Show THE WESTERN UNION GRANT FUND Five Thousand Dollars Subscribed And All Offices to Receive Public Subscriptions The following telegram has been received re-ceived by A L Homer Superintendent D R G Railway Co and H 11 Scott manager Western Union Telegraph Office at this city OMAHA July 30The following is forwarded for-warded for your information Please have it carried out as requested CHICAGO July 30th To J J Dickey Superintendent Western Union Telegraph Company Omaha The Western Union Telegraph Company resolved at its meeting today to subscribe the sum of 5000 towards the fund for l monument to General Grant It also Gneral I resolved re-solved that the managers of the offices of the company should be instructed to receive subscriptions to the fund from the public Please therefore instruct your respective managers by telegraph to displayin their offices notices to the effect that they are prepared pre-pared to accept such contributions and to give informal receipts therefor which receipts re-ceipts will be subsequently replaced by formal for-mal receipts from the committee of the Grant Monument Association which has been appointed by the Mayor of the City of New York The simplest way to account for the sub subscriptions will I think be for each manager I man-ager to provide himself with a subscription book in which nnderTtn appropriate head ing he shall request each subscriber to write his own name his postoffice address and the amount of his subscription and for which subscription the manager will give an in formal receipt in the following form viz Received of this date the sum of dollars as a contribution to the Grant Monument Fund which money is to be forwarded to the association having charge of the fund through the treasurer of the Western Union Telegraph Company This receipt i to be replaced later by a formal receipt of the Grant Monument Fund Association Signed Manager Western Union Telegraph office At elegaph ofce Each manager shall then remit to the treasurer or to h superintendent as there the-re of his office may be the amount subscribed sub-scribed un to the time of his next reernlnr remittance accompanied by a transcript of I his subscription book The subscription book shall be forwarded t New York for audit when the subscription is finally closed RubRcrption I I i important to have the notices posted and the public advised as early as possible eary pssIble Signed > R C CIOWBY I General Superintendent |