Show I GRANTS DEAD MARCH J I The Body in State nt Albany Viewed j By Over 77000 People Impressive Scenes As the Funeral Train Departed for New York Preparations At the Xevr York City Hall For the Dead Sol eli Reception flug in State at Albany ALBANY August 5CoL Grant Jesse and U 8 Grant Jr alighted first from the funeral funer-al train when it had stopped at the foot of Spencer street in Albany The party was at once escorted to carriages and driven to the Governors mansion Before the remains wereremoved Governor Hill mind other officers cers returned tp the trainband there greeted General Hancock and stan who were nttlie moment alighting from the car they had occupied The remains were placed within the mounted catafalque SIX BLACK HORSES WITH BLACK TRAPPINGS Were hitched to the funeral car and at the head of each horse as leaders were members of G A H Posts i and 121 The crowd was dense The remains having been deposited on the funeral car it was drawn into Spencer Spen-cer street where it was flanked by Company A Fifth Artillery and Company E Twelfth Infantry Grand Army men guarded the remains re-mains at posts of honor and four men of the Tenth Battalion were mounted at each corner of the catafalque General Hancock and staff filed out into Spencer street where the General was mounted a powerful power-ful black hOe splendidly caparisoned Organizations to take part in the procession wore waiting in the various streets along the line of march and assumed their assigned positions in the procession as the head moved on There were 4311 men in the procession Many companies outside of Albany and its vicinity were present and joined in the procession THE BEMUNS WERE DEPOSITED BKXKVTH THE OREAT CATAFALQUE In the Senate corridor Before being so placed the body was conveyed to a private room in the Capitol building when the undertakers and embalmers removed the lid of the casket to inspect the body since its journey from the f mountain They said they found the remains in excellent condition con-dition The public was admitted finally about i oclocK being penmtteu 10 walk two abreast on each side of the casket I which lay on an inclined dais Seven thousand thous-and four hundred persons viewed the remains re-mains the first hour The remains will lie in state in the Capitol continuously until 10uO u m today when the doors will be closed At 1100 the funeral fun-eral procession will be again formed The remains will be transferred from the catafalque to the funeral car and thence to the Central depot at 1220 p U The funeral train will leave the depot hero at 1280 p U I arriving at the Grand Central depot New York at S p m Jiccording to the published I schedule The Senate and Assembly met yesterday I afternoon and appointed a joint committee to prepare a suitable memorial and subsequently subse-quently both houses took part in the procession pro-cession Late in the evening Col Grant Jessie and U S Grant Jr accompanied by Governor Hill and others entered the Capitol The throng of visitors was checked for a time and the Generals sons passed beneath and halted briefly to view the remains re-mains of their father A cluster of eight incandescent in-candescent lamps shed A BRILLIANT LIGHT DOWN UPON THE DEAD FACE And revealed a startling spectacle The skin of the face has the appearance of being be-ing enameled in a bungling manner The skin has a ghastly hue and has a scaly appearance ap-pearance This is explained as due to the fact that the face was powdered late in the afternoon and without reference to possible I effect of the brilliant light to which the remains I re-mains are now for the first time subjected I The powder will be removed in the morning An immense throng of people numbering about 10000 assembled last night in the park facing the Capitol to hear the sacred concert on a great scale to which about i twenty associations contributed The hymn NEARER MY GOD TO THEE And other sacred hymns were rendered with I very impressive effect I was an advanced hour of the night when the multitude departed de-parted NEW YORK Augusta The procession from I I the Grand Central depot to the City Hall will be made as follows General Hancock I I and staff U S band battalion of foot artil lery four companies of infantryz two companies com-panies of marines two companies of blue jackets General Shaler and staff Second Battery mounted BrigadierGeneral Ward and staff First Brigade of the First Division of the ational Guard headed by the Twentysecond Regiment one hundred citi zens in carriages catafalque guard of honor j BrigadierGeneral Fitzgerald and staff Sec j I ond Brigade of the First Division of the j National Guard headed by the Seventh Regiment The line will be down Fifth avenue to Waverly Place to Broadway to the City Hall As the first brigade enters the City Hal park it will open ranks and the catafalque cata-falque will be driven to the Hall ExPresident R B Hayes telegraphed to I Generals Aspinwall and Sickles today that 1 he would be in New York on Thursday He expressed thanks for the attention shown to i I Wm I General Hancock will notify the G A R organizations through the press Thursday of the positions they are to occupy ALBANY August 5The files of people which began passing the remains of General Grant in the Senate corridor at the Capitol when the doors were first thrown open yesterday I yes-terday afternoon had not diminished at midnight The solid tide of visitors entering enter-ing from Washington street split at the foot i of the casket and in two files streamed out through the State street portals until 11 i fell but the Showers oclock this morning Shower fel throng has been maintained without dinnn i ishing After oclock the crowds lessened i ishng and at 2 oclock the guards on duty by the I i coffin began to relaxand stand at ease Af cof ter 2 oclock the numbers were less and less until at 4 oclock the stream had sunk to a succession of stragglers and so few were i there that more time was permitted to visitors visit-ors to view the remains There was a com parative respite until 5 oclock when the G stragglers oclock were reinforced and when i was 51200 PERSONS HAD VIEWED TH REMAINS And the solid tide was again flowing and two streams of visitors were surging past the casket The line outside the Capitol i building increased with the hours until at 10 oclock people four abreast reached down Washington avenue fully a block to where the coming throngs were formed in line by a strong force of police At 10 oclock I was estimated that the remains had