Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1885 — GRANT’S TOMB. [ARTICLE]

GRANT’S TOMB.

AVast Throng at Riverside Park on. Sunday. [New York telegram.] It is estimated that at least 40,000 people filed past the tomb of Gen. Grant last Sunday. It was the greatest crowd that has visited Claremont since the funeral. The visitors came by every road leading to the park, and began’arriving early in the morning. All the surface roads leading anywhere near the park were crowded, and the elevated lines ran extra trains. There were a number of extra police as well as many detectives in civil clothing, but there was not the slightest disorder, and there was no occasion for their services at any point in the neighborhood of the tomb. By noon the crowd had so increased that it was necessary to form the people in line. The stream stretched over the hill for a quarter of a mile, and the visitors filed slowly past the entrance to the vault three or four abreast That Claremont has a charm of its own aside from its being the resting-place of General Grant was shown to-day by the numbers who lingered there after passing the tomb. Thousands walked to the top of the knoll beyond, and then spread over the lawn above the bluff which commands the magnificent view of the Hudson. Some of the paths of entrance and exit about One Hundred and Thirtieth street are steep and dangerous, and it became necessary to-day to close them. The people take a great interest in the camp of the regular soldiers on guard, and come as near to the tents as the guards will allow. To-day a double guard was on duty, and only friends and families of the soldiers were admitted. One of the visitors to Capt. Fessenden was Leutenant Brownell, who killed the man who killed Ellsworth at Alexandria.