Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-07-30
HIS RESTING PLACE.

/ HIS RESTING PLACE
Central Park, New York, Decided Upon ~
the Resting Place For the Remains Of
General Grant-August Sth the Day Set
For the Public Funeral-Private services
at the Cottage August 4th.
| MT. McGREGoR, N. Y, July 25.-The
following message, received by Mr..
Turner, Mayor Grace's chief clerk, late
Yesterday AFTERNOON settled that the
place of burial shall be Central Park:
Your telegram at hand, and I understand
| General Grants body is to be inferred here.
| We can not take any more definite action in
later date. The faith Of the President of the
! Board OF Aldermen and my own IS pledgeo
| that we will see that the wishes of the family
| are gratified by formal resolution OF the
| Board.
| [Signed1 w. H. ohAcE'
| Upon the receipt of Mayor Grace's as.
| ,urance that Mrs. Grant would be laid
| by the General, the family authorized
Mr.. Turner to telegraph the Mayor &C.
cepting the city's request that General
| Grant should be inferred in Central Park.
The following schedule of arrange
ments was then agreed upon:
L
nregor at D. m. on Tuesday, August
| 4th, arriving at Albany at 80 p. m. 1t
will lie in state in the Capitol until the
next day at one O'Clock, when 1t will be
taken to New York, arriving there at
80 D. m. August 9Th. 1t will lie in
state in the City Hall from that time un-
til Saturday, August 9th, when the pub
lie funeral will take place with such OBJ
sequies as may be arranged by the au-
A. ho int in Central
Park will then occur.
More than 200 Grand Army Post rep
resentatives are expected here to-day
from all parts of the country. Tents
are in readiness upon the mountain for
their accommodation.
The Generals face, under the influ-
ence of the embalming fluid, has lost the
deep burrows and wrinkles caused by
disease and suffering. The expression Is
calm and peaceful. The case containing
the body was surmounted yesterday by
beautiful wreath of oak leaves, which
little Julia Grant, the Colonel's daugh-
ter, and DR.. Douglas little daughter
brought in from the woods and begged
that it might be SO placed. The body
will not be placed in a casket until Mon
day, when near friends of the family will
be permitted to view the face.
Mr. Drexel has decided that the cot
tage in which General Grant died shall
never be occupied as a dwelling again.
He intends to present it to the State or
National Government as memento, to-
gether with the furniture as IL STANDS
now.
Mrs. Grant has received the following
from the British Minister at Washing
ton:
"Her Majesty, the Queen, requests me to
convey to yourself and family her sincere
coincidence on the death of General Grant"
DR.. Douglas gave to a reporter yester-
day some interesting "reminiscences of
General Grants illness. Among other
things he said that about week ago,
when he noted a somewhat less obstinate
condition of the throat, perhaps due to
the increased inroads of the disease,
the General wrote upon piece of paper
the following message to the doctor:
81 feel sorry at the prospect of living
through the summer and fall in the con-
dition that am in. 1 do not think
can, but may. Except that I do not
gather strength, feel quite as we'll from
day to day as have heretofore. But
am losing strength; feel it more in the
inability to move around than in any
other way, or rather, in the lack of de-
be fatal in the end. My life is precious,
of course, to my family, and would be to
me if could recover entirely. There
never was one more willing to
go than 1. first wanted
so many days to work on my book SO the
authorship would be clearly mine. 1t
was graciously granted me, after being
apparently much lower than now, and
with it capacity to do more work than
1 ever did in the same time. Ny work
had been done so hastily that much had
been left out, and did it all over from
the crossing of the James River in 1864
to Appomatox in 1865. Since then I
have added as much as fifty pages to the
book. There is nothing more to do, and
therefore am not likely to be more
ready to go than at this moment"
MI. MCGREGoR, N. Y, July 25.-The
funeral services will be held on the porch
of the cottage at eleven a. m. on August
4th, Rev. DR.. Newman officiating. The
body will then be taken by train to Sara
toga. The train stops ut Saratoga only
half an hour, reaching Albany at 80 p.
m. General Carr, as commander of the
Third Division of the G. A. R., and Gov
ernor Hill and the State officials will es-
cort the body to the Capitol. The Loyal
Legion accompanies the body from Sara
toga in addition to the official escort fur
nished by General Hancock. The Gen.
erals face looks as If he had just fallen
asleep. A United States flag is thrown
over the coffin.