The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-08-07
4 NATIONAL MONUMENT.
One Million Dollars to be Raised
for General Grants Tomb.
The People All Over the Country
Asked to Contribute.

A meeting of the general committee APP
pointed to raise funds for a national monu-
ment to General Grant was held in Mayor
Grace's Office at the New York CITY Hall on
the Goth. Ex-P President Arthur presided.
The 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 q 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 Cen
eral Grant, at their final resting place in
New York, a great national monument. The
report also stated that All 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 to appoint
subcommittee from its own number, and
also from the general committee, and, in
of New 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 an ade-
quate sum might be speedily raised: that all
newspapers, railway, telegraph and express
companies. pCstrnaStcrS, banks, churches,
municipal authorities, commercial DO lies and
exchanges, manufacturing and business cs-
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 acknowledgement
from the unit be furnished to each in
dividual contributors; that all amounts re-
ceived from any source be properly credited
to the locality in which the donor resides,
and, finally, that the secretary he authorized
to secure a suitable room for his u.s. and for
the additional use of the general committee,
and also a clerk or clerks if they shall be
found necessary. The report was accepted.
A letter was received from the Western
Union Telegraph company, making a contri-
button of 5000 toward the proposed monu-
ment, declaring that subscriptions would be
received at all tine II, 600 offices OF the com
pany. and that messages would be trans
mitted free over the wires of the company in
respect to the remi;tlnces of subscriptions.
+. II. Coudcrt said that he believed that
the time for obtaining subscriptions should
be limited to thirty days. Ii it We're univer-
sally understood that only a short time
would be given for subscribers to contribute,
then even the little boys and girls ali over the
country NOuli hasten 10 aul tlelf mites 10
the fund. 1t would be better to erect the
monument now than to have it built after
the fashion Of the Washington monument.
Mr.. Coudert believed that a simple shaft
erected now would be better than an clabor-
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 " estern Union
c~ompany's subscription of 5000 led the list,
A member of the committee said that the
,,.. - - nnl NM bad lnAsa rraI IN fhA
as the amount TO he raised by sub T
scriptious for the permanent tomb of General
Grant, but that the committee did not men, |
ton any sum in its report, because even
81, O0O,0 600 may be too small for the design
finally fixed upon.
The following address has been issued by
the committee:
TO the People Of the United States.
The family of General Grant having
chosen New York as his final resting place,
the mayor and people of that city desire that
a great national monument shall be erected
which will fifty honor his memory.
To promote this object the mayor of New
York has designated a local committee to in
augurate Il movement to procure the neces-
sary funds.
In due time appropriate action will be
taken for the organization of committees
which shall represent the entire country and
various localities.
Pending these formal proceedings we are
80 ~ 80 =
States to participate in the erection of a suit
able memorial in honor of General Grant by l.
the contribution of such sums rs they may |
feel able and willing to devote to this great
purpose.
All newspapers, railway, telegraph and exc
press companies, po,tmasters, banks, bankers, |
chu rches and municipal authorities, CONNER
cial bodies and exchanges, manufacturing and
business establishments, are respectfully
requested to cooperate in the immediste
collection of contributions, TO he forwarded
to Drexel. Morgan q Co., New York, 50 that
our entire people may have an opportunity
OF usherlng in this last tribute to the memory
of the illuStrious dead.
Certificates of acknowledgment will be
duly furnished to each individual contrihu-
tor, and funds received through any source
will be credited to the locality in which the
donor resides.
CHESTER A. ARTHUR, Chairman.
WIN. r. GRACE, lVica- Chairman
HAMILTON Fish, Nlce-O"Iheh'
RICHARD T. GREENER, Secretary.