The record-union., 1896-04-28
Made the Occasion Of General Holiday
at Galena, Illinois.
Services Held at the Unfinished
rIaus0Ieum at New YOrk-fiis
rlemory Honored by the Union
League Club at Philadelphia-Fes-
tivities Held Under the Auspices
of the Americus Club at PittSburg.

GALENA Qn), April 27.-The 74th
anniversary of the birth of General
Grant was celebrated at Galena to-day
with unusual enthusiasm. Business is
generally suspended, the city is in holi-
day garb and hundreds of visitors from
other parts of the State, as well as
from across the Iowa border, are joining
With Galena citizens in the celebration.
large delegation from Chicago, head
ed by Hon. H. H. Kohlsaat of the
Times Herald" who a year ago pre-
sented to the city a magnificent oil
painting of Lees surrender to Grant at
Appomattox, and who is also the do
nor of the statue in Grant Park, arrived
this morning at 10 o'clock.
The events of the day were inaugur-
ated with a parade of citizens, NUM-
cipal departments, Grand Army and
secret and patriotic societies. Follow
ing this was a reunion of the sur
vivors of the Twelfth Regiment of Illi-
nois Volunteers This was the regiment
in which Grant first enlisted. He was
offered the captaincy of a company, but
declined it, and General A. l.. Chetlain,
now of Chicago, and who is present to-
day, was chosen in his place. The re-
doubtable Jerry Simpson of Kansas is
also one of the survivors of the
Twelfth
The chief feature Of the days pro-
gramme was the mass meeting this
afternoon in Turner Hall, and at which.
after patriotic selections by the orcheS-
ira and audience, x-Congressman
General John c.. Black. now United
States District Attorney for the North
ern District of Illinois, delivered the
Grafton.
A feature of the day was the arrival
from the Rock Island arsenal of an mis-
toric cannon captured by members of
the Forty fifth Illinois Volunteers dur
ing Sherman's march to the sea, and
| upon which is the iscription: Pre-
sented to the Sovereign State of South
Carolina in Commenoration of the
Twentieth Day Of December, 1860, by
Citizens Abroad"
This piece of ordnance ran the block
ade at Charleston, S. c., and was act
lively used throughout the war, first by
the Confederates and afterward by its
captors. Hereafter it will rest beneath
the Grant Monument in the Public
Z
for that purpose through the medium of
bill passed within the last few days.
AT GRANTS MAUSOLEUM.
NEW YORK, April 21.-Under the
auspices of the Grant Monument Com
mission, appropriate exercises were
held to-day at the great mausoleum in
Riverside Park 1t had been hoped that
! the tomb would be in readiness for the
final dedication to-day, but this has
been found impossible, and the event
viii not take place until late in the year,
| and probably not until the anniversary
| in 1897. 1t is the intention of the COM
mission to make the final dedication
ceremonies the most magnificent the
| country has ever seen. One feature is
to be military and naval pageant, rep
resenting the Blue and the Gray, and on
a larger scale than anything ever before
attempted.
| The work on the mausoleum has so
| far progressed that it's appearance
/ when finished can be easily imagined.
| The main part of the structure under
| the great dome is to be called Memorial
| Hall, and is to be most imposing
apartment. Around this dome, ninety
feet above the main floor of the tomb,
stained glass windows will let in a soft
! light. Directly under this dome, in the
middle of Memorial Hall, circular
opening of eighteen feet in diameter and
surrounded by an iron railing will per-
NIT the visitor to look down at the coffin
| as it rests on the sarcophagus in the
middle Of the crypt below.
! AT each of the four corners of the
mausoleum will be a great square pier,
| and these piers will be hollow. In the
two southern ones spiral stairways will
admit visitors to the crypt, where they
may walk entirely around the sarcoph-
agus, which will be raised enough to
| allow them to read the inscriptions on it
! and the coffin In the two northern
piers will be an exhibition of Grant
relics.
| In these inches will be shown battle
| flags swords carried by the General and
other souvenirs of Grant.
| Spiral stairways in the corner piers
| will allow visitors to climb up to the top
of the base. or square part of the struct-
| ure. Here they can walk out on bal
| cony around the circular part of the
| monument, from which a fine view of
| the Hudson and upper part of the city
may be had
! The lower part of this round portion
| is to be of plain, smooth blocks of
| granite, while above that a series of
granite columns twenty-seven feet in
hight will support a balcony over 12O
feet above the ground. Inside this part
/ of the structure winding stairway will
| allow visitors to reach the second bal
| cony, and from this point on a clear day
| one will be able to see twenty-five or
/ thirty miles up the river. The top of
! the dome is to be 165 feet from the
! ground and $50 feet above the level of
| the river.
AT PHILADELPHIA
PHILADELPHIA, April 21.-Cseneral
/ Grants memory was honored with
speech, story and good fellowship at
the Union League Club tonight Many
prominent men in military, naval, Off
cial and civil life were present. The
| dinner was held in the large banquet
hall, which was prOfusely decorated
with flowers and bunting. The bust of
| Grant and his portrait were draped
with the stars and stripes, and were