New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-09-22

track waving a red flag to stop the regular train
regular train came up slowly, and was seen to be
black with people. All the seats crowded, /
nna " She se and were packed with pso
the route. President Arthur's train on the
same same track anu the engineer was compelled TO !
might pass But before the change was made hun;
dreds of people jumped from the regular train and
ran across the fields in the direction OF the Elber0n
Hotel. Some remained to watch the movements OF
the special train, and they formed line several
AS tho regular train moved on the special
train returned to its former place.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR JOINS THE PARTY.
Without further delay the funeral train seen
moving slowly along the track which had been laid
across the fields specially to convey President Gar
field to his new home by the sea- where he ex-
pected to improve and become cOnvalescent.
Nearly every hat was removed from the heads OF Z
the observers when the tram approached. It'll
moved along the left hand track until the last car
was parallel with the of the special train
from Jersey City, which stood the right hand
track President Arthur and the rest of the party
then stepped into the where the Cabinet wer.
seated. After greeting the persons in the car, the
President sat behind Secretary Blaine and the two
engaged in conversation. General Grant took a.
seat Immediately behind President Arthur and he /
was soon joined by Chief-Justce Waite. The !
engine which drew the t,aln from the Francklyn
cottage did not 20 further than the main road.
4 charge of the engine when Pres dent Garfield was
removed from Washington, were waiting with the
same engine on a switch Deep folds of mourning
hung from the engineers box and pieces OF
Grape covered the brass and other portions of the
engine. Paige who has always felt great pride IN
the successful removal from Washington, ba 3ked
his engine on the main track and coupled it to the
\ car Which contained the coffin. At twelve minutes
past 10 o'clock, the conductor told Paige that all
was ready. few puts was the only noise made
and the funeral train moved slowly along the
Il track.
4 Governor Ludlow. of New-Jcrsey. yesterday
offered an escort of honor to accompany the funeral
tfpnth lnfnr
funeral train started, train consisting Of an engine
] aud one car appeared, winch was to accommodates
minutes after the funeral tram disappeared from
sight the Governors train started. 1t not
\ tlraped III mourning.
4 THE MOURNFUL RETURN TO WASHINGTON.
4 ARRIVAL OF THE FUNERAL CoRTEGE AT THE Ma
] TIoNAL CArITAr~THRoNGs or PEOPLE THE
STREETs-TIIE REMAINS PLACED IN THE CAPITOL
RoTUNDA.
a WAsHINGToN, Sept. 21.-It was an extraordinary
& pageant to which the Capitol If the Republic was
4 treated to-day. Washington welcomed back its
J; dead and its living President. The Baltimore and
Potomac Depot was the scene of an impressive spec
= tacle to-day, it two weeks ago, when the
8 stricken President carried ont swift,
8 noiseless train for the cooling breezes of Long
q Branch, and as it the second of July, when
q the same President buoyant with splendid physical
"a manhood, was stricken down within its walls by an
8 assassin's hand.
81 Early in the afternoon crowds began to gather in
gand about the depot and though the afternoon was
a intensely hot they held their ground, intent upon
IL missing nothing of the spectacle. At O'clock the
n sidewalks of the avenue aud of Sixth-ct leading to
q The depot denscly packed, as well as all the
"a side streets. The tops Of the adjacent buildings
y were covered, and windows and doors presented
i dense bouquets of human faces. In the depot the
f3crowd was not 80 great, but the crowd was kept
g from the depot yard by closed gates. In the inner
"A depot found the officers o1 the army aud navy
q Committees of Reception, and intimate friends Of
n the Presidents family. III
N At 4:35 p. IN. the funeral train came slowly into
n the depot. There a hush aud then every head
NJ was uncovered. The scene that followed was M
Il prcssiye in the extreme. Mrs. Garfield, heavily
81 vcilcd and dressed in deep mourning
"a alghted leaning the of Secretary Blaine
n the one side and supported by her Harry the
other Members of the Cabinet followed, and
among them lowered the form of President Arthur
q on whose face written the various emotions
X which must have struggled within him he was
q welcomed by the sad and silent thousands of the
IA people of Washington. This party followed by
the pallbearers, consisting of trained artillery
gcants AS the cortege reached Sxthst.. where the
n military masscd, the Marine Band slowly began
n to play,
n "Ncarer. my God. TO Thee"
II AS the notes of this beautiful hymn filed he air all
Ia heads were bowed i'll reverence and even the rabble
E III lhc Stccts was owed INTO silence. A mOmrn
"a more and the hustle Of forming the military COM
panies began aud for twenty minutes the straining
"a and strglng of the crowd painful. There was
such blockade at the entrance of Sixth-st., from
"a the avenue nearest the depot, that people were
wedged in it and could not move. Women and chill
n dren suffered intensely from crowding and the heat
n which was stiiing. The police were, of course,
Hpowercss to prevent this Jam or to decide what
should be the constituents of the crowd, which un-
b fortunately was very largely made up OF the rag
gedest and most unruly OF the colorcd population OF
81 the District.
When the end of the procession was fairly in the
Avenue heading for the Capitol the police fell in
81 line and the crowd brought up the rear Then fol-
u lowed the first evidences of disorder the city has
n witnessed since the tragedy. The crowd or rabble
Hof ragged boys and negroes, pressed upon the
H mounted police repeatedly with loud yes, which
n the police resented by charging with upited clubs.
U Ihls disgracelul scene repeated at least three
times between Sixtl-st. and the Capitol grounds.
n AT one time the crowd succeeded in stampedng the
II horses of two of the mounted police one of them
beng so frightened that il ran for little distance,
n the riding losing his hat in the effort to manage hs
n terrified horse. AT the entrance to the Capitol
grounds this rabbe broke and ran, to the ri Sht
~ and some to tn left, the green sward and
among the trees the object being to get the east
'front.' quickly possible 80 as to preempt all the
E available standing room.
n The scene ut the east front was an imposing one.
n he wide plateau filed with the vaIiou, mill
" tary organizations III bright uniforms. conspicuous
u among winch were the marines. The General aud
II stan officers OF the Army and Navy formed in two
~ lines leading to the foot of the broad marble steps
on the east front, standing on which President Gar
n ed delivered his inaugural address on the 18th OF