Morning journal and courier., 1886-06-01
NOWo ny IOfOSiopH
FROM ALL QUARTERS.
THE MECCA OF PATRIOTS
Thousands Gather About
Grants Tomb.
GUESTS AT THE WEDDING.
Few Invited to the White
House.
DIXEY KISSED AND HOOTED
The London HOOdlums
Break Loose.
DlXEY KISSED AND H0OTEl
FLOWERS LAID ON HEROES, romBs

FLOWERS LAID ON HEROES, TOmBs
| Crowds Gather About the Resting
Place of General Grant-Senator Lo-
gan Makes a Touching EuIogy-The
Great Parade Reviewed by President
Cleveland.
NEW YORK, May 31.-The ceremonies at
tendant upon Memorial day were carried
out in the most imposing manner. Long
before the National Guard and Grand Army
of the Republic met at the rendezvous at
| Fifth avenue and Fifty sixth street Madison
Square began to fill with people. AS early
as o'clock the grand stand on the west side
of the Square from which President Cleve-
land was to review the parade was nearly
filed. At 1915 the glittering rifle of the
guard was placed diagonally across the mar
row entrance to tho stand, forming barrier
none could pass, even on the presentation OF
ticket. The dense throng took the slight
shower which fell early in the morning al
most as matter of course and their spirits
did not seem to be dampened in the least.
The stand was under the guard of First
Lieutenant Bencke of the Twenty second
regiment, assisted by sergeant, two copper
ais and twelve men. Police Superintendent
Murray directed in person the movements of
| his officers in the vicinity of the stand. The
patrolmen were under the direct command
1 of Captain Williams of the Twenty ninth
| precinct. Conspicuous on the stand were
General Rufus Ingalls,, Comptroller Loew,
Inspector of Police Steers, Colonel
Hart of the regular army, President
| Mooney of the board of aldermen,
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| H. H. Porter, School Commissioner Miles
| OBrien, Dewitt J. Seligman, J. Gould War
ner, General Lloyd Aspinwall, Commissioner
| John McClave, ex-Lieutenant Governor Dor
| sheimer, General T. K. Smith, Sheriff Grant
| and several others. There was a notable
group of three of the veterans of 1912. They
| were headed by General Abraham Daily, who
| is ninety years of age. He dressed in
tho full uniform of the time and presented
most picturesque appearance His COM
panions were Henry Maries, eighty-six years
old, and George Crygier, eighty eight years
old. After the procession passed these vet
Grams proceeded to the Sturtevant House by
invitation of Louis and Horace Leland, where
they were given a complimentary dinner.
At 1920 o'clock the advance line of the pro-
cession could be seen halted away up the
avenue, the familiar uniform of the Old
Guard standing out in bold relief on the rest
less mass.
The presidential party left Brooklyn by
the Twenty-third street ferry, reaching the
New York side at 10:45. An escort of
mounted police then preceded the carriage |
to the grand stand where the Old Guard |
under Major Mclean was drawn up as an |
escort of honor. The column was then |
formed with the mounted police in advance |
followed by Mayor Grace and city officers in |
carriages, the Old Guard headed by its band |
marching in front of the presidential party. |
The President and Cabinet officers rode in an /
open barouche, the remainder of the party |
being in closed0c carriages. The procession |
moved along Twenty-sixth street. to Fifth |
avenue. When the President was recognized |
hsndkerchiefs were wave from windows of |
houses and shouts from the sidewalks gave |
the grand stand at II o'clock and as the Pres
ident assembled the steps the band of the Old |
Guard struck up the hymn America AS |
soon as the President appeared in front of the |
reviewing stand the march of the columns
was taken up. When the Twenty second |
regiment reached Delmonico's at the corner
of Twenty-sixth and Fifth avenue the band
under the leadership of P. S. Gilmore struck
up Mendelssohn's Wedding March, which
was greeted with cheers. The band contin-
ued to play this march until Twenty second
street was passed. While passing the Fifth
Avenue Hotel the enthusiasm of the ladies at
the windows told that they recognized the
strains SO different from the other marches
which had preceded it. It was also evident
that the President knew the music, for as
the band approached flush of the face in
dictated that he knew why it was played. He
recognized the honor by raising his hat to
the military salute of the bandmaster. The
President did not show the least
fatigue. He smiled and shook hands
with those he knew. He took
behind his back and looked steadily
before him, occasionally bowling to salute
offered. He was dressed entirely in black,
wearing frock coat and and high silk hat.
He wore narrow neektie of black ribbon
crossed with fine white stripes. Next to the |
the order named, General Sheridan and
President Mooney. Directly behind the
President was General Mcdowell and Ad-
miral Jouette. The President occasionally
addressed remark to General Sheridan or
Mayor Grace, but made such a strict bust |
ness of reviewing the parade would indi-
cate that his mind was preoccupied. 1t was
concluded after the review that it would be
too fatiguing for the President to go to River
side Park as he has a long night before him,
SO instead he was escorted to Secretary Whit
ney's house by the Old Guard where he
rested until going to the Academy of Music
to night.
In this city Riverside Park was the Mecca
of patriotism and it made an early start. AS
early AS o'clock people began to flock about
the tomb of Grant. The magnificent offer
ings from the various States were not all in
place when the days ceremonies began and
many were arranged later. The general eff |
feet, however, was beautiful. Colonel Fred |
Grant arrived about 11o'elock and professed
great satisfaction with the arrangement. A
long and broad platform had been built out
from the hillside in front of the tomb. On |
each side of this and behind it above the
vault stages with seating accommodations
for twelve or fifteen hundred spectators had
been erected General Phil Sheridan came
on the United States war ship Tennessee
with his staff and took his position the
speakers platform. Gen. Logan came with
the G. A. R. on the Grand Republic and was
escorted by them to the platform. Mrs.
Grant with her sons, Colonel Grant, U. 8.
Grant and Jesse Grant with their families,
occupied seats back of the speaker. Near
them were Comrades Lyon and Fuller from
the California G. A. R. and Irving of Michi-
gan. By noon thousands of persons had as
sembled and manifested great interest in the
arrangements. The view from the platform
about the tomb, which was reserved for the
park commissioners and friends, was a
grand one, taking in vast sea of faces, the
sweep of the river beyond and the dark
green bluffs on the other side: About fifty
park police under command of Captain
Beatty and nearly one thousand municipal
police mounted and on foot commanded by
Inspector Steers we1eon the ground to pre-
serve order.
After the. parade in Brooklyn the u s.
Grant post, who had charge of the ceremo-
MES at the tomb, embarked with their
guests on the steamship Columbia from
JewelIs wharf and started for Riverside
PARK. When the steamer reached the park
the several organizations disembarked and
marched in line to Riverside drive and to the
tomb. During the march the North ATTAIN
tic squadron fired minute guns; At the
tomb the battalion of marines and the State
Fencible. formed a line to the left while the
Grand Army posts advanced to the place re-
served for them in front of the grand stand.
The services at the tomb, which did not be-
gin until nearly o'clock, were most impress