Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1891-02-16
Universal Sorrow Over the
Death of Gen. Sherman.
TO HAVE A SOLDIERS BURIAL
Over $4,000 Grand Army Men to At.
tend the ObseQuies in New York.
THE BoDY WILL NOT LIE IN STATE
St. Louis Citizens Preparing to Receive
the Distinguished Dead


poon-President Harrison and Ex-Ple
ldents Hayes and Cleveland to Have
Positions In the Prooession-1ho Body
Covered With an American Flag and
Guarded by Regular Soldiers-Over
Three Thousand Messages of Sympathy
Sent to the Bereaved Family.
New YORK, Feb. 16.-Under the starry
folds of the flag he loved so we'll the hon
ored form of General Sherman lay at
rest in the plain but. pleasant chamber
where he died.
1t was a rest we'll earned. Ripe in his
years and full sheathed in his honors,
the rancors of the past faded out by the
kindly hand of time and the comradeship
and friendship of the men whom he had
once waged fierce but honest warfare
with. He had lived life plethoric with
the best blessing that attend humanity
and died honored and mourned by the
millions of the reunited nation.
An unstained name, a deathless fame,
a vault into the great unknown after a
silent and heroic battle with disease
that added to the lustre of his renown,
who could die more happily than
William Tecumseh Sherman, the man
who with prophetic eye saw death COM
ing affair off and blanched not at the
dreadful apparition? Let the drums be
muffled and the flags float low, but let
the hearts of the American people re-
joice that they can claim such men as
he, last but not least of the wars great
triumvirate.
Mourning On All Sides.
The city huttered with the emblems
of patriotic mourning as it has not done
since the other great adopted citizen,
General Grant stacked his arms and lay
down to die invincible.
1t was not the public buildings merely
that hung out the colors at half mast,
but thousand of private residences on
the wealthy avenues, thousands of hum
BILE tenements in the squalid streets
added their colors to the symbolic grief.
Across the street from the four-storied
house which yesterday became the shrine
for hordes of the inhabitants two silken
banners bordered with Grape hung down.
On the house itself the somhre drapings
of the doorbell were the only tokens that
this was the place toward which the ma
TONS eyes were turned.
The dead mans family INDUCED in no
ostentatious grief. They permitted no
curious eyes to look upon the dead, and
old comrades and the idly curious were
alike barred from the chamber where the
body lay.
Tributes from Everywhere.
Callers came and left their cards all
day long, and there were enough of these
to fill bushel basket. The telegraph
wires brought messages of sympathy
from far and near, from Europe and Cal
ifornia and Mexico and South America,
as we'll as from the nations capital and
all sections of the country until they
numbered upward of three thousand.
In the Generals office in the basement
the son and sons-in-law, assisted by Pri-
vate Secretary Barrett, one of the sim
cerest mourners, passed busy day read
ing aud asserting the messages and pick
ing out a few of the more important
ones for the use of the press.
Placing the Body In the Casket.
The body will be put in the casket to
morrow and no one but the family and
immediate friends will be permitted to
look upon the remains. The casket is of
oak covered with black cloth and lined
with white satin. The handles are plain
silver bars, and on the lid is a plain sill
yer plate on which is inscribed the name
William Tecumseh Sherman, and the
date of his birth and death. While be-
ing transferred from here to st. Louis
the casket will be placed in a polished
oak box with silver trimmings.
The body of the General still lies In
the room in which he died and is covered
with an American flag. Father Taylor
called at the house in the afternoon.
Major Hoyt Sherman, brother of the
dead General, arrived at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel last night. Major Sher-
man lives in Des Moines, Iowa, but was
In New Orleans at the Mardi Gras car
nival when he learned of his brothers
illness. He came on at once. In appear
ance he resembles General Sherman very
much.
Gen. Nelson A. Miles also arrived at
the Fifth Avenue Hotel last night,
| having come on from Chicago to attend
the funeral. He will accompany the
remains to St. Louis.
Many public buildings and stores in
this city are draped in mourning and the
number will be increased largely within
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