Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1890-01-31
THE.
Monument to General Grant,
AND
The Weekly Mail and Express.
Yon Can Subscribe 10 Both At
Once.
HOW Is THIS' you ASK.
We Will EIxplains

The Weekly Mail and Express has agreed
with the Grant Monument Association that
the entire revenue Of the paper from year
Is subscriptions of two dollars each will be
turned over To the FUND for the erection Of
a NATIONAL MONUMENT to General Ulysses
:. Grant at Riverside Park, New York
City. In other words. il you send Two
Dollars 10 the WEEKLY MAIL AND EXPRESS
you will receive the paper for a year and
your money will be pad over To the GRANT
MONUMENT FUND. You will thus receive
full equivalent for your money in a first
class weekly newspaper and at the same
time you will be helping to forward a noble
and worthy cause. The Weekly Mail and
Express has further evidenced its earnest
ness and sincerity in this work by sub
scribing TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS to
the MONUMENT FUND.
The following letters are self explanatory:
LETTER FROM EX-GOVERNOR CORNELL.
NEW YORK, Nov. 2s, 1859.
Proprietor of the NAIL AND EXPRESS:
1t gives me pleasure to assure you that
the members of the Grant Monument As
sociatiOn appreciate, approve and accept
your generous offer to aid, through the
medium of the Weekly Mail and Express,
in the erection of the grand memorial at
Riverside Park in honor OF the illustrious
soldier and patriot, Ulysses s. Grant.
ALoNzo Il. CORNELL,
Chairman Executive Committee of the
Grant Monument Association.
LETTER FROM MRS. GRANT.
NEW YORK, Nov. 2S. 1889.
The arrangements made between the
Weekly Mail and Express and the Grant
Nfrl ant A 1afY an r~ft
approval The offer of the Weekly Mail
and Express is patriotic and should it be
responded to promptly by the citizens of
America the monument viii speedily be
built at the very site suggested by my hus-
band and selected by me as the last rest
ing place of his precious remains, the spot
where hope my remains will lie beside
his, and where our children unite with me
saying ''Here only shall be his tomb"
JULIA DENT GRANT.
ANOTHER LETTER FROM GCv. CORNELL.
GRANT MONUMENT ASSOCIATION
NEW YORK, Dec IS, 1889.
DEAR SIR:-It gives me profound salts
faction to acknowledge receipt of your
esteemed favor eff this date incloSing check
from the Weekly Mail and Express for TEN
THOUSAND DOLLARS payable to the order
of the Grant Monument Association, as
contribution toward the erection of the
Grant memorial at the Riverside Park. in
the city of New York.
Such a contribution coming at this time,
is doubly valuable. 1t will stimulate the
renewed efforts recently entered upon to
complete the Fund necessary to construct
what we confidently believe will be the
grandeSt personal memorial in Christen
dom. Faithfully and cordially yours
ALoNZo b. CORNELL,
Chairman Executive Committee.
To Col. Elliott F. Shepard.
VIII you not help in this work By sub
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Monument FUND.-
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