The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-07-24

q been absent from the side of the diving
man and his family at the last was q
q cause of sorrow and regret to the clergy
] man, who had waited all night at the
9 cottage. He had been summoned a
4 moment too late and reached the cot
3 tage only in time to minister to the
y family sorrowing and to gaze upon the
q .arcely hushed lips of the dead general.
a 10 whom DR.. Newman's love had bound
z him in such close ties and relations.
8 Soon after Doctors Douglas and
Il Shrady left the death bed they con-
y yersed feelingly of the latte. hours of
4 General Grants life. The pulse first had
s indicated failure. The intellect was the
Alast to succumb its clearness and con-
/ sclous tenacity, and that after midnight
4 last night, though a circumstance at
50 o'clock indicated cognizance. "Do
! you want anything, father p questioned
Il Colonel Fred at that hour. Water"
4 whispered the General huskily, but
when offered water and milk they
Il gargled in his throat and were elected.
4 and that one word of response was the
4 last utterance of General Grant. DR..
a Douglas remarked that d popularity of
y General Grants death was explained by
& the remarkable vitality that seemed to
4 present one obstacle to the approach OF
q death. 1t was gradual passing away
q of the vital forces, and reflex of
4 consciousness the doctor thought was
retained to the last. The General died
of exhaustion and in perfectly pain
less sinking away. Yes" interjected
4 DR.. Shradv, quietly, the General
dreaded pain. When he felt he had be-
gun sinking, and he asked that he
q should not be permitted to suffer, the
promise was made and it has
been kept. Since he commenced
: from pain. Towards the last no food
4 was taken, but when wet cloth was
4 pressed to his lips he would suck from
Z it water to moisten his mouth. During
! the Generals last night DR.. Shrady was
constantly within call. DIR. Douglas
! was all night at the cottage and DR..
3 Sands slept al the hotel, after mid
might.
4 Within twenty minutes after the
death of General Grant, Kere Gerhardt,
Hartford sculptor, who had been
making a study here of the General,
was summoned to the cottage at the
suggestion of DR.. Newman. to make
plaster mask of the dead mans face. He
was highly successful.
Within half an hour after the Gen
erals decease, the waiting engine at the
mountain depot was on the way to Sar-
atoga to bring an undertaken, who will
place the remains on ice to-day, to await
1 the arrival of a New York undertaken, j
who has been summoned.
/ The details and arrangements touch
4 ing the remains while they are here and
until they arrive in New York are in
charge of Joseph W. Drexel and W. ].
Arkell. At this writing physicians are
DESTROYS of having post mortem, but
! the family are SAID to be averse, and
4 that is matter to be. determined. A
week ago the General is said to have
1 intimated that should he die during the
hot weather, he would prefer that his
remains should remain here until
cooler weather, the purpose being to-
spare the family the sad and fatisuing
journey in sultry weather. 1t is doubt
s Jul, however, If this suggestion is fully
carried out, though it is not unlikely
1 that the remains may repose here
4 several days. This, however, is entirely
! at the disposal of Col Fred Grant to
I whom is leftAthe entire control of all
\ arrangements relative to his fathers
4 remains. 1t is not unlikely that the
i proposition from the City of New York,
a to accord burial plot for the General
= and his wife, when she too shall have
passed away, might be considered by
4 the Colonel The impression that
Washington may be chosen as burial
4 spot, is believed to be founded on the
4 present inclination of Col. Grant. The
only condition made by the General,
and that as long as June oath, was that
his remains should be inferred where
those of Mrs. Grant might in time be
9 beside his own.
Following are among the thousands of
4 kilograms received from all parts of the
: world by members of the Grant family:
WASHINGTON, July 23d.
. To Colonel Fred Grant:
The board of commissioners of the
United States Soldiers Home are unan-
3 imous in their desire that the remains
of General Grant may be buried within
the grounds of that institution. The
! commissioners have selected, subject to
the approval of the family, an appropri-
ate and commanding eminence, over
looking the city and surrounding coun-
try. as an appropriate place of sepul-
4 chre.
Letter by mail
! (Signed } a. MAcFREELY.
n In the ABSENCE ana Dy authority Vi
i Northumberland Sheridan, president
. of the board.
WASHINGTON, July %.
Colonel Fred Grant:
The painful news to me of your
4 fathers death has just been received.
The sympathy of myself and family
goes out from the depth of our hearts
to your mother and all of you in your
& great bereavement. The country is
B filed with sympathy and grief at this
news, but its loss must grow upon it as
8 the future unfolds the coming years.
a (Signed) JOHN A. LOGAN.
q FREMONT, OHIO, July %.
4 Please assure Mrs. Grant and the
4 sorrowing family that they have the
y deepest sympathy of Mrs. Hayes and
8 myself (Signed,) r. B. HAYES:
q New YORK, July %, $50 a.m.-The
8 news of General Grants death had been
4 received but few moments before the
q bells upon Trinity and st. Johns
q churches began to toll, and in few
q moments the solemn tones were caught
& up In all parts of the city and conveyed
n the news of. the Generals death to the
y people of this city and Brooklyn.
r Governor Hill has issued proclama-
q ton. in view of the death of General
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