The semi-weekly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1879-1882, 1881-09-26

1911, and The foremost car No. Z4S
was combination car, devoted to the
use of attendants of the party and to
the carrying of baggage.
The mournful procession from the
cottage to the train was led by Mrs.
Garfield, who leaned upon the arm of
her son Harry. Those who entered
thetrain at this time besides Mrs.
Garfield, Harry and Miss Mollie, were
Chief Justice Waite, all the members
of the Cabinet, the wives of several of
them, all of the physicians who had
attended the President in his illness
except Drs. Hamilton and Agnew,
Gen. Swain, Warren s. Young. Secre-
tary Brown, and Doorkeepers Ricord
and Atchison. Larry Gar6eld's bro
Their, james, who is sick at Williams
town, will, if he improves, travel di-
rectly from Williamstown 10 Cleye-
land with Gen. Rockwell, in order to
attend the funeral there on Monday.
The guard of honor, which under
the command of Lieut.. Patterson Of
Ohio, occupied the funeral car.
At precisely DO o'clock the wheels
of the train began to CRATE along the
rusted tracks as the train moved
around the short curve of of the lawn
no faster than a man might walk.
The great crowd then moved away 10
the hotel or hurried to the Elberon
station. On the main track two
special trains were awaiting the ar
rival of the funeral train. One was
Central Railroad of New Jersey
train, and its use was over when it
drew up alongside Of The funeral train
to allow President Arthur and ex-
President Grant, whom it had brought
from New York, to step across to the
funeral train in which they were
to Washington The other special
train was made up of locomotive and
one car. In the car were Gov. Lud-
low and staff, whose purpose it was
to escort the special train through the
State as mark of respect. Within
ten minutes after the funeral train
arrived at the station it moved off
southwark, bound to Washington
drawn by Locomotive 65S. II was
followed at safe distance, after a
proper lapse of Of time by the New
Jersey train.
Leaving Long Branch at 10 o'clock
the funeral train proceeded at speed
of about forty miles an hour to Mon
mouth junction. All along the lins
were quiet and sorrowful assemblages
Of people. At Ocean Grove there
5000 people gathered. As the train
passed the bells tolled aud the men
stood with uncovered heads. The
depots and the railroad stations along
the route were draped with mourning.
There were few incidents on the
journey. At every station there were
the same quiet groups that gathered
fortnight before to see the train bear
ing the dying man to Long Branch
in the hopeless quest Of health.
There was no crowding or jostling.
No word was spoken, but people
stood with barred heads.
At Princeton junction there was
the first appearance to a demonstra-
ton. Three hundred students from
Princeton College strewed the track
Of the funeral train with flowers as it
moved slowly past, and the platforms
of the car were covered with the floral
offerings. A little beyond Trenton
the pupils from convent, marshalled
BY the Sisters 10 black gowns and
white colts, stood beside the track and
gazed mutely at the train with sor-
rovful faces Further on a little
country school led BY trim young
mistress wers assembled. At every
cross road wagon loads of farm people
were gathered
At the suburban stations Of Phila
delphia the crowds were SO large that
lines Of policemen were drawn to keep
the people from getting on the track,
but there was no confusion or disorder.
At Philadelphia the tolling Of bells
could be heard as the train passed.
1t was the same train that bore the
President in such haste to Long
Branch, but there was no need for
haste on this journey, and the average
speed was not over forty miles an
hour
A vast throng of people were as
sembled about the depot in Washing
ton as the funeral train arrived. The
immediate approaches to the depot
we're roped of and closed sgainst all
save those who held special cards of
admission The military were drawn
up along the East side of Sixth street,
with the right resting on Penns3 lvania
avenue Upon the opposite side of
the street nearest to the depot was