Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 27, 1890, Page 17

THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE. eSS = 3 NUMBER 307, OMAHA, SUNDAY \l()lL\'lNG—. APRIL 27, 1890- TWENTY PAGES You are not offered a piece of a burned vest for a suit of clothes, but the whole cloth as qood as new, except that it may have been wet. - The clothing that was burnedis not for 19216 FARNAM: sale at any price. The sound clothing 1s BROWNING, KING & COMPANY, 1216 TFarnam Street, Omaha, Neb. SMOKI 1216 B A BINCAGVE; Everything goes without reserve. Clothing, Furnishing Goods, Hats, etc., saved trom the fire. Everything at prices that will sell them. CUTERRC R O Not one dollar’s worth of this stock saved from the fire, will be carried to the new store. Remember our present location, be- tween 12th and 13th Streets. Spring and Winter Overcoats, Men's, Boy’s and Children’s suits,Underwear, Neckwear | EVERYTHING GOES. FIRE GOODS ON 2d FLLOOR. NEW GOODS ON Ist FLLOOR BROWNING, KING & COMPANY. 1216 Farnaim SULEED The goods are going fast and those who come first will sure- ly get the best selection. " You cannot afford to miss this Great fire sale. - Ll:\}l]R “ (IR \\l‘ ]\I \IE\[(,O was given the place of stenogzvapher and | came in and heat once began to talk about nations of Coukling and Platt in the senate, | gave me instanc s of 4 number of promine 4 manil LYLNAL Al N ME) , | Confidential scoretary and ho renained in the | his mine. He suid nothing about the floating | <This Nappened,” said by while General | men wiio were quite the opposite, [t will not | trembling d he wrote war artment until the s cor- | of the stock, but deseribed the value of the 1t was in Mexico. vere sitting at s nece: to ment As He Neared His Death, a pencil. Tho work tired him very mucl respondence to place, He served | mine and bluntly offered General Grant the | table in bis room when the news came, 16 to sas that thoso to whom 1o gave themost | There is quite a difforenca in his copy as you | at tho last he was only M‘.MT atel down i 8 1 i under Grant at Vicksbu Tt | mion of $1,000,000 i eash it ho would accept | General Grant picked up the buclc of a letter | at their own solicitation in the way of ofiices will seg by the telegram I have shown you | his ideas. was considerable arranging His Former Private Seorotary Gives Some | \ o4 | "0 oo equainted with | the preside of it The general quictly | and wrote . telegram upon it to J. H. Work | for themsclves and friends were the fivst 1o | and this sampl ‘howing his idea of a flying | tobo done in the work and he did not know Very Intoresting Reminiscences. him. When General Cirdnt was about to | heard him ‘throngh, and then said quite s | of New York, the secrotary of the it Jim when they thought they conld profit | bridge.” Mr. Dawson here handed mo a that itwas so near completed as it was, 1saw start for Mexico he needed a priva quietly that he was sorry he could notoblige | of which he was the uominsl pr themselves by a difle Dolitical conrse or | short page of General Grant's handwriting in ;n l:\flllllh:(, e 1,‘.1;v.~.\.-h‘;4 m.u-nu’.;r;.u that fary who was thoroughly ncquainted with the | him, that his trip to Mexico was without per- | addressed Work because pve had a by espousing the cause of his enemies.” oncllwith & rudo-drawing of & river and o | hio could do cspeciully if he wus ablo to heaw NOT THERE A8 A SPECULATOR. | g inish language. Geueral Dodge of towa, | sonal interest’on his part, and that e had re- | telegraphic code in common), and he gave me “\What was his real p 1 in rogard to o }1_\“.; bridge. A flying bridge, ke said, is a | it read as I had wished. Wo were then Wwho had won Grant's admiration by hissplen- | fused to accept auy remuneration for the bl g telling me to translate it and | () od e T asked, g kind of bridge attached to @ ropo tled to a | Pricty at the ond ‘n:.ll 1 *::m to ¢ ‘mu"l x did qualities at the battles of Atlantaand I tvip. He said that he could not conncet | send it to New York. | tree, which swinging down a river is made | Grant: ‘This s all in shape now and an Offer of a Million and | o d0 G ed M. Dawson and made Ilsell In any way with tho ming, but that | id Mr. Daw SGieneral Grant,” replicd Mr. Dawson, | available by pulling one end to the side so | I think that we o1l G residency of a Mining his recommendation so strong that it | would be glad so mention it to his fricnds Ading me & shoet half covered with tho | ‘went out of his second tevm perfectly satis- | gha ghe Jther ond swings around ana hits | that the book s donc We then