The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-07-28

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he Conservation car" This is a car
thirty-fiVe feet long with standard posts
! at the corners and sides, which support
a roof over all. The car is closed on all
sides to height of three feet from the
floor, with seatslrunning lengthwise of
the car on each side. These seats will
be removed. The rear of the car will be
entirely open and every part of the car
| be dTaped in mourning. The remains
will be placed upon the funeral car from
I the rear and will rest upon heavy
pedestals in the middle of the
car and upon this car there
VIII be twenty-slx men attend
ing the remains. Thirteen of them
viii comprise a guard of honor
from U. S. Grant Post, and the other
thirteen will be selected regulars VINO
are expected here from Fort Porter By
order of General Hancock. The car
bearing the remains will be attached
directly to the engine. Behind the re-
mains will follow an ordinary passenger
coach of the road, in which the family
will be accommodated. This latter bears
the name, Eastern Outlook" which is
the point of observation to which Gen
eral Grant was last wheeled in his bath
chair on Monday before he died. II is
the same car in which the dead Gen
eral assembled the mountain just seven
weeks before the hour on which the re-
mains will arrive ut Saratoga on Tues
day, 4th. If other cars are attached to
the funeral train they will be for
the convenience of those most nearly
concerned in the conduct of the
obSequies. The train will consume one
hour in running to Saratoga from the
toll fnr m - fla
mains will DC made at Saratoga, the
terminus of the Mountain road, this
being necessary because the Mountain
funeral car is mounted upon narrow
guage trucks, while the connecting
roads are broad guage.
RoCH ESTER, July pa casket for
General Grant, manufactured in this
city, was shipped to New York this
evening.
WASHINGTON, July 26.-Dr. D. W.
Bliss has addressed a communication
to the District Commissioners urging
them to give official expression to the
universal desire in Washington to have
the remains of General Grant buried
either at Arlington cemetery or the
Soldiers Home. He suggests the cali
ing of a public meeting IN default of
action by the Commissioners.
General Burdett, to-day, addressed
the following letter to ex-President
Hayes, relative to the latter's PROPOSE
ton regarding a national monument to
General Grant.
HEADoUARTERs GRAND ARMY
OF THE REPUBLIC,
WASHINGTON, July %, '85.
Dear Sir and Comrade:
I have just read your letter to General
Buckland and others recommending
that the q. A r. lead in raising a fund
by general subscription for the erection
of a national monument to General
Grant. [ beg to suggest that the ma
tional monument to be erected to the
m5 mory of our departed comrade be of
such proportion and cost as to be
beyond the proper line of private
contribution. His fellow citizens will
demand that it be paid for out of the
national treasury for the credit of the
nation The lesson of Washington
monument inthat regard ought not to go
unheeded. Movements initiated in
cities and states to gather in funds or
quotas of funds, will result in their local
application, TO give proper expression to
local feeling. The Grand Army of the
Republic may of right claim the honor
of erecting its own monument to its
leader and comrade. 1t believes it will
do so. 1t should be the work of indivi-
dual comrades, post departments and
national headquarters acting as agencies
only for gathering and caring for
the contributions. Following ought
to be the Grand Army princi-
pie of equality in fraternity"
The sum to be given might be restricted
to an equal amount for each. Ten
cents per capita from our 5000 900 com
rades would produce for the erection of
a statue to be chise,led by the most skill
full hand obtainable, that shall tell the
story of the best heroic conflict as well
as OF his greatest days: "Grant COM
posing his memoirs" Fifty executed,
committed TO the care of the nation, to
be sheltered forever under the dome of
the Capitol, would seem most fit
memorial of our comrade and worthy
the Grand Army. l hope to meet you
at the Ohio -emi-annual encampment
next month, where it seems the matter
IS to have further consideration.
(Signed,) S. S. BURDETTE,
Commander-in-chief.
WASHINGTON, July 27.-General Bur-
dette, commander-in-chief of the
Grand Army of the Republic, has is
sued general order announcing the
death of General Grant, who was
member of George g. Meade post,
No. of Pennsylvania. The order
refers to the civil, military and political
life of General Grant and concludes by
calling on all communicates of the G. A.
R. to make this memorial their last fire.
ternal salutation, recommending to de-
partment commanders that a day be
announced, in orders, upon which the
posts in their several departments may
pay tribute of respect to the memory Of
the General and ordering the usual
badge of mourning to be placed on de-
partmental and national headquarters
for sixty days.
LONDON. July 27.-As mark Of re-
spect for the late General Grant. mil
itary bands throughout England re-
Trained from playing the usual Sunday
selections yesterday, but played dead
marches instead.
The Daity Telegraph, in an editorial
referring to General Grants anxiety to
finish his book, says: There is some
thing of Sir Walter SCOTS heroic crap
ping with financial ruin In this last act
of the deceased warriors life, which
ought to be remembered in his favor
along with his other great claims to
English respect and admiration when
the service in Westminster Abbey is