The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1885-08-07
The Grandeur of the Funeral Pageant.

Anew York dispatch says: Preparations
for the great military pageant, which is to
be the principal feature Of the Grant tuner.
nj Oh the Sth, continue with great zeal.
With the exception Of the vast number OF
details, which will now take care OF them
selves, these preparations may now be
called completed. Gen. Hancock has APP
pointed all his aids, and il now occupied
during every working hour OF the day in
receiving and answering applications for
places in the line. SO numerous are these
adopted OF having organizations represent
ell in the procession rather than march as n
whole. :or il the complete bodies were adj
mittcd the line OF march from the city
hall to Riverside Park, q distance Of
nine miles, would not contain the mass
OF men. So important has it become to
keep the PROGRESSION within manageable
lowed. The decorations OF building OF all
kinds continue to increase in number, ex-
tent and variety. Many decorations which
were at first put up hastily, have beoE re-
modelled and deliberately emblemisbca,
There il not building on Broad
Ing, and the great thoroughfare be-
comes more and more fringed with
black. The advance demand for car
liaccs on theday of the funeral llns alroatl,
practically exhausted the supply. The APP
plication for windows along the line Of
march indicates that the demand will he
immense. As much as $15O has already
been offered for IL sing window on Broad
way.
1t has been decided to abandon all
Thought OF CONVEYING, the remains from
Albany to New York by river. although had
this plan been the first suggested u would
have been accepted. 1t wasabandoneti With
regret Saratoga made II last and unsuc-
cessful effort to induce the family to allow
the remains to lie in state i'll Congress Park
lev. S. v. Leech, the chaplain OF the state
senate, came in representing the Saratoga
memorial committee, to make Il last APP
peal. He was told that the plans decided
upon were i:revocable.
Cyrus w. Field cablel from London:
Mrs. U. S. Graat: The duke OF Argyll
writes me: Twill you kindly say to Mrs.
Grant how much | feel for her and how
much value the memory OF her husbands
visit to us in Scotland"
The people Of Manchester, England,
through their mayor, cablsl their condo
lenccs.
The Tribune publishes an interview with
Gen Sherman, in which he says:
The p:tt:lde will be the grandcst military
spectacle his city has ever seen. Gen. Ham
cock is magnliccntly fitted to organize ii
and he is hard ~ work. Hewill leave moth
ing uhdonc. 1T was IL good thing to do to
place all these things in his hands. Itiscer-
tain that Gen. Grant regarded Washington
! ~ no fit place for young men. He has
often talked about it. My opinion is the
same. Why the army officers who have
been stationed in Washington long, have
never amounted to anything. The men who
have come up high have made their mark
IN the frontier amongthe Indians on the far
off stations. The Washington men become
distinguished az staff officers only. McCle-
Ian is about the only exception and his
case is so slight an exception as to barely
prove the rule. Taylor and Jackson and
those men came to the top from Indian and
bomber fighting.
The president, who, at the request of
Mrs. Grant has selected pail bearers for