The Washington times., 1901-09-19
The JOURNEY TO CANTON
Striking Scenes Of the Trip to
Washington Repeated.
Tributes of Deep Sorrow Paid by
Cities. Towns. and NfIlBges-A
Demonstration at PittsburE-
Tears Caused by Sight of Casket.


CANTON, Ohio Sept 1S.-The funeral
train from Washington was made mp In
three sections. the first section being pre-
ceded over the entire line by a pilot en-
CINE In the first section were number
of REPRESENTATIVES. the committee of Gu
bars and newspaper men. In the second
and third sections We're the following:
Mrs. Mckinley and maid. Mr. and Mrs.
Abner Mckinley, Mr and Mrs. A. j. Dun
can, Miss Heller Mckinley, Mrs. NJ G.
Barber Miss Mary Barber. John D. Bar
ber, Dr. and Mrs. Herman l.. Baer ana
maid. Lieut. James Mckinley, Miss Sa-
rah Duncan. Capt and Mrs. Lafayette
McWiliams. William Duncan, Jack Dun
can, Frank Osborn. Mrs. Seward Bow
man. Mrs. Garret A. Hobart, son, and
maid: Mrs NJ a Stafford. DR.. and Mrs.
P. NJ Rixey. Comptroller Charles Dawes.
Col C. f. Meek. Col w. C. Brown. Major
Charles r. Miller. Burt \. Miller. Miss
Mckenzie and Miss Hunt, nurses; Mrs.
Matthews, Mr.. and Mrs. p. c. Schell. Mrs.
Rand, Mrs Dawes, Mrs. ]. \. Porter.
President Theodore Roosevelt. Secretary
Elihu Root. Attorney General Knox, Post
master General and Mrs. Smith, Seere-
tary Long, Secretary Hitchcock. Secre-
tary Wilson and Miss Wilson, Secretary
Cortelyou and Mrs. Co;tolyou. Col BenJa-
min d. Montgomery. Assistant Secretary
z. F. Barnes, NJ. c. Latta, John c. Mil
burn, John NJ. Scatcherd, Conrad Diehl,
Harry Hamlin, and Carlton Sprague, rep
resenting the city of Buffalo and the Pan
American Exposition; Major Thomas w
Sylnonds. United States Army; James A
Gary and Mrs. Gary. Cornelius y. Bliss,
Senator Hanna and Mr. Dover. Senators
Fairbanks and Kean. II. B. F. Macfar-
land, President of the Board Of Commits
sioners of the District Of Columbia; Gen
eral Brooke and Capt j. T Dean, aide;
Gen Michael D. Sheridan, Col. I. A.
Bingham, Capt Harry Leonard. Gen.
Harrison C. Otis, II. H. Kohlsaat. A. NJ.
Aaron, committee of five representing the
c. A R.; body guard of two officers, and
sixteen men.
The first section of the train left Wash
ington at o'clock in the evening. and
the second and third at intervals of fif-
teen minutes In the second section was
the car Pacific with the body of the late
President: the Olympia. with Mrs. McIin-
ley and her party; the Edgemere. with
the President and Commander Cowies;
the Naples and Gelgravia with the mem
bers of the Cabinet. Senators Hanna and
Fairbanks, and number of others
All along the route the remarkable dem
onstrations of sorrow which characterized
the transit of the train from Buffalo to
Washington were duplicated in even a
more striking manner. and especially in
that part of the journey between Pitts
burg and Canton. Even though it was
SO late as s O'Clock in the evening when
the first section started. people thronged
every station all the way to Baltimore.
and at Baltimore, which was reached by
the first section a little before o'clock
the crowd was as large as that which
greeted the funeral train the day before
At Harrisburg there was another large
gathering. and in the dead of the night
as the stations flashed by. groups of hun
dreds of people could be seen gathered
upon the platforms and lining the track
for some distance on each side of a sta
tion.
But at Pittsburg the demonstration was
the most impressive of any along the
route of the train, either from Buffalo TO
Washington or from Washington here.
National Guardsmen were drawn up on
each side of the station and in Pittsburg
proper and in Allegheny not less than
from 10000 to 10000 people were massed
along the railroad and at the street cross
ings.
Tine great mills and iron works all
along the line in this region were shut
down. that the employees might see the
train pass. and this they did by thou
sands. The first section of the train
passed through Pittsburg without a halt,
but the second section, the me containing
the car that served as a hearse IN the
stately railroad procession, stopped long
enough to take on board Governor Nash
and Lieutenant Governor Coiwell of Ohio,
who came with the train to Canton.
1t was when the train crossed the line
of Ohio at East Palestine and entered CO.
lumbiana County, the Presidents old Con-
sressional district, that the evidences of
the deep sorrow which prevails here in
Canton were manifest. Here was coun-
try where William Mckinley was almost
as well known personally as he was III
Canton itself. There was not a country
schoolhouse or a cross roads corner or a
town, village, or hamlet in which he had
not spoken during his long years Of DO
litical life.
Every factory. store, and school for
miles around was closed and every house
within sight of the railroad, whether a
mansion or a hovel. had some emblem
of mourning The spectacle of the school
isolated schoolhouses drawn up with their
teachers along the track was repeated
over and over again. At the stations
where the train stopped people gathered
about the funeral car. The casket could
be seen through the wide windows and IN
variably at sight of 1t there rose up a
strange moaning sound of grief ;nde-
scribably affecting
md
draped coffin with tears rolling down their
cheeks, while some turned their heads
away as though unable to bear the sight.
At Alliance, where is situated Mount I'm
ion College. of which President McKin-
ley was q life trustee, and where Attor-
ney General Knox was a student, there
was the greatest demonstration seen at
any OF the smaller towns along the route.
A great mourning arch spanned the street
near the station and the entire town seem
ed literally under a pail of black as far
as the eye could reach.
At Salem, place not scheduled as n
stop, the train was slowed down to a
snaifs pace, to take aboard a beautiful
wreath that the people wished to have
placed beside the Presidents bier. AS the
train neared Canton it was seen that the
people had overfowed the boundaries of
the city, and were lined along the track
far out into the fields beyond the out
skirts.
At the edge of the city stop was made
TO take on Judge Day. who. as Chairman
of the Committee on Arrangements came
10 explain to the President and Cabinet
the details of the plans that had been
made He also carried a bundle of yellow
slips of paper, which he handed to all the
distinguished visitors. and which desig-