The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1901-09-18
Funeral Train Makes the Journey from
Buffalo to Washington.
ROOSEVELT TAKES OATH OF OFFICE
And Pledges His Endcavors to Carry Out the Announced
Policy Of President McKmey-Present Cabinet Will
Continue in Ofice--Some Changes Later.

Washington, Sept. 16.-Throagh d
living lane of barcl .uuu people
stretching from Buffalo up over the
AiieghanIos uoWn into the broad vai-
ley Oi the ouSquehanna and on 10 the
lnarDlc city on the banks of the shin
ing Potomac, the na,lOn mar yre i
president today MADE his last Jour
ney TO the seat OF government over
which he presided for four and one
i!ait years. The Whole country seem
ed TO have drained its population
ut the sides OF the track over which
the funeral train passed. The thin
lines through the mountains and the
sparsely settled district thickened at
me lillle haiuicts. covered acres IN
town and suddenly grew 10 the pro
portions of respectable cities and were
cOnSested into vast multitudeS in the
larger ci,ies WORK was suspenle
iii ..eld and mine and city. The schools
We're dismissed, and everywhere ap
peared the trappings and tokens oi
woe. At the larger towns and cities
after the train got inlo Pennsylvania
milltiamen, drawn up at presen.
arms, kept back the enormous crowds
The silence with which the countless
thousands viewed the remains OF theil
hero and martyr was oppressive and
profound.
Only The rumbling OF the train
wheels, the sObs from the men anC
women with tearstainei faces and the
doleful toll Of the church bells broke
on the ear. AT several piaces-Wi.
transport, Harrisburg and Baltimore
tie chimes played Cardinal New
mans grand hymn. Taken altOgeLh
CT. the journey nome was the most
remarkable demonstration of univer
sal sorrow since Lincoln was borne tt
his grave. Everyone of those who
came to pay their last tribute to the
dead had an opportunity to catch {
glimpse of the flag-covered bier ele
waited to view in the observation cal
at the rear of the train There was
no other bit of color 10 catch the eye
upon this train of death.
lhe locomotive was ShrOuded II
lack, the curtains of the cars, il
which sat the lonely. stricken widow
the relatives of the president. cabine
and Others were drawn. The blac}
train was like a Shuttered house save
only that the hindmost car where thC
body lay guarded by a soldier G
the army and a sailor of the navy.
Mrs. Mckinley stood the trip brave
ly. In the morning soon after leav
ing Buffalo she pleaded so earnestly
10 be allowed to go into the car wher,
her dead one lay that reluctant assen
was given and she spent half an hOu
beside the coffin. All the way thu
train was preceded about Is miles b.
a pilot engine sent ahead to test th'
bridges and switches and prevent thu
possibility of accident to the precious
burden it carried.
The train had the right-of-way owe
everything. Not wheel moved OF
the Pennsylvania railroad system g
minutes before the pilot engine wa
due, or for the same length of tim
after the train had passed. Genera
Superintendent j. B. Hutchinson ha,
sent out explicit instructions coyerin!
every detail. The order concluded
Every precaution must be taken b.
all employees to make this move al
sOlutely certain"
General Boyd. assistant passenge
agent, had personal charge of tn
rain. The train left Buffalo at S:3
this morning and arrived at Washing
ton at :3S tonight. In 12 hours it i
estimated over half million peopl
saw the coffin which held all that wa
mortal of President Mckinley.
The remains of President Mckinle
tonight lie in the east room of tn
white house. where for more tha
four years he had made his home a
the chief magistrate of the grea
American republic. Up stairs. hi
widow mourns for her dead in til
family apartments that now brin
back but the saddest of memories.
was with simple ceremony and a 8
lence that fitted perfectly the saf
ness of the occasion that the body c
he president was borne up Pennsy
vania avenue to the White house an
LAID upon the bier in the great easter
room. where he had stood so often i
the pride of his manhood to receiv
the greetings of the common peorl
he loved better than himself.
Buffalo. Sept. 14.-Theodore Roos'
welt. who today was tragically electe
20 the chief magistrary of the Amer
ran republic by the death of Presder
Mckinley. entered this city of mourn
ing this afternoon after a remarkab'
and perilous journey from the heart c
Northwoods. He has been presider
under the constitution and law of tn
land since the minute the martyre
president ceased to live. All the d'
ties and powers of the Office had d,
volved upon him, out he was as pOwe