The Portland daily press., 1885-08-07
LYING IN STATE.
General Grants Remains Viewed 10y
Thousands Yesterday.
A Steady Stream of People File
Through City Hall.
Ex-Confederates Pay High Tribute
to the Memory of the Dead
Soldier.

NEW YORK, Aug. 6.-People loitered in
City Hall Park all night to be first in the
line that soon after 6 O'Clock this morning
began filing past the remains of Gen. Grant,
as they lay in City Hall. About 1000 people
were ready to fall in line at that hour. The
hour from 6 to Z o'clock was employed by
working men and women and boys and girls
in viewing the remains. They were on their
way to work. All through the hour the
formation of the line was at point near the
fountain, and the time of waiting was not
more than 10 minutes from the point where
line was formed to the place where the re-
mains rested After o'clock the line
changed as to its personnel. There were
less women and girls. They had gone
through and were at work when the line be-
gan to lengthen AT 5 o'clock there was an
other change taking place in the complexion
of the visitors. The laborers had gone, and
the clerks coming down town were stepping
from the elevated and surface cars into the
line that was moving at the rate of 110 and
1901 per minute. The police were reinforced
at O'Clock and the people were being huI-
RED through at the rate of $50 per minute
All through the forenoon steady stream
passed in double line, two abreast, to view
the remains. At 11.3o the lines extended for
more than half mile from the entrance of
the building
AS the throng passed by the remains, they
were hurried out Of the City Hall building as
rapidly as they had been pushed into it,
Emerging on the steps upon the court house
side the line broke and the people disappear
ed with the throngs that at all paths and
avenues were breaking their way through
the solid ranks that at Y o'clock encircied
We have lost waiting here" remarked a
heated citizen who emerged upon the rear
steps of City Hall a short time before II
o'clock. At u O'Clock, between $1,000 and
10000 persons had passed the casket and
looked toward the remains, though MANY
coming rapidly in from the bright sunlight
were scarcely able to distinguish them in the
sombre shadows of the black draped cor
ridor
floral offering of the board of aldermen
was set up during the morning beneath the
rotunda dome where the light streamed down
upon it. A central column rose ten feet, and
was fianked by stands of c0lors, while the
base was bed of ferns and palms, among
which were placed huge rows of white
bulbs.
One incident of the forenoon was ocea-
stoned by the attempt of an old lady, who
came up in line, to kiss the face of the dead
General She was reminded hastily that
such proceeding was in bad taste, and be-
sides the two plates of glass prevented any
demonstration of the kind.
Mayor Grace this morning sent the follow
ing communication to the commissioner of
public works, Mr.. Rollin NJ. Squire:
In Difference to the expressed wish of some of
the friends and admirers of General Grant you
are hereby directed to remove from the front Of
the City Hall the verses inscribed there.
General Gordon of Georgia, who at Spot
sylvania Court House, Va, checked General
Hancock S advance through the captured sa-
lient on the 18th of May, 1864, and who COM
manded one wing of Lees army, and made
the last assault upon General Grants lines
at App0mattoX, has been appointed aide to
General Hancock for the funeral ceremonies
"A large double horse truck, of the kind that
IS usually employed for hauling safes, went
to the Troy boat this morning, and. after
great deal of trouble, took ON the steel shell
that Is to enclose the casket of General
Grant. 1t had been shipped last night from
the Franklin Iron Works of Troy The case
or shell, as it is called, weighs $500 pounds.
1t is made Of iron half an inch thick, rolled
and rlyeted at the edges and corners like
noller. It was made by old boiler makers Of
the Franklin Iron Works, and it is guaran-
teed to stand pressure of $4,000 pounds to
the square inch. When the easket is enclosed
in the shell the whole will weigh over three
tons. The steel incasement is absolutely
secure either from the pressure that will arise
OF the body, or from any attempt that bur-
glars or grave robbers might make to steal the
remains AT the head is a plain white metal
plate bearing the words, u. S. Grant, died
July %, 1885" While the steel shell was
being unloaded and moved, large crowd of
people gathered around inspecting it with
much curiosity 1t will remain four hours
on exhibition, when it will be taken to the
tomb in Riverside Park. After the funeral
on Saturday the casket will be enclosed in it,
and then it will be permanently closed with
hot rlvets under the supervision of expert
mechanics.
AT 2 o'clock the procession of people to
City Hall to have look at the corpse Of the
dead General extended in a crescent across
the Park and along the sidewalk to Chamber
street, and along Chambers street to Broad
way The medallion bust of General Grant.
prepared by artist Albert E. Woolf, was one
OF the notable surroundings of the casket.
At p. III. the procession of people to the
hall was more dense than at any time during
the day, and was largely composed of work
ing people.
The commissioned officers of the 11th regi-
ment were on guard duty from to o'clock,
when they were relieved by officers Of the
8th
The great procession at City Hall was
doubled up into fours at midnight The
composition of it was a respectable class Of
1M,orK8ihg people, ana It made very credita-
Die display of mon and women.
aug. IA cTDWU
OF people from Appomattox Court House as
sembled this morning and draped the house
in which Generals Grant and Lee signed the
terms Of surrender in April 1865, in mourn
ing. 1t is proposed to allow the draping to
remain thirty days out of respect to the
memory of General Grant.
Tribute by Ex-Confederates.
Fort WORTH, Aug. 9Th grand annual
reunion of the Confederate soldiers began
here yesterday, and win continue until Fri
day evening. Fifteen thousand persons are
now present. A committee was appointed
to draft resolutions of sympathy with Mrs.
Grant on the death of her illustrious hus-
band. In the absence of Senator Coke, the
Hon. John H. Reagan was called upon to
deliver the principal speech of the day. He
paid high tribute to the memory of General
Grant and said the people of the South
should never forget that Grant stood between
the iinplacable hate of Stanton and the con-
9uered soldiers of the South The speaker
then eulogized Jefferson Davis.
The Doctor Bills Paid.
NEW YORK, Aug 6.-The World says the
bills of Drs. Douglass and Shrady for at
tendance upon General Grant were $4,000