. 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 . lip, where the newboat, the Jersey Cit^ 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
. 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 . lip, where the newboat, the Jersey Cit^ 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 list. .S3. s u 3 On previous pages I have referred to an incident of deep historic Oldsignificance, the meeting that was really the founding of the Union BergenLeague in New Jersey, in the Tabernacle on March 30, 1863. Of Lincoln-that organization and its reaction in Jersey City proper, there is practically iansnothing on record in the papers of the time, beyond certain frivolouscomments in the Standard. But I have been fortunate in being thebeneficiary of the good-will of Theodore F. Merseles, who thoughtwhen he was clearing out his attic treasures before moving from town,that I would be interested in a little black book he had found. Well,I was. The book turned out to be the minutes of Bergen Council,No 125, Union League of America, covering a period from November9, 1864 to March 5, 1867. The serial number
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