New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-09
PAY GRANT HONOR
in RAIN AT TOMB
Crowds Driven Out Be-
cause Permit Had Not
Been Obtained.
CUSTODIAN CLOSES
BUILDING AT 5 p. M.
Park and Police Departments
Consulted, but Monument AS
ISOLATION Neglected.

Rain and failure to get a permit
from the Monument Association
marred a meeting held to commemo-
rate the thirtieth anniversary of the
burial of General Grant yesterday af-
ternoon outside of Grants tomb. The
crowd which gathered to hear the ex-
eIcises were put out in the rain by 5
o'clock by Captain George ID. Burnside,
custodian of the monument, who
stated that the tomb officially closed
at that hour. Mrs. Anita Comfort
Brooks, president of the Gridiron and
Gotham clubs, and honorary vicc-pres-
ldent of the National Veterans Re-
lief Corps, who was chairman Of the
occasion. had obtained the permission
of the Park and Police departments,
but had neglected to consult the
Monument Association. Captain Burn
side told the assembled gathering that
he could grant them no privileges in
or about the structure.
P. W. Hughes. bugler of the 18th
Regiment, called the meeting to or
der with blast on his bugle, and the
Rev. Joseph Won Herrlich led the
t prayer MdJOT JdHts t. bIdlbilij
lieutenant commander of the Confed-
crate Veterans camp in this city and
one of three Civil War veterans pres
ent, read paper eulogizing Grant for
his treatment of the defeated South
ern army.
Mrs. Brooks then took the floor, and,
climbing to a bench, she ordered a fol-
lower to hand her suffrage flag, say
ing: 1--WE can't have any meeting with
out a suffrage flag" The flag was tied
to an umbrella and held aloft, while
Mrs. Brooks read a telegram from
Rabbi +. +. Brown, the last surviving
pallbearer of the Grant funeral, in
which he said that he could not leave
Georgia to come to the meeting, so he
sent his speech TO be read
The meeting was held up ten min
utes by an argument, which failed TO
decide who should read the speech. No
one cared to read it, because it criti-
cised President Wilson,sthe press and
the people of this country, and con-
tanned the following paragraph:
1--WE have become since the death of
u. S. Grant a nation of perjurers and
grafters, and our young men have be-
come agnostics and atheists. The Rev.
DR.. jefferson, of Christ Church, pub
lished, and so did Frank Moss, that our
college men are a generation of scotfers
at religion. And in pious Princeton,
/ abolish chapel even on Sunday is the
slogan. At a recent Sunday service the
students acted so shamefully that
Bouck Whites behavior at the Calvary
Baptist Church was nothing compared
with it.
president Wilson, while president
of Princeton, to keep on the good side
of the boys, allowed them to be absent
from chapel on weekdays to maintain
academic peace. He wronged Christi
anity. Why does he not follow the
same rule in this horrible war for the
cause of humanity? 1t is the second
term plank, tabooed by the Democratic
party, that he wants to survive"
Other speeches were made by W. A.
Kirkwood, of the Broadway Tabernacle;
William Osborne Mcdowell, of the
League Of Peace, and Dr. Alexander
Cummings, president of the University
Forum of America. Before the exer-
cises were brought to close Captain
Burnside closed the tomb.