The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-08-12


TO 10000.
The line moved promptly, and at
Il o'clock the catafalque passed
Twenty-third street. After the
President, the Vice President, the
Cabinet, the Judges of the Supreme
Court, the Senators and members of
the House of Representatives, the
Governors and their staffs, the ex-
Presidents, foreign Ministers, diplo-
matte officers and the representa-
tiyes of the Army and Navy had
passed Fifty-second street the pro-
cession began to break up. The
veteran and civic organizations left
Fifth avenue by way of the streets
between Fifty-third and Fifty-ninth
streets and gradually fell out of the
line.
AT THE TOME.
When information reached River
side Park that the funeral process
sion had begun to move from the
City Hall, Quartermaster Townsend
waved his flag from the summit of
the bluffs, about ten rods from the
open tomb of General Grant, and
the dispatch-boat, Dispatch, answer
ed the signal with a report that
echoed again and again along the
Palisades.
After Undertaken Merritt had
tried the two keys-one for the cas-
ket and one for the outer door ofthe
tomb-he handed them in bag OF
black velvet to Commissioner Grim
Minis, who will hand them to Gen.
eral Hancock, who will give them to
Mayor Grace, who will again con-
fde them to the care and custody OF
the Park Commissioner. Scarcely
had the echoes of the Dispatch's
guns died away.when the Powhatan
from her starboard guns made the
echoes again awake. Then the
Omaha took up the martial strain.
After two minutes the Swatara did
her honors, and then the Alliance
fred her salute. The strains of the
approaching procession were family
audible before the final touches
were put to the casket of steel and
the temporary tomb.
From MONDAY on for hours into
the afternoon the vicinity of the
tomb and Riverside Park was the
scene of discomfort for waiting
thousands. Heat had followed the
cool of the morning,and the succeed
ing hours added heat and hundreds
and thousands of people The lat
ter suffered much in their cramped
positions of waiting in the blazing
sunshine. Ore O'Clock came anG
went, but the funeral-car was yet q
long way off and moving very slow
lly. Superintendent Murray estab'
lished headquarters upon the little
knoll at the rear of the tomb, anC
thence directed the great force o
men on duty there, and who guard
ed every avenue of approach to the
town. Beneath a fir tree at th,
crown of the knoll rested small
charcoal furnace, and near it, il
charge of Charles Kurlger, of New
York, were the tools and material:
with which to scar the leaden lin
ing of the cedar case into which tn,
casket and remains Of General Gran
should be placed. Down the slope
nearer the vault, was portable fur
mace, such as is used by workmer
for heating bolts used in repairin!
abe elevated roads. In group neal
by were five men, mechanics, whit
should rivet fast the steel caske
within which both coffin and ceda
box should be preserved. The stee
case rested upon two marble blocks
q feet high, 3 feet wide and Is in
thick. Similar marble blocks hav,
been sunk in the floor flush will
the surface, and upon these the re
mains of Mrs. Grant are expected
to repose. Many persons were per
mitted to peer within the tomb, ,wher
the steel receptacle was waiting tn,
body then being borne up town.
Soon after 1 o'clock the beat o
drums and the blare of trumpet
, were heard from the lower end o
the Park. A carriage came in view
in it was General Hancock. He wa
alone. and stood erect. Troopin,
behind him, on horseback, were tn
members of his staff. The Genera
rode to a point near the tomb. Al
he alighted he was met by Superin
tendent Murray, Commissions
Crimmins and others of the Parl
Board. General Hancock's aids ant
staff swept past. There were Gen
eral Fitzhugh Lee and Genera
Gordon, whom General Sherman
once met so warmly in other time
and under different circumstances
Both ex-Confederate Generals wor
sashes OF gray silk. Upon a com
mandlng slope, 100 yards north o
General Grants tomb, the staff off
GERS and aides drew rein beneath
clump of spreading trees.
Meantime helmets We're glistenin,
and plumes were waving over th
slope to the southwark the trap
pings upon many horses shone il
the sunlight; cannons and limberl
drawn by horses that were ridden b,
artillerymen came over the brow o
the southern slope, and orderlie
galloped to and fro, and sabres ant
accoutrements clattered and ratified
The regulars and marines, witt
: Light Battery +, of the Fifth Artil
lery, were coming down the drive
They marched out the slope wher
General Hancock s Staff was halted
. and there the infantry and marine
assumed positions of rest in tn,
shade and out upon the slope to
ward the Clermont Hotel, whicl
was covered with black drapery
The bands, with red coats and brigh
trappings, rested against t..s knoll
mounted men with plumed helmets
; marines with the uniforms of tn,
tars; the United States marine corp
with bright uniform saddle horse
with riders dismourted but holdinI
their bride reins; cannon muzzle
thrust from behind the lower benz
! of the hillock; pyramids OF stacke'
3 guns with gistening bayonets inter