The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-08-09
THB END OF ALL
The Nations Dead at
His Final Rest.
IMPOSING CEREMONIES
The Grandsst Funeral Ever
iH' Seen in America
SYMPATHY FROM THE SOUTH
,,.,,,oriaI Services by the COlored
ASiil Folks k TOIling Bells and
Mourning People.
rps,AND FEDERALs.
.,>,rDvsArEsIAND FEDERALs
uho Wore the Gray Scarcely
Iho'o nemonstrative than those
who DOnned the Blue

NID ..aro closed to the people shortly
6 ~ o'clock this morning, and the re-
a,.tl If General Grant were left alone
With The guard. On his coffin rested
~ -1rostb of oak leaves, and formed
p.A, 10 shane of the letter &c" The
- -. crew on oaks in the forests OF
NJ MeGregor, and the afternoon OF
T T,' the day he died, little Julia
Nc granddaughter, and little Josie, Dr.
Donglas child, had gathered the oak
20 IN the mountain roads, then as
t ,Se Children prattled they knit with IN
1 'nC S,---' fingers and loving hearts the
aryeetb Of oak leaves that to-day Is tne
onIv tr;bnte that touches the General's
csstet The little ones, their offerings
fn;s6ed had taken it to Colonel Grant,
rbose ewes filed when his daughIer
asked: Papa, Josie and nave lnau l1s
this for grandpa and please won you
1--WE it 10 him?" The Colonel piace9
the Naken wreath on the casket. ana
there il rested in Albany and still re-
mains as the children's offering:
Asa O'Clock had passed, the strains OF
a dirre of music crept on the morning
air. st first distant. then drew nearer
and nearer: the red deepened
in the east, and sunrise was
near; the strains of music, slow and
sad grew more distinct, then the blue
coated veterans of Meade Post, (Phlla-
delphia). 500 strong, came tramplng to
the dirge music of trumpets. The East
was suffused with tints OF orange, anu
dawn was closer-the dawn OF the iun-
ersl day; the veterans entered the piazza
and marched past, while muff1ed drums
timed their footsteps; a heavy gun
doomed out toward the sea; the CHIMES
Of old Trinity pealed mournful tolls ana
the sound of muffled drums grew FAINT
er and then died away. Eight O'Clock
and nature was putting forth signals OF
an intensely warm day. The CROWDS
grew denser and denser around the
plaza; mufded drums and dlrgeful
trumphets marched in at one side ana
took position at the cast end. The play
ers were David's Island Military Band:
At S.35 General Hancock and staff
tramped slowly into the plaza from
broadway and presented front to the
City Hall, and the moved to the end
OF the plaza in Broadway, where they
rested. At this time, 100 members of
the Le'derranz Society filed up to the
steps OF the City Hall, and, led by four
instruments, sang with impressive
effect the chorus of the Spirits From
over the Water, and the chorus of
The Pllglims," by Tannhauser. THE
honOr guard OF regulars filed into the
ogpen space at o'clock, Company A
ruth artillery under Colonel w. B.
DECK, and Company E, Twelfth infan-
,,fy' under Major Brown. The regu-
lars took position beneath the trees OPP
Posite the City Hall, and stood at rest.
men came the original guard of honor
lnsl was on duty at Mount McGregor,
anu winch alone should lift the re-
mains to-day. Filing into the corri-
u1rs Of the City Hall they took their
PlaSes beside the remains, and
uleer command of John H. Johnson,
senior Vlee-commander of the Grant
rVsl OF the G. A. r. of Brooklyn.
Al S.35 the imposing funeral car was
- tI oy twenty-four jet black horses
n olaek trappings. 1t halted ON the
pta1a directly in front of the City Hall
1I, Ups Inside the corridor Commander
unison roti.sh was waiting the columns in
p l,, night and left, when his COM
,na;, the guard of honor, Lift the re-
io r,rItt Us was his command, in clear, but
tIo 'oiieS. The twelve men stopped to
III SIVer rails with gloyed hands,
,o a1roSh, was the word. The body
bo 'yoe ~ out upon the portlco where they
irr,s '1e remains, Commander Johnson
st.s,--'--ediately at the bead. Down the
ona mp With measured tread, across the
mp vu 70 the steps of the car, Com
silver y Johnson stepped aside, the
case INC inn99untings glistening as the burial
RED d, anu Its honored burden were car
mo NOV " ana placed upon the dais on the
tjreJ ilseu catafalque. The veterans re-
.Iono eown the steps. The body was
soon ~. ioT all to view, but deeply guarded.
IN e; sle honor guard next TO the hearse
pos;t,oer side, took the same relative
rems siou they had maintained to the
tho s.I9' While being borne to the car !;
hears were drawn away from the
pleca commander Johnson took his
the N I'm IN the centre Immediately behind
ei.ba-- neral car; at his left and right in
radss rear corner of the car were Com
Post gong and Armsbee, of Wheeler
direc.,eE saratoga; respectively next and
Tres - behind these were represeu ia
As ,ot the Loyal on. abreast
Gen ~. o@s: General ] 10 J. Micken
Ter "a u. Z. A. Carbon, Paymas,
ael FFSSosse D. Barton, Lieutenant-Colo.
A n 'o y GARRISON, Lieuten, t-Colsnel
der. ozark. and Captain e. Blunt The
reefs tc the iemains bv alIs J1f ,e IRE re