New-York tribune., 1901-09-20
NATION STANDS MOTIONLESS AND SILENT
TRAFFIC. on LAND AND WATER STOPS.
PEOPLE BARE
YED-ELECTRIC CURRENTS

Not permitted to pay their homage TO the dead
president in person about his bier people iI
this city and indeed in many other parts OF
sthe country yesterday expressed their grief and
ssympa thy in a most remarkable and impressive
way. For a few moments. al the hour set foi
1.-The last journey of President Mckinley, railroad
! and elevated trains. surface streetcars. water
Scraft and even carriages. stood still. Their DC
scupants sat or stood in silence. with barred
I sheads, thrilled by the impressiveness OF the
moment, and in many cases in tears. 1t wa
ia great tribute
i The hour set for this demonstration n this
scity was 3:30 p m, and for five minutes troIley
fcars, elevated trains. trains on the Broo!llyn
Bridge, dynamos and engines in electric power
5houses and vessels of all sorts on river and
I bay stopped Traffic had been more or less ar
ilected all day. As far as possible the numba.
5of trains. trolley and ferryboats in opera
!tion reduced. The Manhattan elevated
railroad and many of the ferry lines were run
I on the Sunday schedule. In Brooklyn and or
zthe lines of the Metropolitan Street Railway
system the number of cars contracted as
tmuch possible. Every boat that could pos
] sibly be spared remained tied up.
! In the middle of the afternoon the chief thor
soUghfares were thronged with people. Lower
broadway was crowded and in front of Trinity
md St Pauls il almost impossible to force
some SELF through lne dense masses or nuHdnlt y
Sat Herald Square the crowd extended from
SThrteth-st. up to Thirty-siXth-st. At Madison
Square twenty thousand people assembled
gOther large crowds gathered at Union Square,
aabout the door of Grace Church. "a The City Hail
1 and in front Of the newspaper Offices
Promptly at the hour set everything came tc
standsti. All the city the electric cars
twere stopped by shutting off the power at the
4 spCwer stations. For five minutes not car bell
Bounded On the horsecar lines the conductors
3stopped their cars wherever they Happened to
gbe at the moment Bridge trains stopped in
! he middle of the bridge. The trains on the
elevated roads stopped whether they CHANGED
sto be at stations not. Ferry boats steamboats,
aand tugs delayed starting stopped their en-
lgines in midstream and drfted with the tide IN
.some of the office buildings elevators ceased 70
/ slide up and down in their shafts Cab drivers
spulled up their horses. Pedestrians stopped ana
astood where they were.
The stopping of the cars was taken as the
jsignal for silence and the barring OF heaas
SMotionless and silent, with the light wind blow
Sing upon uncovered heads, the city STOOD Ior the
full five minutes.
On the water the signal for the cessation of
straffic was the firing of the guns on the revenue
Scutters off Tompkinsville. In Harlem the MN
5utes were marked off by the toiiing or the hre
abell in the tower in Mount Morris PARK. CnuISh re
Rbells in various parts of the city added TO the
simpressiveness by their solemn tones.
lust as traffic came TO q standstlli httie1
Sba nd of musicians, which had assembled undei1
1.-The shadow of the Lincoln statue. IN Union
sSonare played Nearer, My God, to Thee Be
fore the end of the first bar had been reached
seyerv head in the throng had been barred TO the
1cool September breeze and had assumed rev /