Show THE NATIONS DEAD I I Lying in State in the City Hall In I New York I Ii i Immense Throngs Taking a Last Look I at the Remains of Genera Grant IAn I i An ImpoHsinir Procession From the rand Central Depot I NEW Yom August T Hurrying crowds sought shelter from the drenching rain under the eaves of the Grand Central depot nutjninutesbeforoclic JepJQ f ing the mischance that would turn tne pa radeinto n weary tramp through n drenching Rtorm Their f cars wergroundless Brighter Bright-er skies showed in the west when the funeral funer-al train Tolled into the depot Military methods had indeed proved infallible An escort was ready and at the door promptly at the stroke of 5 oclock The dark clouds had rolled over and the sun broke forth illuminating il-luminating the glasscovered arch as the train moved in Its rays fell upon the silver mountings of the coffin purple covered and with A SINGLE HEATH OF OAK LEAVES Over the heart of the dear father by his chil drens hands resting upon the lid It fell upon the wrinkled faces of veterans who earned ear-ned it as tenderly as a loved child from the car to a light push cart brought down from Woodlawn for the purpose and drew it up the inclined platform and across to the westside west-side of the depot and to the vehicle that was to be the last on which the body would ever ride With them walked six of the Loyal Legion and two Grand Army men The martial tread of armed men echoed behind A company of the Fifth Artillery and Company Com-pany E of the Twelfth Infantry regulars whom the Government had sent asA as-A BODY GUARD OF HONOR Marched in the escort General Hancock and his suite had left the train from the opposite side and passed through the gate into Fortythird street where horses were waiting ahead of the coffin then galloped to the head of the procession on Fifth avenue below Thirtyfourth street The three sons of General Grant also left the depot quietly All others who had come with the train followed fol-lowed the remains out in double file The citizens committee of one hundred led by exMayor Franklin Edson and Jackson S Schultz walking next followed the regulars Kehiud them Governor Hill and General Farnsworth and his glittering staff and in their turn committees of the House and the Senate at Albany In Fortythird street the catafalque waited Eight steps led up to the raised platform upon which the veterans set down the coffin with its wreath of oak leaves It bore no other ornament save a olden i old-en plate Their duty done the veterans j stepped down and took their stand beside the catafalque The clash of the troops presenting pre-senting arms and i THE MOUBNrUIi STBAIKS OF A DIBQE Played by Government band had greeted the appearance of the casket in the doorway I i Files of soldiers of the Seventyfirst regiment were drawn across the street and on the opposite op-posite curb from the portal to the catafalque As the casket was borne between them the teeming crowds behind the militiamen uncovered j un-covered and the mellow sunlight fell upon thousands of bowed heads Involuntarily I some of the policemen lifted their hats Then the heavy tread of the regulars broke the stillness as they marched up to take I their places beside the catafalque Twelve colored men seized the reins of the twelve horses that were shrouded in black like the hearse and standing beside them awaited the signal NEW YORK August 5After a wait of half an hour the procession started ahead of the cortege far down Fifth Avenue When the order to move was given the stalwart stal-wart figure of General Hancock was in the lead A block in front of the file twenty mounted police cleared the streets Every stoop and railing that might furnish a point of observation was occupied every dismantled disman-tled lamppost had its tenant and on the 1 telegraph and electric light poles the boys 1 hung like knots on a rope As the coffin passed heads were bowed and the huge crowd was silent and absolutely voiceless From far ahead was heard the quarreling of the police with the crowd but when the procession I pro-cession passed all was silent save for the steady tramp of the marchers the ramble oft of-t heavy guns the roll of muffled drums and THE MOURNFUL DIBQES Of the bands Many houses on Fifth Avenue notably Mrs A T Stewarts were handsomely draped in mourning As the procession entered Broadway the sheet of i black became profuse and flags everywhere were seen at halfmast The crowds downtown down-town were denser too and the police had Greater difficulty in repressing them The route was at timeinterfered with More i i than an hour was consumed in reaching tho I City Hall When the right entered tho still mile yet only 