. The "makings" of the Lincoln Association of Jersey City; a souvenir of the dinner at the Carteret Club commemorating the one hundred and tenth anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln . he slip, where the newboat, the Jersey City was waiting. David T. Valentines LincolnObsequies in the City of New York has preserved two very interestingpictures which I have borrowed for this story of mine. One of themshows the Jersey City dressed in her folds of crepe, her flags at halfmast, with the draped funeral car on the deck. The other shows thearrival of the party at the Jersey City Ferry at Desbro
. The "makings" of the Lincoln Association of Jersey City; a souvenir of the dinner at the Carteret Club commemorating the one hundred and tenth anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln . he slip, where the newboat, the Jersey City was waiting. David T. Valentines LincolnObsequies in the City of New York has preserved two very interestingpictures which I have borrowed for this story of mine. One of themshows the Jersey City dressed in her folds of crepe, her flags at halfmast, with the draped funeral car on the deck. The other shows thearrival of the party at the Jersey City Ferry at Desbrosses Street,New York. Mr. Heck drew my attention to the fact that one JerseyCity man at least was honored in Mr. Valentines book—Brigadier-General John G. Ramsey, whose name was in the list of the guardof honor, which had accompanied the remains from Washington. M. Depew—then Secretary of State of New York—was inJersey City that morning, representing Governor Fenton who was un-avoidably absent, to receive the body in the name of the Empire State,and to escort it across the Hudson to the city. Mr. Depew is one ofthe few survivors of the long official reception
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