told Company — Writing gave on all the funds for the tvip at his | when he veturned to New York. His veply | autograph Cwriting of Gesteral Grant in pen- | fied With his public caveer. He was glad e | ), opposite bank. General Grant's picture him. At first he havdly vealized it and then the Memoirs, first meeting and trusted him from that time | was so decisive the man accepted it as con- | cil. It read as follow was free and he wanted to stay free. o1& | oxpiained this and the writing was as follows : he was very happy fora short time. H on implicitly. I talked with My, Dawson | clusive and bowed himself out. i/ P § “ me while in Mexico that after he came ba At Chattanooga there was a flying bridge at | those around him that his book was finist about this tour tod 3 Grant could have aceepted the preside . po B Liabut, wnll from his trip around the world some moves | gt time. A third bridge was to take the and that it had only to ba read over. The [Capyright, 189, by Frank G. Carpenter.) Mr. Dawson said: “General Grant's trip | without dishonor, for the mine was s, A omatire | Poptn,s | Weremade by the fricuds he thought the most | pjuco of this. Do you know what u flying xt day, however, he was not so well and he WasniNgroy, April 23, —[Special to THE | to Mexico wi one, and there was no doubt of its of and those who were dearest to him polit- | yyjdge it and then followed the pictures. got to that point at which we could Bre.]~In March, 1881, the follewiug cof Purely a Patrio One Had he been made president the compuny ically and other to make him again a can- yead him thoe second volume, It was only & spondence passed between the war depart- | and he noped through it to bring the two | could have placed the stock in Europe for un- - didate for the pres 3 uid he didnot ¢ days after the finishing of the book that ment and General ant: count ser sther. He was a great | told millions, and it is not improbable that Loctt. e it would amount to anything and for > di During his lust days he workod al- New Yok, Mareh 1881.—Hon. Robert T. | enthu Mexico. Heo been there as | improved machinery and methods of working -"*1;/‘ Hir frrk 4./‘4»4 | atime did nothing. As the movement gained t constantly on the book, Isaw that he Lincoln, Secretary of War, ton, D. O, | g boy In the Mexican war and had_served in | might have even brouzht in a faiv rate of in Cilrnl snloodiie ) et o strength he had move than once thonght of 0 sinking fust and worked all the time I ;”lrh"lu:l:'l;_ SBley T sk lio gromb 1Eqc you battle excapt that of 1?.-“.. Vists., At | tovestupon suchean invostment.! e GTs ladlod e | writinga private letter in such a manner that could. Iwas stopping at the house all the ke s e co for Mr. N. E. DAWSO, | ¢4 gloge of the war in 1365 Tie had impelled | ut,” continued My, Dawson, s it might be given to the p stating that 4 timo and my only rest was now und SEYgUEaoRar Lo/ ex 5 fohort o W porsnd under no civeumstances would he accept the / then taking o waik in the woods, The Genw 100/ Ba Bocrotnyyinnd stenographer, our army in the d n of Mexico and had | “sat still for fifteen minutes after the agent lllnLl;u\\’hl'lllg)n- ‘:;‘J .nl:h “llxu nlnlw him es- | thereby made Maximilliun 1 the country The loss of a fortuno did not cxcite PR ) .,7:- 7-74 andd 1t nomination. But in each case the reason 3 eral was much pleased at my actions but he peelally usaful, T ask this favor with more | Fe was indiroctly instramental in forming | him, but it turned his thoughts toward him- Hsns Lesn " tarris tupbenbliva. for the deiay was the avgument that said nothing about it anse I bellove my business to | the ublic and he had & somewhat senti- | self and his family. At the cnd f this quar- o telegram." continiied’ My, Dawson, these men wi his fric nds and that they “SAfter General Grant's death,” Mr, Daws ter Importance to the natlon | mental interest in it. When he went to | terof an hour he got into a talkative mood, loEia piigued M. -Dawson, | wera tlopending upon him. He thus held off y son wenton, “I hunted up all the slips that at largo than to me or auy other person indi= | Afovico in 1851 it was in the interest of all | and you know he chatted very frecly with | il 2 n_k Dy me 'x'nl an 4 n 'nn :l veached i was too late for him to decline with- % the general had written and gave them to the Tl “1,\'.”