St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-04-28
GRANTS MAUSOLEUM
President Harrison Lays the
Corner Stone in the Pres
ence Of a Multitude.
Gen. Porter Makes a Presenta-
ton Of the Status OF
the Fund.
Chauncey Depew Delivers an
Grafton on the immortal
Soldier.
Lessons Of Patriotism Drawn
From Historic Incidents
in a Great Life.


/ ULYSSES Grant occurs today, and
the occasion was selected Tor most
appropriate commentator, the laying
/ OF the corner stone OF the Imposing
monument which is to guard the last
| resting place Of the soldler-DatrIOt Oh
the bank of the Hudson. in Riverside
park, where all interest, Of course, cen
tered today. In the earliest hours OF
the day people began to set out to pre-
cnpt places OF vantage at this Mecca OF
patriotic citizens. The ceremonies we're
set 10 begin at 2 O'Clock. Long before
| that hour, however, the 1900 grand
stand seats weEe filed, and the green
sward adjoining was swarmug with
| pushing crowd OF spectators. Several
! hundred police reserves maintained
good order. The Loyal Legion occu-
pied seats Oh their private stand, and
the G.. A. X. took ground seats fac
| ing the speakers stand. Gen. Franz
! Sigel was greeted with a outburst OF
/ cheers by his old comrades. Among the
distinguished guests OH the platform
were Gems. Schofieid, Howard. Dodge
and SlOcum, the only men now living
late war The crowd cheered vOcifer-
ously rs Gen. Horace Porter escorted
President Harrison to the speakers
stand.
After Invocation by Rev. DIR. John
Hall, Gen. Horace Porter, president OF
the Grant Monument association, said:
Nv gather here 10 lay the cornerstone
Of a temple OF abe dead, to celebrate an
event which will be forever memorable
| in history. This day has been selected
because it Is the anniversary of the
birth Of the lllustriOus soldier and clti-
zen whose remains will repose within
the structure. ] have great satisfaction
| in announcing to you that the total sub
scriptlons made up to date, as the result
Of about four weeks work, amount TO
| 1902. 800
while some generous subscriptions
| will be received from other cities, the
| people of the nation have seemed TO say
| to New York: you have secured the
honor Of entombing within your bor-
dFr6 the ashes Of Americas great cap
tain; the memorial TO be reared will be
| the chief ornament Of your city; pill
| grimages will be made from all quarters
| Of the globe TO visit that Mecca. You
must, unaided, build the structure
| New York has accepted the challenge
and Will make good her word. While
this monumental tomb will be thorough
| ly national in its character and purpose.
it will stand in history as tribute Of
the greatest of American cit es TO the
| greatest of American soldiers. Through
out all the ages vessels upon the noble
stream which flows at the base of his
sepulcher will, IN passing, sound their
chimes in token of salute, and the echo
Of the guns of war will have given place
10 the lolling of the bells of peace.
Settling the stone.
With heads uncovered the wOrkme n
at the windlasses waited for the preSi-
dent TO scatter the mortar, when they
would receive the signal to lower the
stone. The president stepped down
from the platform where the distin-
tinguiShed guests had been seated, and
q gold trOwel was placed in his hand.
lie stepped over to the corner of the
foundation directly in front of the
stone, passed the trOwel between the
stone and the bed of cement beneath it,
the windlasseS began to creak, and IN a
moment the corner stone had been laid.
The president then made brief adj
dress, in the course OF which he said:
1.-THE most impressive and costly memo
rial that the architect can plan or wealth
can execute is justified when tie name
of Grant is inscribed upon it. This
stone which has now been laid speaks
to us of structure imposing and grace
full in its completeness, which shall rise
with steady progress till the capstone
Is set amid the plaudi's of the liberal
and patriotic citizens of this great city,"
Music followed, and then the orator of
| hn NJ
a lengthy and thoughtful address. lie
said, in part:
Depew's Grafton.
The predominant sentiment of Gen. Grant
was his family and his home. AS son, hus-
bund ANA father his care and devotion were
constant and beautiful. lie had shrunk all
his life from displays and he desired to escape
II after death. To lie in the churchyard
where slept his father and mother would
have been more in accord with his nina. But
lie appreciated that his countrymen had q
claim upon his memory and the lessons of
his life and fame. He knew that where he
was buried, there they would build q shrine
| for the study and inspiration of coming gen.
| erations
lie selected New York, but he made one
condition. No spot must be chosen which
did not permit his wife TO be by his side at
the resurrection. She had been the love of
! his youth. the companion and confidant of
his maturer years. She had made the hum
bic cottage ut Galena. the camp, the White
house and the stately city residence all
| equally his home. He would have no monu-
| ment, however grand which separated him
from her during the unnumbered years of
the hereafter At Arlington, he would have
lain among the soldiers who mad followed
and revered their great commander, but at
Riverside he Will await the last trump with
the pBrtner of his life and the mother of his
children.
School of Despair.
A phenomenon of our times, and one of
the chief dangers to law and order. is the
growth of the school of Despair The con-
centrated contemplation of the aecumula-
ton of wealth. and the hopeleSsness of &C
quiring il, paralyZes industrial energies and
true ambitious, and plants the seeds of
socialism and anarchy. But Lincoln, from
the poverty of the Kentucky cabin, and
Grant from the narrow gifts of log house
in the Ohio wilderness became the central
figures and the representative heroes of our
age. They are types of the glory Of Amer
lean citizenship.
The young captain in the Mexican war.
the Missouri farmer, harvesting and market
ing himself the product of his scant acres
the Galena tanner. living happily on $500 a
year, the victorious commander of million
of men, the president of the United States,
the hero, accepted as the guest and peer of
the kings and emperors OF the world. was
under conditions as humble as those of any
OF the mass This fellow-citiZens who were
striving FOR living. and greater and grander
than those which have surrounded any of
his countsymen, ever the same simple and
loyal Ulysses 5. Grant.
| Only under free institutions are such ex-
smpieS possible. These great Americans
illustrate the processes by which masterful
men forge 10 he front. They did their best
wherever they were. behevIng that their
highest duty was 10 preserve the liberty and
the laws which barred no mans way, and
which protected and punished alike the rich
and the poor, the strong and the weak. All
the presidents of the United States since