Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-08-05
EN- ROUTE.

strations of Respect at Every Point.
ALBANY, N. Y, August 4.-To all on
board the funera! train the beautiful draperS
of the cars was a subject Of comment. Nc
wood work except the sashes of the windows
was visible The engine tender was draped
with plated black radiating from rosette
centre. The sides of the cab were covered
in like manner. Black cloth was draped
from the boiler rails and the front was
fixed with taste. The funeral car, Wood
lawn" was plated IN the panel:
and centres and the national
flag was festooned gracefully, but
so that there was no futtering The other
cars were not so deliberately finished, but
all were draped in good taste. Two thous'
and seven hundred yards of cloth were
used. The train had been prepared under
The direction OF Mr.. D. NJ. Kendrick, Gen
eral Passenger Agentof the New York Cen,
tral road, who will accompany the train to
New York.
The starting of the train from Saratoga
was almost imperceptible, so slowly was II
done. At the rate OF eight or ten miles an
hour the train moved eastward out OF Sara
toes, and at every street crossing, on every
verands and balcony, all vantage ground
tor observation was taken up. The bells In
he steeples of Saratoga tolled as the black
train trailed slowly out of the village. Tie
clock tower dial in Saratoga indicated 2:l5
o'clock as the train passed through the su
hurbs. Twenty-Five minutes later the train
pulled slowly into Bsllsion. About the de
Eot were
Threngs of People.
The church bells were tolliug, and field
piece near the depot saluted the
train. High street was passed at
2:37 p. m, and Eastline four minutes later
The train was quickening it's speed. In
the funeral car the q. S. Grant Post were
with the remains, mounting guard at the
casket. The remains rested upon a black
dias and the compartment in which they
Law communicated with the main saloon by
folding doors, which we're open. The doors
at the sides OF the funeral compartment
we're also open, and the afternoon sunlight
sbone upon the royal purple velvet
ard the silver mountiHgs oi
he caskes. The first and each succeeding
detail mounted on guard consisted Of two
men of the U. s. Grant Post, one standing
with folded arms at the head OF the casket
and the other at the foot The first guard
vas mounted as Bsllsion was being passed.
Round Lake, Rev. Dr. Newman's summer
house, was passed ut 2:lS o'clock. The
depot platform, fences and the fronts of the
cottages in the grove were black with
mourning drapery. The resident popula
ion Of the resort formed
Lines of Uncovered Heads
IN each eide Of the trains, and scarfs oi
mourning were iluttered by many ladies IN
the ,hTona as the sombFe train moved by.
The hamlet Of Coons was left behind al
2:j5 o'clock and Mechanicsville was only
i've minutes ahead. The sound OF the vii,
lsge bells came family above the rumble oi
,be train, and signals OF grief were display
ed Waterford Junction was passed at
3:l4, and between there and West
Waterford, which was three minutes
beyond, tram going in tie
opposite dire ctioa slowed and halted as the
funeral train approached. Apparently
Cohees, at 1922, when the black train rolled
through, had enptied its fectoriesand work,
hops its stores aud it's houses, and every
hody bad crowded 10 the track aud nearby
buildings to zee the train that bore dead
General and ex. Preiident. West Troy was
cassed at 3:28 p. m.
and the heavy blsck draped
rain rolled into Albany at $40 o'clock on
lime as schedule. Supt Voorhees,, OF the
Delaware aud Hudson Canal Company
rcad, stepped down from the cab OF the eu'
zine. "From the first movement Ct the
train from Saratoga to this ins snce," he re,
marked 10 one who had ridden on the train
YOU have heard no sound from bell or
shistle.' Ii was true.