New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-09-26
GENERAL GRANrS TOMB At RITERSIDE

MANY VISITORS But NO LONGER LARGE CROWDS
THE CHANGES OF YEAR.
Riverside Park has resumed again something
OF the tran guilty that prevailed little more IMAM
year ago before 1t became known to the word - 'no
final res,inr- place OF General Grant Many changes
have taken place in the interval bur these nave uoo"
comnleed for the present. Little more Will DO oouo
ahon the grounds until the monument ITSELF feau' "
rise III above the Hudson and look down over 'Ho V'
to the Bartnoldi Statue OF Liberty In the Day '' ~
below. Ia. a.. or
=, hsuIocks IA now q bright green. The broad pathway
leading to the tomb has graded and smoothed oy
TIE park officials and on eithersd oft the
been covered with heavy layer of rich mould anu con-
verified into thrifty lawns Within the tomb only tue
end OF the steel coffin with its silver INSCRIPTION can 20
seen from the entrance japanese IVY maidenhar erh
and groups palms the rest with deep green IN
warm contrast with the white enameled walls Every
week superintendent Woolson, OF the PARK Osruens'
visits the tomb arranges the vines wllhln' pcA"S
out those that have withered. since 'ne
United States troops were removed from suaiu
duty last July detail OF the Park Police has been sta
toned night and day at the vault They are reheNeo
twice n day. and one OF the policemen is always sta
TONED ut the entrance. Every morning the oincer "
charge Of the detail directs the opening OF the inner
doors OF the vault. In tho evening they are coseu
again. the key remaining under the care OF the oceri
command of the detail An American hagis raised on
80 to the PARK Of them strangers. who desire
v,sit the place where the Dody OF General Grant Is lynn
On pleasant Sundays the visitors are Hiof'
numerous and mainly IRON the 0'V
Now that Riverside-ave. and park have
become better they steadily grow Ing IN laVo
among New-Yorker. who ind pleasure In s'roln'
along the high banks overlooking the river carriages
follow the winding drive up from Seventy second-st
n auspg short time before the entrance Oh the vaul
while their occupants allght and then pass around u
the end OF the bluff where clear fau days there
an rooh,erpcted view lar up the Hudson beyond thu
Palisades. Now that crowds OF ehlces no ion6et ~
tercre with tnem bicycle riders nave resumeu n
outings on Riverside Drive, ana AZ an times ~ ~
AFTERNOON they can be gliding swiftly ana silently
along the smooth hard rosdways - 49,
The most frequent visitors are Tue noih-
beers OF General Granrs family. Two Or tn i,.
times a week their carrisge MAKES lts VIZ
with Mrs. Grant Colonel F. d. Grant snu o'on soule
old friend OF the General. The carriage aIwaysstops
In the avenue before the vault ana usuaIy ulte Gus
ter Of flowers 10 left on tue gateway. Every Wees
florist under the direction OF CoioneI Eraue, g.,
ssi that Mrs Grant becoming wore attached to kVer
aide has grown queter ana us oeauty Us
Colonel pleased with the spot and lts
associations from the first 10 the east an,
below the height where the tomb IS placed ace,
E1oom,nSdale road. A tradition say. that Genera
Washington during his frat Presldential term' WINE
nvng Ia New York, made this his favorlIe drive here
Harlem Commons after Battle OF Long Island snC
the sites fOrtI held long Dy the continental
troops along the Hudson -. , d.,
several handsome houses have been built along RIVER
side-ave during the year and great many new ouulnR
have gone up Harlem IN the streets Approaching tH'
Park. Some OF the principal streets openihe III ~
PARK are being graded filled and II said that mum
Der OF ne houses are TO be built in RverSde
ave. next spring,