New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-08-12

given him as keepsake Bg his chief With
Vice President Hendricks rode his secretary,
Mr.. East. his friend, Mr.. Depew of Indiana,
and Senator Blair of New Hampshire
A PICTURESQUE GLIMPSE OF THE LINE
New YORK, Special Telegram Aug SIT
seemed that the last height attainable by
human hands in imposing and majestic dis
! play was reached when the grandest military
and civic pageant of modern times. perhaps
OF all time, swept slowly and solemnly across
| the broad spaces of Madison square, the
heart and center of the city At that moment
Madison square was the center and nucleous
OF the greatest aggregation of people ever
known in America. The throng was simply
incalulable, vast beyond comprehension by
number Of units You might as well speak
| of a prairie wheat field by the number Of
heads Of wheat as to speak Of the throng of
| to-day by individuals In and about Madi-
son square every place that a person
could stand upon, crouch upon, climb upon
or cling to was occupied. and one could feel
the weight of the presence of the other
hundreds of thousands that one could not
see. For nine miles the narrow channel of
the procession ran through two vast, crush
ing, crowding and clinging masses of human
beings. From the street edge maintained
by the police the compact CROWD took all the
space. They packed the pavements, cov-
cred all steps, stoops and balconies and
filled all windows. They hung upon lamp
posts, and telegraph poles We're black with
them swarms of people covered the roofs.
some Of them looking down from height
OF from ten to twelve stories. Windows
along the line of march were eagerly rented
! q Dol n
airy stands sold at
| PRICES THAT WE'RE SIMPLY AMAZING.
and chance to stand upon flight of steps
was worth from 81 to So. Some single
windows brought $50, and one balcony ca
pable of holding twelve or fifteen people,
near the Hotel Brunswick, brought $500.
Peddlers in the crowd sold hundreds of foot
stools, about eight inches high, and they were
eagerly snatched up at so cents each Peo-
pie who were fortunate enough to secure
| one of these and to elevate themselves
above the level of the crowd were much en-
We'd by those who could only see the horse
men and the tops of the folded flags Those
lucky ones were kept busy calling out the
names OF the organizations as they passed
along. person of ordinary height few
feet from the line Of march, could see very
little. Now and then he caught the flash
! of plume, and all the time he heard
| the solemn music and the tread of marching
feet 1t is probable that many thousands
who stood for long hours hardly saw the
| procession at all Added to the difficulty
was the fact that all the people occupying
front places kept up their umbrellas and
parasols all the time, regardless of the re-
quests and entreaties and aften impreca-
lions of those in the rear. The promptness
with which the procession appeared before
| the Fifth Avenue hotel was astonishing. At
| 1870 o'clock to the minute Gen. Hancock
and staff came in sight, when nobody ex-
pected him for an hour. This showed the
good OF having the procession headed by
and under the managenento the regulars.
| ALMOST EVERY NATION ON EARTH.
even China, with her violet and white, the
mourning colors of the Orient, horse foot
and artillery, civic, public and private;
music OF mufled drums, of brass bands, Of
bagpipes, of flies and cymbals; and so
through the long hours the mighty pageant
passed by. All the conditions and circum-
stances were colossal Men grew to greater
stature by hours that interviewed To be
part and parcel of such a stupendous dem
onstration was to have higher ideas of man
kind and it's capacity to exult in the pride of
common humanity capable of such
scenes as these great deal the
most impressive feature of the event
was the vast silence. It was comparatively
absolute. No matter how softly the
/, mut1led drums were rolled you could
hear them squares away. The only heavy
sound was the rul1i55..;;hg Of the cannon
wheels. When the band Of the Third New
Jersey regiment passed by, playing Nearer
My God to Thee" the sweet, solemn strains
were distinctly audible far up Fifth avenue,
many squares beyond where they would
have been lost in the noise Of an ordinary
| day. The wailing sound of the flies of the
Fourth Connecticut drum corps, playing the
sad sweet notes OF "Pleyels Hymn" could
be heard almost from the time they swung
into Fifth avenue from Fourteenth street
The drum corps of the Sixth New Jersey
band played sFlee as a Bird to the Noun
tain, and the band of the Continental Foot
Guards of Massachusetts, played Sweet
Spirit, Hear My Prayer" AS general thing,
THE CHOICE OF MUSIC
! by the bands was not good and was of too
high an order to appeal to the emotion of a
general gathering. From the hundreds of
musical organizations that passed but few
! played the simple and tender airs familiar to
the people, and dozen of the bands played
the Dead March in Saul, and more than that
| played Chopin's "Funeral March. Thefuneral
hymns of the operas were the favorites, but
when such an air as "Ncarer my God to
Thee" was played the effect could be seen
at once the deepened hush, the uncovering
OF heads and tears in the eyes Of the women
The bands about the catafalque played
Chopin's Funeral March, and played it mag
niicently, but would have touched the hearts
Of the people more tenderly had they played
"Rest Spirit, Rest" or aRock of Ages" 1t
was 1 o'clock when the catafalque
passed through Madison Square. 1t was the
moment OF the day. For that all waited;
about that all interest conferred; from that
radiated and influences reaching to deeper
and holier depths of human emotion than
all the music, all the trappings of grief or
all the vast display could 60. There was a
long break and open space before the car OF
death, and the suspense in the presence OF
that advance was almost painful. Down that