The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-09-18

Executive Committee and honorary pan
bearers met the Mckinley funeral train at
the railroad station at Canton shortly pe-
fore noon. The catafalQue was escorted
to the Court House by Troop A of Cieye-
land and the Grand Army band. The
Presidents body will lie in state at the
court House until nine o'clock this even
ing. when it will be removed to the Nc
Kinley residence, escorted by the Canton
Post, G. A. R.
All along the route taken by the funeral
train immense crowds lined the tracks for
a long distance above and below each sta
ton and stood in silence and bareheaded
despite the rain as the train rolled slowly
through the town.
Everywhere the greatest grief has been
manifested.
At Parkton just before the Maryland
line was reached, a brief stop was made
TO attach an extra engine to help the
heavy train up the grade at this point
Then for miles the train ran through
the Dutch settlements of Pennsylvania. 1t
was after 10 o'clock, but many Dunkards,
the men uncovered the women in their
quaint bonnets, were beside the track
Others could be seen in the open doors OF
their lighted farm houses.
The doors of the Capitol, where the
body of the dead President had lain in
state throughout the afternoon, were
closed at six o'clock last night, leaving
thousands outside who had been unable to
obtain last view of the features. The
silken folds of the American emblem were
carefully gathered together and draped
about the coffin. The floral tributes were
placed in carriages, sent to the station
and placed on the train A few army
officers remained to assist in the final
arrangements, while others hastened IN
carriages to the station.
The only escort accompanying the late
Presidents body from the Capitol to the
station was a squadron of the llth United
States Cavalry. The officers composing
the special guard of honor had previously
gathered at the station. Soldiers and sail
ors bore the coffin from the hearse and
placed it on the train.
The funeral train was made up in three
sections, the first of which left on sched-
ule time carrying forty representatives OF
the press and the following persons:-The
Hon. Samuel J. Roberts, Mr.. Dorain, Mr..
Schunk the Cuban committee, Senores
Tamayo, Latosee and Quesada; the Hon.
John Yerkes, Mr.. Henry M. Dawes, the
Hon. NJ E. Allies, Mr.. Beaman G. Dawes,
Mr. W. w. Mills, Mr.. w. G. Edens, the
Hon. Frank L. Campbell, the Hon. A.
Warfield Monroe, Mr. Charles A. Hanna.
Mr.. w. c. Ber, Mr.. Francis c. Kilkenny,
Col. John J. McCook, the Hon. Perry S.
Heath and Mrs. Heath, Capt. John f.
Blake, Mr.. Clark Tonner, Mr.. A. w.
Machen the Hon. J. K. Richards, Mr.
Percy Montgomery, Mr.. John ]. Kennedy,
Mr.. George Barber, Mr.. t. W. Talla-
madge, General T. H. Anderson and Mr..
Phister.
The second section was the funeral train
proper. 1t contained the body of the
President and the following:-Mrs. Nc
Kinley and maid, Mr.. and Mrs. Abner
Mckinley, Mr. and Mrs A. ]. Duncan,
Miss Helen Mckinley Mrs. M c. Barber,
Miss Barber Mr.. John Barber, DR.. and
Mrs. H l.. Baer and maid, Lieutenant
James F. Mckinley, Miss Sara Duncan,
Captain and Mrs Lafayette McWilliama,
Mr.. William Duncan, Mr.. Jack Duncan,
Mr.. Frank Osborne, Mrs. Seward Bow
man, Mrs. NJ A. Stafford, DR.. and Mrs.
Rixey, the Hon. Charles G. Dawes and
Mrs. Dawes, Colonel C. F. Meek, Colonel
w. c. Brown, Major Charles R. Miller,
Mr. Burt Miller, Miss Mckenzie and Miss
Hunt, nurses; Mrs. Henry Mathews, Mr.,
p C. Schell and wife, Mrs. Rand, Mrs ].
A. Porter, President Roosevelt, Secretary
Root, Attorney General Knox, Postmaster
General and Mrs. Smith, Secretary Long,
Secretary and Mrs. Hitchcock, Secre-
tarv and Miss Wilson, Secretary and
MRS. Cortelyou, Assistant Secretary
Hill Assistant Secretary Barnes
Colonel B. F. Montgomery, Mr.. M. G.
Latta, N. P Webster; the com
mittee representing the city Of Buffalo
and the Pan-American Exposition. Mr..
John G. Milburn, Mr.. John NJ Scatcherd,
Mr.. Conrad Dfehl, Mr.. Henry Hamlin,
Mr.. Carlton sprague, Major Thomas w
Symons, U. S. A.. Senator Hanna and
Secretary Dover, Senator Fairbanks, Sen
ator Burrows, Senator Kean, Representa-
tive Alexander, General Michael V. Sheri-
dan, Colonel T. A. Bingham, Captain J.
T. Tean, Captain Henry Leonard, Gen
eraI Harrison Gray Otis, Mr.. A N. H.
Ron, the Hon. F. B. H. Mcfarland, Eli
Torrance, Chief of the
G. A. r.; the body guard, consisting OF