Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-07-29

MANI" The doctor feels that Riverside Park
is lovely spot for burial. but expresses that
feeling only Incidentally
Mrs. Grant, TODAY. has passed the time as
usual in the upper rooms of the cottage. nr.
Douglass SAYS the widow is depressed in
spirit, but physically as we'll as usual and not
by any means a subject Tor physicians pro-
tessionsl care. 1t is understood here today
that 200, 900 members OF the Grand Armv of
the Republic have placed themselves at the
disposal OF Gen. Hancock, with urgent re-
quest that they may appear in a body on the
occasion of the final obsequies in New York
City.
This afternoon came the frs: elaborate
floral piece. 1t was in the form of a pillow
of immortelles and WAS five feet long and
three feet wide.
WAsHINGToN. July IS
Gen. j. B. Clark, clerk of the House of
Representatives. has designated the follow
ing named committee to represent that body
at the funeral of Gen. Grant: Carlisle OF
Kentucky, Randall of Pennsylvania, Morris.
son of ILLINOIS, Tucker of Virginia, Single
ton of Mississippi. lliscock of New York,
Reed OF Maine, Browne of Indiana. Butter
worth of Ohio. These gentlemen will be re-
quested by mail to meet in New York city
on the seventh of August at some hotel not
determined upon.
NEW YORK, July 2S.
In the letter that Mayor Grace sent to Col
Grant suggesting Riverside Park as the best
place for the Generals tomb was the follow
points in favor OF that site Because of its
peculiar beauty of place, its location on the
river and in the fact that a monument in it
would be visible far and wide. 1t would
give distinct characteristic 20 the quiet and
beautiful park and such monument As
would probably be erected there would vie
in beauty and fitness of location with the
famous statue of Germana on the Rhine
The entire park would become ,percu!iarly in
the sense that Central Park never can. sacred
to the memory of your father. The park is
so young that the character of its develope-
ment would be largely determined and It's
whole future dominated by this fact. The
monument would be visible from two states
and for miles both up and down the Hudson
river and would not only borrow from, but
lend beauty to the noble stream and at no
time could your fathers remains be regarded
as lying remote from nature.
PHILADELPHIA, July 2S.
At meeting of the Fairmount Art Asso-
citation, today, resolutions were adopted for
the creation of a fund to be called the Grant
Memorial Fund, for the erection in Fair
u
Gen. Grant. Subscriptions of any amount
large or small will be invited with a view to
make the Grant memorial proper tribute OF
all the people OF Pennsylvania. The Art As
sociation will contribute whatever may be
headed to complete the fund not exceeding
$4,000.
CHICAGO, July IS.
From the opening of the controversy the
papers have opposed New York as the final
resting place of the remains of Gen. Grant
10 an editorial on the subject the Tribune to-
morrow morning will say: 1t now seems
to be definitely settled that the remains of
Gen. Grant, in disregard of the eternal fitness
of things, are to be buried at Riverside Park.
which is merely an extension of Central
Park. 1t is no use to mince matters in this
connection. New York has always been
plague spot on body politics, 1t is the most
un-American and un-National tcity in the
United States. During the revolution it was
the hot-bed of toryism. 1t was never out
spoken in its protests against English in
justice and despotism. The lapse of CEN
tury has made little change in their senti-
ments. Its so called ''best society is com
posed of f1unkies and toades, whose principal
object in life is to ape English swells. There
is not enough Americanism in all New York
society life so far as known to make one man
of the robust and native quality which char
acterizes Gen. CIR mt.
What is not bastard English in its popula-
ton is an alien sedement, deposited there and
left by better class of foreign emigrants
who seek homes in the west Ii is the dump
ing ground for everything un-American. and
it should be remembered that while Gen.
Grant was in the field fighting like Hercules
to save the Union, New York City was. very
e.
secession, and when he retired from public
life and went there to live, its Wall street
sharpers traded upon his name and influence,
and feeced him and every member of his
family and all his relatives out of all they had.
What claim has New York City for the high
and priceless honor of receiving and guard
ing the remains Of an old Union hero? When
the time of the immediate grief has passed,
condemnation will be more outspoken than it
is now. Then the general judgment will be
that the selection of New York City as the
burial place was an undeserved concession of
honor upon city which had never been his
friend and had no claim upon him.
New YORK. July 2S.
Gen. Hancock has been busy all day ar
ranging plans for the funeral. Generals
Sherman, Shaler and Aspinwall and many
others come to him to offer suggestion. Ap-
pllcauons Tor places IN line continue TO pour
in from all parts of the country General
Hancock announced this evening that the ar
rangements had been decided upon. The
4th artillery of Ft. Adams, under command
of Major Adams, s,will fire a salute at Mt Nc
Gregor, and Major Randolph, commanding
18th artillery at Fort Hamilton, will fire the
burial salute on the day of the funeral Gen
Hancock and staff, accompanied bv General
Sheridan, will proceed to Mt McGregor on
the night of Aug. 2nd The remains will be
conveyed by train, consisting of one car for
the family, one for the remains, two for the
escort, which will number not
more than go men. one for the
clergy and pail bearers, one for General
Hancock and staff. and one for the press.
The first stop will be made at Saratoga and
the second at Albany. At the latter place,
Adjt. Gen. Farnsworth will assume charge
of removing the remains to the capitol, there
Gov. Hill assumes control f ON Albany to
this city. The remains will be in the care
Gen. Hancock. Having arrived here, the
first division y. G. S. n. Y. will escort the
body to City Hall. Here a guard will be
placed until the day OF the funeral.