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We took the morning train to Scranton. This was about the first funeral train I had ever been on. I have been on plenty of political funerals in the course of my life and they are something! This is particularly so in New York. More fixing up of things is done at a political funeral than any other place I've ever been. I remember Monte McHugh's funeral in the East 40s. They fixed up everything, including Jimmy Walker and everything else on the sidewalk after Monte McHugh's funeral. But I had never been on a funeral train before.

The undertaker arranged all this thing. Everybody was supposed to be a mourner. You were placed and seated in the order of your mourning. Private compartments were provided for the members of the Commission who were supposed to be so grief-stricken that they couldn't associate with the rest of the human race. Of course Mrs. Mitchell had a compartment. But it's a long ride to Scranton. The need for social life came upon us. We all emerged and began talking to each other - talking about this, that and everything. Everybody, of course, had a lot to say about John Mitchell, when they knew him, how he did that, some strike they were on with him. The people in the department remembered how he first came in. Dr. Raphael Lewy, Head of the Medical Department, adored him. He simply loved him. He was a very emotional, very, very clever diagnostician and a very, very clever doctor - Vienna