The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-08-11

'.nHdi coini'duY : TJau, Slcpstu DOWN from
the cab OF tie engIn-. "From the frs
movement OF the train from Saratoga tC
this ins.amt," he remark. d TO one who had
ridden On the tram "yuu have hard n
SQUAD from bell or whist G" Il was true
At Albany.
Albany, y. u, Augu-t 5.-The fi'es o
pc pie which be.an passing the remains o
| Gelrral Gr,nt In the senate corridor at the
C ,p;tal, when the doors were first thrown
open Yesterday afternoon, had not denim
ished a; midnight. A solid tide Of visitors
entering irIm W shing,On avenne split al
| the foot OF the cssket and in two file
streamed cut through the Stale street
portico until ii o'clock in the morni q
Showers fell bat the throng had ben
main ainel without diminution. After
| o'clock the crowds lessene1 and a. >
o'clock The guards on duty beside tn. coffin
began TO relax and and at their ease.
Aft r two O'Clock the numbers were less
and les, until at o'clock the throng had
sunk 10 success on o. stragglers.
So few were there that more
time was permitted to visitors
10 view the remains. There was 4 com.
pna:ive respite until 3 o'clock, when the
struggle was renewed, and when it was 6
O'Clock 81, 200 people had viewed the re-
mains and the tide was again flowing ont,
two streams OF visitors wee suraing past.
The caskst line outside the capital building
increased with the hours until at 10 O'Clock
pope four abreast reached down Wash
IBgton avenue full book, TO where the
coming throngs were formed in line By a
stro1g force of police. At 10 o'clock it was
estimated that the remains were being
viewed by one hundred pc sons minute,
and that up 20 thst time 60, 600 persons had
seen the face of the dead general. At the
executive mansion the sons OF the general
with Drs. Douglas and NeRmau break
tasted quie ly, with the COVE nor. Day had
dawned bright and from the Country side
farmers and their fsmili-s b al come in
early TO see the great dead. Trains from
the east aDd W. st added their number of
strangers, and morning boats brought many
more. The committee OF ore hu8dred
prominent citiz rs OF New York CITY ap-
pointed by Mayer Gree u represent that
city at Albany, and accompany from tots
city 10 New York arrived. Spectators
have made efforts TO secure poss ssion OF
the ca:afalqus and funeral car after
the remains Depart. An OFF, of $1,000 has
BEEN made Tor the cataialque. As they
are the property o. the nalionsl govern
ment, however, il is not likely the relic
hunters will obtain them. The steel ca>k-
ct built at Troy was completed last evening
at O'Clock. Thousands of people have
visited the works in the last two days and
nights, and the day work has been pro-
gressei with, and neither tims dor expens.
has been spared to complete the WORK. The
casket was shipped this morn ng from
Troy, New York
AT 1870 o'clock the capital doors were
swung shut. A compact lire of waiting
visitors which extended over a block, was
thus shut of, and th-ss who had entered
were permitted 10 pass rapidly out, when
the stale street doors were closed and none
but the guard of honor from u. S. Grant.
post, Wheeler, pJst of Saratoga and six
men OF the loyal leg on were sllJwed TO re.
main. Undertakes now took charge and
so far as possible, prepared the remains for
The last s'a :e OF the journey. Outside the
capital, being iu the park, military orsan-
IL atoms were formi, z OF their ations and
msny companies were filing TO side streets |
to move at the word of command.
Slowly the funeral Car drawn by six |
black horses with their mourning trappings |
moved to the etate street side of the CAPT. |
toll. General Hancock, followed by his |
staff, approached the cspitol, as did also
General Farnsworlh and staff. Governor
Hill and staff we're in waiting. Eleven
o'clock had passed and it was q hslf hour
later when the great doors of the capital
swung open on the State street side, and the
guard of honor were seen by waiting crowds
With the remains inside the corridor. At
moment the guard moved out into the sun.
light TO slow strains OF music, thirteen men
ouching the casket and SO surrounding
md almost hiding it from view. The SOM
IRE car was waiting at the foot of the steps
q the street. Four men wers inside the
ar aud assisted in lifting the remains to
he black dias within the black catafalque.
'olonel Beck and Major Brown then
sDged their companies of regulars on eth.
r side of the car, the front being
evel With the heads of the
orses. The Grand Army guard
ook position. A blsre Of trumpeis rang I
at and the procession started at measured ]
ace down the street, the various orgsniza. {
ions following to form the procession, {
eschins Broadway amid the dull boom of {
annon and the tolling and Ginning OF 4
ellis In the st.eples. The march through s
to Steuben street and thence 10 r
be depot was every where densely thronged. b
ons Of General Grant and their compan- '
,ns of yesterday were drawn to the depot. q
here the long black funeral train was o
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