The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-08-10
CHIEF MouRNERS.
Position of the Grant Family, the
President and Other DjgnitarjeS.

NEW YORK, Aug. Sat $50 o'clock, Col
Hodges summoned the pall-bearers to their
carriages. The Presidents carriage, drawn
by SIX horses, was called up to the door next,
but it had fully an hour to wait.
AT 9.2O President Cleveland called his cab
met together, and arrangements were made
for the order in which they were to leave the
hotel to take their places in the procession
The hands on the clock in front of the hotel
pointed to 1905 when General Hancock and
General Shalor rode under its windows at
the head OF the big procession, followed by
the regulars, who, in passing, reversed arms,
While the bands played mournful dirges.
Along the line of the avenue, where the
troops of the 1st Division, National Guard,
were drawn up, guns were shouldered as the
General passed The regiments of the 1St
Division stretched southwark from near
twenty eighth street in continuous line on
the east side OF Fifth avenue, and in the side
streets, the I'd Battery, Capt. Earle, mount
ed, but without guns, occupying the extreme
right On the west side of the avenue con-
tlnuous line of Grand Army organizations
extended down as far as the eye reached;
Between these files of citizen soldiers passed
the long procession with veiled flags, muffied
drums and arms reversed. The great silent
throng watched it go by from street and
square, from windows, housetops, balconies
and perches that seemed hanging in the air
so daringly had they been thrust forwards
from the buildings
Throughout the line the crowd was so
dense that its power to exercise pressure
had passed. Where it stood, it remained, an
inert mass from sheer inability to move
foot. Even the policemen were walled in,
and, finding their occupation gone, stood still
with the rest.
At 1910 precisely. the Grant family came
out of the ladies' entrance in the Fifth
Avenue Hotel, and took their carriages. Col.
Fred Grant and his wife rode with General
Grants daughter, Nellie. U. S. Grant Jr.,
and his wife and Senor Romero occupied the
next carriage, MI. and Mrs. Jesse Grant the
the third, and the Cramer family the fourth
carriage.
A four-horse carriage that followed re-
ceived Vice President Hendricks and his pr-
yate secretary. Ahead of them had gone
number of carriages following the Grant
family in the following order: Mrs. Rawlins
Holman, daughter of General Grants friend
and first Secretary of War; the Generals old
staff in four carriages, his ex-cabinet officers
in four carriages. detachments from Wheeler
and U. S. Grant Posts, G. A. R., in four car
riages, j. W. Drexel and members of the
Aztec Club, survivors of the Mexican war
Next there came the Presidents carriage,
the Vice President and the cabinet in five
carriages, the members of the Supreme
Court, United States Senators, the House
Congressional Committe in a score of carr-
ages Gov. Hill and his suite in five carriages,
the Committee of the State Legislature in so
carriages, eX-PreSidents Arthur and Hayes
and members of their cabinets, the foreign
ministers and diplomatic and consular Off
GERS under Gen. Grants administration.
These filled 10 carriages. Immediately fol-
lowing were $50 carriages carrying the official
guests,