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Show CARNEGIE AND TAFT EULOGIZE U. S. GRANT X12W YORK. April 13. Commemorating Commemorat-ing the eighty-sixth anniversary of the birth of Gen. 1". S. Grant. a memorial servico was held tonight In .Metropolitan .Metropoli-tan temple, at which Secretary of War Tnft, Andrew Carnegie and former Secretary Sec-retary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw made addresses, and Grant post of the G. A. R.. presented a national flag to. the church. This is the church at which General Grant, during his residence In , this rliy. attended worship. 1 Andrew Carnegie chose "Peace" as the subject of his address. He said ,lhat General Grant through his life of unremitting unre-mitting labor never failed upon occasion to express, as Washington did, his dc- j votlon to the cause of peace. i Secretary Tnft spoke of General Grant, "The Man and .Soldier of Action." whom I he ranked as a military genius with j Frederick the Great and Napoleon. |