The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-04-28
GRANTS MONUMENT
The Corner Stone is Laid With
Impressive Ceremonies.
THE SOLDIER-PATRIoPS MEMORY
General POrter'5 Trihate-The Presidents
Prsise-Depew'S Oration-The Chief
Danger OF the Time is Despair.

hanger OF the lime Is Despair,
NEW YORK, April 27.-To-dsy beinc the
SEVENTEEN anniversary of General Ulysses
,. Grant, the occasion was selected for law
ing the corner stone of the imposing monu
ment which is to guard the last resting
place of the soldier patriot on the bands of
the Hudson, in Riverside park. Federal
ard municipal buildings were decorated
and private houses bedecked with bunting.
The day was observed as g half-holiday.
Early In the day crowds set out for River
Side park. A great stand, seating 12.OOO
people, was built around the foundation of
the mausoleum, on which there was dias
Tor the speakers and distinguished 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
Oh soldiers was sent ashore and finished
the decorations around the msusoleum.
The President left the Fifth Avenue
MOTEL at II 10, and was accompanied by
troop A Of cavalry, Captain c. A. Roe com
mandlng. With the President were Cen
eral Horace Porter and Lieutenant Parker.
Morton and z. p. Toppin, Secretary Elkins
and General Butterfed. Postmaster-G Gen
eral Wannamaker and John H. Stein, Sec
rotary Noble and II. w. Cannot Secretary
Rusk, Cornelius Bliss, Chauncey M. De-
pew and others. The cavalry wheeled into
column, and with four platoons preceding
and three following, the chief executive
party took up the march.
The ceremonies in the park were an
QOunce0 al Il
before that hour the big grand stand and
ether seats were filled, and the sward was
swarming with crowd of spectators. The
Loyal Legion and members of the Grand
Army OF the Republic were the first TO ar
rive. BY O'Clock fully 10000 people were
on the ground. The arrival of the veteran
General Franz Sigel was the signal for an
outourst OF cheering by his Grand Army Of
the Republic comrades. Among the dis
tlngulshed guests on the platform were
Generals Scbofeld. Howard, Dodge and
Slocum.
President Harrison and party arrived at
2;l5. After Hail TO the Chief'' by the
oand and an invocation by Rev. John Hall,
General Horace Porter president of the
Grant Monument fund, spoke, saying:
I'VE gather here to lay the corner stone of
temple to the dead; to celebrate an event
which Will be forever memorable in his
tory. We meet TO perform this ceremony
in The presence of the people who honored
him and the brave men who followed him
to victory. Although the fund required
for the completion of the monumental tomb
IS large, it was decided to lay the corner
stone to-day, in the confident belief the
patriotic work once begun will
never be allowed to stop till COM
pieted. l have great satisfaction
II announcing the total subscriptions up TO
last night amount to 1902. 500. When the
CT bpI
the dome will point out the path of LOYALTY
TO unOorn children. The halIOwed memo
rles which cluster around il will remind US
OF the heroic dead of the republic. The
blending of chaste lines and massive pro-
portions will be typical OF the hero who
sleeps beneath the granite, and will recall
the childIike simplicity which mingled
with the majestic grandeur of his nature"
AS General Porter closed, workmep
manned the windIasses on either side of tbs
immense cornerstone, and with uncovered
heads the crowds waited fer the Presidents
to perform the ceremony. He stepped
from the platform to the southwsat corne.
Of the foundation. He spread the cemen
with q gold trOwel and the stone was DROP
ped IN place. He then assembled the base
and spoke as follows:
My assignment connected with these
ceremonies has TO do with mechanics
rather than oratOry. The pleasing duty of
bringing to your memory those brilliant
pubic services, personal and manly yir-
tues which place the name of Ulysses s.
Grant SO high upon the scroll of fame and
the settled love OF man so deeply in all
patriotic hearts, devolves upon another
who never fails 10 do credit to himself or
give pleasure 10 his favored hearers. No
orator, however gifted, can overpraise
General Grant. Cheers The most i'm
pressive sud costly memorial that archi-
tect can plan or wealth eau execute, is ius-
tined when the name Of Grant is inscribed
upon it. Cheers. am glad to see here
| what seems to me g double assurance the
work SO nobly planned will be speedily
Consummated. Your distinguished citizen
who assumed the burden of conducting this
great enterprise learned OF his beloved
chief to exclude the word failure from his
vocabulary" Loud cheers, during which
the President resumed his seat.
Music followed, and then the orator of
day, Hon. Chauncey M. Depew, delivered
an address.
He delivered an eloquent Grafton, dwell
ing upon the sterling qualities of the de-
ceased general and President In his ad =
dress 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 con-
centrated contemplation of accumulated
wealth and the hOpelessness of acquiring
ii, parslyzes industrial energies and true
ambitions and plants the seed Of socialism
and anarchy, but Lincoln from the poverty
| of O Kentucky cabin, and Grant from the
narrow gifts of a log house in the Ohio
wilderness, became the central figures and
representative heroes OF our age. They
are the types and glory o. American citizen
Ship
Depew declared the predominant senti-
ments of Grant was the family and home.
He would have preferred being buried by
the side of his father and mother, but ap-
preciating the claim OF his country he
chose New York as his final resting place.
New York in accepting the bequest as
sumed a sacred trnst. Let the monument
which will rise upon the corner stone be
worthy of 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 re-
bic is his monument; and its history
during what must always be It's most
critical period will be the story Of his
deeds. Dspew then sketched Grants
career and declared him the most self
sacrificing friend and the most generous
foe
Rev. DIR. Hall pronounced benediction
and the guns of the Mianatonmah fired
national salute. School boys TO the num-
Der Of 1,5C0 marched by the tomb and
scattered flowers around it, Mrs. Grant,
with one of her grandchildren and party
of friends, occupied the position of honor
on the grand stand. As soon ss the cere-
monies at the tomb were over, the Presi-
dent and party took carriages TO Jersey
City and left for Washington at 8 80 pm.
Mckinley on Grant.
PITTsBURG, Pa, April 27.-The annual
banquet of the American Republican club
| in commemoration of General Grants