_ oo e should meot mo n | S0Ft3 O American investuents, He | T “rra hewan ta falke abonb | 0 e 1t might have cligaged the ont injuring them. He told me that up to the colonel and Mrs. Grant, with the exception < S Dawpor sonigt o hould.mes mo In | {0 e vailroud relations cstablished between | his boys and how they were doing, At ‘his | Whole Course ot American History. | endof his second term he had made it a rule - of less than a dozen which were personally St Lonis f thino to tuko the moriug wrally | 4y countris, wanted to push. the sub- | time the financial prospects of the family It did not got though, bowever, and it | neverto scheme for anything, butto accept written for me. Some of these slips relate to o hare i time o leave with me on Mon- | marine telegraph and in short was desivious | were very br and General Grant proudly | 1 1 at Vera Cruz. It would huve gone | any office o duty at th of his coun his book. He was very cautious in writing day morning. Would like very much to see | of L ng the countrios together. He was | told me how Colonel Fred had resigned from | sl had it not beon sent. in cypher, but | As far as he wus himsclf concerned I know sodsnot to injure the feelings of any oue, him in New York before we ~u|l( y truly | not inte d in any investment and he had | the army and was doing well as the president al Grant was supposed by the | thathe and I remember many touching incidents of yours, 8 J. 8. GRANT. .| o financial prospects present or future in | of a vailroad in Texas. e referred to the i financier of the United States Did Not Desire a Third Tes how he cut out sentences which WAL DEvARTENT, WASHINGTON, D. O, Mareh | gho trip, - Ho was offered a big salary by sev- | prosperity of Buck Grant with tue tivm of and the leadic finanvier of Mexico 2 N ‘ : & He Thought Might Hurt a1 Gonoral U 8. Grant, Fitsh Avenuo | e il H e tholk omicial tn maki- | Gt & Ward, und said that Josso was | to be interosted in ' Moxicwn = in and duving bis socond term ho wrotoa letter | tWhat woro Genoral Gran's workiBE | yrq ¢ eritical 10 this rogard and ¥ often imagined things might hurt when they might have been loftin. Had he been able Hotel, Now York.—Dear General: It will give L o 4 : tind.” e B eaterant hixi Tiaweon 19ava untll || 108 the triphutho rofusod all uch oft muking moncy in his wining operations. | vestments. Theso two great’ cupitalists objecting to any movement of that Kind ’ : (s : I'he talkk here turned to General Grant's When I first began his working hours he would probably have made his mem)irs comprise his wiiole life, but as it was he was June 1 to accompany you to M o | He finally cousented to be the president | Witha controlled the telograph wires of botin coun- | un mpany you to Mexico. He will y v 3 ! were from 10 until 12 in the morning. Then glad to be able to finish his military carear, report to you on Sunday moruing in New York of a nominal company and in Loving Enthusiasm tries und they thought the cyplier dispateh | book, and M. Duawson went on: “General | {5 ey N Toeas(ie % L Very respectfully yours, this ho only took enough in the way of pay to | ne went over the difforont entorpriscs that | Was # business one and stopped the Goneral | Grent commonoed. the: books {atending 10 e niia g 8 Sl "‘."Ll SENA 00 k RoNEwe T, LINOLN, Sccrotaty, | coverhis expensos, As aproofof hisnon- | thoboys woro in, and then said thatas ho [ Grant did uot kuow it Waastopm duntilho | it i ull bloself, T had loft him ond was 1_f]‘l“f“ Focel I AL O 92 8 L8 A E The Mr. Dawson referred to in theselotters | mercenary motives an incident occured while | g Mrs, Grant had_enough to keep them in | began to re telegrams be did not under- | NG Gith the inter-state s \,l:.l(',.:‘:,“,f.lm“'l‘l\,',l,“fh.-m-\:4‘-;“l e ~“‘”‘.‘i“_j; The proof of the ol was all carefully ren s porhps tho most romarkablo StenOgTAPE | o were i the Cily of Mexico which T sl ivad, o could soe no- | Stutid and fuiled to receive veplies to bUsiness | ijiodof the senate, which was then going A R e had | o had four slips of proofs and Colonol i tho Wil Blgiee "l‘ln\dw:unrifml; to be | lishod this beyoud @ doubt and eviden roason for it to eopardize the good name | telesrams which he had seut, We found | (SCUE0 0 ntey taking testimony. After | things, In the evening ho would hay "more | Granty U, 8. Grant, jr., Jesso Grant and my. SO R AD DAL ARG LIR S \,F:I:{'"\"f:;‘l"' 38 couragoaud probity quite 8s groat 1a Grant | yhat e betioved ho ha by eutering into any shortly nfter this tht ono trade which Might | s Yiiess in April, however, he wanted we, | reading and when the family wero away he solf oach held & slip whilo one of us yod, o s , slender and | ever ovinced in bis life. T'he Real del Monte | gyeh scheme s the one proposed to him. have been made to the advautage of