The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-30
BRONZE BUST OF GRANT
It May Be Placed Near the
Museum in Golden Gate
Park.
Amount of Money in the Fund-The
Collection Committees Appointed
in 1885.

| 1t is not definitely settled that the Grant
monument in Golden Gate Park will be
placed on the knoll near the Starr King
statue. Cornelius O'Connor of the Grant
Memorial Association had a conference
with Park Commissioners Austin and
! Scott yesterday, and it may be decided to
erect the monument on site near the
! Park museum.
The bronze bust, from Munich, reached
here few days ago, and was unpacked at
! Rupert Sehmid's studio last Tuesday.
| Directions were given by Mr.. O'Connor
yesterday to have it transferred at once to
the Casino in the park, where proper
guard will be placed over it.
Messrs. Reichert and O'Connor, the act
i've surviving members of the executive
COMMITTEES, do not expect TO encounter any
difficulty in raising money sufficient to
complete the monument enterprise. When
the project was first advocated by the press
and leading citizens of San Francisco
! fund of 500, 900 was contemplated.
| Among the subscribers were Leland
! Stanford $4,000, James G. Fair $1,000, J. c..
! Flood $1,000, Claus SpTeckels $1,000, Alaska
! Commercial Company $1,000, w. OBJ. Mac
donough $1,000, and many others for
! smaller amounts. 1t is not deemed proper
now to ask the subscribers who made their
subscriptions with the expectation that
an expensive monument would be
reared TO pay the full amount but some
thing will be called for to carry out the
plans.
For three years or more after the death
of A. ]. Bryant it was not known that
there was any money deposited to the
credit of the fund. Finally Mr.. O'Connor
found handbook showing that Mr..
Bryant had deposited $1,000, all the money
collected, in the Anglo-Cal1fornia Bank.
1t is understood that the Anglo-California
Bank will pay such interest on the deposit
as would ordinarily accrue to trust fund,
and this amount will materially assist in
completing the monument.
AS leaf of history in connection with
the monument scheme it may be men
toned that the executive committee met
at the Palace Hotel October ], 1885, and
defined the boundaries of eighteen collec-
ton districts and appointed the following
district committees to solicit subscriptions
and secure money:
First District: Railroads.&c.. J. Bryant, l.
Hecht, ". II. Harrey, Con O'Connor and
Second District: Insurance-D. j. Staples,
L. Bromwell and l. Cutie.
Third District: Federal ofices-S. NJ. Taylor,
S. W. Backus and NJ. II. Hecht.
Fourth District City and State officers
Louis 2I!Is, Holtz, J. ]. Flynn and E. Bauer
Fifth District-Captain Goodal, ]: F. Eng
lish, A. IL. Hendry, Max Pepper, A. NJ. Ebbets
and Alexander Densmore.
Sixth District = Captain Merry, Robert
Halght, julius Bandman, Z. Wertheimer, Z.
Ehrmann, John w. Allyne aud C. D. O'Sullivan
Seventh Distuct-D D. shattuck, George W.
Wheaton, Edward Cruze, W +. Whittier, Levi
Strauss, Thomas Hayes, G. NJ. Yates and r. D.
Carroll.
Eighth District-Moses Heller, ]. d. Grant.
John Resented, William Steinhardt, Louis
Sloss, n. B. Forbes and Henry Payot.
Ninth District-G. W. Granniss, Meryyn
Donahue, Gustav sutro, John D; fost, y. P.
Cole, =. v: Newhall, Dr.. Gates and G. K. Fitch.
Tenth District-O. f. Wiley A. Andrews.
Walter z. Dean, S. II. Seymour, M j. Burke, NJ.
J. Flavin, NJ. II. de Young, John w. sehaeffer,
Philip McGoyern, James A. Johnson, W. F.
Bunker.
Eleventh District-Charles Lux, Davis Bros.
| Raphael WE'LL, George MofatI, NJ. Price, w. f.
Twelfth District-D. A. Macdonald, A. W.
Scott Sidney Smith. w. ]. Adams. A w. Star
bird, Wright e. Bovine.
Thirteenth District-W. T. Coleman, ]. D.
Spreckels +. A. Gibbs, Frank Durham, William
r 7. CARAT, Irving N. Scott, Mark Sheldon,
+ Joshua Hendy, Columbus Waterhouse.
Thirteenth District Jerome Stanford, P
1 Beamish, Ira 7. Rankin, Charles Plum, A. F.
Nye, H. NJ. Black, Justinian Caire, Count
, Smith, Peter Hopkins, j. II. Wilmington.
Fifteenth District-A. L. Bancroft +. s. Chad.
bourne, Supervisors Gilleran and Heyer, ia.
s bez Swan, G. z. Beamish, E. Black Ryan.
Sixteenth District-H. B. Russ, John H. Wise
B. 2. Flint, J. F. Knox, NJ. Sicily.
l Seventeenth District-J ]. 0'Brien, Henry
Piersson, W. J. Henry p j. Nolan, James Far
quaHhlsou, D@Fiu NiChdyJ JoHH Nightingale
Eighteenth District-John Morton, James
McCord, DR.. C. F. Buckley, Charles Alderman,
E. Dinsmore, w. B. Bradbury, Gladdlng, Nc
Bean e. Co.
The report of the proceedings published
in the Bulletin of October 2, 1885, con
tanned this paragraph: "All of the men
e assigned to districts will be given book
which will be signed by the executive
committee, and no one but those who
. have. books will be empowered to collect.
1t was decided to issue handsome GER
tjfcate to every subscriber to the fund"
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