Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1885-09-03

and boys loitered under trees or lean
ed against the fence which divides
Camp Grant from the rest of the park,
watching tho soldiers cook their mid
day meal Several employees of the
park department were picking up
stones and removing them in wagons
and preparing the various entrances
to the park in expectation of a repeti-
ton of yesterdays enormous crowd.
Despite the efforts Of property own
ers along the streets leading to the
tomb there are still number of
cheaply-built board booths selling cat
ables and liquors. At meeting of
the Board of Park Commissioners to-
day definite plans were adopted for
completing the work Oil the tempo
rary vault IN which the body of Gen.
Grant lies and for laying out walks
and otherwise improving the part of
Riverside Park in the neighborhood
of the tomb. An area Of. four or five
acres adjacent to the tomb will be
5000 sown in wheat. This is the best
way of preparing new ground for turf.
Early next spring grass will be
sown. On the sloping ground at the
rear of the vault trailing or running
vines will be planted and fower-beds
will b laid out and trees planted at
the most suitable spots. Policemen
will be kept ON duty at the tomb to
preserve order as long as the present
rush Of sight continues. There
has however, been no call for the SER
vices of these policemen. The people
who visit the place are very orderly
and quiet.
The Committee having charge of
the Grant Memorial in this city mam-
tested some vigor yesterday as well as
earnestness Of purpose 1t was decid-
ed that s1,000,G00 would be neeces-
sary to provide the style of monument
desired. This is something definite,
to say the least. Bat, the Committee
will have to do some hard work. 1t
has secured only about s45, 900 to date
and there is a. long and dreary stretch
between this and u million. When
ex-President Arthur gets through fish
ing he can add greatly to his fair fame
| by Matchmaking this Grant Memoir
ial which is to tell future generations
Of the patriotism, appre ,iation, loyalty
and good taste of the American peo-
pie.
Undertaken Merritt, it is reported
thinks his bill will reach $4,000. Iu
his opinion it will be paid in full by
the United Stabes Government. It is
probable that Congress will takes one
action relative to the expense of the
sickness and burial of Gen Grant, but
Undertaken Merritt should not have
too good an opinion Of the iberality
of the Government iii making out hi:
bill, as he may be disappointed. In
/ dertaker Speare, of WaslGngton, d
G., has not yet received his pay fa
services rendered at the Garfield fuM
eral.. Like Undertaken Merritt, h
paid SO apiece for carriages tha
fermed the procession from the rail
/ way station to the Capitol wheE tn
body was brought from Long Braacl
and the same again when it was es
/ corted back to the railroad Station be
4 fore starting for Cleveland. He furn
ished sashes for the Congressional de
egation and the pail bearers &c., hi
4 whole bill amounting to. soniethin
! like 81 900, but tlfe board of Audi
created by law to adjust the claims o
account of the funeral thought tha
no more than the usual price for eal