Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1885-08-08
A SOLID STREAM
or People Flowing All Day Through
the City Hall to View Gen. Grants
Remains.
Three Hundred Thousand Persons Look
Upon the Face of the Dead for
the Last TiRe.
Final Preparations for the Funeral To-
Day-Order in Which the Process
sion viii Meyes
Great Crowds OF Strangers Arriving by
Every Train and Boat-Ex-
traOrdinary
Assemb'ages n ths Hotel Lobbies and
o. the Streets-War Times
Recalled.


Recalled.
NEW YoRk, August when the
CITY Hall gates were shut at l O'Clock
th,s naorning, and when the shuttle of
OF footsteps had ceased, the undertakers
and embalmers came. The face of Gen.
double plates of glass. Then the under
takers observed that dust had settled
upon the lower plates of glass and they
removed the top plate so that the other
might be cleaned. Surprise was then
expressed that such an accumulation of
dust should have been possible through
the fine, close joints made, by the closing
of the surface plate The glass was
cleaned and polished anew, the top plate
replaced and the lids Of the casket
fastened down. Tho royal purple velvet
that covers Che casket had become dusty
with the rising particles from all the
shuffiIng o. the thousands who passed
through the day. Carefully it was brushed
and eleansed of Dust Many hands dur
ing the day had touched the silver rails
aud moist hands had felt the trountings.
There were stains 1pon each because of
Gulb. WCTc T6UlONeu, IH6
fipishfhgo polished highly aud the under
takers and others went out.
THE BODY HAD NOT BEEN TOUCHED.
AS early as 4 o'clock Inspector Steers
had line of officers placed along the
route of the procession from the City
Hall gates to the Fountain Circle. At
| that hour there were some thousands
damned back by the $50 men that the
I'M .tp,- haY, hoe 4,
another guard detail OF Grand Army
men was mounted at the casket Be-
tween 4 and 5 o'clock the crowd had be-
come a throng, and its line reached from
the fountain, along Park Row, to Centre
street, turning the corner of Chambers
| street: Every train on the big bridge
| brought recruits who scurried across
Chatham and Centre streets to the point
where the loose crowd was being merged
| into solid procession. At the same,
| relative hours to day there were rbonse
ands more in the stream rnan Yesterday.
The fact was due TO the belisfsnd ex-
Perlience LAT the early onez had yesterday
| 'he ieast time to wait, so it was that the
4 carly down town cars, between > and 6
/ o clock, brought hundreds of ladies and
gentlemen who had thought to be in ad-
vance Of the great crowd. The City
Hall clock marked 5:55 o'clock when
Junior Vice Commander Crauston of the
| Y. S. Grant Post, lifted the covers from
| the casket, passed his handkerchief over
the glass plate, and then assumed his
place the head of the detail of Grand
Army men. st. Paul's was tolling
o clock when the
| IRON GATES WERE THROWN BACK.
The first to pass through were, as on
yesterday, women Each was middle
aged, and each could not appreciate but
that the day and the remains were at
their disposal. Several hands and voices
| reminded them otherwise with not lit
| tie suddenness. A solid stream had
again commenced flowing across the
plaza to the entrance. The human
stream was flowing just as though 100, 900
had not shuffied over the same stones
yesterday. After fifteen minutes the en-
tire lire was stepping, stepping, stepping
from away above Chambers street.
A CURIOUS STUDY.
To an observer on the steps at the City
Hall the manner of the men in the crowd
while uncoveriug their heads is a curious
study. Many who are better acquainted
with social customs and the prOprieties
of State occasions constitute class IN
plaza and nearing the steps there may be
observed symptoms of consciousness that
the head covering must come off Some
remove their hats on the lower step, and
their demeanor is such as to indicate APP
probation of the dignity of the occasion.
Before the gates are reached the hat is
removed, and the department of those
alluded to comports with curious bulg-
ing eyes and seeming only to feel that
there is something to be seen, and their
only present purpose In life being to be-
hold all that is to be seen. There is no
suggestion in their manner that any def.
erence is to be paid anywhere to any
person or thing. They mount the step;
with covered heads, the gates are passeC
with hats on, and only an afterthought
suggested the usual courtesy. A fora
, remembrance frem Gen. Grants ole
home, Galena, ILL.,, was placed near the
remains to- day. Inspector Steers thi
morning states that he has orders t.
close the gates at | o'clock tonight, ant
he also states that the remains will thel
i | be turned over to the undertakers anC
3 the public will not again be permitted t,
see them At noon the line had ex
tended up Broadway above Leonar'
street, and up to that hour $4,000 per
3 sons had visited the remains.
) GEN. THALER
/ this afternoon officially stated that a
: near as can now be determined the righ
, | of the division tomorrow will be a
Twenty seventh street and Fifth avenue
o and the head of the escort when Gen
8 Hancock passes to the front will be a
about Twenty-third street. When tn
1 head of the escort column arrives at tn
: tomb line will be formed on the ca.
' J side Of the Riverside drive. AS the cat
!, afalque is passing arms will be presente
. by the regiments A regiment will b
detailed from each brigade by Brig
Gems. Ward and Fitzgerald respectivel
Q to fire three vo leys at the tomb.
9 THE<TIDE STILL PASSING.
Midday passed and there was n
n diminution of the constant trail Of pee
: pie so anxius to see the almost unrecog
o nizable face of the dead general. At
}, clock the line reached up Broadway I
l. a point near Canal street. The tide Wa
o flowing past the remains at about II
it per minute, as on yesterday, and at
u o'clock nearly $4,000 persons had We've
the body since the gates were opened ;
'e O'Clock this morning.
ot Lieut.-Col. Smith of the Seventh reg
20 ment this afternoon was seized with
Is fainting fit while sitting in the aide
- manic chamber Physicians were callG
and restored him to consciousness.
70 Permits granted to truckmen TO star
N their trucks on side streets near the III
i'd of procession tomorrow were tod;
e. revoked by the proper authorities.
Or ARRIVAL OF THE PRESIDENT.
n President Cleveland and party arriy,
at the Fifth Avenue Hotel about
u o'clock tonight and proceeded imm
le diately to their rooms. People fro
or every section of the Union are heI
ne TIE hotels and every other availab
m place for sleeping are crowded to the
~, utmost capacity tonight, and many ha
been forced to go TO Brooklyn, Jers
~ CITY and other adjacent cities for aecol
1t, modations. A larger number of disti
ed guished men from every part of t
ay Union will be gathered on Manhatt
=, Island tomorrow than ever before in t
=, history of the nation.
no GRAND ARMY SERVICES.
an Gen. Hancock has issued an order
So the following effect: Preceding t
~ ~ burial services under the direction
IN. the Rev. DIR. Newman at the tomb,
Va accordance with the wishes of the tami
he the ritual service for the burial of vet,
90 an comrades of the q. A. r. will be &C
a Quoted by representation of the G.
,as r. to be designated by Commander
Chiet S. 5. Burdette of that organizatij