28 THE DELAMATER IRON WORKS— 



seen here in honor of the memory of one man except when the hero of Appomattox 

 was carried to his last resting place, and the exhibit of sentiment was all the more 

 remarkable in that it seemed to represent an awakened appreciation of the qualities 

 of a man so retiring and unobtrusive in his personality that to the mass of the citi- 

 zens who turned out to do him homage he was an entire stranger. 



"But if in his long lifetime he had been a popular hero the tribute of the people 

 could not have been more earnest or devoted. The start of his journey homeward 

 was all that a hero's could have been. 



"From the hour that the city awoke to find itself arrayed for the occasion until 

 the fleet of warships had given the parting salutes to the ship to which Sweden's 

 precious freight was consigned, it was Ericsson's day in New York. 



"The ceremonies were begun in the Brooklyn Navy Yard in the early morning 

 when the battalion of marines and squad of bluecoats who were to serve as actual 

 pall-bearers were assembled and marched on board the government tugs Catalpa and 

 the George Starr. These boats drew up at the pier at East 3rd Street at 1 1.15. The 

 men landed and marched through 3rd Street to First Avenue, thence to 2nd Street 

 between First and Second Avenues facing the Marble Cemetery, where the remains 

 of Captain Ericsson had rested for a year in an underground vault. 



"Two flags, one the Swedish emblem and the other the flag that floated over 

 the original Monitor, loaned by Mrs. John A. Griswold of Troy, were interwoven in 

 a handsome wreath of oak leaves and laid upon the casket. 



"The Swedish singing societies, who had gathered to the number of seventy-five, 

 sang the 'Battle Prayer.' The procession, composed of the mayor of the city. Secre- 

 tary of the Navy and many naval officers, formed in line and followed the Marine 

 Band, which played 'Nearer, My God, to Thee.' 



"The route was through 2nd Street to Second Avenue to St. Marks Place to 

 8th Street to Astor Place to Broadway and thence to the Battery. On either side 

 of the catafalque marched the following survivors of the Monitor : — Captain Louis 

 N. Stodder, who was acting master; Patrick Hannon who was ist class seaman; 

 Hans Anderson, who was a sailor; Geo. S.Geer, fireman; Wm. H. Nichols (colored), 

 wardroom steward ; Daniel Toff ey, clerk. 



"The following were some of the organizations in the line of procession: — 

 Knights of Temperance, Odd Fellows, Grand Army of the Republic, DeLamater 

 Iron Works, Swedish Engineering Societies, American Society of Civil Engineers, 

 American Society of Mechanical Engineers, several posts of the Naval Veteran's As- 

 sociation, several temperance societies and many others. 



"The pall-bearers were sailors from the monitors in the bay, the Nantucket, 

 Kearsarge, Petrel, Pensacola, Enterprise, Atlanta, Yorktown, Patapsco, Nahant, 

 Montauk, Passaic and Catskill. 



"The casket was placed on the government tug Nina and accompanied by Cap- 

 tain Tracy, Mayor Grant, Admiral Worden, Rear Admirals Gherardi, Walker and 

 McCann, Geo. H. Robinson, Baron Beck Frue, Count C. Levenhaupt, Col. W. C. 

 Church, O. S. Bushnell, V. F. Lassoe, and Samuel W. Taylor. The Nina steamed 



