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A NATIONAL MONUMENT.
Ex.President. Arthur Made Presl.
dent of the Committee.
One Million Dollars to be Raised
for General Grants Tomb.

A meeting Of the general committee ap-
pointed to raise funds for q national monn-
ment to General Grant was held in Mayor
Grace's Office at the New York City Hall on
the Goth, and there was read the report OF a sub
committee. Ex-President Arthur presided
Tue secretary reported that the sub-com-
mittee had determined that the perma-
nent organization should be as follows:
Chairman, ex-President Chester A. Arthur;
vice-chairmen, Mayor Grace and ex-Secre-
tary Hamilton Fish; treasurers, the firm OF
Drexel, Morgan & Co.; and secretary,
Prof. r. T. Greener; and furthermore,
that the committee appointed by Mayor
Grace should constitute "The Grant Mon.
ument Association" The purpose OF the
association, it was said, was to collect funds
for the erection over the remains OF Gem
eral Grant, at their final resting place In
New York, great national monument. The
report also stated that an executive commit
tee OF fifteen should be designated by the
chairman Of the general committee, with
power to complete and direct the plan OF Or
ganization necessary to accomplish the con.
templated purpose, and authorized 70 appoint
subcommittee from its own number, and
also from the general committee, and, In
addition to these, committees Of citizens
of Now York and other localities to
aid in the proposed work; that
an appeal should be made to the
people Of the United States to contribute 10
the proposed fund, to the end that ON ade.
quate sum might he speedily raised; that all
newspapers, railway. telegraph and express
municipal authorities, commercial bodies and
exchanges, manufacturing and business es.
Establishments be requested to co-ooerate in the
immediate collection Of contributions, to
be forwarded to the general COM
mittee or to the mayor Of New York city;
that suitable certificates Of acknowledgment
| from the committee be furnished to each In
dividual contributor; that all amounts re.
| ceived from any source be properly credited
to the locality in which the donor resides,
and, finally, that the secretary be authorized
to secure suitable room for bis use and for
the additional use Of the general committee,
and also clerk or clerks If they shall be
found necessary. The report was accepted.
A letter was received from the Western
Union Telegraph company, making q ccntri.
button of 5000 toward the proposed monu-
ment, declaring that subscriptions would be
received at all the Il, 900 offices Of the COM
mitted free over the wires of the company In
respect to the remittances Of subscriptions
F. R. -Coudert said that he believed that
the time for obtaining subscriptions should
be limited to thirty days II 1t were univer-
| sally understood that only q short time
would be given for subscribers to contribute.
then even the little boys and girls all over the
country would hasten to add their mites to
the fund. 1t would be better to erect the
monument now than to have it built after
the fashion of tho Washington monument.
MIR. Coudert believed that simple shaft
erected now would be better than an elabor-
ate monument to be finished in the future.
Then, on motion of President Sanger Of
the board OF aldermen, the books were
opened for subscription. The Western Union
company's subscription of 5000 led the list.
A member of the committee said that the
sum of 81, OOO, 600 had been mentioned in the
committee as the amount to be raised by sub.
scriptions for the permanent tomb OF General
Grant, but that the committee did not men.
ton any sum in its report, because even
81, OOO, ,O0O may be too small for the design
finally fixed upon.