Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-08-07
HOMAGE TO THE HERO.
4 Living stream oi Humanity PourS
Forth Restlessly 10 View the
Remains OF the Dead.
Committee of EN-Confederai" oni""r~
appointed to Represent the
southern soldiers.
rnI.n1.MAINsIN srNrE.


were not more than 1000 persons. In
spcctor Steers was In charge with ls0
policemen. Two lines of policemen were
placed across the plaza from the city hall
entrance TO the fountain. These two
lines formed a paSsagcwHy through which
four men might walk abreast and along
which all day visitors la The re-
mains should pass. Sergeant Reilly
with thirty men pickcicd the cor
rldors through the building 20 iNI
To form channel through which the
throng could move to the exit. The
Grant post had mounted detail AT 40
his morning 10 serve from that hour UNI
til o'clock to-night.
These men were placed nearest the
caiaialQuc, and two lines of visitors
passed between them and the caSkci on
either side, All within the gloomy cor
ridor, waS in readiness The clocks
pointed TO 600, and at the inspectors
orders the lion gates were thrown open.
Ten or twelve hundred people had
damned up against the officers who
barred the channel at Tire edge of the
fountain circle, but when the gates swung
upcn the stream began 10 flow past the
remains and through the building In
the fret minute only cightN-inur persons
passed The caskct. This rate of passage
would never answer when the dense
crowd should be waiting outside. The
people were hastcned. They were hur-
rird through AT one hundred and one IL
minute. Then the pressure was increased
to one hundred and four minute
Thi> was better. The pro-
ccs>iou was almost "a clock
step and the tramp was quick. The tide
was formed OF persons who came from
the ears or who, passing through Main
street, we're drawn into the stream 10y u
desire tu see the dead. At $50 q. m. the
pulse of curiosity had sunk To hity-SiN To
the minute.
ArG;2N the rate wa, Gfly-iwo Many
women cuWc and they caused delay.
They must need examine every detail
and would fun put their noses TO the
flowers Men and boys and wnn-faccd
women with luuch-baskct~ and dinner
pals iilcd al oug
NJ G:4u The running average per minute
vas uinCly-uny, aud the total then passed
was b,t vrru 200 aud $500 The channel
was even full, with no clugging or crowd
lag.
Al / O'Clock between thirty and thirty
one thousand people had passed the
caskct aud looked toward the remains
though many coming rapidly in from the
bright sunlight were scarcely able To dis
in@uish them ia the sonbrr shadows OF
the black .,lraped corridor. The floral Of
icvinguf the board OF aldermen was sci
up during The morning beneath the re-
tuuda where the light >ircamed
down upon IT, The central column rose
ten feet and was iiankrd by stands aud
col0r>. while the base was ni ferns and
palms among which was placed huge
roses of white buds. Some excitement
was ucclSoued by the attempt of an old
lady who came up the line 10 >toop and
Hiss The dead general. She was reminded
hastily that >uch proceeding was IN bad
taste and besides two plates of class
prevented hcrirom any such dcmou>trl-
ton.
From 10 o'clock was employed by
the Unrkngmcn and women and the boy :
and girls i'm viewing the remains, After
o'Clock HE line changed ~ Ia it, per-
sonnet There were less women and
girls. 81 ; O'Clock there was another
change taking place in the e complexion of
the visitors, The lHhorcr> had zone and
the clerks coming down town were
stepping from the elevated and surface
] cars into thr line that was moving al the
+ rate ot mo tn 100 81 minute. The
police Mere reinforced, and at :
{ O'Clock there were ~ men ON duty
/ The channel, with the walls ut police.
{ WAS extended I'm u ''N'' shape around the
o sides of the fountain circle, which. like a
hopper, received the people aud from
I which ,hcy were Strengthened ont IN "a
: line 81 lwo~ and thrrcS MP la the city
P had stairs The guards M The caskrt
: Nrr" fastening the people; liG per
e minute were bcin" hurried through
II The hands IN clock diul> marked q
o'clock, anl The fountain circle wa> no
i"n@cr tie point ui formation of the line
Every car aud train coming down
ADDED iTs QUorN
@t llNa>' anxious To look ON the face ui
b ten, Grant, The crowd was fast hrcom.
ing a ihrang. The line was hcmg hur.
ricd through the hall al the rate uf I4t
per inmate and for little while the pac,
70 WAS l'o a minute, which rate, il main,
aimed Tor an hour, would have passed
lo'2uo persons, but this could not hc
donr. To accomplish II the visitors must
ne hurried past The remains almost on a
Wot, This rate of speed comportcd iny
q with lhc dignity of the occasion aud
y more lmr was given, but the accrctiunS
y Mtn' To" rapid lo he cared Tor and The
line NJ waiting people stretched out final.
~ AA't n alhAliltA Nlit CORNER Nl
p tie registers offices and down Center
street
rs lhc morning wore on 10 midday
more women, Young and old appeared IN
lhc lne Of visitors, Many carried little
land bags and some had been shopping
and their discomfort was increased hy
the care ot parcels. Observers cnnclud.
ed quickly that these had come
from the hamlctS and towns i'm
the outlying country. The Increasing
heat melted the arior Of some who lad
procured places in tho line and moi a few
dropped oat after having worked their way
around even into Center Str,et. The
Numbers NJ The fountain had decreased
aud The people al noon wen. droppjng
into liar Al the corner of Chambers strr,f
and Broadway. The passage of the p..o-
pie at ihc caSkct was about loo !, mimi,
aud az 4 o'clocS 5000 persons baJ
viewed the remains, seven hour> bsvin,,
been occupied In 80 doing.
II o'clock the procession ,Ntrn,led
~ crescent across the park and along
the sidewalk la Chambers street and
along Chambers street To BROADWAY. The
nitl' relief detail Of thirteen yrtersEs of
lhe o. u Il. Of the L. ). Grant post
'lioe on suarl around the caSket AZ
9 clorN' The Passage of The n,uliitudcs
INTO ~ hall was greatly hsstened during
Tue auefnoon by the police and veterans
IN 'harSo oi The body permitting no