The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-25
General Grant Had Planned to
Tell of Father.
Many Things Former President
Did Not Mention.
ROOSEVELT ROW "OFFICIAL" "
Friction Between Two Men
Never Personal Matter.
War With Spain Helped Him
Find Needed Job.

New York, April 25.-Of the military
society of the war of 1912 the Veteran
Corps of Artillery in the state of New
York is now the representative body
1t is separate corps of active militia
and may be called into active service
by New York state. This artillery or
gan1zat1on will serve as the escort OF
honor at the funeral of Major General
Frederick Dent Grant on Friday of this
week. under the command of the ad-
jutant, First Lieutenant Charles Ell
hot Warren. who has been for years
intimate personal friend of General
Grant. None of the military socie-
ties with which General Grant was
familiar was held in higher esteem by
aim than the Veteran Corps of Artillery.
Its mem DerShip contains some very dis
tinguished names. The organization
has always taken a leading part in
ceremonies and celebrations on Cover
nor's Island since General Grant was
given command of the military district
of which Governors Island is the head
quarters One of the last of the mill
tary activities outside those of the Uni
ted States Srmy in which General Grant
was especially interested was the pur-
pose to erect on Governors Island
military chapel to be known as the
Chapel of ST. Cornelius the Centurion.
The plans for this chapel have been
greatly admired. The stalls in their
idea, both architectural and memorial
follow the general plan of those of the
Order of the Bath in the Henry VII
chapel at Westminster abbey. The
chapel is to be the property of Trinity
church. New York, and the actual title
to the proposed memorial chapel must
rest in the Trinity corporation.
General Grant hoped that the money
needed for the building of this chapel
about 6,000-would be raised in suf-
ficient time to permit him to take part
- As<~,1 1lrNrrf
$16, 900 has been raised and, had it not
been for the untimely death of General
Grant, his earnest wish that the chapel
be completed and consecrated while
he was stationed at Governors Island
would undoubtedly have been met.
General Grant purposed,. after his
from active service, to give
the greater part of his time to the pre-
of an edition of the memoirs
of his father. This edition would have
been of the kind known as edition de
luxe. 1t would have been published in
venient to hold than the bulky volumes
in which his fathers memoirs were
pu blished.
His Own "Reminiscences.
The great value of an edition of this
kind was, General Grant was assured
by his friends. to be discovered in his
own edition of his fathers memoirs.
U. S. Grant did not deem advisable or
timely to include in the memoirs which
ne was writing after he had been
stricken with mortal disease. General
Frederick D. Grant had a vast amount |
Of valuable material of this kind, much |
Of which he could supplement by his |
personal recollection. His purpose was
to print these additional memoirs upon |
sheets to be inserted in their apprOpri- |
ate places in each volume of the edition |
which he planned.
General Grant was also considering |
The ACCESSIBILITY of preparing a special |
father which could be sold at a low |
price He realized that a new genera |
ion had come since his fathers mem |
oirs where published, which might well |
come a low priced edition of the men, |
1irS of General u. S. Grant
Col. Roosevelt and Gen. f. d. Grant. |
One of the kindly messages sent to /
Mrs. Grant after the death of General |
Grant was announced came from
Colonel and Mrs. Roosevelt. 1t did |
not fail to remind many of those who
we're familiar with the official asso-
,iation of Colonel Roosevelt and Gen
ice commission for two years follow
ng the Inauguration of William L. |
strong as mayor of New York of the |
SOM what tense relations which for
some time prevailed between General |
Grant and Colonel Roosevelt. The |
Ind never personal. And General
Grant had reason to know that after
he returned to the army at the out
break of the war with Spain he had
10 stronger friend in Washington than