The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-05
THE SILENT TRAIN.
Its Progress from Saratoga to Albany, With
ont Sound of Bell or Whistle.

Its Progress from Saratoga to Albany, With
ont Sound OF Bell or Whistle.
ALBANY, Aug ITO all on board the funeral
train, the beautiful drapery OF the cars
subject of comment. No woodwork except the
sashes of the windows was visible. The wheels
of the engine and tender were draped with plated
black, radating from q rosette center 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
''Woodlawn" was draped in the panels and cen
ters and the national flag was festooned
gracefully, but so that there was no fut
tering. The other cars were not so deliberately
finished, but all were draped with good taste.
Twenty-seven hundred yards of cloth were used.
The train had been prepared under direction of
Mr.. ID. NJ. Hendricks. general passenger agent of
the New York Central road, who will accompany
the train to New York The starting of the train
from Saratogawas almost lmperceptible SO slow
was it drawn. At the rate of eight ten miles
the train moved eastward out of Saratoga. Every
crossing, every veranda and every vestige of
ground for observation was taken up. The bells in
the steeples of Saratoga tolIed as the black
train trailed slowly out of the village toward
Albany The clock tower dial hands marked
10 o'clock, as the train passed through the sub
urbs. Twenty-Five minutes later the train
pulled slowly into RallSton. About the depot
were throngs Of men and women. The church
bells were slowly tolline, and field piece near
the depot saluted the train, High street was
passed at 2:27 p NJ. The train was quickenng
its speed
In the funeral car the Z. S. Grant Post who
were with the remains mounted guard at the
casket. The remains rested upon black dais
anu the compartment in which they lay com
municated with the main saloon by folding doors,
which were open. The doors at the sides of the
funeral compartment were also open, and tho
afternoon sunlight shOne upon the royal purple
velvet and the silver mountings Of the casket.
The first and each succeeding detail mounted
on guard consisted of two of the u. S. Grant
Post. One stood with folded arms at the head,
ard the other at the foot of the casket
Round Lake, Rev. Dr.. Newman's summer
residence. was passed at 2:48 p. NJ. The platform
fences ndsground around the cottage were black
with spectators. The resident populace formed
lines of uncovered heads on each side of the
track as the sombre train moved by
The hamlet of Coons was left behind at 2:55.
The sound Of the village bells came family
above the rumble of the train, and signals of
grief were displayed Waterford Junction was
passed at 3:l4 and between there and West
Waterford, which was three minutes beyond. a
train going in the opposite direction slowed and
halted as the funeral train approached
apparently Cohoes, at 800, when the black train
rolled through had emptied its factories and
workshops. its stores and homes, and everybody
had crowded near the track and nearby build
ings. West Troy passed at 1928. and the
heavy black draped train rolled into Albany at
$40 p NJ, on time as per special schedule
Superintendent Voorhees, of the Delaware 81
Hudson Canal COmpanys road. stepped down
from the cab of the engine. From the first
movement of the train from Saratoga to this
instant" he remarked to one who had ridden on
the train, you have heard no sound from bell or
whistle" II was true