was not favoured with good weather, the day being cold and windy, and the dust terrible. The proceedings may be said to have commenced at half-past nine when President McKinley and Vice-President Hobart, members of the Cabinet, Mayor Strong, Mr. Cleveland, Speaker Reed, General Miles, Governor Black, and other distinguished persons started' from the Fifth Avenue Hotel and drove to the tomb at Claremont, escorted by Squadron A, the crack cavalry organisation of the town. At Thirty-first Street they were joined by Mrs. Grant and her family and by the ladies of the Cabinet, escorted by mounted companies of the Army of the Tennessee and by other veterans. They followed the route which the big procession took an hour Inter, up Madison Avenue to Fifty-fifth Street (because Fifth Avenue was 0 torn up as to be impassable to a procession), through Fifty-fifth Street, toFitth Avenue, thence to Fifty-ninth Street, thence to the Boulevard, along the Boulevard to Seventy-second Street, thence to the Riverside Drive, and so on up along the Riverside directly to the tomb. The lawn opposite the front of the monament was floored over and filled with seats, and there, before 4 numerous and distinguished audience and a huge crowd of on-lookers, the dedicatory services took Jace.' America" was sting by a chorus ishop Newman, so intimately associated with General Grant, offered a prayer President McKinley, standing bareheaded inspire of expostulation, pronounced a eulogy upon General Grant: and General" Horace Porter, the president of the Grant Monument Association, made the address of the day, reviewing Grant's career and at. the close formally turning over the custody of the monument to Mayor Strong as the official representative of the city of New York. By this ime it was past noon, and the great procession, whicti had started at 10.30 from Madison Square was steadily making its Way into town, It. was estimated that it included 59,000 persons. How many people saw it it is difficult to say, the sidewalks and houses along the route being packed with spectators. All the stands and nearly all the houses were decorated Up though these brilliant streets, past throngs and banks of spectators, the precession tramped, "cheered and smiled upon, breathing dust and ever blinking at flying sand, but sturdy and constant in its progress. Just before one o'clock, when the head of the line had reached the bottom of the Inst hill before Claremont, it halted for twenty minutes along its six miles of length, to give the President time to finish his lunch. - Lucky paraders were those who spent that interval in a neighbourhood where food was plenty. All along the route at that time the sympathy of the spectators for their spectacle took spontaneous and practical expression, and trained bananas, oranges; sandwiches, and things edible from windows, balconies, and sidewalks upon the hungry soldiers.
"At one o'clock the President and his party appeared on the reviewing stand on the east side of the tomb, and the head of the procession rounded' the curve into sight. It was in three grand divisions, Military, Veteran, and Civic. The Mili-Grand Division was in four divisions. The first, headed by the West Point cadets, included 2,500 troops of the regular army and 1,600 sailors and marines. The second included the National Guard and naval militia of the State of New York, about 12,000 strong. The third included visiting brigades and regiments from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, New Hampshire, Virginia,
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