Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-07-29
The Burial site.

The Burial Site
DESCRIPTION OF RfvERsIpf PARK
hiNefside fark Is marrow and irregular
strip OF land lying between Riverside ayenue
and the Hudson river, from I'D street 20 lsoth
street. Between the western limit ana tina
river, however. passes the road-bed OF the Hud.
son river railway. The general width OF ~.
park Is about five hundred feet. while ats entire
length l. some three miles the area being about
one hundred and seveuty-eght acres only a
portion OF which has been laid out i'm walk and
drives, while the rest still retains the wild pic
turesqueness OF nature. The surroundings Of
this park are 50 lovely that II is believed Il Will
ultimately become the most ari-tocrstic resi-
dence region oi New York. The ground rises e,
bold bluff above the Hudson river and tho
views from the river driveway are y cry charm.
ing, giving glimpses of the undulaIing tree.
covered park, the shining stretches of the river
dimpied into innunerable waveets and the
Weehawken heights opposite.
Little has yet been done 10 improve this mark.
which i'm its primitive state is a favorite resort
for picnic parties and promena OF people liy.
any IN tle western portion OF the city. The
heavy stone parapet runs along the brink Of ths,
hill, with recesses for seats, passages and steps
down dow. into the groves along the river bank.
proyement OF the park. At the. f2d
statue of taeFe I, rS bronze
scribed for largely by the public school children
of New York, and was unveiled by them last
highest point, is what used to be known as the
Claremont house. IL was built by Lord Court
luton, and was occupied by him for many
years. IL is at this point that the burial site
has been fixed. The monument, when erected.
upon the highest point on Manhattan Island.
The outward swell OF the promonotory begins
at 122d street and the river bank returns In its
regular line at 10th street The summit OF
THIS elevation Is an almost level platform of
something more than twenty acres. ON the
posite; the old fort I'm Central Park is on the
southeast; Fort Washington is on the north and
the highlands near West Point shut In the hort.
ION beyond the Tappan Zee.
DIR. NEWMAN NOT PLEASED WITH RIVERSIDE
Dr. Newman is busily engaged preparing his
discourse to be delivered At the family funeral
on August 4th. He advocates the erection of a
temple structure above the tomb of Gen Grant
IN which shall be placed the mementoes and
trophies OF the old hero He also urges that any
commemorative architecture at the tomb shall
be OF utility. I'm view OF the fact that Gen. Grant
OF ali other men, was a man OF utility, The
doctor Incidentally expressed the opinion that
Riverside Park was lonely spot for burial.
Architect Mold, of the New York depart rnent
of public parks, has completed the plan for the
temporary vault which is to contain the body
OF Gen. Grant until the erection OF a permanent
tomo 1T Is TO be made entirely Of brick.
sCATHING ATTACK ON NEW YORK.
The Chicago Tribune to day contains . scatt,.
Ing editorial on the selection Of New York e. a
burial place for Gen. Grant II says: 1T now
seems to be definitely settled that the remains
Q. Gen. Grant In DISREGARD Of the eternal fitness
which lis merely an extension of Central Park
II is no use TO mince matters i'm this connection.
body polite. Ii is the most un-American and
un-national city I'm the United States During
the revolution IL was the hotbed OF toryism. n
was never outspoken I'm its protests against
English injustice and despotism. The lapse Of
century has made little change I'm their senti.
ments. Its so-called best society Is composed
of ffunkies and toadies, whose principal object
In life is to ape English habits and customs, and
to dress, eat, walk and talk as English swells and
is NOT
make one man OF the robust native
Grant. What is not bastard English
I'm its population is the alien sediment
deposited there and left by the better class q
foreign emgrants who seek homes IN the west
1t is the dumpingground for everything that In
non-Amercan. And IL should be remembered
like Hercules to save the Union New York city
was the very hot-bed of copperheadism.-i.e e.,
disloyalty and secession. When he retired from
public life and went there TO live its Wall street
sharpers traded upon his name and influence
and heeced him and every member of his fam.
What claim then. has New YORK c,tH yr n tSe
high and priceless honor of receiving and guard.
ing the remains of the Union heroe
when the time of immediate grief has passed
condemnation will be more outspoken than 10
is now, and the general judgment will be that
the selection OF the city of New York As the
honor upon city which had never been hii
friend and had no claim upon him"
News Briefs.
Bailey, the drug clerk whose mistake caused
the death OF the little daughter of DIR. Wiley OF
Baltimore, was released yesterday ON $4,000
bail.
Severe storms prevailed yesterday I'm the
northwest.
The trial OF Louis Riel was resumed AZ
Regina.
A strike occurred yesterday at Shoemaker a
Co. leather factory in Philadelphia. and some
disorder ensued, but tbe police easily dispersed
the strikers.
Mrs. Bauduy Garesche. sister Of Minister Nc.
Lane, died at the Convent OF the Sacred Heart
at ST. Michaels, La, OF which religious order
she was member.
colony OF ex-confederate soldiers in south
ern Brazil numbers about 500 persons and 10
doing well.
John Teemer, the oarsman, having failed to
get race with HJnlan, has decided to go TO
australia to row Beach for the championship o(
the world.
capt Lawton came upon party of Indians
In me W hetstone mountains Monday night
ana captured twenty OF them and four horses.
DIR. Edison, OF the New York health depart.
ment, says that never was AK watered TO the
extent that IL is now.
At a camp meeting near Lafayette Ind Mon.
DAY, ReV. w. H Hickman, a Methodist preacher
nom South Bend, horrified his hearers by an
address on the subject "What Shall We Do
nth the Negro?' i'm which he took broad
grounds in 1ayor OF intermarriage of whites and
blacks.