been estated rema wa viewed by 100 persons per minute and that vewed pr up to that hour 60000 persons had seen the face of the dead general At the Executive mansion the sons of General Grant with Doctors Douglas and Newman breakfasted quietly with the Governor TH DAT DAWNED BRIGHT And from the country side farmers and their Ad fom families had come i early to see the great dead Trains east and west added to the number of strangers in the city and the morning boats brought many more boat A committee of 100 prominent citizens of New York city appointed by Mayor Grace to represent the city at Albany and to accompany ac-company the remains from this city to NeW YorK city had arrived Across thelappel of the black coat of each member of the committee com-mittee is a white satin badge at the top of I which are the words City of New York underneath this are the arms of the cityand f I at the bottom General Grant The committee com-mittee wear white hats with a black band ALBANY August 5At 1030 oclock th forenoon the Capitol doors were swung shut The compact line of waiting visitors which extended over a block was shut off thus and those vuo had entered in were permitted per-mitted to pass rapidly out when the State street doors were closed and none but the guard of honor from r S Grant Post Wheeler Post of Saratoga and six men of the military order of the Loyal Legion were allowed to remain The undertakers now took charge and so far us possible PREPARED THE REMAINS FOR THE LAST STAGE OF THE JOURNEY Outside of the building in the park mili mi tary and other organizations were forming at their stations and many companies are filing to side streets whence to move at the word of command Delegates will assemble in the City Hall this morning and be assigned a place in the procession to the railway station The train from Saratoga yesterday morning was made mace up of only nine cars Those prepared for the New York committee of one hundred will increase the number lo eleven While the remains have lain in state at Albany the funeral train been safely guarded in the West Albany shop and will be until called outib convey the remains to the metropolis THE STREL CASKET COi MKTED The steel casket built at Troy was conl pleted last evening Thousands of people have visited the works during the past few days Night and day the work has progressed i pro-gressed and neither time nor expense has been spared to complete the work success fully The casket was shipped this morning from West Troy Slowly the funeral car drawn bysix black I horses with their mourning trappings moved to the State street side of the Capitol OENERAL IIAXCOCK MOUNTED UPON A IUACK CHARGE From West Point and followed by his staff ane staf approached the Capitol Io1owd did General Famsworth and staff Governor Hill and staff had gathered at the Capitol and weie in waiting Eleven oclock had passed and it was half an hour later when the great door of the Capitol swung open on the State street side and the guard of honor from U S Grant Post were seen by waiting crowds with the remains inside tho corridor At this moment the guard of honor moved out into the sunlight to the strains of music and the sound of trumpets of the regulars upon the upper steps of the Capitol Thirteen men were touching the casket cas-ket and so surrounding it and almost hiding it from view The sombre car was waiting at the foot of the stairs in the street and four men were inside of it and assisted in lifting the remains to the black dais within the mounted catafalque Then Colonel Black and Major Brown ranged their companies of regulars on cither side of lie car the I front being level with this heads of the horses The Grand Army guard took positions I THE TRUMPETS n VNG OUT AND THE PROCESSION I STARTED i At a measured pace down State street the various organizations falling into form the procession reaching Broadway amid the dull boom of cannon and the tolling and cum ing of bells in the steeples The sons of General Grant and their companions compan-ions of yesterday were driven to the dept where the long black funeral train was waiting its burden General Hancock Han-cock and D M Kendrick were in charge Guns boomed while the remains were being placed in the car Woodlawn and the bells tolled slowly The committee from New York enter d their cars and the train started The remains were viewed in Albany by 77200 persons I At the instant the train started I A DIRGE CAME UP TO THE EARS Of all inthe train from the band of the Jackson corps that stood in line and saluted Hundreds of persons standing nearest the track laid coins on the rails to have them flattened beneath the wheels of the train that carried General Grant on his last journey jour-ney On the roofs of houses hundreds I witnessed the start and as the black train rumbled across the long bridge of the Hudson Hud-son it was between two dense lines of people peo-ple who filled out the paths on either side There was no clang of bell no scream of whistle only a dull rumble of wheels beneath the memorial train Across the river were crowds of people The shops and stores and factories had closed their doors to business All who work and those of leisure seemed to have come out to stand with uncovered heads to be part of the scene The long sweeping I curve was rounded and the train straightened straight-ened out lines with the Hudson on its way I to the metropolis THE ARRIVAL I NEW YORK NEW YORK August GThe catafalque and 1 canopy used at Mount McGregor reached the City Hall this morning and was early j placed in the position in the corridor behind < the rear iron grate The marble flooring i surrounding it was covered with a rubber carpet designed to deaden the tread of the 1 hundreds of thousands of people who i will pass around the bier while the body of deceased lies there A squad of police is stationed throughout the building and all persons were excluded therefrom excepting those whose business caused a deviation i i from the rule The steps of the staircase reaching from the corridor to the Governors room have been hidden by broad strips of dark material augmenting the solemn appearances of the interior and at the platform plat-form where the spiral stairway begins 1 bronze bust of General Grant has been placed on the pedestal surrounded by the American flag covered with crape All day longcrowds people ascendedthe outer steps of the building and peered through the iron barred gates at the interior and the spot where the body will repose as indicated bv the richly draped canopy |