The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-04-11

shown. When Il Is closed It is with sixty
screws. The coffin rests under the black
canopy. and there are no other funeral
drapings I'm the room. Inc SUIT III
which the general is TO be buried Is one
that he had for some time and had worn on
several formal occasions. Ii was supposed
that ii had been left behind in New York
Harrison had not packed IL, and. aitnough
Mrs. Grant had put il in one Of the trunks,
she had forgotten the fact and burial SUIT
was ordered from New York Before the
order could be filled the suit now upon the
body was found. and the order Tor another
was countermanded.
In the meantime New York had obtained
the consent of the Grant family to have the
general buried in one of our public parks,
and, after two or three days delay. the
site in Riverside Park. was decided upon.
was begun Immediately after Mrs. Grant 5
choice was announced. Ii was carried on
night and day under the personal super
vision of President Crimmins and Commits
sioners Beekman and Borden, of the Park
Board. ]. Urey Mould. the department
architect. made the plans The structure Is Is
II feet long, u feet inches wide, and u
feet high. 1t has one door opening toward
the Hudson river. An in ross three feet
terial is red and black with granite
at the base, blue stone W. the rounding
barrel roof springs from he sides. and
the inside the tomb is Is feet long 3 feet
wide, and ii feet high. Brick piers are Oullt
from the floor, which Is two feet below the
on these are the marble slabs on which the
great steel casket rests.
REMOVAL TO NEW YORK.
General Grants body was brought to this
city and laid in state on Aug. >. At noon
On the 7th the tomb was completed and the
steel casket put in place On the next day
was the funeral The outer case was placed
in front of the tomb, so that the casket
could be lifted from the catafalque and
placed in it with the least difficulty. and
the two could be lifted and put into the
steel case. The Sun Of Aug. 3. describing
the funeral, said:
THE great funeral car rolled swaying and
laundering to its place between the stand
and the outer coffin at the door of the
tomb. Workmen brought the movable steps
and put them in place. The constantly ar
irving carriages kept increasing the dis
tance from the tomb at which the person
ages alighted- The nearer ones who first
reached their feet saw the Grand Army
men lift the coffin to the ground.
At the close of the burial services the un-
dertakers lifted the heavy double casket
and staggered with it TO the entrance TO the
vault and down the steps, where IL was
slowly showed into the vault-shaped steel
receptacle that is to hold it.
"A thousand men and women fingered
around the tomb at $50 O'clock. when
young Undertaken Stephen w. Merritt I'M
locked and swung open the great iron and
oaken doors to allow Patrick Cregan. of
Z,
case which inclosed the coffin and cedar
box. Seven men from Troy descended into
the tomb, and, by the light of Pickering
candles held aloft by boy. drove fifty-six
bolts of steel into the front wall of the
steel case, making 1t absolutely alright
and water proof Park policemen and cit
liens who had got through the lines some
how crept down the weirdly lit tomb and
begged and tried to buy bits of coal from
the furnace at which the bolts were heat
ed, pieces of burnt candle, rings of rubber
from the bolts and even splnters of wood
from the box in which the bolts were
packed.
THE last bolt was driven at SAB o'clock,
and then the case fastened down upon
the packing of plumbago, inserted beneath
ii to prevent possible damage 10 the marble
slabs by reason of the great weight of the
steel case.
The new granite case which will receive
the two collins is even more endurable than
the steel. 1t is great box, hewn from
a single block of granite. Outside ii is four
feet wide, two feet three inches high and
eight feet four inches long. The interior di-
mansions are: Depth, two feet six inches;
width, one foot four inches; length, seven
from the same piece of rock. This is now
held up by \ strong tackle, but when the
collins placed into the sarcophagus and
the lid is lowered into its bed of cement by
the hardening of the latter ii will again
become, to all intents and purposes, a part
of the Sarcophagus.