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Show oo PALLBEARER VISITS THE GRANT TOMB New York, Aug 9. The anniversary anniver-sary of the- funeral of General Ulysses S. Grant, which occurred on August 8. 18S5 would probably have passed unnoticed had it not been for the act of Rabbi K B M Browne, who was a pallbearer at the funeral and who went alone to Grant's tomb on Riverside River-side Drive yesterday and placed a wreath on the great marble casket. Every year Rabbi Browne has come Irom his home in Boston on the anniversary anni-versary day to pay his respects to the memory of General Grant in this manner man-ner In other year?, however, be has had Frederick Grant and General Stewart I- Woodford to accompany him. but the latter have been removed try death Lingering for a hour In the mausoleum mau-soleum yesterday, the aged rabbi recited re-cited to visitors stories of the hero of Appomatox and told of incidents of General Grant's remarkable funeral. fu-neral. Rabbi Browne, who is strictly an orthodox Jew. refused to ride with the other pallbearers on the day of the funeral because It fell on the Jewish Jew-ish Sabbath, and he walked alone beside be-side the carriage in which the others rode the whole ten miles from city hall to the tomb. |