Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-08-08
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BORNE TOTHE TOMB.
The Dead Chieftain Laid
at Rest To-day.
IMPOSING FUNERAL PAGEANT.
4 GRAND and SOLEMN PROCESSION.
CEREMONIES IN RIVERSIDE PARK,
MEMORABLE SCENES IN NEW YORK.

MEMORABLE SCENES IN NEW YORK.
CLOSING THE CASKET.
The Last View Of the Dead Face-Final
Scenes at the City HaIl-The Floral
Tributes Around the Casket.
NEW YORK, August S.-Chief of Police Muir
ray at ! O'Clock this morning was in command
OF men and affairs at the city hall. AT that hour
the iron gates were about to be closed, when he
observed that there were 500 or 900 people
yet waiting AT the foot of the steps and across
the plaza: ''Let them come in." commanded
the superintendent to the officers, who at com
mand had shut Off the people. And then fol-
lowed ten minutes of the most expeditions hus-
thing of human beings that has probably been
known since the emancipation proclamation.
The material was comprised almost entirely of
men, and iusty policemen supplemented their
admonitiOns of haste with exceedingly effective
persuasion of Il muscular character. Men and
boys were Shot through the city hall with such
CELEBRITY as will render the occasion to them dou-
bly, memorable. The last person had at last
crossed the well worn threshold and the iron
gates changed shut. The public had taken its
leave of the dead general Officers of the list
regiment were on duty and the usual detail of
Grant Post was present AZ immediate body
guard, while the Loyal Legion WAS represented
the caskct. One OF Wheeler Post, Saratoga,
which first mounted Il guard dctul about the
mountain cottage the day Of Genera! Grants
death, was also present. The last OF the general
public had shufiled away through the black
draped corridors and out of the building. The
hour was 1:1S am. None but the police and
guards and all-night reporters were present
when the undertakers took char of the re-
mains.
TIE LAST LOOK.
"Any here who now desire to view the re-
mains will step forward at once said tie
undertaken, and his voice echoed in the dark,
still corridors. al present passed by the casltet
ami IyIng-i;l state Of the cX-prcsidcnt had
ended. lndertaker Merritt then brushed the
glass plates above the body, and drew from
their places the two lids which the c;,sket.
The four screws in each were turned down, and
rom view, unless there shall in the future from
the funiiy be II request to remove the lids. Then
the dead was lett IN care OF guards, vino stood
erect and silently within the closed iron cate,
and beneath the black drapings The hight
wore on and the gray OF daylight was creeping
up in the east.
THE FLORAL Tribute
The still air of the tomb-ike corridors became
heavy with the perfume of whitening flowers
near the dead. A huge piece-"The Gates
Ajar.'-had place at the head of the c:,s.1et
and the sweet smell Of the lilies was borne
down to those who stood and watched. Great
their fragrance, and u cross and crown, from
Mayor +. G. Latrobe, OF Baltimore. sent gu; its
quot; to the heavy perfume that settled on the
Sepu!chrai air. But there was one tribute that
pore no fragrance, except such as viii come
tenderiy to the family OF the dead. 1t bore 10
perfume save that which lives in its memories
This token was Il plain wreath of oak leaves,
pinnedtoSe;he her with stems OF oak leaves, and
formed in the shape of u letter c. The leaves
and huttered in the mountain breezcs white
Gen. Grant was dying, and on the afternoon OF
Ihursd'y.:he day he died-iittIe Julia,
las child, had gathered the oak leaves IN
the mountain woods. Then as the children
prattled they Knit with innocent fingers and
* q n OAK INT tn
day is the only tribute that touches the gene
rails casket. The little ones, their offering fin
filled when his daughter SAID: "Papa, Josie and
have made this for grandpa, and please won't
you give it to him" The colonel placed the
OaGcn wreath on the caslet then; it rested there
in Albany, and still remains as the children's
Offering.
THE SCENE AT DAYBREAK.
-Four O'Clock had passed. The gray Of dawn
had deepeued 10 red. Daylight was near The
strains OF drgc music crept on the morning air.
At first distant they grew nearer and nearer.
The red deepened in the east Sunrise was near,
The strains OF music. slow and Sad, grew more
DISTINCT. Then hlue-coated veterans of Meade
Post, Philadelphia, 800 strong, came tr:,mpng
To tie dirgc music oil the trumpets. The east
was snt:nscd with tints of orange. and dawn
Was c!:sef-the dawn of the funeral day. The
veterans entered the plaza and marched past
While mutfled drums timed their footsteps
heavy gun doomed out towards the sea. The
chimes of old Trinity pealed mournful notes,
ana the sound OF muihed drums grew fainter
and died out. 1t was sunrise. The day was
Dorn-the last day for the dead upon earth be-
fore the tomb should have opened to shelter him.
Six O'Clock and Wilson Post of Baltimore,
marched by with Il Chicago organization. The
corridors had been picketed by 10 policemen
while outside 12o more men were at rest under
command OF two sergcants.
THE LAST GUARD
ofthe Grant G. A. r. post, save the thirteen
who will attend the body to the tomb, had
been mounted at five O'Clock. Their names
were Geo. T.. TAFT, JAS Hands, w. c. Young. p.
8: Williamson, G. +. kenney, w. +. Carshaw,A a.
III. Frost, JnO. Curtain, JAS a. Bronson and +.
A. Miller At $50 Capt. A. G. Barry and men.
of the seventy-first regiment, went on duty rs
the last military body guard before removal
Inspector steers, with three hours sleep, in as
many days, was In charge. 81 am awaiting the
coming OF the military, and shall have three
hundred and forty men here at eight O'clock"
OF solemn music fioated in at the grated iron
doors from many directions.
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