Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-07-24


hour.
Water whispered the general
husklly, but when Offered water and
milk they gargled In his throat and
were elected, and that one word Of re-
Spouse was the last utterance OF Gen.
Grant. DIR. Douglas remarked that the
popularity Of Gen Grants death was
explained by the remarkable vitality
that seemed to present an obstacle TO
the approach OF death. IL was
gradual passing away OF the vital
forces and n reflex consciousness TO the
DOCTORS thought TO the last. The
general died OF sheer exhaustion and
had perfectly painless sinking away.
Yes" intefjected DR.. Shrady
quietly, 1.-THE general dreaded pains.
When he felt that he had begun sink
ing and asked that he should not be
permitted TO suffer. the promise was
made and kept. Since he commenced
to sink on Tuesday night he was free
from pain"
Towards the last no food was taken,
but when wet cloth was pressed to
his lips he would suck from Il the
water to moiston his mouth. During
the generals last night DR..
Shrady was constantly within call.
Dr. Douglas stayed all night at the
cottage, and DR.. Sands slept at
the hotel after midnight. Within
twenty minutes after the death of
Gen. Grant, Karl Gerhardt, Hart
ford sculptor, who has been making
study here OF the general. was sum-
moned to the cottage at the suggestion
OF DR.. Newman to make u plaster
mask OF the dead mans face. He was
highly successful.
Preparations for tho Funeral.
Within half an hour after the
generals decease the waiting engine
at the Mountain depot was on the way
to Saratoga to bring the undertaken
who will place the remains on ice to.
day to await the arrival OF a New York
undertaken who has been summoned
and who Ia now on the way. The de.
tails and arrangements OF caring for
the remains while they ara here and
until they arrive in New York are i'm
charge OF Joseph w. b. Drexel and w.
j. Arkd. AT this writing the ply
sicians are DESTROYS Of having post
m.or:em, but the family is said to be
adverse and that Is matter yet to be
determined. A week ago the general
Is said to have intimRted that
should he die here during the bad
weather he would prefer that
his remains should remain here until
c)ol weather, the purpose being to
spare his family sad and fatiguing
Journey in hot weather. Ii is doub.-
ful, however, II this suggestion is fully
carried out, though 1t is not unlikely
that the remains may repose here
some days. This, however, is entirely
at the disposal OF Col. Fred Grant. to
whom is left the entire control of all
arrangements relative to his fathers
remains. 1t Is not unlikely that a
proposition from the city of New York
to award a burial lot
FOR THE GENERAL AND HIS WIFE,
when che, too, shall have passed away,
might be considered by the colonel
The impression that Washington may
be chosen as the burial spot Is believed
10 be founded on the present intima-
ton OF Col. Grant. The only condi-
ton made by the general, and that as
long ago as June q, was that his re-
mains should b ) inferred where those
of Mira. Grant might, in time, lie be-
side his own.
THE PRESIDENTS PROCLAMATION.
WASHINGTON, July % The follow
ing proclamation has been issued by
the president; The president OF the
United States has Just received the sad
tidings OF the death OF that illustrious
citizen and ex'president of the United
States, Gen. U. s. Grant, at Mt, Me-
Gregor, In the state of New York, To
which place he had lately been re.
moved in the endeavor to prolong his
life. In making this announcement
to the people of the United States the
president Is impressed with the mag.
nitude of the public loss of great
military leader, who was in
the hour of victory magnanimous
and in disaster serene and
selfsusIained who in every station,
whether Ms soldier or chief magistrate,
twice called to power by his fellow
countrymen, trod urswervingly
TIE PATHWAY OF DUTY,
undeterred by doubts, single. minded
and straightforward. The entire
country has witnessed with deep emo
ton his prolonged and patient strug-
gle with pain, and has watched by his
couch OF suffering with fearful sym
pathy. The destined end hss come at
last, and his spirit has return ed to the
Creator who sent 1t forth The great
heart Of the nation that followed hi IN
when living with love and pride,bows
now in sorrow, tenderly mindful OF
his virtues, his great patriotic service IS,
and OF the loss
oCCASIoNED BY HIS DEATH.
In testimony ofIespect TO the mem.
ory OF Gen Grant, 1t is ordered that
the executive mansion and the de.
partments at Washington be draped
in mourning for period of thirty
days, and.that all public business shall
on the day ofthe funeral be suspended,
and that the secretaries of war aud Of
the navy will cause orders TO bs issued
for appropriate military and naval
honors to be rendered that day. In
witness whereof have her, unto set
my hand and caused the seal of the
United States to be affixed. Done at
the city of Washington this 23d day