New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-05-31
CONFEDERA7E LACD.S GRANT
GRAFTON AT THE TOMB BY JUDGE
JONES, OF ALABAMA.

"C-NA-N' VIZ AIN DANA
About five thousand people attended the SER
vices at the tomb of General Grant yesterday
afternoon AS usual the services were con-
Quoted by the L. s. Grant Post. of the Grand
Army OF the Republic. which went to the tomb
from Brooklyn a steamboat at - - r. m II
was expected that warship would fire a salute
from the river, but the salute was fired by
archibald Watts steam yacht America
The audience began the services by singing
America" Augustus c. Tate. commander of
the post. read part of the ritual Prayer was re-
cited by Chaplain Charles II. butcher and the
Rev. Benjamin +. Bickhard read Lincon's Get
tysburg address.
Noah Tebbetts chairman of the Memorial Day
committee of the post. then introduced Judge
Thomas G. Jones. of the United States District
Court of Alabama. who delivered the Grafton
Judge Jones said in part:
This hour is of indescrbable moral grandeur
$500 ~ ~ % utdnh OF 'ie cup OF
lowed to return TO his home; not to be disturbed
by tr rn ana hG laws in fore where
has been an hour when would willingly omit any
opportunity to ito honor TO the memory of the inn
mortal VINO forbore TO add to the burden our sor
No true soldier can deny to the nlustrious man
all the qualities of a great commander The man
OF the captains who battles for him and he
sustained them loyalty in the field No ignObe
dld not take time, after the collapse at the little
Virginia village, to pass through Richmond. the
prize for which armies had so long commended but
hurried direct to Washington to begin the disband-
ment of the army. He called to the highest
civic rank on earth. The gaze of the world beat
in upon him there and found stain
From the hour he turned from AppomattoX TO
the last day at Mount MCCiregor the desire I'M
permOst in the thoughts of the victorious soldier
was to SOOthe and better the condition of his de-
fCated countrymen. He lost opportunity To speak
and after the power of speech was gone he wrote;
Il feel that the of a new era and
be he Fed rails
and Confederates. cannot stay Ia be living wit
of the correctness of this prophecy hut feel
II within me that ii is To be so.
Miles O'Reilly, a member of the post read
from the ritual references to the floral offerings
on Memorial Day, and Chairman Tate read of
allegiance TO flag and country. The audience
sang the DoxolOgy before the henediction was
pronounced.
General Grants sister was present at the
services. The sarcophagi in the tomb were deco
rated with flowers sent from all parts of the
country, George q. Meade Post of Philadel-
pnla sent an arch five feet high. with columns
OF lrnmortelleS, the arch inCloSing 4 campfire of
mowers. The Loyal Legion of New York sent
a pillar four feet high of roses and lilies The
society OF the Army of the Potomac sent a large
bed of hyacinths and oak leaves. L. S Grant
Host gave a wreath of oak leaves General
ToFrence, commander in chief OF the Grand
Army or the Republic. sent two large cedar
palm leaves
President Roosevelt's Offering was a wreath of
roses Mrs Grants was a bouquet of American
lster, gave bed of roses and immortelles four
ieet In diameter, with the following inscription:
Grant"