New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-04-27
GEN. GRANTS FUNERAL
President Taft Among the Nota.
bIeS at Governors Island.
TO WEST POINT FOR BURIAL
Crowds on Line of March
Through City Stand with Barred
Heads as Cortege Passes.

Inside the little army chapel Of St Cor
nelius the Centurion the body OF Major
General Frederick Dent Grant lay In its
flag shrouded coffin yesterday. Tattered
battle fags waved above the generals black
chapeau and sword as they lay on the
comm. Through the stained glass windows
the sunlight filtered on officers in blue ana
gold. their sword hits knotted with Grape.
The little chapel was filled with diGnitaries'
Including the President of the United
states General Grants relatives were
seated in the front pews and with them
their personal escort, the Veteran Corps OF
Artillery, in their picturesque uniforms.
stawart sergeants Of the 18th Infantry
stood sentnels beside the coffin.
Afterward the coffin was carried on the
shoulders OF the scrgeants to the ferryooat
General Otis and on the Manhattan side
vas laid on a Ca!sson, which rumoled us
way UP Broadway and Fifth avenue and
through sd street to the West Shore ferry
while thousands stood and barred their
heads as the funeral procession passed.
Just behind the gun carriage trooper leo
Pet. the dead soldiers charger and faithful
friend black net pail swept the coooies
beside the horses hoofs. The strTups were
crossed at the saddle bow. with the gen
erals boots reversed This horse. with his
vacant saddle. was one OF the most pa
,hetic and solemn features OF long cav
slcsde
The guns Of the battery a. Fort jay Ead
been roaring for three hours when Pres
dent Taft arrived. The revenue cutter Mo-
hawk drew UP a. the quartcrmastoT wharf
~ tho northern end OF the island, ana IN"
Blue flag. with the golden eagle sprcad
across il. dropped from the half-mast pos
tion il had held during the trip down the
river from the foot OF West oCth street.
President Taft. his brother. Henry w.
Taft; Charles D. Hilles. his private secIe-
tary. and Major Thomas H. Rhoads' WI"
has been acting in place of Major BUT ds
military aid stepped ashore, and were met
by Brieadier General Tasker ~ Bliss. star
Officers snapped their white gloFed hands
30 the tins OF their plumed chapeaHs as the
General took the Presidents arm. Along
the road TO the chapel the regulars ~ the
Goth Infantry the island garrison were
drawn up. and each man presented arms
ike 4 wonderful automaton as the COM
n,ander in Chief Of the Army ana Navy
passed by.
Vice-Presiden, Sherman had already
landed on the island and preceded Presl-
dent Taft 10 the church. h'nong others
were Consul General |. humane OF japan
and his secretary DR.. ]. Takamine, presi-
dent Of the Nippon club: Mr.. and Mrs.
Andrew Carnegie General Benjamin +.
Tracy. Professor G. r. Chandler Captain
Miles O'Reilly. General Leonard Wood, Mr'
and Mrs. John r Mclean, Captain F. Y.
he
ne.see; Grenville NJ Dodge, Mayor Gaynor,
Ma,or ". s Hubbell. Major General Daniel
p sickI.s. General Horatio {. King and
Commissioner Waldo.
Members OF the family were already in
their peWs, including Mrs. Frederick Dent
Grant the widow: the Princess Cantacu-
zene, the only daughter. who had hurried
from Russia ard upon whose arrival the
funeral was made to wait; Mrs Nellie
Grant Sartor,s. Mrs Potter Palmer, OF
Chicago, who Is Mrs. Grants sister, zap
tain 4. 9. Grant. Sd the only son Of the
dead soldier Judge Honcre, of Cmcago'
Mrs Grants father. ana L. S. Grant. I'd.
Of Los Angeles, brother OF General Fred
er!ck Dent Grant.
Only small portion Of the lowers couId
he carried into the church. Tall lilies were
banked on the altar so high that the light
Of the sanctuary windows ttnged their
white tips with gold. Sixteen candles
named on the altar. Three others were at
the head OF the coffin. and three at its foot.
There was almost as large crowd of offi-
GERS and civilians outside the doors OF the
chapel as there was inside.
The ritual OF the dead was read by Chap
lain f. 3. Smith and Bishop Samuel Fell
NA
Grant as the foremost type of the Amcri-
can soldier.
When the service was over the eight
seants bore the mahogany comm from the
chapel and escorted by the pallbearers. 1t
was placed on a caisson. The 18th infantry
band sound two ruffies. and the guard of
honor presented arms. Headed by the band
OF regulars, playing the Dead March from
Saul" the procession wound its way 10 the
General Otis. President Taft and his party
boarded the Mohawk and Mayor Gaynor
and Commissioner Waldo the police boat
Patrol.
On this side troops had begun to assemble
~ early as 1890 o'clock and great crowds
had gathered. Traffic was blocked in State
street when the General Otis came into the
slip. General &. F. Roe and his staff were
Troops and +, lst Cavalry, n. q. 5.
n. Y; Battery F. I'd Battalion Of the Ma
tional Guard Field Artillery 18th Regiment.
n. G. S ~ Y: the Veteran Corps of Ar
tillery. and the L. S. Grant Post or the
GAR Aids were galloping up and down
Broadway and Whitehall street. giving
the commands. Horses chafed impatently
as their riders held them in check.
The Grant Post of the G. A. r.. s.uvh
had been designated as a guard OF honor,
formed double lines in the ferry slip as
the body was brought ashore. Two rufiies
were sounded by the band of the 18th Regi-
n,ent as the Caisson rumbled out of the
ferry driveway. while the Veteran Corps
of Artillery raised their broad bladed sabres
in salute.
There was no music as the corteSe
passed up Broadway to Waverley Place,
except at the ferry where the band broke
into the wall Of Chopin's Funeral March.
Three hundred yards on. only the quick
tapping Of the mufied drums kept the step
time. Mounted police led all the rest be-
hind them the soldiers with their furled
and crepe bound flags. Along with the
Grant Post of the Grand Army OF the Re-
public, came the quaint Veteran Corps OF