Show IN FIRE AND SMOKE Graphic Details of tlC Burning of the lament House 0 Chicago Narrow Escape of Salt lakers From the Doomed Building Five Persons Killed and a Number Num-ber Injured What Troubles Grant NEW YORl March 22General Grant is reading more about the trial of James D Fish than anybody can who relies on published reports for the newspapers squeeze each days proceedings into a quarter to half a column while he gets the stenographic verbatim report This is provided to him on his urgent request I by the order of Judge Benedict who is I presiding in the United States court where Grant Wards silent partner is being tried for violation of the banking laws Shorthand notes of the testimony are taken to the Generals house every evening and read to him It was thought by Fishs connection with the swindle that Grant was drawn into it He was president of a leading bank a financier of reputed solidity and possessed pos-sessed of considerable wealth Therefore There-fore when he seemed to trust young Ward implicitly Grant blandly followed his example To this day Grant is not clear in his mind whether Fish was Wards confederate or victim and he is a selfconstituted jury determined to convict con-vict or acquit the prisoner on evidence Gen Grants inability to sleep comes not so much from the condition of his body as from unrest of mind He has it firmly rooted that he is going out in disgrace dis-grace and under a cloud and all that his friends can say to him in no wise changes this belief He talks very freely with certain of his intimates on the subject sub-ject and he tells them of his mortification and chagrin that he should have been I duped by Ward and that so many persons I per-sons should have lost money by him He I tells his dearest friends that the responsibilities I responsi-bilities of battle and of leading armies of the nation gave him no such concern as I has this Ward business that rest in the I White House in the critical period when i the country was recovering from j the effects of civil war was sweet compared to the rest that has come to him in the last nine months He had hoped that fortune might in some manner I man-ner smile on him so that he might return re-turn to those who have lost the money thus wasted He would write he would work he would do anything to remove this pain from his family But he was attacked by disease that must prove fatal and soon he became too weak and too sick to stir out of the house So he silently and grimly and without word of complaint keeps to his couch and to his easy chair and thinks He knows that he must die soon and he is oppressed with the thought that he is in disgrace because of the failure of the firm of Grant Ward through the dishonesty I of one of his partners He does not seem to fear death his friends say but he does I desire to make good all losses sustained by Grant Ward This thought and the I idea that he is in disgrace is hastening I his death |