| Show I THE VICTORY OF DEATli HeartStirring1 Scenes Between Those t Who Wore the Blue and Those I Who jonneil the Gray I No More Shall the WarCry Sever or I the Whaling Rivers he Red We Bury AH Strife Forever Ami Grant is the Nations Dead The fcccne Where rant Now Lies NEW Yom August 7The City Hall gates were closed at 1 oclock this morning and the remains of General Grant left alone watched by the guard of honor Between 4 and 5 oclock the crowd had become a throng and its line reached from the fountain foun-tain along Park Bow to Centre street turning turn-ing the orner of Chambers street Every train on the big bridge brought recruits whq hurried across Chatham and Centre streets to the point where the loose crowd was being made into a solid procession At the same relative hours today there were thousands more in the stream than yesterday and this fact was due to the belief and experience that the early ones had yesterday the least time to wait So it was that early downtown down-town cars between 5 i and G oclock brought hundreds of ladies and gentlemen who had thought to be in advance of the great crowd i The City Hall clock marked 525 when the covers from the casket were lifted and St I Pauls was tolling G oclock when the iron gates were thrown back The first to pass I through were as on yesterday women INCIDENTS AT THE HOTELS i NEW Yom August 7It looked like old war times at the hotels in the city last I night Great crowds of strangers arrived on every train and boat in anticipation of I i Saturdays funeral pageant but it was in the hotel lobbies that the most extraordinary I extraor-dinary assemblages gathered and friends of twenty years ago who were made enemies by the war shook hands and made it all up I Some of the scenes between the soldiers of the North and South were heartstirring and there were GROUPINGS OF GKAND OLD FIGURES On all sides In the midst of the scene I stood General Phil Sheridan Suddenly a redfaced man advanced leading General i John B Gordon of Georgia toward the Union soldier then introduced them and I the two old warrior seized hands with a firm grasp and looked each other fair in the eyes then their hands trembled but they did not release the friendly grasp but stood I there looking at each other with sparkling eyes General Belknap the exSecretary of I War came up with General Curtis the one eyed conqueror of Foit Fisher and formed part of the group It was A PICTURE WOBTIIY OF A GREAT PAINTER Southern Generals tall black eyed longhair I long-hair and scarred pressed the hand of the famous soldier of the north This is how i the soldiers of the North and the South meet today said General Curtis God grant that it is only an emblem of what is coming I to the whole country THE TOLLING BELLS TOHOBBOW I A number of churches throughout the j i country have signified their intention of I I tolling the city bells when the funeral cortege cor-tege leaves the City Hall to morrow and again when it arrives at Riverside Park In f order that they may be promptly notified the Western Union Telegraph Company has arranged to announce over the wires I throughout the country the time of starting of the funeral from the City Hall tomorrow morning and the final moment of deposit of I the remains of General Grant in the tomb The floral smembrance from General I Grants old home Galena ill was placed near the remains today The Inspector this I morning states that he has orders to close the gates at 1 oclock tonight and that the I remains will then be turned over to the undertakers un-dertakers and the public will not again be I permitted to see them At noon the line had extended up Broadway Broad-way above Leonard street and up to that hour 35000 persons had viewed the remains Midday passed and there was no diminution I diminu-tion of the constant train of people so anxious I anx-ious to seeTHE j see-THE UNREcoGNIzABLE FACE OF TIlE DEAD I GENERAL At 1 1 oclock the line reached up Broadway to a point near Canal street The tide was flowing past the remains at about 100 permute per-mute as on yesterday and at 2 oclock nearly 50000 persons had viewed the body since the gates opened at 6 oclock this morning morn-ing |
