The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-02-15

Navy, and it Is a sad and notable Incident that
when the department under which lie served
four OF the eight Executive departments will be
simultaneously d:aped in black, aud one other
has but to-day removed The Grape fiom its
walls.
AN ARMY ORDER
Acting Secretary of War Grant this after
noon issued general order to the army an
nouncing the death. 1t included the Presi-
dents message to Congress and the Execu-
tive order, and was accompanied by another
order issued by Adjutant- General Kelton
directing that on the day of the funeral
troops at every military post Will be pa
raded an tie orders read to them, after
which the labors for the day will cease.
Flags will be displayed at half-mast from
the receipt of this, order till the close of the
funeral. On the day of the funeral a salute
OF seventeen guns will be fired at half-hour
intervals, commencing at s o'clock. The
oihcers OF the army will wear the usual
badges OF mourning, and the colors of the
several regiments and battalions will be
draped In mourning for q period of six
months.
CHARACTERISTIC REMARK.
The House Committee on Military Affairs
Will report appropriate resolutions OF
respect, and recommend that the House
take part in the funeral services. General
Cutcheon, Chairman of the Committee on
Military Affairs, referred feelingly 20 tue
fact that death had removed the last of the
three great Union Generals. This passage
from ShermanS memoirs, said he, is the key
10 the character OF the whole man. 1t was
al the outbreak Of the war when Sherman
was In Louisiana: "On no earthly account
VIII Go any act or think any thought hos
Tile to or in defiance of the old Government
OF the United States"
THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.
The following is the Presidents message
to the family of General Sherman:
loved and veneraled General Sherman. and
would stand very near 10 the mOIe deeply al
fiIc ed members OF his family ia this hour Of
bereavement. 1t viii be as II there were one
dead IN every loyal household in tie land | sur-
geSt that lhe body be borne through Washington
ana lie III state for one day in The rotunda of The
CAPITOL Please advise me Of any arrangements
haue BENJAMIN HARRISON. q
EULoGIZED BY THE CABINET.
Representatives of the Associated Press
interviewed several members of the Cabinet
to-day.
Secretary Noble said he felt great per-
sonal grief at the loss of General Sherman.
Among The hrst events in Mobiles official lie
in Washington was a visit from Sherman,
voluntarily made in behalf Of ex- x-Confeder-
ate General Joseph Johnston. He (Sher-
mani was as ready to support a mau when
friendly 10 the Government as he was uu-
compromising to all its enemies.
PoStnlaster-General Wanamaker said lie
was made of pure gold. mo man that
ever knew combined in such degree the
courage of lion. the gentlpness OF a
woman and the simplicity Of a child"
LOVE FOR THE FLAG.
Attorney General Miller said: "The
world has lost the first of its military men,
at least there is no one surviving at all COM
parable 10 him, unless it be Won Moltke.
Very few men h. We been so close to the
hearts of the people as General Sherman.
One thing struck me in the great centennial
review in New York There the General
stood by the side of the President No
matter what else might lie claiming his at
tention, he did not fail to take rff his hat
and salute the flag. He might let men pass
without recognition. but never the flag"
THE wARMEsT OF FRIENDS.
Secretary Blaine said For more than
thirty years l have known General Sherman
very Intimately. OF his many ana great
qualities on the public side it is not neces-
sary to speak. He did not grow less in the
intimacy of private life and by the fireSide
in his oWn home lie was one OF the warm
est friends to those to whom lie pr0fessed
friendship; he was frank, just and magnani-
nous. He spoke and wrote with a freedom
that seemed almost reckless and often
times was misunderstood, a, when he wrote
lis memoirs. His death seems premature"