Daily Republican., 1885-08-08

The scene as the funeral-car rumbled
slowly through the streets has never
been parallel in this city. Looking
from tie roofs of the tall houses along
the line, the streets could not be seen by
reason of the vast multitude. They
were great canons overlooking for miles
with closely packed, eager stream OF
spectators. The tide rolled away up the
high, broad steps of the houses, and did
| not even cease at the doorways. Every
window held dozen gazers, and even
the roofs were pressed into service. The
dresses of the thousands of ladies on the
the dark badges of mourning that iiut-
i tered from every house front seem all
the gloomier by contrast
NEW YORK IN MOURNING.
The cortege moved OH through miles
of black diaperies. As the Car and its
purple casket advanced the murmurings
of the crowds sounded like the sea hush
ing after II storm. 1t was all genuine,
heartfelt emotion stirred up in thousands
of hearts by the sweet, plaintive music
and the presence of the dead soldier in
the streets he loved. Away up Broad
way the crowd stretched, now filling the
street from wall to wall, and straining
its eyes for sight of the procession,
now parting and falling back to the
curb fine to let the cortege pass
So the noble procession moved through
lthe- draped city,@past hundred thou
sand reyerent spectators and through
l. long lines of policemen. All flags were
Mt half mast and the streets were ut times
wallis of black. The space i'll front OF
the fifth Avenue Hotel was packed from
curb to curb, and through the middle OF
the mass lane was cut by the process
sion. Every stoop was jammed with
spectators They hung out of windows,
! watched through transoms and peered
, over rooftops. A more impressive spec
ltacle could no: be imagined. The throne
was even greater than attended any CT the
! lpolitical demonstration last fall. Fan
away down Twenty-Third street and the
] lother tributaries to the square, throngs
, who could only get near enough to heal
the music fought and trampled on eacl
other in their efforts to draw neal
enough to see Slowly, but never halt
ing, the mournful procession moved OF
to the music of many dlrges.
AS the funeral approached the OH
Brick Church, at Thirty Seventh street
the bell began tolling and did not ceas
until the car was far out OF sight In
TJnion League Clubhouse was full {
spectators. They sat with uncovere
heads, row upon row, for many feet bac
of every window So perfect was tt
management of tho procession that thei
is were no delays or bitches at any pom
L. Even the electric light wires were NJ
ID forgotten. Men with long slaves hu
ut ried to each one in advance OF the c.
I'd and thrust the wires high up to allow
of to pass under. The bell of the Collee
le ate Dutch Reformed Church tollt
n. while the blnck-plumed car passed. b
nd In fact, all the churches along the rou
n nnid this tribute to the dead hero.
od There seemed to be q magnetism
ol. the plain casliet OF silver-trlmmed pt
rst ple which drew the people by tionsan
he from all parts OF the city The gre
Mt. evervwhere. AS the car drew he
,se ,no,iy every man lifted his hat. Esl
I'd. c;oilv was this SO with plainly cloth
ck n,en in mechanics or laborer's attn
wy There were, however, many young m
yer in the tbrong dressed in painful iml
oy, t;on of English costume who looked
,ts, ! oil that passed with q dull stare.
ed. almost every case they failed to uneo'
eet their heads as the funeral car went
of One Of them was about to strike bill
ny. man who had shuffled against him WI
the one of Inspector Byrne's detectives 81
u him hurrying along;
of The eminence at the northern eXtre
iite ity of Riverside Park, which Gene
ack Grants tomb and monument will mi
his the shrine of perpetual pilgrima
ion commands one of the finest OF the mi
mt. fine views on the Hudson Xiv
With Neither Washington's nor Llnco
ned tomb has so commanding site