The record-union., 1892-04-28
monies.
Special to the REcoRp-UNIoN.


was selected for laying the cornerstone
of an imposing monument which is
to guard the last resting place of the
soldier and patriot on the banks of the
Hudson, i'll Riverside Park. The Federal
and municipal buildings were decorated.
and private houses decked with bunting.
The day was observed as half-holiday.
Early in the day crowds set out for
Riverside Park. A grand-stand, seating
1900 people, was built around the foun-
datlons of the mausoleum, on which there
was dlas for the speakers and dis
tinguished guests. Below were benches
for Grand Army veterans to the number
Of 1000.
The monitor Miantonomah dropped
anchor in the Hudson opposite the tomb,
and a body of sailors was sent ashore
and finished the decorations around the
| mausoleum.
The President left the Fifth-avenue
Hotel at 12:45, and was accompanied by
Troop A of cavalry, Captain c. A. Roe
commanding. With the President were
General Horace Porter and Lieutenant
Parker. In other carriages were Vice
President Morton and r. d. Tappin,
Postmaster General Wanamaker and
John III. Starin, Secretary Noble and
ii. w. COnnOr, Secretary RuSk, Cornelius
Bliss, Chauncey NJ. Depew and others.
The cavalry wheeled into column, and
with platoons preceding and following
| the Chief Executive party took up the
march.
The ceremonies in the park were an
nounced to commence at O'Clock Long
before that hour the big grand stand and
other seats were filled and the sward
swarming with crowd Of spectators.
The Loyal Legion and members of the
Grand Army of the Republic were the
first to arrive. By O'Clock fully 0,0OO
people were on the ground. The arrival
of the veteran, General Franz Sigel, was
the signal for an outburst of cheering by
the G. a. X. comrades. Among the dis
tiDguiShed guests on the platform were
Generals Schofield, Howard, Dodge and
SlOcum.
President Harrison and party arrived
! at 2:15.
Alter "Hail to the Chief' by the band,
and an invocation by Rev. DR.. John Hall,
General Horace Porter, of the President
Grant Monument Association. spoke,
saying; I'VE gather here to lay the cor
| ner-stOne of temple OF the dead and to
celebrate an event which will be forever
memorable in history. We meet TO per-
form ceremony in the presence of peo-
pie who honOred him, and brave men
who followed him to victory. Although
the fund required for the completion of
this monumental tomb is large, it was
decided to lay the cornerstone to-day, in
the confident belief that the patriotic
work once begun will never be allowed
to stop till completed. have great salts
faction in announcing that the total SUBJ
scriptions up to last night amount to
500, 500. When the structure shall have
reached completion the dome will point
out the path of loyalty to unborn chill
dren. Hallowed memories which cluster
around it will remind US of his heroic
aid to the republic. The blending of
chaste lines and massive proportions
will be typical of the hero who sleeps be-
meath the granite, and Will recall the
child-like simplicity which mingled with
the majestic grandeur of his nature"
AS General Porter closed the workmen
manned the windlass on either side ofthe
immense cornerstone, and with heads
uncovered the crowd waited for President
Harrison to perform the ceremony. He
stepped from the platform to the south
east corner of the foundations. He spread
cement with gold trowel, and the stone
was dropped i'll place. He then aScended
the base and spoke as follows:
MY assignment connected with these
services has to do with mechanics rather
than oratory. The pleasing duty Of
bringing to your memory those brilliant
public services, OF the personal and manly
virtues which place the name of Ulysses
S. Grant so high upon the scroll of fame.
and settled the love of the man so deeply
in all patriotic hearts, developed upon
another, who never fails 10 do credit to
himself or give pleasure to his fayorite
heroes.
''No orator, however gifted, can over
praise General Grant. Cbeers.l The
most impressive and costly memorial
architect can plan or wealth can execute.
is justified when the name of Grant is in
scribed upon ii. [Cheers. / am glad to
see here what seems to me to be double
assurance that the work SO nobly planned
will be speedily consummated. Your dis
tinguiShed citizen who assumed the bur-
den of conducting the great enterprise
learned from the beloved chief to exclude
the word failure from his vocabulary
Loud cheers, during which the Presi-
dent took his seat.
Music followed, and then the orator of
the day, Hon. Chauncey NJ. Depew, de-
livered an eloquent Grafton, dwelling
upon the sterling qualities of the deceased
General and President. In the address
was the following striking passage: "The
phenomenon of our times and one of the
chief dangers to law and order is the
growth of the school OF despair. The
concentrated contemplation of accumu-
lated wealth and the hopelessness of ac-
quiring it, paralyzes industrial energies
and true ambitions, and plants the seeds
of socialism and anarchy. But Lincoln,
from the poverty of a Kentucky cabin,
and Grant, from the narrow gifts of log
house in the Ohio wilderness, became
central figures and representative heroes
OF our age. They are types of the glory
of American citizenship
Depew declared the predominant senti-
ments of Grant was his family and home
"He would have preferred being buried
by the side of his father and mother but
appreciating the claim of his country
men, he chose New York as the final
restingplace. New York, in accepting
the bequest, assumed sacred trust Let
the monument which will rise upon the
cornerstone be worthy the magnitude of
the metropolis and the grandeur of its
subject. General Grant needs no stately
Shaft nor massive pile TO perpetuate his
memory. The republici is his monument,
and its history, during what must always
be its most critical period, will be the
story of his deeds.u
Depew then sketched Grants career,
and declared him most self-sacriticing
friend and most generous foe.
Rev. DIR. Hall pronounced the benedic-
ton, and the guns of the Miantonemah
fired national salute. School boys To the
number of 1.500 marched by the tomb,
and scattered flowers around it.
Mrs. Grant, with one grandchild and