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Show ONLY FIFTY THOUSAND MORE And the (;rant -Monument Fund Will Have Been Completed. Special Dispatch to The Times. New Yohk, May 21. Less than $50,000 is required to complete the fund for the eree-I eree-I tion of the monument to General Grant. The order issued by the commander-in-chief B of the grand army of the republic favoring the offer of the association to provide a re- poVitory in which to place autographs on parchment paper bound in volumes of the surviving members of the G. A. R. with the name of the military or naval organization in which the signer served, has been productive pro-ductive of more successful results than had been anticipated, and thousands upon thousands thou-sands of veterans have paid their dollar and inscribed their names upon the roll of honor. |