New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-07-17
GRIDLEY'S RESTIN0-PLACE.
HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS OF LAKE.
SIDE CEMETERY AT ERIE, PENN.


May morning at Manila Bay when he took
his place in the coming tower and nobly fought
the gallant Olympia from start to finish Of that
day, remaining on duty constantly for twenty
four hours, he as truly gave up his life to the
call Of duty and Of his country as if lie had
been struck down by cncmys shell. He
/ never rallied from the fatigue of that exhaust
/ ing duty, and when invaded and sent home
died on the way
The funeral services really began here last
Sunday although the ashes did not arrive from
San Francisco, where they had been brought
from Yokohama on the steamer Rio de Janero
until Tuesday. Captain Gridley had been senior
warden OF his church, st. Adams Episcopal
Parish Erie. and had been a member of the
Brotherhood of ST. Andrew. on Sunday morn
ing at $50 o'clock the local chapter Of the
brotherhood held a service Of commemoration
when the Rev. Father H. II. Bogert, of Water
ford Penn was the celebrant. The brotherhood
made their corporate communion, and the ser
vices were largely attended. the Misses Katrina
and Ruth Gridley. Captain Gridleys daughters,
being present. well as his only son. John p
V. Gridley
Lakeside Cemetery where the ashes OF the
gallant commander were laid for their last rest
is on bold bluff three quarters Of mile east
OF the city on the shores of Lake Erie Erie
on the lake of the same name, stretches for sew
eral miles along the shore, for two thirds OF it's
front protected by the peninsula OF Pressure
Isle, which forms the harbor. East Of the har-
Dor entrance the bluffs rise precipi,ousIy to q
height OF from sixty to one hundred feet.
On the plateau which stretches back from the
shore Of this inland sea lies Lakeside Cemetery,
beautiful Lakeside" the townspeople call it.
and surely no spot ever needed less Of the art Of
the landscape gardener than this Divided in
almost its centre by rugged depression called
Pressure Isle Glen with its Eagle Point its fair
drives and walks. its noble monuments OF which
the one TO be raised to the lamented Gridley will
be the noblest. and with its outlook on meadow
and field and orchard in the rear stretching
back to the blue hills that guard the lake shore.
II is its front, its outlook on the lake that gives
this resting place OF weary human nature It's
chief charm.
AS one stands at the circle dedicated to the
memory Of Captain Gridley and looks westward
the view takes in many places Of more than q
mere passing historic interest In the immedi-
ate foreground, mile away but rising plainly
and seeming almost next door" in the clear
air. is the Pennsylvania Soldiers and Sailors
Home, the abiding place Of more than six hum
died OF Pennsylvania defenders in the Civil
War. with It's high Flagstaff and Old Glory
apeak. a little further east is a reminder Of
times more remote than even proper American
history. for there at the foot Of Parade-st. tho
French fort ruins visible, where the Grena-
oilers made Of their stations in the series
| OF posts that stretched from the St Lawrence
TO the mouth Of the Mississippi.
The blockhouse where Mad Anthony" Wayne,
OF Revolutionary memory. made his headquar-
tiers and died, with his grave, from which tho
body was afterward removed and taken to hes
ter still preserved and shown, stands the Sol
dIers Home grounds. Further north just in
side the entrance to Presque Isle Bay, or tho
harbor OF Erie, the shore OF the surrounding
peninsula makes a deep indentation. This bay
is the resting place Of Commodore Perry's squad
ron. which was sunk there many years after the
War Of 1872 closed School children do not need
modore Perry built his fleet; from that port
he sailed TO meet the British, and TO that port
his victorious squadron returned
The Navy Department offered the family Of
the late Captain Gridley place FOR his ashes
in Arlington rext To the resting place Of Ad-
miral Porter The citizens Of his adopted homo
none the less dear to him the place where
service permitted the home OF his wife and the
birthplace Of his children-his t0wnspeople,
would not hear Of his burial elsewhere There
seemed singular appropriateness in his sepul.
ture by Lake Erie. The historic associations
not all For many Years while the
United States ship Michigan, whose station and