The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-04-28
THE GRANT MONUMENT.

and distinguished guests, while below
were benches for Grand Army veter-
ans TO the number of 1000. The
monitor Miantonomoh dropped anchor in
the Hudson opposite the tomb. and a
body of marines were sent ashore and
finished the decorations around the mau-
solemn. The president left the Fifth Ave-
nue. hotel at 12:45 and was accompanied
by cavalry Troop A, Captain C. A. Roe
commanding. With the president were
General Horace Porter and Lieutenant
Parker. In the other carriages were Vice
President Morton and +. ID. Tappin, Sec
rotary Eikins and General Butterfeld,
Postmaster-General Wanamaker, John H.
starin. Secretary Noble, II. w. Cannon,
Secretary Rusk, Cornelius Bliss, Chauncey
NJ. Depew and others. The cavalry
wheeled into column, and with
four platoons preceding and three
following the chief executive the party
took up the march. The ceremonies in
the park were announced to commence at
2o'clock. Long before the hour the grand
stand and other seats were filed, and the
sward was swarming with the crowd of
spectators. The Loyal Legion and men,
bers of the Grand Army of the Republic
were the first to arrive. By o'clock fully
1000 people were on the grounds. The
arrival of the veteran General Franz Sigel
was the signal for an outburst of cheering
by the @. A. r. comrades. Among the
distinguished guests on the platform were
Generals Schofield, Howard, Dodge and
Slocum. President Harrison and party ar
rived at 2:15.
After "Hail to the Chief" by the band.
and an invocation by Rev. Dr. John Hall,
General Horace Porter, president of the
Grant Monument Association, spoke, say
ing:
We gather here TO lay the cornerstone OF a
temple of the dead: to celebrate an event which
will be forever memorable In history. We meet
to perform 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 monu-
mental t,mb was large, IL was decided to lay the
cornerstone today in the confident belief that
the patriotic work once begun will never be al
lowed to stop til completed. have great salts
faction IN announcing that the total subscrip-
tions up to last night amounted to
sao2,s0 When the structure shall have
reached completion the dome will point out the
path OF loyalty to unborn children. Hailowed
memories which cluster around il will remind
us OF iro of the republic. The blending of
chsste lines and massive proportions will be
granite, and win recall the child-like simplicity
which mingled with the majestic grandeur of
his nature
As General Porter closed, workmen
manned the windlasses on either side of
the immense cornerstone. and with un-
covered heads the crowd awaited Tor the
president to perform the ceremony. He
stepped from the platform 10 the south
west corner of the foundation, spread
cement with gold trowel, and the stone
was dropped in place. He then assembled
the base and spoke US follows:
My assignment connected with these cere-
mouies has TO do with mechanics rather than
orstory. The pleasing duty OF bringing TO your
memory those brilliant public services and per-
sonal and manly virtues which place the name
of Ulysses ;. Grant SO high upon the scroll of
fame and settled the love of the man 90 deeply
In all patriotic hearts devolves upon another
Who never fails 20 do credit TO himself
or give pleasure to his favog;ts hear
ers No orator, however gifted, can over
praise General Grant tCheers The most i'm
preeiye aud costly memorial architect can
plan or wealth can execute Is justified when
the name of Grant is inscribed upon It.
tChsersl / am glad to see here what seems to
me to be double assurance that the work so
nobly planned viii be speedily consummated
Your distinguished citizen tPorterl who has as
scrp:ise learned OF his beloved chief to exclude
che word failure from his vocabulary. IIoud
cheers, during which the president resumed his
seatl
Music followed, and the orator of the
day. Hon. Chauncey NJ. Depew, delivered
On address, in which was the following
striking passage;
The phenomenon of our times, and one OF
She chief dangers 70 Law and order, is the growth
Al hA haaNif If
temptation OF accumulated wealth aud hopeless
ness OF acquiring IL paralyEes industrial ener.
Gies and true ambition, and plants the seeds Of
socialism and anarchy, Lincoln. from the nov.
srty Of Kentucky cabin, aad Grant from the
narrow limits of log in an ohio wilder.
ness, became the central tgures and representa-.
ave heroes Of The sge They are the typs a O;
the glory OF American citizenship
ncpew declared that in his most pre-
dominant sentiments Grant was a family
and home man. He would have preferred
being buried by the side of his father and
mother. but appreeisting the claim OF his
eountrymen, he chose New York as final
resting place. New York. in accepting the
beqOest. assumed the sacred trust. Let
thc monument which will rise upon this
cornerstone be worthy OF the magnitude
Of the metropolis and the grandeur of its
subject, General Grant needs no stately
SHAFT nor massive pile 10 perpetuaGe his
memory. The repablie is his monument,
and its history during what must always
be its most critical period, will be the
story of his deeds. Depew then sketched
Grants career, and declared him the most