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III.
The funeral train reached New York at midnight, when the casket was conveyed to the Fifth Avenue Hotel and rested in a private parlor until the next morning, when it was escorted to the
Grand Central Depot by a committee of the Union League.
At New York the Congressional deputation, which embraced nearly every
Massachusetts member, welcomed
Messrs. A. A. Low,
S. B. Chittenden,
Cyrus W. Field, and
Elliott C. Cowdin,—a committee appointed to attend the funeral by the New York Chamber of Commerce.
The party then comprised
Senator Anthony,
Carl Schurz,
Gen. B. F. Butler,
James G. Blaine,
J. M. S. Williams,
Daniel W. Gooch,
Aaron A. Sargent,
John Sherman,
Richard J. Oglesby,
Augustus S. Merriman,
Stephen A. Hurlbut,
Eugene Hale,
Charles Foster,
Joseph H. Rainey,
Charles Clayton,
Henry J. Scudder,
Samuel J. Randall,
Joseph B. Beck, John Hancock,
James Buffinton,
Henry L. Dawes,
George F. Hoar,
E. R. Hoar,
Henry L. Pierce,
B. W. Harris,
Samuel Hooper,
Alvah Crocker and
Mr. George M. Downing,
President of the
Civil Rights Council in
Washington.
The casket rested in the centre of a baggage-car, draped in
black and
white, and was under the charge of Sergeant-at-Arms
French, assisted by the
Chief of the
Capitol Police, with six men. It was what has been called a State casket, composed of rosewood covered with black broadcloth and very heavily mounted with silver.
A drapery of black covered the casket except when stops were made at the several stations, when the doors were thrown open and the casket was exposed to public view, guarded by the colored sentinels who had it in charge.
Behind the baggage-car,
