The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-09-17
THRoNGS GREET FUNERAL TRAIN.
Almost Continuous Line of People
 from Buffalo to Washington.

1 Washington, Sept 16.-Through liv-
 ing lane of bareheaded people stretching from Buffalo up over the Alleghanies | down into the broad valleys of thes Sus- quehanna and on to the marble city on the banks of the shining Potomac. the
 nations martyred president to-day
 made his last journey to the seat of the | government over which he presided for
 four and one-half years.
 The whole country seemed to have | drained it's population to the sides of the track over which the funeral train passed. The thin lines through the
 mountains and the sparsely settled dis tricts, thickened at the little hamlets,
 covered acres in towns, congested into vast multitudes in the larger cities. Work was suspended In field workshop, mine and factory The schools were
 dismissed and everywhere appeared the
 trappings and tokens of woe.
 A million flags at half-mast dotted
 hillside and valley, and formed thick ct of color over the cities. And from almost every banner hung a streamer of crepe. The stations were heavy with black symbols of mourning. At all the larger towns and cities after the train got into Pennsylvania, militiamen, drawn up at Present arms" kept back the enormous crowds.
 The silence with which the countless thousands saw the casket containing the body of their hero and martyr was oppressive and profound. Only the rumbling of the train wheels, the sobs from men and women with tear-stained faces and the tolling of the church and other bells broke on the ear.
 At several places Williamsburg, Har- risburg and Baltimore, the chimes play ed Cardinal Newman's grand hymn.
 Taken altogether, the journey home was the most remarkable demonstra- tion of anniversary personal sorrow since Lincoln was borne to his grave. Every one of those who came to pay their last tribute to the dead had an opportunity to catch a glimpse of the flag-covered bier elevated to view in the observation car at the rear of the train.
 There was no other bit of color to catch the eye on this train of death. The locomotive was covered with black. The curtains of the cars in which sat the widow, the relatives of the presi- dent the cabinet and others were 1,o1a oc1r train like a shuttered house, save only for that hindmost car where the body lay guard ed by soldier of the army and sailor of the navy.
 Mrs Mckinley stood the trip bravely. Tn the morning soon after leaving Buff falo she pleaded so earnestly to be al- lowed to go into the car where her dear one lay that reluctant assent was given and she spent half an hour beside the | coffin.
 All the way the train was preceded about fifteen minutes by pilot engine sent ahead to test the brides and the switches and prevent the possibility of accident to the precious burden 1t car ried. The train had the right of way over everything. Not wheel moved 1n the Pennsylvania railroad system | thirty minutes before the polit engine l was due or for the same length of time | after the train had passed. General l J. B. Hutchinson had | sent out explicit instructions conveying | every detail. The order concluded: | Every precaution must be taken by | Ill employees to make this movement | absolutely safe" George W. Boyd, as- |
 l.nI ,I,~ ,f he train. The train left Buffalo at 8:30 his morning and arrived at Washing on at S:38 tonight.