The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-04-28


spices OF the Civic Forum. Mr.. Taft
Taft prided himself on having visited
home. Mr.. Tafts father and the Gen
ersl were close friends. Indeed, saic
Mr.. Taft, President Grant once ar
ranged a dinner for Taft Senior and
forgot to invite him.
III / were asked to name Grants
chief characteristics, said Mr.. Taft. y
would say tenacity OF purpose, cearness
OF thought and moral and intellectual
honesty. There were three outstanding
features of his statesmanship that marx
him great-his firm foreign policy, his
sturdy insistence upon sound national
fiscal policy AMI his support OF civil
service reforms"
And finally Mr.. Taft said thai i was
one OF Grants dreams that there might
come to pass some such court OF inter-
national justice as is specified in the
covenant of the League OF Nations.
Hamln Garland reviewed Grants life.
taking step after step from the tannery
TO the Presidency. not forgetting so
much as the spring of 1888. when the
obscure Grant rode trick pony In a
circus. Mr.. Garland soundly berated
Grants detractors and added that Grant
would never permit himself nor others
In his presence to indulge in even vul-
garity of expression Mr.. Garland said
that John Drinkwater's Grant in "Abra-
ham Lincoln was bad drawing.
why. far from being peremptory and
pomineering In his method of giving
commands or orders Grant was the
mildest sort of a person" said Mr.. Gar
land For example. he would turn to
an officer and say Il something like
this:
Captain. if you don't mind. would
you be kind enough to see whether 1t
is possible to do so and So
The celebration ended enthusiastically
after Major Grant explained that the
Marshal was very tired and could not
be present. The enthusiasm made its
escape through the mounting notes Of
THE Star Spangled Banner sung as
Star Spangled Banner folks can sing 1t.
Service at Riverside Tomb.
In score of places in the city Grants
centenary was celebrated in az many
ways during the day. Principal among
them was the service held at the war
rior's tomb in Riverside Drive. There
Marshal Joffre unveiled a bust Of Grant
and a great chorus of school children
dressed in red. white and blue and
wearing the liberty caps OF the French
Revolution. sang patriotic hymns.
A sprinkling Of old men in the blue
uniforms of the Grand Army of the Re-
public were in the crowd at the tomb
and others of them stood around the
unveiled bust. for 1t was partly under
the auspices of the G.. A. r. that the
celebration was held. Bishop Manning Of
fered a prayer and speeches were made
by John J. Lyons. New York's Secre-
tary of State: Murray Hubert, Presi-
dent of the Board of Aldermen Charles
S. Whitman, James r. Sheffield, presi-
dent of the Union League, and Henry
w. Hayden, president of the Grant Mon
ument Association. To add to this trib-
ute to the memory Of the victor of APP
pomattox Marshal Joffre said a few SEN
fences in which he besought the Amer
lean people never to forget the lesson
of patriotism Grants life offered.
The Twenty Regiment band
accompanied the children's chorus and
the 104th Field Artillery, n. g. n. r.
fired the salute of twenty-one guns. In
cidental music was furnished by the
Gloria Trumpeters.
Down near the trees planted by Ii
Hung Chang to the north of the tomb
an elm taken from Grants old farm
near ST. Louis was planted by Charles
Lathrop Pack, president of the Ameri-
can Forestry Association of Washing
ton. Placing the young elm. Mr.. Pack
said that 1t would fight for successful
growth under most adverse circum-
stances, just as Grant had. Like Grant
he said, the elm would win Its fight.
Seven Americanization meetings were
held In public school auditoriums In
Manhattan and another In Richmond.
The veterans OF the Twenty-second Reg
imeut. ". G.. N. Y: OF the Twenty
second Engineers and of the 102d En-
gineers combined to celebrate the occa-
sion at dinner In the Aldine Club. The
Defendant Association, the Sevcnty-first
Regiment and other such patriotic as
sociations celebrated fittingly.