Show General Grants Tomb Special to THE UKRALD tlxamincr Dispatcn NEW YORK Sept 30In response to a cablegram from the IVorW that the press was agitating the removal of General Grants body to Washington or Illinois Colonel Fred Grant writes the World from Vienna where the generals widow Is now visiting About a week before the generals death Fred writes he banded Fred a paper containing directions for his funeral It recited that the family had a burial lot in St Louis and another at Galena but also that he was attached to New York and her generous people Fred suggested Washington Wash-ington Then his father took back the paper tore it up and wrote this note It is possible ray funeral may become ono of public demonstration in which event I have no particular choice burial place but there is one thingl would wish you and the family to insist upon and that is that wherever my tomb may bo a place shall bo reserved for your mother at my side Fred then proceeds to tell how offers were received from many quarters after his fathers death The family chose New York because it was accompanied by the guarantee which the general desired and which was repeated in a parting letter left for his wife and family Fred adds they are ready to accede to any plan for a tomb which the nation may decide is best provided of course that his fathers ox pressed wish bo carried out |