New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-14
m DEDICATE GRANTS TOMB.
An ELABORATE CEREMONY THAT WILL
TAKE PLACE ON APRIL p.
.,- PARADE EXPECTED TO BE ONE OF THE
GREATEST OF MODERN T1MEs-MANY DIS
TrNGuIsHED GUESTS TO BE PRESENT
THE EXERCISES IN RIVER

TINGUIsHED GUESTS TO BE PRESENT
THE EXERCISES IN RIVER
SIDE DRIVE.
The next anniversary OF the birth of General
Grant will be a day long to be remembered by
the residents of New-York City and their guests.
IN that day the Grant monument will be ded-
Gated and the pomp and ceremony OF the oc-
ccsion will mark the closing scene In a patriotic
pavement which will always live to the credit Of
~. people Of New-York On April - the city
Will take formal session of the monument
rhch many artists have pronounced the most
Impressive tomb in the world. not even excepting
.ne mausoleum in ST. Petersburg over the tomb
=, Peter the Great, the Kaiser Wilhelm Denkmal
or the Prince Consorts monument in Hyde Park.
The granite Doric monument which stands ct
tho upper end Of Riverside Drive has not only
location and architectural features in its favor.
but II typines true Amcriclnism. as Grant
s,rlncing from seven generations Of ancestors
BON on American soil, was typical represent
alive Of American training and American insti-
,ulons The moi.ey for liz erection came from
,ho people by voluntary contribution and In sums
ranging from fraction ofa dollar to thousands.
Il came from men who had fought with the
hero &C Appomattox and from widows and
orphans whose husbands and fathers had fallen
ir the cause. II came from the banking house
arl tho workshop. from the Church and the
school and in hundreds of cases from people who
ssk,d that their names be omitted from the
SIS Al grades OF society. all sects, creeds and
combinations contributed toward the work, and
while he object was to provide a resting place
for he remains of General Grant. that and a
higher object was accomplished; for as long as
the monument shall stand 10 please the eye and
Inspire those who look upon it with awe and rev.
oreUcc It will symbolic the appreciation Of the
people Of NewYork for the services Of their Illus
tricus fellow-citizen
General Grant was a citizen Of New-York when
disease laid a heavy hand upon him, but still,
when ihe news came from Mount McCiregor
July 23 1855. that the victor had been vanquished
and that the sturdy soldier had passed away,
many municipalities asked that his body be in
trusted to their care and that they might erect
scpulchre Of fitting magnitude. Washington
first in line. There Grant had stood by the side
of Lincoln TO review his victorious troops-there
he had looked upon them as they tramped down
the broad avenue thousands upon thousands
bronzed and burned by the Southern sun. yet
bearing aloft with pride the bullet-riddlcd battle
flags which they had carried TO victory. There.
War at critical period in the life OF the Nation.
and there he had rounded off his remarkable
career as President. West Point where he had
received his education and where the seeds were
which in later years bore fruit in his great
ness, advanced a claim for the mortal remains
which many thought should have been laid near
the historic academy. Chicago. where the Gen
era had hosts OF friends. wanted the honor of
housing all that earthly of Grant and ST.
Louis and Galena felt that they also had rights in
the matter.
But the city Of New.York offered the site on
the river-front. the family thought we'll of IT,
accepted the proposition. and ten days after the
end had come in the little mountain cottage,
amid strains Of mufffed martial music between
miles Of dense masses of silent mourners the
body Of General Grant was borne to the temper
airy tomb the spot where the monument
now stands.
A committee was organized to raise funds for
the purpose Of placing suitab. monument on
the site, and in the course Of few years abou.