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Show THERE'S MILLIONS IN IT DeLcsseps Feeds the Frenchmen Taffy to Make Them "Pony" on the Panama Canal. Explosion on a Tugr-Boat, Which Sends Four Men to Elernity. Simple Services Over General McClel-lan, McClel-lan, and He Is Taken to the Tomh at Trenton. General ITIcClellan's Funeral Tomorrow. To-morrow. New Yoek, Nov. 1. Accompanied by his family, General M. T. MeMahon andWm. C. Prime, the body of the late General George B. McClellan arrived this evening at the Barclay street depot in this city. A hearse was waiting, and the party as named entered the carriage behind it. After the body had been removed, with no display the., remains were driven to the home of Mr. Prime. There all callers are this evening denied, only the nearest friends being with the remains, which will be interred to-morrow. New Yoek, November 2. At 10 o'clock this morning the body of General George B. McClellan was removed from the house of W. C. Prime, in East 23d street, to the Madison Mad-ison Square Presbyterian Church, where the last funeral services were performed by the pastor, Rev. Dr. Charles H. Parkhnrst. Although Al-though the morning broke dark and gloomy, with occasional bursts of rain, hundreds of people gathered early in the neighborhood of the church and Mr. Prime's house. Squads of police began to arrive early, and they were placed in position . to preserve order. Two hundred and fifty men were employed in. the lines extending from the house to the church, two blocks away, while other officers guarded the church doors and the passages leading to them. Not even intimate friends of the family were admitted ad-mitted within the doora of the Prime mansion, man-sion, and only the family and pall bearers were nresent when, reverentlv and with ten der hands, the black, cloth-covered casket, upon which rested a sheaf of wheat and a few immortelles, was lifted and slowly borne to the street. On either hand were the pall bearers, consisting of General W. S. Hancock, General Fitz John Porter, General W. H. Franklin, General J.E. Johnston, John-ston, General Anson G. McCook, General I Martin T. McMahon, S. L. Barlow, Hon. W. C. Kelsey, Col. Edward H. Wright, Thatcher W. Adams, Wm. C. Prime and Hon. A. S. Hewitt. Behind the pall-bearers followed Mrs. McClellan, Miss May McClellan and Max McClellan, Captain Arthur McClellan, General Gen-eral Murray, and family servants. In this order the cortege left the house, and was met on the outside by the State Commandery of the Loyal Legion of the United States, and representatives of j Meager's Irish brigade, which served under General McClellan. Both of these organizations organiza-tions procedeed in a body to Madison Avenue, where between open ranks the funeral cortege passed into the church and up the aisle to where stood officiating clergy. The church was filled in every part and prominent promin-ent men were seen everywhere. Among them were Governor Abbott, of New Jersey, the Ex-Governor - of New Jersey, General Lloyd Aspinwall, General C. P. Stone, Whitelaw Eeid, General Averill, Jndse Shipman, Generals Webb. Wilson and Hamilton, John Jacob Astor and Generals Shaler, Cochrane, Slooum, Banks, Molinenr, Wayne, Graham and Wainwright. George Washington Post, G. A. E., of which deceased was a member, was . also present. The church was without decorations or emblems of mourning, save a few flowers at the altar. The services were of the simplest description, not occupying a half -hour. - "Jesus, Lover of My Soul, " and " Oh, Mother, Dear Jerusalem," two of the hymns General McClellan best liked, were sung, after which prayer was offered by Rev. Dr. Parkhurst, and the fifteenth chapter of Cor-intheans Cor-intheans Lwas read hy Bev. Dr. Whittaker. The final rites were conducted in the simplest sim-plest manner. When the services ended the undertaker's assistants placed the coffin on their shoulders and marched slowly down the aisle to the door. The congregation remained re-mained standing until the pall-bearers and the members of the deceased's family had left the building. Outside the church the street was lined With people. The police maintained good order. The family, the delegation of neighbors neigh-bors from Orange, and the committee of the Loyal Legion took carriages and were driven to the Pennsylvania railroad depot, where a special train stood waiting wait-ing to receive the party. The train steamed out of the depot for Trenton at noon, where the burial will take place. As the funeral procession moved from the church to the depot it was received with marked respect by the people, who hurried along the sidewalk. side-walk. Hats were lifted, and many a tear fell from the eyes of the veterans who once served under the dead General. The simplicity sim-plicity of the procession was noticeable. Nothing about it gave any indication whatever of the dead hero. There were no soldiers in line, no band of music, so far as j any -outward display was concerned, it might have been that of any well-to-do citizen. - .' |