The record-union., 1891-02-20
Imposing Funeral of the Dead
Soldier in New York.
HIS SON, REV. FATHER SHERMAN,
CONDUCTS THE SERVICES.
All Business In New York Suspended
and the City Draped in Mourning
ARRANGEMENTS for the Final Cere-
monies in St. Louis-General Sher-
mans Religious Belief.
Special to the REcoRD-UN1oN.

NEW DIRK, Feb. 19.-NeW York to-
day is paying every possible tribute of
respect to the memory of General Sher-
man. The dawn of his funeral day
opened bright and clear. The courts re-
mained closed. The exchanges were
closed at noon and general business
brought almost to a standstill, and all
who could do SO ceased their daily occu-
pations to honor the dead soldier.
AT an early hour the people began to
assemble in the street opposite the resi-
dence of General Sherman, and from al
most every house along the street the
American flag fioated at half-mast.
There were few visitors in the early
hours of the morning. Only the most in
innate friends and few old soldiers were
admitted, and the latter were obliged to
show certificates that they served in the
army.
Rev. Thomas Sherman, the son whose
arrival was so anxiously awaited, arrived
at the house at 1:30 this morning Just
after taking an early breakfast this morn
ing with the family, he took the last look
at the remains of his father.
A few minutes before 10 o'clock large
floral shield was received at the house
from the West Point cadets. The shield
was SIA lGGO III ulSi1U anu 1OuT lo6U DrOdQ.
and made of white and blue immortelles
and Gala lilies. AT IL o'clock Secretaries
Blaine, Proctor and Rusk, Generals
OBierne, Romer and Ewing arrived at
the house.
THE PRESIDENT DOES NOT VIEW THE
BODY.
President Harrison will not look upon
the remains of the General. The family
sent an invitation to him this morning
but the President kindly replied that he
preferred to keep with him remem-
brances of the General while alive. He
did not wish to see him in death when
their associations had been so warm and
genial.
AT noon every doorstep along Seventy
first street was crowded with interested
spectators and windows were filled with
eXpectant faces.
About 1925 o'clock a caisson, draped in
black and drawn by four horses, was
drawn up in front of Sherman's house.
The horses were mounted by regulars
and an army officer was in charge. Be
hind the caisson was an orderly leading a
black charger, which bore the military
trappings of the General. The black
velvet covering almost hid the horse from
view, but the boots and saddle were
plainly conspicuous.
THE SERVICES.
The services of prayer began at noon,
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prayers were read by Rev. Father Sher-
man.
Close to the casket stood the other son.
=. II. Sherman. In the front parlor were
all the other members of the family, Sec
retary Blaine and wife and Mrs Dam
rosch. Father Sherman was assisted by
Rev. Father Taylor and two other priests.
Father Sherman, in conducting the sim
pie services, read from the Scriptures the
passage beginning, 81 am the resurrec-
ton and life.' After this two selections
We're sung from the oratorio of Elijah.
Father Sherman again read the Scripture,
and the "MiSerari'' from Mendelssohn
was given. Prayer was then offered by
the son and the services were conducted
with music.
There We're about $50 persons present at
the services. The greater number were
relatives. But among the friends were
Mayor Grant and Senator Cameron.
DISTINGUISHED ARRIVALS.
Before the arrival of the hour for the
funeral procession to start, carriages con-
tanning prominent officials, both military
and civil, arrived at the house. Among
the visitors were George w. Childs, A. j.
Drexel, Hiram Hitchcock, Chauncey M.
Depew, ex-Presidents Cleveland and
Hayes, Joseph Choate, Rear Admiral
Braine, General Schofie1d and Governors
Pattison and Bulkely, with their staffs.
The Senate committee came in body.
wearing the usual signs of mourning,
and after them came a large committee
from the House.
1t was close on o'clock when Presi-
dent Harrison, with Lieutenant Ernst,
his aid-de-camp, reached the house.
THE PROCESSION.
Long before the procession moved.
spectators began to take positions along
the line of march. The decorations along
the route are not so numerous or elabo-
rate as when General Grant was buried,
but nevertheless they are strikinply
handsome and in great profusion.
Just about o'clock troop of the Sixth
Cavalry formed to the left of the house in
the middle of the street. Six Lieutenants
then appeared in the doorway, bearing on
their shoulders the casket of the General,
which they placed upon the waiting cais-
son. The members of the family, friends,
invited officials and pall-bearers then
took their places in carriages, and fol-
lowed, and the members of Lafayette
Post, G.. A. r., formed on either side of
the caisson. The procession then COM
menced TO move, but tvery slowly, as both
sides of the streets were crowded with
hundreds of carriages waiting to take
their places in line.
Following came the military, consist
ing of the military order of the Loyal
Legion, the Grand Army, the Cadets and
the National Guard, consisting of the
ond, the Seventh and the Twelfth Regi-
ment, and the First and Second Batteries
of Artillery. Behind these were the Sons
OF Veterans and civic organizations,
which brought up the rear of the parade
The pageant started down Eighth
avenue from Seventy-first street to Fifty
seventh street, and then turned into Fifth
avenue and down to Washington Square,
Along the line of march from start to
finish was one grand crush, and walking
on the streets traversed was almost an
impossibility. 1t appeared asl if every
resident of New York and surrounding
cities had turned out to gaze upon the
casket that contained the remains of the
great General.
Along the wall of Central Park. on
Fifty-ninth street, crowds of people were
seated, and at the circle where the column
began to assume definite shape the sea of
bobbing heads was simply indescribable.
All along Fifth avenue mass of peo-
pie lined the sidewalks, steps and win
dows, and the balconies on the thorough
fare were occupied until after 6 O'Clock.
when the last of the dirge- playing bands
went by.
The weather was cold and disagreeable,
but there was no apparent diminution in
the numbers of the crowd until the very
last.
Grizzled old veterans of the G.. A. R.
formed striking feature of the pro-
cession. Many of them walked on
crutches.
The caisson on which rested the body
was received everywhere with uncovered