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mains of him of whom they had read and heard so much but had never seen. At 

 noon the casket was closed and, accompanied by the pall-bearers and a procession 

 of some 500 delegates from the DeLamater Iron Works and other organizations 

 which desired to pay their respects to his memory, the body was removed to Trinity 

 Church. 



Leading the procession to the church were the Swedish Consul Bors and Vice- 

 Consul Raven, Commodore Joseph Tooker representing the Navy, Mr. Charles E. 

 Emery representing The American Society of Civil Engineers, Dr. C. W. Torry the 

 American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and Mr. John N. Robins representing the 

 DeLamater family. 



Following these came Captain Ericsson's superintending engineer, Mr. V. F. 

 Lassoe, his private secretary, Mr. S. W. Taylor, and his executors, Messrs. George 

 H. Robinson, C. S. Bushnell, Edw. Sprout and W. H. Wallace. 



The pall-bearers were Wm. DeLamater, L. A. Bevin, Dr. T. M. Marcoe, Dr. 

 Joshua C. Boulee, Prof. R. Ogden Doremus, Chief Engineer C. H. Haswell, U.S.N., 

 Chief Engineer C. H. Loring, Chief Engineer W. W. Duncan, U. S. N., Chief 

 Engineer David Smith, U. S. N., Alexander Pollock, Thos F. Rowland, John O. Sar- 

 gent, Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, George T. Van Wagenen, H. T. Brown, John P. 

 Kelly, Prof. C. W. MacCord, Col. Wm. C. Church, John L. Haskell, Jas. A. Rob- 

 inpon, Geo. E^. Pond, John K. Haskins. The Episcopal service was rendered. Rev. 

 Morgan Dix and the staff of the church officiating. The choir sang the hymns, 

 "Lead, Kindly Light" and "I Heard a Voice from Heaven." 



After the ceremonies the casket was removed to the marble receiving vault in 

 Second Street between First and Second Avenues to await the formal arrangements 

 of the Swedish Government, which had requested permission to have the body trans- 

 ported to Sweden for burial. 



The Swedish Technical Societies and the Swedish Glee Club accompanied the 

 body and placed it in the vault with appropriate ceremonies. 



It was not until August 23, 1890, that arrangements were completed between the 

 Swedish and United States governments for the removal of Captain Ericsson's re- 

 mains to his native land. New York City made that day notable. The New York 

 Times of the following day devoted nearly a full page to its account of the occasion. 

 Excerpts from its columns read: — 



"This city was the scene yesterday of one of the most remarkable tributes ever 

 paid by a people to the memory of a great man. It was the day appointed for the 

 removal of the remains of Capt. John Ericsson from this country which he loved so 

 well and for which he did so much, to the land of his birth, where he was held in as 

 high esteem as here. The city was decorated with bunting and the shipping along 

 the water fronts of New York, Brooklyn and Jersey City was dressed in colors, re- 

 gardless of the nationality. Vessels in the harbor vied with them. 



"The event must stand as unique in the records of public ceremonials in the 

 city. Such general decoration and so large a concourse of people had never been 



