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Source: Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette Source type: newspaper Document type: article Document title: “Depot’s Draping Cost Thousands” Author(s): anonymous City of publication: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Date of publication: 19 September 1901 Volume number: 116 Issue number: 46 Pagination: 12 |
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| “Depot’s Draping Cost Thousands.” Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette 19 Sept. 1901 v116n46: p. 12. |
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| William McKinley (death: public response: Pittsburgh, PA); William McKinley (mourning: flowers, tokens of grief, etc.). |
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Depot’s Draping Cost Thousands
NOTABLE MOURNING DECORATIONS OF UNION STATION.
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Big Building Was Clothed in Sable Out of Respect to the Dead
President—Crowds Admired the Artistic Effect, but Few Realized
That It Cost the Railroal [sic] Company a Small Fortune to Produce It.
The mourning drapery of Union station
attracted attention and won praise yesterday from thousands who waited in that
neighborhood for the arrival of the funeral train.
Crepe has been hung on the station since Saturday,
but in preparation for the passage of the train yesterday special care was given
to this feature. Around the cornice of the handsome cab stand were wreathed
folds of the sable, and the full length of the second story of the big new building
was clothed in the same manner, while the long covered walk from the station
approach to the temporary station was lined with the crepe, hanging in graceful
folds.
The cost of this alone amounted to several thousand
dollars. It was designed, as one official said, to make the marks of mourning
worthy of the occasion and a fitting token from the railroad company.