The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-08-13
PERFECFING PLANS.
4A-z-a-.E
THE FUTURE OF GENERAL GRANTS
FAMILY.
An Interesting Interview with Colonel
Fred Grant,
What He Says of His Mother and the
Memoirs.
Over $4,000 Raised for the Grant
Monument Fund in Chicago.
Formation of Grant Club at Chi
Formation of Grant Club at Chi
cago.
The Grant Family.

NEW York, Aug. 10.-The WorlC
prints the following special from Sara
toga: I was shown dispatch yesterda,
which says: Col. Fred Grant has &C
, cepted the position Of engineer of rail
road company which is backed by ths
. Baltimore s. Ohio Railroad and the Wis
cousin Central, for the purpose of ma.
king new entrance into Chicago. Col
Fred Grant will go to Chicago to take
charge of this new work as soon as be
has had time to gather together his
fathers papers and loose threads of his
affairs. Col. Grant has had very thor
ough education as an engineer at West
Point and should do very well in rail-
road work. There is no doubt that Pres
ident Cleveland would give him a COM
mission In the army, but Col. Grant, it
is said, has finally resolved to take his
chances in civil lite.
col. GRANT INTERVIEWED.
In an interview yesterday Col. Grant
said: II think fathers book will appear
before long. We do not yet know exact
ly what or how much manuscript there
Is. The last pages my father wrote have
not been looked over and there is q large
amount of matter not IN form for publ
cation. On my return from Mt. McGre-
gor shall devote the next four weeks
to looking over the manuscripts. shall
make copies of all his papers and pre-
serve the originals. l am not yet sure
| whether or not there will be enough
matter for two volumes or not, but what
there is will be published with
as little revising rs possible.
The story Will be brought
down to my fathers death and when
this has been done whatever there is
will be printed" 10 regard to his
mothers health he SAID my muther is
ply sically strong and have no doubt
that in time she will regain her usual
health. She has been confined unremit-
tingiy for q long time to my fathers
sick room. If she had not been very
strong she would have broken down long
ago. think that with a change of sur
roundIngs she will recover rapidly. AS
to the future plans of the family can
not speak very definitely We shall all
go back to Nit. McGregor and remain
there TIL fall. when the family must sep
Rrate." Mrs. Grant will doubtless occu-
Ply her house on Sixly-sixih street.
THE GRANT PROPERTY
NEW YORK, Aug, 10.-The CONNER
Girl Advertiser of this afternoon says
that the financial resources available to
Mrs. Grant are at present not exactly as
certainable since they are dependent
somewhat upon the action of congress as
TO the balance of the Generals retired
pay for the current year. The receipts
from the Generals book will be hers.
Estimating these receipts at rs cents q
volume, for an edition of 100000 copies
she will receive 1925, 600 To an annual
income of $4,000 at four per cent
for this will probably be added So 600
year as The widow of an ex- presideut and
the net rental of the Sixty-sixth street
house, which outside OF interest and
taxes may amount to $4,000. So that in
all probability. if as reported, Mrs.
Grant has property she Will in the
| course OF twelve months or 50 enjoy
an income of $4,000 OF &c.
600. This is all independent
of the income arising from the trust
fund of $250.O00. In that sum of money
the general possessed the right of dis
posal, and until his will is made public
twill be impossible to say whether he
has given his wife a life interest or
whether he has distributed this money
among his heirs.
LEFT FOR MT. M'GREGoR.
The members OF the Grant family left
| the Fifth Avenue hotel this morning.
They went to the Grand Central depot
and took the train for Mt McGregor.
FOREIGN PAPERS ON GRANTS FUNERAL
LONDON. Aug. 10-All the morning
I newspapers to-day publish copious ac-
couhts of the funeral of Gen. Grant
They all agree that the outpOurinE of
the people on this occasion and their
grief as indicated by the dispatches were
| something wonderful. The Times has a
| special dispatch three columns long dis
cribing the scenes and incidents OF the
funeral, and also prints a leading
editorial praising and recalling
many personal traits of the dead
General. 1t expresses unbounded ad-
miration for the conduct of the Amer.
can people concerning the burial and
pronounces the funeral a spontaneous
out burst of national admiration and
gratitude which although it can do
nothing for its actual object is not there
fore less to be commended. In conclu-
sion the Times says: mo other nation
and no former period could have afford
ed admirsls for such procession as that
OF Saturday, or even physical conditions
which enables It's members to come to-
gether.