Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-07-25
GRANTS MONUMENT,

Just above Uranig tomb llcs tho
American league baseball grounds nenr
winch tho great Columbia university
rrar her splendid domos against tho
hkS Ana now Just beyond tho uni.
N,lsly Wc come 70 the ascent upon
Mhlcn Rises the tomb OF Gen, Grant
ms imposing monument IN constructed
W Mhlle grhulto, with white marble
lnlcrlpf' surely The great general
whose vito Hes beside him, has u most
.uuulltul ana peaceful resting place
iim lolnb stands upon Hill 1870 feet
npolr mo rlyor through the openings
or me great forest trees, IN 10 be secn
,ho broad oNpnnse " the Hudson, dotted
npLp ana there with white winged
shlls ON the opposite shores
ihloush the purple hGSe, stretching
away Tor Miles, are the Green slopes ~
We ia llhades on the Jersey colst,
Apogo We porllco on u panel OF iho
lomb where lies Tho man OF war are
Inscribed these words
LET ~ have peace"
IN 1871 the site Of Grante tomb was
me nome OF George Pollock, and was
cRllod strawberry hill, Mr. Pollock
hlled ANA Wae forced 20 veil his prop.
W,y ana 10 went TO England, leaving
NN'''fNi il'N'N'iH " IVY lnnNNlllilI,
marking the grave ~ His fayonte child,
This lltto tomb stilI stands, the mscrIp.
ton has been blurred by the passing OF
"A hundred years, but we may read IL
sllll~.' Erected To the memory of an
umlable child ~, Clair Pollock, died
HIS age"
Man that II born OF woman IN OF a
fow years and fun OF trouble"
"lie eomoth forth Ike a flower and
IN rut down"
"llc ncelh also like q shadow and
continucth not"
strange circumstances Of chance and
fate that the magnificent tomb shrIn.
INK nations pride, and the humble
stone marking the grave OF IAN ami.
able child" should stand aide by side,
No suggestive Of the sharp contrast
everywhere 20 be found In daily lie.
RIVERSIDE PARK.
Riverside park, which extends for
three miles from one Hundred and
Thrliolh To Sevcnty-sO oond street IN
called the most magnificent residential
avenue IN the world II would be be-
You'd the power Of pen TO describe thls
park, for which nature has done AZ
much ana whose natural contours have
Heen preserved, with many Of tho
trees 81 Tho forest primeyal" for II
IL succession OF picturesque ylcws Of
natural beauty, broken by the mag.
nllcont handlN0rk OF man, At tho
end Of the park, whore stood tho New
York Orphans asylum now stands the
most expensive ana gltterlng private
residence IN America II Ia owned by
Chnr, NJ, Schwab, who paid for tho
property 100000, His mansion was
butt 40 a cost OF over t2,OOO,oO0 Wor.
Thy ~ passing notice are the soldiers
and Sailors monument, 10 oommemor.
ate tho citizens Of New York who took
part IN the CiYll war, and II u glft of
the city; nlAo n statue OF Washington,
which Ia Eft Of the school children Of
tho city,
Mid all the palaces Of commercial
kings, art, literature, and the church.
are represented by nm overwhelming
minority, IN the homes of Richard
Mansfield Julia Marlowc. James Cor.
don Bennett and Bishop Henry q, Pot.
ter Below the residential portion ly.
ing along tho Hudson, are tho marts
and ports which represent the busy
busting world OF trafio, travel and
trade, az ono pier looks very much like
another No VIII nhsn on IN silence un-
III We again reach Twenty.second
street,
II N now almost dark for the long
beautiful twilight that horalds ap.
preaching evening In New York IL CIV
Ink way TO dusk and lights are twink.
llnR like millions Of solntlllotins stars
from either shore their long reflections
gr0ncng splrollko along the water,
which N made active by myriad boats
constantly passing and ropasslns, maxi
could not he surpassed even IN Venice,
And now ~ the evening has como we
win part and take up our Journeys
through Interior New York In our next
letter with good old.fashlonod Eng.
lleh "goodbye' ana a German "Ouf.
wiedorsohcn,"
INlIN L. MEAKIN