The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-08-13

PRICES THAT WERE SIMPLY AMAZING,
and chance to stand upon flight of steps
! was worth from 81 to $3. Some single
| windows brought $40, and one balcony Ca
pable of holding twelve or fifteen people,
near the Hotel Brunswick, brought 800.
Peddlers in the crowd sold hundreds of foot
| stools. about eight inches high, and they We're
| eagerly snatched up at 80 cents each. Peo-
pie who were fortunate enough to secure
| one of these and to elevate themselves
| above the level of the crowd were much en-
We'd by those who could only see the horse
men and the tops of the folded flags Those
lucky ones were kept busy calling out the
| names of the organizations as they passed
along. A person Of ordinary height few
| feet from the line of march, could see very
| little. Now and then he caught the flash
| of plume, and all the time he heard
the solemn music and the tread of marching
| feet 1t is probable that many thousands
who stood for long hours hardly saw the
procession ut all. Added to the difficulty
| was the fact that all the people occupying
front places kept up their umbrellas and
parasols all the time, regardless of the re-
| quests and entreaties and aften impreca-
| tons of those in the rear. The promptness
with which the procession appeared before
| the Fifth Avenue hotel was astonishing. AT
| 1890 o'clock to the minute Gen. Hancock
| and staff came in sight, when nobody ex-
! pected him for an hour. This showed the
| good of having the procession headed by
| and under the managementO the regulars
ALMOST EVERY NATION ON EARTH,
| even China, with her violet and white, the
mourning colors of the Orient. horse, foot
and artillery. civic, public and private;
music of muffled drums, of brass bands, of
bagpipes, of flies and cymbals; and so
| through the long hours the mighty pageant
passed by. All the conditions and crcum-
stances were colossal Men grew to greater
stature by hours that interviewed To be
part and parcel of such a stupendous dem
| onstration was to have higher ideas of man
| kind and its capacity to exult in the pride OF
common humanity capable of such
scenes as these A great deal the
most impressive feature of the event
was the vast silence 1t was comparatively
absolute. No matter how softly the
muffled drums were rolled you could
hear them squares away. The only heavy
sound was the rumbling of the cannon
wheels When the band of the Third New
Jersey regiment passed by, playing Nearer
| My God to Thee" the sweet solemn strains
| were distinctly audible far up Fifth avenue,
many squares beyond where they would
have been lost in the noise of an ordinary
day. The wailing sound of the flies OF the
Fourth Connecticut drum corps, playing the
sad, sweet notes of "Pieyers Hymn" could
be heard almost from the time they swung
into Fifth avenue from Fourteenth street
The drum corps of the Sixth New Jersey
band played @Flee as Bird to the Noun
tain" and the band of the Continental Foot
Guards of Massachusetts played Sweet
Spirit, Hear My Prayer" As a general thing,
| THE CHOICE OF MUSIC
| by the bands was not good and was OF too
| high an order to appeal to the emotion of q
| general gathering. From the hundreds of
| musical organizations that passed but few
played the simple and tender airs familiar to
the people, and a dozen Of the bands played
the sDead March in Saul, and more than that
played Chopin's Funeral March. The funeral
| hymns Of the operas were the fayorites, but
| when such an air as Nearer my God to
Thee" was played the effect could be seen
at once, the deepened hush, the uncoyering
of heads and tears in the eyes of the women
The bands about the catafalque played
| Chopin's Funeral March, " and played it mag
| nitcently, but would have touched the hearts
| of the people more tenderly had they played
~
| was ! o'clock when the catafalque
passed through Madison Square. 1t was the
moment of the day. For that all waited;
about that all interest centered; from that
radiated and influences reaching to deeper
| and holier depths of human emotion than
all the music, all the trappings of grief, or
| all the vast display could go. There was n
| long break and open space before the car of
death, and the suspense in the presence of
| that advance was almost painful Down that
| open channel between the living banks could
| be seen the great black plumes upon the
| funeral car approaching; the glitter of the
| silver trimmings in the sunshine; the purple
| of the casket that contained all that is NOR
| tai and perishable of Gen. Grant Around it
| the guns OF the guards shone. At every mo-
ment, from the pavement to rOoftree, q, 600
faces gazed upon it.
| APPEARANCE OF THE TROOPS.
| New YORK, Special Telegram, Aug s.
There were few glittering bayonets in the
parade Warlike signs were concealed
rather than displayed. The soldiers went by
with reversed arms and slow tread to the
| roll of the muf4ed drums. The corps was
marked aot only by the long line of people
who stood with uncovered heads. on the
street, but by the guidon, the bobbing col
umns of national corps and the battle flags
draped with Grape The soldiers took part
! in a soldiers funeral, and more devoted
| tribute was never paid by warriors to hero
| dead It was shortly after 8 o'clock that
| Gen. Hancock with his staff close behind
| him, looking neither to the right nor to the
| left. and sitting upon his horse like CEN
taur, rode slowly up Broadway. Already the
military were astir, many companies belong
| ing to state organiz ations were pouring in the
side streets of Fourteenth stEeet, and the seq
ton of the city from the city hall narthward
was beginning to ring with the sounds OF
martial music Suddenly following close
upon Gen. Hancock and his staff came Capt
| Randolph, his light artillery battery F, with
| guns gTistenilg and horses
| CAyoRTING IN THE looming AIR
Col. Henry L. bbott, of United States en-
giaeer corps, and Lieut. Kimballs jolly tars
| from the Omeba, the Swatara, the Tennessee
and the fowhattaG Jolly tars they were,
though depressed in spirits, and every inch a
sailor was each of them in appearance, and
as they marched up in double lines in
s..Gir sea rig. dragging a burnish twelve
FOUNDER beul,d them, they presented pict-
uresque appearance When after these with
swinging tread came the marines and three
| more pattalions OF sailors keeping step to
the music Of q fife and drum corps,
matters for the time being grew lively along
| the thoroughfare, to be trayersed a short
while later by the catafalque bearing the
body of the man they had been called upon
to honor. As Hancook's praaciqg steed led
the procession that followed over the miles
and miles of streets. it was probably tie
| most remarkable that ever gathered to pay
| tribats 70 mortal man. Following the tars
dragging the .cnnon and carrying the
stretchers came the First Tew York division
| OF the National guard, Gen. Schaleris pride.
It was divlsion to be proud of, and the
First battery and the Ninth, Eleventh,
Twelfth and Twenty second regiments a4d
the Second battery wheeled into line with
| preeiston Of step and measure OF discipline
that is seldom e,usled. Quickly following
| came the Second brigade Of Gen. Louis Fitz-
gerald, with the Second battery In the lead,
| and then the grey haired veteran guards.
1 Col Austin and his staff were as