heart them. At Poughkeepsie the train went very slowly and was greeted by a loud salute and by fully a thousand people. For several hundred yards each side of the track line of people were formed three deep. The motion of the train rapidly increasing, New Hamburg, Fishkil and Cold Spring were soon passed. The cloudless sky, which had hitherto been reflected in the unruffied waters of the Hud- son, now showed change and clouds quick ly obscured the sun and vivid flashes of lightning cleft the sky. As Newburg was seen on the west shore the historical spot to the south of Newburg where Washington had his headquarters was marked by flagstaff hundred feet high, on which the national colors clung limp and lstless. More than half the railway journey to the tomb had now been accomplished. Storm King peak was now approached and at it's foot 8 large excursion steamer literally black with sight seers was the first of the mar inc escort that greeted the occupants of the train. The most pathetic incident of the journey was noticed now. In a small pathway a score of feet from the track a decrepit old man kneeling clasping a dog in his withered arms, his barred head resting the coarse shirted bosom, an ex- pression of deepest sorrow on the wrinkled face, forming picture beyond words. Heavy black clouds surcharged with elec- tricity frowned over West Point. Amid flashes of lightning the hollow booming of the general salute of thirteen guns told us that the famous military institution was be- l ing passed. The cadets were drawn up in double line at the garrisons presenting arms and their band playing in funeral march l time ''Sweet Spirit Hear My Prayer" They | presented very fine appearance and words 1 of approval were uttered by the leading l military men on the train. | A violent shower forced the closing of every |
 
 ing sheets of water obscured the farther end | of the Hudson. It lasted but ten minutes, | and then the great steamer Ply mouth Rock crowded in every part was seen in vivid relief, being the center of sunburst. | At Yonkers the largest gathering of people | since the departure from Albany were assem- bled. A local military corps of two hundred | men stood shoulder to shoulder along the | platform and mufied drums were tapped | funerealy. As the outlying districts of the | city proper were reached platoons of police were seen standing solemnly with upifted | batons.
 Harlem bridge rapidly crossed the long dark tunnel is entered, and at one minute l minute past five the finest mourning train ever formed comes to full stop in the sta tion The wheels have not ceased revolving since starting from Albany, being possibly the longest continuous run ever made T | this or any other country. The car set aside for the use of the sons of the dead general was also occupied by Drs. Douglass and New man. It was deemed unwise to disturb their privacy, but the train had barely started be- fore Colonel Grant sent word that he would be glad to see any of those on board. Gov srnor Hill and several members of his staff to the invitation and in turn ex- Governor Cornell, ex-Mayors Cooper and Edson and others passed into the carriage. The perfection of the -ailway management was noticed throughout the entire trip; not nltcn or Jar of the most insignificant character occurred to train of eleven cars which traversed portions of the steely bed at the rate of fifty miles an hour.
 At five minutes to five o'clock the pilot | engine Monitor in charge of Engineer Nat Sawyer rolled into the Grand Central depot and six minutes later the funeral train con- sisting of eleven draped cars drew up at the platform Among the first to alight was General Hancock and staff. They were fol- owed by Governor Hill and staff, Rev. Dr. Newman, Dr. Douglass, the Senate and legis- ative committee, the committee of one hun dred and the members of the press The ,asket was taken from the funeral car by members of the Grant veteran post and car ried through the station to Forty third street and Vanderbilt avenue where it was placed upon the funeral coach Ow- ing ts the rain that commenced falling shortly before the arrival of the funeral train she crowd around the depot was not so large IS was anticipated and the police had little difficulty in keeping clear passage for the funeral cortege. At 5:30 the funeral car was lrawn by twelve black horses to Fifth ave ,ra fr11r oo1ored o-roor,a Stood at |