1 park the left was a away marched I I tho military with a few exceptions in this parade The battalion of four batteries I I i teries of the Fifth United States Artillery I followed behind General Hancocks staff Armed artillerymen marched behind them and they were followed by a band from Governors Gov-ernors Island Then came Lieutenant Commander AV W Meade with two companies com-panies of marines and two of blue jackets in white shirts They carried I AHMS BEVEBSED AND NKEBS VEILED With crape as did every succeeding regiment regi-ment Crape was on the hilts of the officers swords on the drums bugles and everywhere I every-where Major General Shaler and staff of he National Guard brought jrelief to the I picture Resplendent with gold and epaulettes they rode ahead of the First ep Brigade of Ntw York citizen soldiers It comprised the Second Batten mounted but I I without guns General Ward and staff of the Twentysecond Regiment in its striking I white jackets the Ninth Twelfth and Eleventh 1 Elev-enth following in turn A double file of carriages containing distinguished New I Yorkers the Citizens Committee Governor Hill and staff and the committees of the Legislature follow ed the Eleventh Regiment i Hill was attired in plain black Governor and with a high white hat rode with General eral Farnsworth in military uniform Then came TIlE CATAFALQUE inanimate burden GeneralBrowns With marched upon its left and Captain regulars the right The coffin rode easily Becks on heard no sound was when it passed and Fitzpatrick led the Sec it General Behind of the National Guard The ond Srigade regiment the Six ninth and Eightieth Seventh followed in succession a file of bringing up the rear The procession policemen arrived at the Park after 7 oclock cession directly in front of tho plaza The space on draped por leading the heavily the steps up clear by the City Hall had been kept tico of walks through the Park butthe the police Gen outside were packed and sidewalks the Park oral Hancock and staff moved into followed by the Twentysecond regiment and passed into the the steps ascended building Here beneath the canopy of black with which the ceiling of the hall was cov Mayor Grace and escorted met by ered he was Mayors office The Twenty 1 corted to the on either was drawn up second regiment moment later the and side of the entrance the a Grant party rolled carriage containing Rev Dr New up the steps Dr Douglas the first to General Porter were and man the funeral car alight Afler them came and of tho portico in front As it paused were 1U made for taking the coffin preparations solemn dirge was funeral car n played from the A detachment of twelve men from Post the Brooklyn U S Grant TEXDEBLY LIFTED THE COFFIN and bore it into the Prom its resting place I City Hall There beneath the catafalque the men who bore the coffin laid down their burden Col Fred Grant Ulysses S Grant and Jesse Grant dressed in black followed I the body into the Hall Then came the committee of 100 representing the City of New York the Legislative committee members mem-bers of tho Common Council of Albany and others Night had now settled down upon tho scene and the electric lights were ablaze The body was then taken into a private room by the undertaker and prepared pre-pared for public iew Then at the request of Colonel Grant Lieutenant Colonel Floyd Clarkson placed upon General Grants breast the decoration of the Loyal Legion of Honor and Senior ViceCommander Johnston fastened by its side the medal of the Grand Army of the Republic Mayor Grace accompanied by two ladies viewed the body before the public was admitted VIEWING THE REMAINS EW Vo utUFt M peonle Mt I < ered in theCity HilllMr nfl aipFihrf they might be first in the line that Boon after G oclock this morning began filing past the remains of General Grant where they lay at the City Hall There were no great throngs awaiting admission Of those who waited at 6 oclock there were not more than 1000 persons Inspector Steers was in charge He had ordered that 150 policemen should report to him at the City Hall at an early hour this morning At G oclock the hour fixed for admitting the public the inspectors officers were still filing into the II plaza Two lines of policemen were placed across the plaza from the City Hall entrance to the fountain These two lines formed a I passageway through which four men might walk abreast and along which all day visitors visi-tors to the remains should pass Meanwhile officers of the Twentysecond regiment who I had been on duty throughout the early morning were filing out the City Hall I They were going home and their places were being taken by officers of the Twelfth regiment