Constant Stream of People
Philadelphia North American and United States Gazette
April 26, 1865
Serial and Government Publications Division, Library of Congress
FOR THE AMERICAN & GAZETTE.
THE FUNERAL PROCESSION IN NEW YORK.
NEW YORK, April 25.—A constant stream of people has been passing through the room in the City Hall, where the remains of the late President have been exposed to view, ever since yesterday afternoon. They pass at the rate of eighty per minute.
At midnight the German singers, numbering about 1000 voices, chaunted [sic] dirges. Throughout the night the long line of citizens, anxious to view the remains, was kept moving.
Early this morning it seemed diminished very little, and soon after daylight was lengthened greatly, extending from Warren to John streets on the west side of the City Hall, while there was another line of greater length running through the streets on the east side of the hall.
Broadway and all the adjoining streets in the vicinity were thronged by people anxious to secure a place in the line, or, failing in that, to catch a glimpse of the hearse when it passed.
All places of business are closed, while the upper stories of every building along the route of the procession are occupied by anxious spectators.
The preparations for the funeral procession of the President are on an immense scale, including nearly every military and civic organization of New York, Brooklyn and other neighboring towns, by a special order to General Dix the Secretary of War requests that colored societies shall be assigned a place in that line, and directions have been issued accordingly. The streets over which the procession is to pass are already being crowded with eager spectators, and the whole demonstration promises to be of the most imposing character.
