| Show LAID AWAY IN THE TOMB Mrs Grant and Family Retrace Their Sorrowing Steps to McGregor The English Press Pay a Beautiful I Tribute to the Memory of the Dead Soldier Rev Laird Collier Relates Some Incidents In-cidents of Grants Presidential Presi-dential Term S Sunday Sermons on General raut NEW YORK August I Members of the Grant family remained in their rooms at the Fifth Avenue Hotel all day and received no visitors They will return to Mount Mc Gregor probably tomorrow or Tuesday Several clergymen spoke from their pulpits on General Grant today An audience of over OOO people filled the amphitheatre Manhattan Bench Hotel this afternoon and listened with evident interest to A BEAUTIFUL BIOGBAPHY OF GENERAL GBANT Delivered by Rev Robert Laird Collier During the address which lasted nearly one hour the vast audience several times broke out into bursts of applause which even the efforts of the reverend gentleman could not restrain Gilmores band played a selection of sacred music including the Dead March from Saul and Rossinis march Finnebre Madame Clementine Studwell sang There Are Green Hills Not Far Away marked feature of the service was the great audience audi-ence rising to their feet and singing with grand effect NEARER MY GOD TO THEE Theservices closed with benediction after which the audience slowly departed Doctor Collier reviewed many interesting points in Grants military career and at the close of his sermon said An estimate oi Ulysses S Grant which dates his greatness with the victory at Donelson Miss shows the golden thread of sequence for there is the same life running through all his days and through all his deeds The qualities which shone forth in such conspicuous splendor at Vicksburg and Chattanooga were no other than those which marked his conduct con-duct upon every field in Mexico This same force was mighty and persistent through those desperate days of his last encounter with suffering and death His character was greater than all his victories and more imperishable than all renown Before Grant was a soldier or a statesman he had the sense of justice the sentiment of generosity gener-osity the singleness of aim and the industry indus-try of duty which made him a man HIS CROWN OF MANHOOD lather than the sword of the soldier or the sceptre of the statesman is the secret of his conquests and the pledge of his fame His character was as transparent as the atmosphere atmos-phere He was never less than himself If his speech was restrained it was never the reticence of concealment If he had nothing noth-ing to reveal he had nothing to hide He was silent when he had nothing to say Manliness in a man is his charm and fascination fascin-ation During Grants first term of office as President he attended service in the church of which I waS the minister in Chicago when the sermon was treating of the unity of the race and the brotherly obligations of man as man The President took occasion after the service to speak in commendation of the aim of the sermon and with beautiful simplicity said in the tersest sentence They are more scarce than heroes At the house of a friend in Chicago I was sitting at one time with him late into the night when he closed a long and thoughtful discourse which I seldom sel-dom interrupted by referring to the irresponsible irre-sponsible way in which even friends would proffer advice and rising from his chair he said S I HAVE NEVER ASKED FOB PEOPLE TO GIVE ME ADVICE On Thanksgiving Day 1876 when the country was under no little strain of evil apprehension ap-prehension I was in Washington and sitting with the President in his private office He asked me if the people thought there would be any trouble about the inauguration of the Presidentelect In reply I said that the people naturally looked to him and asked what he would do should there be any lawlessness or outbreak The President looked amused and pleasantly answered I know what I would do but I dont mean to tell NEW YORK August 9About 930 this morning the Grant family visited the City Hall and after examining the surroundings of the spot where the General had laid instate in-state decided that the many floral tributes that remained in the Governors room should be sent to the tomb tomorrow morning Mr and Mrs Fred Grant U S and Jesse Grant and Mrs Sartoris were in the party BACK AT MGBEGOB NEW YOBK August 10The members of the Grant family left the Fifth Avenue Hotel this morning They went to the Grand Central depot and took the train for Mt McGregor THE LONDON PRESS ON THE FUNERAL LONDON August 10All morning newspapers news-papers publish today copious accounts of the funeral of General Grant All agree that the outpouring of the poole on the occasion oc-casion and their deep grief indicated by the rrn dispatches were something wonderful The Times has special dispatches three columns lone detailing scenes and incidents of the funeral ong and also prints a leading editorial praising and recalling many personal traits of the dead General It expresses unbounded admiration for the conduct of the American people concerning the burial of Gen Grant andjpronounces the funeral a spontaneous outburst of national admiration and gratitude grati-tude which although it can do nothing for its actual object is not therefore the less toe to-e commended In conclusion the Times says No other nation and no former period have afforded the material for such a procession as that of Saturday or even the physical conditions which made the members mem-bers to come together |