Sergeant Hilley with 300 men picketed the corridors through the building so as to form a channel through which the throng should move to the exit on the courthouse court-house side of the City Hall Grant Post had a mounted detail at 5 oclock to serve from that hour until oclock These men i were placed nearest the catafalque and two i lines of visitors passed between them and I the casket on either side All within gloomy corridors was in readiness the clocks pointed 600 oclock and at the inspectors in-spectors orders TIlE ICON GATES WEll ThROWN OlEN Ten or twelve hundred people had jammed I up against the officers who barred the channel I chan-nel at the edge of the fountain circle but when the gate swung open the officers ceased to hold the people in check and the stream began to flow past the remains and through the building The first person toY to-Y ew the remains today was a spare but sweetfaced little woman who led with each hand a little boy In the first minute only 8i persons passed the casket This rate of passage would never answer when the dense crowd should be waiting outide The people peo-ple were hastened and they were hurried through at the rate of 101 a minute then the pressure was increased to 101 a minute The procession was almost a lock step and I the tramp was quick The tide was easily formed of persons who came from the cars who on passing through the main street were drawn into the stream by a desire to see the dead The hour from sir to seven oclock was employed by working men and women boys and girls in viewing the remains All through the hour the formation of the line was at a point near tho f ountain audthe time of waiting was not more than ten minutes min-utes After 7 oclock the line changed as to I its personnel There were less women and I girls The police were reinforced at 8 oclock Details under sergeants and rounds men had been arriving and reporting to the Inspector from 7 oclock and at 8 oclock there were 487 men on duty The guards at the casket were HASTENING THE PEOPLE THBOUQH AT THE KATE Of 150 per minute The hands on the clock dials marked oclock The fountain circle was no longer the point of formation of the line Every car and train coming down town added its quota to those anxious to look upon tho face of the General The crowd was fast becoming throng The line was being hurried hur-ried through the hall at the rate of 140 per minute and for a little while the pace was 170 per minute which rate if maintained for an hour would have passed 10200 persons per-sons NOTES AND INCIDENTS NEW YORK August G General Gordon of Georgia who at Spottsylvania Court House Virginia checked General Hancocks advance ad-vance through the captured salient on the 12th of May 1864 and who commanded one wing of Lees army and made the last assault as-sault upon General Grants line atApponx attox has been appointed aide to General Hancock at the funeral ceremonies at the I burial of General Grant Mayor Grace this morning sent the following fol-lowing communication to the Commissioner I of Public Works Rollin M Squire In deference to the expressed wish of some of the friends and admirers of General I i Grant you are hereby directed remove from the front of the City Hall the verses inscribed thereon At 11 oclock between 30000 and 1000 persons per-sons hod passed the casket and looked toward I to-ward the remains though many coming rapidly in from the bright sunlight were I scarcely able to distinguish them in the shadows of the blackdraped corridor I By direction of the Secretary of War the I chief of the Bureau of the War Department will go to New York city and attend in full I uniform the funeral of the late exPresident Ulysses S Grant Col Grant was asked if he would consent to the placing of a Grand Army badge upon the breast of the dead General The son acceded and today Senior Vice Commander Jno H Johnson of U S Grant Post pied II the token upon the Generals breast Consent Con-sent had also been given the military order I I the Loyal Legion to fix upon the breast of I I the remains a token of that organization A GLOBAL OFFERING Of the Board of Aldermen was set up during I I the morning beneath the rotunda dome where the light streamed down upon it The central column rose ten feet and was flanked I I by stands of colors while the base was a bed of ferns and palms among which were placed huge rows of white buds A incident was I occasioned by the attempt of an old lady i and kiss the line to who came up in the stop face of the dead General She was reminded I I I I hastily that such a proceeding was in bad I I taste and besides two plates of glass prevented < pre-vented any demonstration of the kind |