When the coroner was done with him, late that night, the sexton of the Church of the Strangers arrived at the Glenham Hotel with an icebox. He was the same sexton who had overseen the funeral of the Commodore five years before. A service was scheduled for the next morning, with a discourse preached by the same Reverend Doctor Deems who had called upon the Commodore in his final illness, and it took place in the same church the Commodore had paid to build. Then Cornie’s body was to be carried on a train to Hartford, leaving from Grand Central—out of the station built by the Commodore, traveling
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