. New York of to-day . h of the great Union General. The«nreo]>hngus r-nutuininj! the U»!y ivm* in the opencrypt and is made of a single piece of red granitebearing the name ULYSSKS S. GRANT supported by a granite pedestal. North of the tombis the gingko tree sent by Li Hung Chans, the greatChinese statesman and admirer of Grant. There isa tablet containing an account of this tribute ad-joining the tree. T5y a curious turn of fortune the great Generalstomb is placed eo that it seems to guard anotherlittle grave.—that of a five-year-old child who diedin 1797. Tt is the only grave except Gran
. New York of to-day . h of the great Union General. The«nreo]>hngus r-nutuininj! the U»!y ivm* in the opencrypt and is made of a single piece of red granitebearing the name ULYSSKS S. GRANT supported by a granite pedestal. North of the tombis the gingko tree sent by Li Hung Chans, the greatChinese statesman and admirer of Grant. There isa tablet containing an account of this tribute ad-joining the tree. T5y a curious turn of fortune the great Generalstomb is placed eo that it seems to guard anotherlittle grave.—that of a five-year-old child who diedin 1797. Tt is the only grave except Grants main-tained and cared for by the city in one of its publicparks. Tt. appears that in years gone by the landwas owned by George Pollock in 1790. He after-wards returned to Ireland and subsequently sold theproperty te Cornelia Verplnnek—all but the littlegrave in which lay all that he had cared for inAmerica. He sent money to erect a small fence anda headstone in which he carved his affection in thesolitary bne:. Let us hive Phcc General Grant) Tomb, on beautiful Riveriiide Drive at IJ iti Street, overlooking the Hudson. NEW YORK OF TO-DAY 103 TO AN AMIABLE When condemnation proceedings were institutedto enable the city to acquire this land for a publicpark this curious indenture was encountered. Per-haps some sentimental feeling was aroused; at allevents, the city accepted the land with the conditionthat the little grave of an amiable child must alwaysbo cared for, and there you will sec it just northof Grants building that is convenient to the tomb is theClaremont restaurant, owned by the city and isone to which strangers frequently repair at thispoint of their travels. It is a very old building dat-ing back almost to the Revolution. It has had aninteresting history. Viscount Courtenay, who occu-pied it in 1807, viewed the trial trip of FultonsClermont from the veranda. In 1815 it became theabode of the Emperor Napoleons brother a few change
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