The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-08-21
Distribution OF MEMENTOES.
Mar and Dear Friends of the Grant Fam
ay-Erpenses of the Funeral-Ea1erness
of SDcculof0l.s.

Mar and Dear Friends of the Grant Fam
Hy-Erpenses of the Funeral-Eagernes
of Spectators.
New York dispatch; After the body OF
Gen. Grant was removed from the funeral
car on Saturday at the tomb the car was
taken back to the iron yard of j. b. and j.
Connel, where it has since remained. 1t
has now been determined, in order to pre-
vent the car from Ultimately falling into the
hands of unfeeling spectators to break it
up. The funeral bill will be very heavy.
The undertaken was employed jointly by
the family OF Gen. Grant and the city OF
New York, but it is said that the entire bill
will be very heavy. The undcrtaker's bill
alone will not be less than $50, 900. Five
hundred carriages were at the funeral.
These were engaged for the day, and this
part OF the bill will be $4,000. The black
horses that were attached TO the funeral
car were all carefully selected. There were
twenty-four OF them and their draping cost
$3.50.
The disposition OF some OF the most val
liable mementoes OF the funeral has already
been decided upon. The large American
flag that was laid on the ice casket at Mt.
McGregor has been retained by Col. Grant.
One OF the flags that was on the funeral
car will be given to U. S. Grant Post G. A.
R.; one to the Seventh regiment in New
York, and one to Mrs. DR.. Newman. There
were four flags on the car, but the manner
in which the other one is to be disposed oil
has not yet been decided upon.
1t was found necessary to keep dozen
policemen on duty at the city hall to-day
owing to the large number OF persons who
crowded into the building to view the cata-
falque and floral pieces which stood in the
vestibule. The officers had all they could
do to prevent visitors from plucking either
flowers or leaves from the floral tributes.
which they wanted as mementoes. At 10
o'clock Undertaken Merritt and his assist
ants arrived with two covered wagons and
began the work OF removing the plumes to
the tomb at Riverside Park. All the
smaller pieces were removed first and
placed in one wagon and then the larger
and grander ones were taken apart and
packed carefully in the other wagon. Any
floral pieces whose size prevents their being
placed inside the tomb will be placed out
side at the entrance to the tomb. pho
tograph was taken OF the catafalque and
flowers, copies OF which will be given to the
Grant family. Every little leaf or flower
or twig that fell as the floral pieces were
being taken from the city hall was eagerly
snatched up by the spectators, the major
ity Of whom were women and girls. Even
the moss on which the pieces rested was IN
demand, and before q hall hour alter the
last piece had been taken away the floor
looked as if it had been swept. The cata-
falque and canopy were taken apart ana
carried to Merritt establishment on Eighth
avenue, where they will be placed on exhl-
bition for some time to come.
The Commercial Advertiser yesterday
says: 'The financial resources available to
Mrs. Grant are at present not exactly as
certainablc, since they are dependent some
what on the action OF congress as to the
balance of the generals relief pay Tor the
current year. The receipts from the gener-
ais book will be hers. Estimating these
receipts at rs cents per volume for an edi-
ton of 100000 copies, she will receive
1925, 900, or an annual income OF 50, 600
at per cent. To this will probably be
added So, 900 year as widow OF an ex-
president, and the net rental OF the Sixty
sixth street house, which outside OF inter-
est and taxes, may amount to 81, 600. So
that, in all probability, if, as is reported,
Mrs. Grant has a full life interest in her
husbands property, she will in the course
OF a twelve month or so enjoy an income of
$4,000 or $4,000. This is all independ-
ent OF the income arising from the trust
fund OF $3.50, 900. In that sum OF money
the general possessed the right of DISPOSE
ton, and, until his will is made public it
will be impossible to say whether he has
given his wife a life interest or whether he
has distributed this money among his heirs.