The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-08-09
GRANT AT REST f!
The Greatest Funeral Pageant
Ever Seen in This Country
Honors the Dead.
Yet by the surgsBg Thousands
Nothing but Respect and
sorrow L. shown,
And NOibing Occurred to Mar
the Dignity nud Order of
the Occasion.
Mrs. Grant too III 10 be Pres
Numerous Incidents
Of the Day.
TItE FUNERAL RITES.
Enormous crowds In the streets TIL
Processiou-The Burinl.

Processiou-The burial.
New York, August S.-Chicf of Po-
lice Murray ut O'Clock this morning
was in command Of men and affairs at
the City Hall. Al that hour the iron
gates were closed and the public had
taken its leave of the dead general At
aylight stratus of dirgo music were
waited on the morning air, at first dis
tant, but they drew nearer and more
distinct. Then the bluc-coa,ed veter-
ans of Meade Post, of Philadelphia,
800 strong, came tramping by to the
dirgc music OF trumpets. A heavy
gun doomed out toward the sea; the
chimes of old Trinity rang out their
mournful notes and the sound of muf-
He'd drums drew fainter aud then died
away. II was the dawn ofthc last day
for the dead before the tomb should
have opened to shelter him. At
o'clock Wilson Post, of Balti-
more, marched by in company with II
Chicago organization and at G:3C
Captain Berry and his men of the
Seventy First regiment went on dut
ms the last military body-guard before
the final removal; then came the orig.
inal guard of honor that was ON duty
at Mt. McGregor, who alone should
lift the remains to-day. Filing into tn,
corridors of the city hall they took
their places beside the remains, being
under command of John A. johnson
senior vice commander of Grant posi-
of the q. A. X. of Brooklyn. At 1851
the
IMPOSING FUNERAL CAR,
drawn by twenty-four jet black horses
in black trappings, halted Oh the
square directly in front of the City
Hall steps. Inside the corridor Com
mander johnson was waiting and
strains of solemn music Heated in at
the grated iron doors, from many di-
rcctions. The crowds grew denser
around the square, bodies of men with
muilled drums and dirgeful trumpcis
marched In at one side aud took posi-
tons at the east end. At $50 a. m.
GENERAL HANCOCK AND STAFF
trooped slowly into the plaza.
The LicderkranZ societies sang with
impressive effect the chorus of, "The
Spirits from over the Water" and the
chorus of "rhe pilgrims" "The
honor guard of regulars filed into po-
sition. "liight and lcft," was the
command. The veteran guard of
honor was erect. Lift the remains
was the next command and the twelve
men stopped TO the silver rails with
gloved hands. March" was the word
and the body was borne ont upon the
porch, with Commander johnson
Immediately at the head. Down the
steps with measured tread and across
the open space to the steps of the
black aud waiting car, the burial
case aud its honored burden WAS car
ried and placed upon the ds's Of tne
catafalque, The clergy and physi-
clans had PAID their respe' Is TO the re-
mains by align ting from the carriages
and accompanying them from the
steps to the car; they
then entered carriages on either side
of the square near Broadway.
Colored men were at the brides of
each of the horses, the signal was
given and the line of coaches with the
clergymen moved oil the plaza on to
broadway; Colonel Beck advanced to
the head of the line aud ordered the
column to move OH.
Thousands bcheath trees and crowd.
ing the sides of the squares looked on
the black funeral car rolling over the
curb into Broadway and
GENERAL GRANTS LAST JOURNEY
was begun. At 1852 Mayor Grace
Comptroller LOew and the
members of the common coun
| ell entered carriages, as did also
the police commissioners, and followe,
the cortege out of the square.
All night long carpenters had beer
busy in Broadway, and the morning
sun revealed the presence of hundred
of hastily erected viewing stands fror
which the great procession could b
seen. The decorators too had nc
been idle, and on the front of man
great warehouse were displayed en-
Dlems of mourning which were ne
, there the night before. Broadwa
presented All animated animated spe
tacle. AS far rs the eye could rea,
the sidewalks were thronged vii
people, Every train and steamer pou
, eel in its load into tho gre
/ artery of travel, aud bronz,
. faces from the country Al
I pale faces from city counting roor
{ and offices, and dirty faces from d
Q tenement districts were in the crow
Rich and poor, rogue and rascal, III
nitarities and nonenties, jostled ca
other on the ourbsiones and SD
= walks, but everybody seemed TO
IS good-natured and took the jostli
II and jamming as a matter of cour
l. The police tried TO keep the people
10 the street, but il was difficult to do
n Inside the kiflh Avenue hotel an
ereasing ihrong OF gold-laeed and u