Show t I GENERAT GRANTS BURIAL SPOT t j i A Salt Lake Gentleman Who Lived I On the Site of the Tomb for i i i Several Years i i While indulging in 1 casual conversation i conversa-tion today with Mr W S Smith an old time New Yorker the talk drifted on to the allabsorbing topic of General Grant his death and the chosen spot for burial i Perhaps I can tell you reporters something some-thing concerning this selected burial place that might prove somewhat interesting There is a dearth of news today and almost anything will prove refreshing to a newsgatherer if to no one else Very well this is what I had to say I Up to mv coming to Salt Lake less than I three years ago I lived with my sister I and brotherinlaw for fourteen years in I the very old mansion to be torn down to I make room for the last resting place of General Grant This old house was built I and resided in by Lord St Clare in the seventeenth century I is a two and a I half story frame building situated on avery I a-very high and commanding bluff at the j I extreme end of Riverside Park These I beautiful grounds are about three miles in length and u quarter I of a mile in width with a fine drive running lengthwise through them I An old crumbling tombstone marks the r srave of a grandchild of Lord St Glares the only grave on the grounds From where the old house stands a magnificent view is had of the city the bay Long Island Sound and for miles up the Hudson Hud-son Now that General Grant i to be buried there the park will be made more beautiful than ever and marked as one of the most frequented places of New YorkCity |