The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1894-05-24
PERSONAL.

Mrs. Q. S. Grant, on her way East. stopped
in st. Louis to see the Grant monument theirs,
and also the one at Ironton, No.. on the prop
erty of in ige Emerson. Gen. Grant went TO
Ironton as Colonel in 1861. in command Of the
2lst ILL.,, and when encamped received his conn
mission as Brigadier-General. Ten years ago
the survivors of his old regiment erected
beautiful monument within few feet Of the
spot where Grant was sitting when the package
containing his commission as Brigadier- Gen.
erai was delivered to him.
There will be a reception to Gen. Neal Dow
at Prohibition Park, Staten Island, on June 3,
4. and .. The first day, Col. Alexander s
Bacon will deliver the address of welcome
and there will be congratulatory addresses b.
the Rev. DIR. r. W. Steele, Mary A. Woodbridge
S. B. Chase, C. A. Everett, Prof. Samue! Dickie,
and others. On June 2 there will be an address
by Joseph Cook, with the presentation Of the
formal address to Gen. Dow and the response
of the veteran General. On the following day
there will be many addresses by prominent
Prohibitionists and others
A story has lately been recalled Of brave old
Gen. Jim Steedman. During the thickest Of
up to a retreatng brigade and shouted: Face
about. boysl We must hold this pointl" "But,
General" said a brave officer, we have done
everything that brave and patriotic men can
do for their country - what every
thingf Blank blank it, you haven't died
yeti"
The Hon. Wallace Bruce ex-Consul at Edin-
burg, who is now living in Brooklyn, n. Y,
has accepted the invitation of John A. Dix
Post, OF New York City, to deliver the Memo
rial Day Grafton at the grave of Gen. Dix, in
Trinity Churchyard. Mr.. Bruce is well known
as lecturer and public speaker. While in
Edinburg he was the leading spirit in securing
the erection Of the monument in honor Of the
Scottish-American soldiers of our civil war,
which was unvailed last August in the Gallon
Hill burying-ground.
The movement for the exclusion of COM
mercial enterprises from the battlefield Of Get
tysburg continues to be successfully conducted.
The Objectionable trolley road must now quit
its yandalizing Of the field, and the complete
protection of its sacred ground viii be achieved
when Congress, as Gen. Sickles, a corps COM
mander in that battle, has asked it to do. shall
decree the whole tract to be National Park.
The New York Society, Sons of the ReyoIu-
ton, will lay the cornerstone of monument
at Dobbs Ferry or June Ii, upon the grounds
in front of the Livingston Manor house, in
which Washington and Rochambeau planned
the brilliant campaign against Yorktown. The
memorial, designed by Charles /. Berg. will b
handsome granite shaft, quarried near Dobbs
Ferry, of the square cob style, 10 feet high. Tho
names of Washington and Roehambeau will be
inscribed on the base, and the main panel will
bear an inscription concentrating the stirring
incidents with which the place is connected.
The nights on which the allied American and
French armies were encamped command an
Impressive view of over 20 miles in one direc-
ton.
Col. J. G. B. Adams. accompanied By his Adju-
tant-General, James F. Mech, was in Pittsburg
last week, to confer with the local Executive
Committee, which has in charge the Entertain
ment of the GAR. during the 18th National
Encampment in September. Estimating with
the Posts already heard from as a basis. it is
certain that over $4,000 veterans of the Grand
Army will parade at Pittsburg on Sept. IL.
Free quarters have already been assigned for
mounted men in the procession, which is
expected to consume over eight hours in
passing a given point The decorations and
Examinations will be on a scale of magnifeencs
never before known in western Pennsylvania.
Gov. Flower has appointed as Managers for the
New York State Home for Aged Dependent Vet
Grams and Wives, Veterans Mothers, Widows
and Army Nurses, residents of New York State,
the following: Mrs. Ellen N. Putnam, Buffalo;
Mrs. Sarah C. Mink. Watertown; Edward J.
Mitchell, Yonkers; Mrs. Kate E. Jones. lion;
Mrs. Annie Cleary, Rochester; Richard Cur
ran, Rochester; Mrs. Sarah C. Nichols, New
York; Mrs Ada G. Mohr, Brooklyn, and Maj.
Geo. II. Treadwell, Albany.
Maj. HalfOrd, formerly President Harrison's
Private Secretary, teaches the biggest Bible
class in Omaha, and helps to get out a religious
paper.