Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-08-07
GEN. GRANTS OBSEQUGES.

GEN. GRANTS OBSEQUIES
The Private Services at NE. MacGreg-
or---the Funeral Train 60 Albany and
New YOrL---the BODY Lying In state
In the state Capitol and the New York
city Hail.
The funeral ceremonies in memory Of Gen.
Grant we're begun at the cottage on Mt. Mo
Gregor on Tuesday morning with the services
for the family at which the Rev. DIR. New
man delivered the sermon At 5.45 the bu.
giles sounded the assembly" for the troops
on guard, and every half-hour all day the
booming Of a cannon told OF the days sig
ni6oanoe. At $3.50 the doors Of the Grant
cottage we're thrown open and stream OF
visitors poured in steadily for over an hour
Al $3.50 a train Of two cars brought Gen.
Hancock and number OF other distinguish
ed visitors. The two companies OF regulars
were drawn up TO receive them. At 10
o'clock services at the cottage we're held in
presence of over 1000 people. The services
opened with the reading Of the Goth Psalm,
which was followed by an impressive prayer
by Bishop Harris The hymn, my faith
looks up TO thee" was Joined in by the
whole assemblage. DIR. Newman then came
forward and delivered his sermon, the
family meantime sitting about the body in
the parlor. DIR. Newman'a text was the IA.
full servant, enter thou into the Joy Of thy
Lord" The sermon was devoted for the
most part to an eulogy OF the private virtues
of Gen. Grant and TO the lesson OF his pure
and simple family life. At the conclusion of
the discourse the hymn, Nearer my God 10
thee" was rendered very improssively by tho
congregation. The forvces ended with tho
benediotion, and thon the body was transfer
red 10 the care of Gen. Hancock, represent
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rsvered commander, and the government Of
which he was no long the distinguished head.
Shortly after ~ O'Clock the cRskot was borne
down the steps Of the cottage by the Grant
post OF Brooklyn, composed Of 10 veterans,
and was preceded by detachment OF soldiers
and two buglers playing the dead march in
Saul" Gen. Sherman aud Col Fred Grant
and jesse aud Ulysses Grant walked two by
two in advance. Then came Gen. Frederick
Dent and DIR. Sharp, Gen. J A. Oreswell and
the Mexican minister, Senior Romero, de-
tachment OF artillery with arms reversed
marching IA infantry, Gen. Hancock and
staff, Senators Evarts aud Miller, Gen. Hor-
ace Porter Thomas Ochiltree OF Texas, DR.
Douglass, Gen. Rufus Ingalls,, Admiral Row.
On and many friends OF the dead general.
The start down the mountain was made at
O'Clock. Minute guns were fired AZ the train
neared Saratoga, and while the transfer was
being made from the narrow gauge cars to
the cars of the New York Central road The
train which bore the body, the guard of hon
or, the family and distinguished officers and
citizens from Saratoga to Albany consisted
of nine cars, all of them tastefully draped
No woodwork except the sashes OF the win
dows was visible. The engine tender WAS
draped with plated black, radiatng from a
roselte centre. The sides of the cab were
covered in like manner. Black cloth WAS
draped from the boiler rails and the front
was arranged with taste. The funeral car
"WoOdlawn" was plated in the panels and
centres and the national flag was festooned
gracefully, but 80 there was no huttering
The other cars we're not 70 deliberately finished,
but all were draped with good taste. The
bells in the steeples Of Saratoga tolled az the
black train trailed slowly out Of the village
toward Albany. In the funeral car the u y.
Grant post mounted guard at the cssket. The
casket rested upon a black dAis and the com.
partment in which it lay communicated with
the main saloon by folding DOORS WHICH were
open. The first, and each succeeding detail,
mounted on guard consisted of two men of
the U. s. Grant post One stood with fold
ed arms at the head OF the casket and the
other at the foot. At every station and cross
ing on the way to Albany crowds of people
were gathered.
The funeral train reached Albany at $40
and with due ceremony the body was trans.
ferred TO the mounted catafaIque, and,
drawn by six black horses with black trap
| pings, WAS escorted to the state capitol where
after . o'clock 1t lay In state. The public
was permitted to walk two abreast on each
side OF the easket which lay on an inclined
dais Seven thousand four hundred persons
viewed the dead'face the first hour.
At Go'cock on Wednesday morning the
number passing the casket averaged GOOO an
hour, and mp to 1890, the hour when the
doors we're closed 1920 people had passed
through. An hour later the body was borne
out to the funeral car, the various organiza-
tions fell into line and the line of march to
the railroad station was taken up. The som
Der train moved out OF the city on its way to
New York at half past ~, the tracks every
where lined with people, and at every sta
| ton great crowds of spectators were gather.
| ed. The train reached the Grand Central
depot in New York at . o'clock The body
WAS quietly transferred to the catafAlque, and
half an hour later the long procession moved
toward the city hall, dense crowds of people
lining the streets on either side. The hall
was reached at O'Clock. On the arrival
there a detachment OF ~ men from the
Brooklyn U. 3. Grant post tenderly lifted
the coffin from its resting place and bore II
to the steps The procession passed into the
| city hall and beneath the catafalque the men
laid down their burden. At . O'Clock, after
the face had received proper attention from
the undertaken, the lid OF the cofiiu was re-
moved, and the public we're allowed TO enter
All day yesterday the throng poured
through the city hall past the casket. The
rate was about 1900 an hour and it ia esti.
mated that at midnight l2j, 600 people had
viewed the body.
TomorroWs great procession will move at
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