River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-08-13
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Square and the Fifth Avenue Hotel,
which were the uptown points where
the interest ccntCred.
In the main hall, Gen. Sherman, tall
and erect and smoking big cigar, was
the center of an admiring throng. He
stool in a group of naval officers,
chatting pleasantly with old friends.
The party were all in full uniform and
attracted universal attention that flag
ged only for moment, when file of
attendants of the Japanese minister
entered. The big marble hall was
completely choked with humanity long
before O'Clock. In the big par
lors. up stairs, all was stir and hustle.
While the president and his cabinet
ministers were at breakfast in one end
of the building, and the Grant family
quietly preparing for the pageant at
the other end, committees, organiza-
lions and delegations We're gathering
and getting ready here, there and ev-
erywhere. Badges, sashes and militia
ry orders found way for the members
in the seeming inextricable confusion
of swarming humanity.
THE PAIL BEARERS.
In guest parlor, oil the ladies' par
Tor. facing the square, a group of seri-
Gus men, most of them gray-haired and
old, but nearly all erect and of vigOr-
Gus physique, were putting on broad,
silken sashes of white and black. They
were the pail bearers and they were a
striking group. Gen. Sherman, sum
moned up from his friendly confab be-
low, resplendent in military toggery,
stood in friendly conversation with a
tall man, in white mustache and chin
beard and soldierly bearing one rccog-
nized ut a glance the gallant Confeder-
ate, Gen. Buckncr, from whom Grant
wrested his first hard-won laurels at
Fort DOnelson. Gen. Buckncr was i'll
ordinary black citizens dress. A
smaller man, similarly attired, at the
other end of the room, whose gray hair
formed I. striking contrast to the leo
nine name and fierce black mustachc
of Gen. Logan, with whom he was
talking, was the famous Gen. Joe
Johnston, the brayest of the brave who
succCmbed to Gen. Grant 5 sword.
Hamilton Fish was not among the pail
bearers. He was sick, and the presi-
dent had appointed A. j. Drexel, of
Philadelphia in his stead. AT the last
moment it is said that Admiral Worden
had been appointed a pall-bearer in
place of Admiral Rowan.
The pail bearers as finally arranged
were accordingly as follows:
Gen. William T. Sherman, u. $. A.
Lieut.. Gen. Phillip FL. Sheridan, U. s. A.
Admiral David ID. Porter, U. S. n.
Vice Admiral Worden, U. S. n.
Gen. Joseph +. Johnston, of Virginia.
Gen Swain b. Buckner, of Kentucky.
George $. Boutwell,, of Massachusetts.
George w. Childs, of Pennsylvania.
John A. Logan, of Illinois.
George Jones, of New Y ork.
Oliver HOyt, of New York.
A. j. Drexel, of Philadelphia.
The Grant family were quietly gath
cred in their parlOrs overlooking the
square, and strangers were rigidly eX-
cluded from the hall leading to their
rooms. Mrs Grant had not arrived
and it was announced that she would
not attend the funeral, but had con
cluded to stay at Mt. McGregor. She
was reported by DR.. Newman to be
still weak and i'll, though not confined
to her bed The party who had gath
cred at the hotel, ready to take car
riages for their positions in the parade
when the column should have adj
yanced so far as to permit their carria-
oeS to fall in line from the hotel, were
Mrs Fred ID. Grant, Mrs. Sartoris, Mr..
and Mrs. u. S. Grant, Jr., Mr.. and
Mrs. Jesse Grant, Mrs. Cramer, Mrs,
Dent, Miss Cramer, Gen. Creswell,
Mr. Stephen l.. M0riarity, Senior Ro-
mara apd Mr. w L Arkpll
At 1910 precisely the Grant family
came out of the ladies entrance in the
Fifth Avenue hotel and took their car
riages. Col Fred Grant and his wife
rode with Gen. Grants favorite daugh-
ter Nellie, Mrs. Sartoris. U. 5. Grant,
,Jr., and his wife and Senator German
occupied the next carriage together,
Mir. and Mrs Jessie Grant the third
and the Cramer family the fourth car
riage.
THE PRESIDENT AND OTHER DISTIN-
GUISHED VISITORS.
AS the carriages received their occu-
pants they rolled away toward the ave-
nue., and remained there, closely wcdg-
ed in and waiting for their turn in the
line. They had been waiting more than
a quarter of an hour before President
Cleveland came out and took his seat
in his carriage with Secretary Bayard.
A four-horse carriage that followed re-
ceived Vice President Hendricks and
his private secretary, Hugh East.
Ahead of them had gone q number of
carriages, following the Grant family
in the following order: Mrs. Rawlins
Holman. daughter of Gen. Grant S
friend and first secretary of war; the
generals old staff in four carriages; his
cabinet officers, in four carriages; de-
tachments from Wheeler and u. S.
Grant posts, G.. A. r., four carriages;
M. j. DreXel and members of the Aztec
club; survivors of the Mexican war; the
president 5 carriage; the vice president
and the cabinet, in five carriages; the
members of the supreme court; United
States senate; the house congressional
committee in score of carriages; the
committee of the state legislature in
thirty carriages; cX-Presidents Arthur
and HAYES and members of their cabi-
nets; then the foreign ministers and
diplomatic and consular officers of Gen.
Grants administration. These filled
ten carriages; then came the represen-
tatives of the different departments o
the national governments; next came
the governors of states with their stalls
and then the representatives of various
cities.
JOINING THE RANKS.
The catafalque passed Twenty-third
street at o'clock sharp. The hum of
expectation that had preceded 1t was
settled as it passed by, and all heads
were uncovered. Many heads We're
bowed, and an old negro woman, who
somehow had pushed forward to the
curb, and there wedged in, essayed
vainly to kneel, with tears streaming
down her wrinkled face. Shewas held
fast by the crowd and could not stir
On single, telegraph pole on the
corner of Broadway and Twenty-third
streets, were perched not less than
twenty-eight spectators.
AS soon as the catafalque had passed
the carriages containing Col, Fred
Grant. his wife and sister, fell in. The
mourners' coaches fell quickly in line
without confusion. Both Mr. Cleve-
land and Mr.. Hendricks had tired Of
the long wait, after sitting in their
carriages stared at by the anxious
crowd till 11:30 O'Clock and retired to
their rooms in the hotel. They OBJ
served the parade from their windows
and did not again come out until the
catafalque had passed the hotel Their
carriages had remained at the door
Gaoraforios Endicaft and Manning.