Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-10-31
MONUMENT TO AN EDITOR
Henry W. Grady's Monument Un-
yelled at Atlanta.
Imposing Ceremonies Attending the Event
Description ofthe Monument--sketch
OF Grady's Busy and Honorable Life
--Notcs OF the Gathering.

ATLANTA, Ga. Oct. Glover the last
resting place of great commoner,
journalist. orator and patriot, the
north and the south clasped hands to-
day. The north represented by the
chief executive of the greatest COM
mercial state in the union, the south
by the chief executive of the state that
of all the states held firm and fast to
the very last to the principles of the
confederacy, and before them a great
sea of faces representing not only the
north and the south, but the east and
the west. 1t was a great tribute to
one who had simply been man of the
people. The weather is fine and the
streets are crowded with citizens
and visitors from outside points.
AT least 10000 of the latter
it is estimated have arrived during the
past two days. AS early as o'clock
the various organizations that were to
take part in the parade began TO ar
rive at the points assigned them and
at 10 o'clock the booming of cannon
gave a signal for the head of the pro-
cession To leave the state house. The
order of the procession was as follows:
Governor Northen and staff, mounted;
Fourth Georgia battalion of infantry;
the Governors Horse Guards, escorting
carriages containing Mrs. Henry W.
Grady and her daughter Miss Jessie
Grady, and Governor David b.
Hill, General Slocum, and the
rest of the New York delegation. Next
came companies of visiting military,
infantry, cavalry and artillery. The
next division was headed by the con-
federate veterans, who formed an es-
cort of honor to the O. NJ. Mitchell
post, G.. A. II. The division allotted to
labor organizations and civic societies
was long one. The locomotive en-
gineers, conductors, firemen, brake
men, switchmen and the carpenters
and joiners turned out in force, thus
bearing new testimony to their knowl-
edge of the fact that Henry w. Grady
was true friend to the working
classes. The police, fire department
and newsboys and nearly 5000 school
children brought up the rear of the
procession. Colonel Callahan was mar
shal of the day. An immense platform
had been erected Immediately in front
of the monument and upon the ar
rival of the procession this was
occupied by the invited guests and
Charles S. Northen, president of the
Monument association, and after mu-
steal exercises Miss Gussie Grady pulled
the cord, the canvass dropped to the
ground and the life-like features of her
dead father were revealed TO the inn
mense throng amid cheers of thousands
of throats. Governor Hill, of New
York, upon being introduced as the or
ator of the day, was received with loud
and prolonge applause. He paid an
elegant tribute TO the memory of the
man whom they had met to honor and
spoke at length regarding his patriot
ism, his love for his native south and
efforts to promote peace and good will
between the two sections of the coun-
try. At the conclusion of the Grafton
the benediction was pronounced by
Rev. j. w. Lee, of the Park Street
and the procession was formed
and marched back TO town.