Amerl- | )Ly Giated to send for me on account of my | would sit and think and make notes. At th verything was carefully revised and veri- Petiving, bo 1s thoroughly modest and unas- | is one of the lrgest gold mines in the world. | After this experience no one conld ever make | € cabitul waslost Iy this wav. | ¢ was the estated o send for e o aevount of ¥ | would it und think wnd malco o, A WS- 11,0 s by it througl tho goneral's suming, yet ho sustains the closest | It hus been operated formore that @ Cntury | o belleve that Grant allowed his name to be purchase of the Vera Cruz vailroad which i A R T ot || iagi R sasaks ARG bR fnthe | oes us well as by consultlng leading au- g e e o " with tho | aud 1t ia sald to haveprafiueed more goldthan | wsed by Grant & Ward as they did uso v, | offored for salo but whish was lost because | e ho ceded me, but ho know how I was sit- morning from these notes and ho now and | 4o iyjeg ! most prominent men of the country and | any other mine in the world. This mine was | pho tyuth is, ho knew nothing about Ward's | oo Nt | DS Bosh ey R, KRN AT LA (I3ROR DAL I, RATSSE ,“,"2“"‘1 over for cortaln | “uGeneral Graut’s papers aro very valua many of these have dictatod to him their | being worked with good spccess while we R R B R e X concerning it. 'This stoppage of the | I yeplied that I kuew that no one of the sena- | manuscripts torofresh bamind. Thesearch | )5, ggiq Me. Dawson. “Ho. sustained tho reminiscences with his simple promiso that | wero in Mexico und its prospects for the fu- Anancier and the Grant boys thought raph messages got to the ears of the | 415 on the committee would refuse to let me ’“""“l"‘j‘_“ papers ‘_V:m}l:u. | myself and | o000 rolations to tho great men of his d they are not to bo used until they consent o | ture were still great. *The company which TSR TR AT hat ut of Mexico through General | go i T could be of any use to him and that I | f AL UERRE 6 “"“ e ”;"‘:'f’ | and he carried on w correspondence with Until after tholr death, Tt was he who acted | operated it were auxious to stock the mine | them have any insight into the business, If | v | r MR B RS B e e || 4RGN AL SRR e fado fow CRANES: | statesmen i diftor: s of the world, s Grant's stendgrapher in the 1 float it in Burope and they wanted to get | thoy made inquivies about it, he would say ; al correspondence.’! e L7 e | kB a woublo. betyroon the amily v.nu(l Y B P T et Proparation of his Memoirs Grant to take the presidency of it. An Eng- | \Well, now, if you think you can run this T ko on | e S k. 0t i S0l || I o e RIS B o OF | Chang, e vt of China. His cox Lishumun was tho agent. selected to influence | yusiness you can try it. ~Butoneheadds | “received soveral telograms from Washing- | mitt ; 10 M. Murphy of the | serint of bt m]‘.:dy”“\'.iw“,“?-5 Rt e e spondence with him continued until the tine y A LN RO s was, you | s gaath and ho often sp ke of Li Hung Chung in tho highost terms, Li Hung Chung and lie sustained a closer relation with the great generul during Lis last days than any othier mun outside of the family. My, Daw son’s connection with Grant came about in directly through his service in the war, He | Bally tho agent callod upon me and told me | Ay times, however, Ward's mistakes weve | he did not answer this until he got to New | was done 1 was written al b enlisted in the army ab the ago of elghteen | that be would mako h i T eould gethim | ('uppavent that they were foreed to go to | York. The tr started him 1o talking | most entively with his own hand, AEREY HOR A0S ik rodl 3yho frwlah 350 while serving as o nrivete soldisp was | 8 inteveiow with Gapseel Grant wh ho | 1 bt ho always turaed them off. At ono | about Coukling and he tod me that the thing | and ouly & few corrections wero made |y A QICAD FARE A8 QEARS, | D O ocas | €0uld induce him (o accopt the prsideusy of | timg thevo was @ inistako of £,000 i an ac- | (hat At attract D e | R S kabre Bl Ctiatiancoes!| taatis 1t criph 18 Baw in the hands of the w24 Bo mproved bis lelyure time In studying | tho wive, Ho huug aroundme fors 1008 | count which was so plain that Ulysses S, | fact thut Conkling campaigns. Very little of the second volume gt “:""."