Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-08-13

nephew of Robert E. Lee and grand nephew
SoyescoIo HoTss haFry Of TIC He wore a
OF a golden belt and blazing epaulettes and a
cooked hat, his dress was a business suit of
Drown and slate cOlored DERBY hat
Presently. General Hancock rode ont OF
the park with long lines of aides galloping
5,.er MN: everyone. whether he could see
procession had begun the march to River
s slde Park-that Is to say that the regulars Of
sne Army and Navy who had reached the
PARK under General Hancock's leadership.
would continue their march when he took
his place at the head of the line. For TWEEN
passing bands filled the air This was by ali
odds the most picturesque and interestin
part OF the procession. Its like had been
seen only twice of late years in this city, on
the centennial anniversary of Evacuation
Day and on last Wednesday.
few minutes before O'Clock the 100
dressed in black, had come up the white
steus of the City Hall like a dark wave
step the entire body stopped, forming a
pyramid of which small group Of players
on on musical instruments instr 1e We're the. the apex;
strange, mournful notes of the re-
frain now swelling to majestic organ;lik
volume, then sinking to a low melancholy
chant. As the last notes ceased the sound
OF dirges played by the distant banis
then sang ''The Pilgrims chorus" from
"Tannhauser,',, and went quietly away.
with Comrade John III. johnson at their
head. came with a quick swinging step
across the esplanade and up the steps 1t
was the last Grand Army Guard Relief, and
with one exception, the thirteen who com
posed it were the same thirteen who first
took up the watch in the sad cottage under
the sonbre hemIocks of Mt. McGregor
1t was 1926 when Mayor Grace led a distin-
guished party of men in civilians dress. but
wearing sashes of fiuted white cambria, up
the steps of the City Hall and ordered the
great iron gates flung open before the SOL
5000 pairs of eyes were instantly fixed, were
the Rev. Dr. Newman and Bishop Harris
McGlynn, roman Catholic; the Rev. Dr. Tai
bot W. Chambers, of the Collegiate Dutch
Church; the Rev. Robt. ColIyer, Unitarian;
the Rev. c. De W. Rudgman, Baptist, and the
doctors who attended the dying iGeneral-
Drs. Douglas and Shrady. DIR. Sands, the
surgical adviser, and DR.. Elliott, the micros-
copist.
Instantly the undertaken lifted the coffin
from its resting place under the canopy and
bars at its sides and strobe with it ana with
solemn tread down the steps. Other under
saer bac had pnt in place the
neral car, which just then had been driven
up to the steps, and while the regulars
formed on the right and left of the railing
that marked the passageway to the car, pre-,
senting arms as they did so, the men of
Grant post carried their precious burden
down the stone stairs and up the wooden
steps. to its place on the platform of the
great black van. Their heads were barred
doctors Workmen at once screwed the
coffin firmly in place upon the platform, and
then brushed away their brown footprints
from the sable drapery of the car. While
they were thus busted the Grand Army men
and the detail OF the Loyal Legion took
their places in even numbers on either side
of the funeral car. The>bortabIe steps were
loaded on two-horse truck, the regulars
took up their positions on the right and left
of the car, the doctors and the clergy, the
Mayor and the bustIng police officials
stepped into carriages and while the Island
Band played a dirge, the car and its escort
moved out of the plaZe and into Broadway.
MOVING
The Federal troops were far ahead when
the body guard and its charge passed up the
great artery of the city, the second division,
consisting of militia and veteran organiZa-
tiOns, falling into line ahead of it, and the
Grand Army posts and others coming along
behind it. AT the moment that the great
hearse left the park, the faint sound of the
bells of old Trinity and next the louder
tones of those in old st. Paul fioated out up
on the air. There were moments after that
on the line of march when this doleful sound
of tolling bells was not heard, but they were
few and were due only to the absence of
churches. The bells were ringing, though
they could not be heard. not in New York
alone, but from Maine to Mexico for, when
the electric spark announced the signals
tons were waiting by prearrangement hand
on rope all over the land.
OF the progress of the pageant to the
tomb, and the services there, full details
follow.