‘.y $ALY 14 1hie Byiters 8nd it the Spanish language. He escaped from | tmeund I fually told the general of his anxi- | Gyant, jr, went to sea him about it. Ward Did Not Conge to Him had been written though he had paut the :'l" '.H:‘\ v " ‘lmm ."l’n".a S [x “‘;‘1‘ prison and after hiciug around in the swamps | €t for. the tuterview, Generul Grunt told | g onggjuw that bo could not explain it and | while he was In the white & i [ MR LB I, A Bra [ i AR N 191708 BaRL for a couple of weeks - during which ho was | ¢ thut he wo 14 make no appointment tosce | po gakyed their a4 ey Sy W in Qanernl QUAAYE Ashichoon rrVs e 4 o b i nogtoos hia miade his way to Gen, | 1o man but that if bo bappeued to eall upon Gy is divectio DU 0 e ) r i wt in this divection but ho evidently un- | anongh, I am willing to give up any time | ton asking him not tomix up in the Conk Jate, at my re seut @ stenographer to | jpow, in General Grant's hand derstood their purpose and he did not give the | ypap yon want me to leave, but while Taw | ling-Garfleld trouble, He'voceived an auto- | tak place. At ime 1 began work | writing. My. Johnson was astonished when he man & chance to make the proposition. Fi vaph letter from Garfeld 4 16 must have ¢ S | graph lette om Garfleld, at Vera Cruz bu! wit ieneral Grant mos . st V¢ 3 t hero I must havo the say i TOUL MBFI rh t | with General Graug m the first vol Jooked at 1t and ho said there was not one lit would write asking his wdv us to ma s of state, anl General Grant you know called | him the Bismarck of Chin 1 hera told My. Dawson the high reputation which General Gra sustained in Colna and referred to @ pleture of the general and Li Hung Chang which s mide by a photog- vapher at Tientsi. A eapy of this photograph ifidence move than ever by | to do this or that as to polivy or for v | ance with his arra nents to write four ar vised in any way and it was-only &b th | A8 10 1Y po fon, Lt represents two k1 ate sayl Yes, that isa wmistake and the bill | posc 4 (it . | ticles for the Century. After I came he bogan est men of two hemisphores drinking u Ted v {he Rogeo o, iy w e ac B& s Brsken T souid aylng: hat 13 @ wistake ar 1 the bi of askir ppointments, He said it for the Century. After I came he bogar th did not express h ¢ in full, n wo b nh i " ral Bank's beadquarters. General Banks | 408000 {s wrong. Buck Grant told me that the | gue of the fivst things he: yaw when to dictatd gud he continued this as long as he | The a ) for him was painful. His voice offered bim @ clerkship but he preferved to | ntroduce hlm family believel in him after that move thor nto the white houso Waslthat if he wi was able to do s0. As he went volee | zot lower lower us he went on, At last %0 back into the army and he remained there | And He Would Settle the Agent. oughly than before. It was not strange that | Conkling's advice he wowd have to ask for | Brew 10 iveaker and towards the | it was'a meve whispot, aad then it stopped, I until the war closed. - After it he became a As General Grant was in my room at the | they bad faith in him aud at the time of the | ¢, He said that whon be gid ask ¢ lnst T had to take my seat very close to his, | shall not forget soon his joy at the completion reporter ou the Burlington Hawkeye and | hotel at certain times every da the appoint- | fuilure it was forgotten that men of high | he found Senator Couklimgvery freo to ¢ and hé whispered b ds in my car while | of the book. He had intended to have had Kook Alwm\x in shorthand @ speech made by | ment was an easy matter. I told the mine | financial standin as badly deceived as | it, and told me that © bad' never kuown ¢ oo them down His 1ast | the whole read overto him and to haye re Senator n. Allison liked the report so | 3 ) were the sons ut.) ¢ Sy . . J g 2 b - oprescntative and he called prowptly th au | Senator Conkling coming 8o him or ictation was on June 22. After this he | vised it all. He was in reality only able t well that be brought him to Washington aud | following day and although Geudral Grant | Phe conversation here turned to Grant's re- | tion of public poliey withiout first vecels would th bis pad on his knce near mo | pe the first volume and during his last \,\ W Clantea. § i Ban. O -0 mado him @ clerk to his committee. When | had uot kuown of the. appoiutment e waa | lations with Conkling and Mr. Dawson told | pint frow him that his ady ould be ac- | snd would write d B i | e, e N e he touid nat | ALy b K anaks Ok ERgs elled in (ts bpe McCreary became secretary of war Dawson | preseut. I inwoduced the man when be | me how Gruut received the nows of the reslg: | ceptable. At the same time General Graut | them over to me t pu shape. He was | be able to complete it. He uscd in his | polutmcnts with a Ch table between them. 1ad Grunt bhe 10 ssident 1 donb® noy the United States and China would be oliser thor and in all »hability the Amesican tial would be kissiug each othe i sk G, CAKPENTER