| Show EW NEWS OF THE TtE WHO GRATIfiED LT LAST GREb GREA j DESIRE DESmE f By 3 B Edwards I ITis This daily series of anecdotes nod and IncIdents now Interesting end t frequently n Q light en and I O I of the past I h M 1 have e boon collected lt by Edwards rII I e forty o eara of more e or t D iou It t mMe mate with may many or of the since the he Civil ChU war Ech Each i anecdote or incident is fresh t from Mr I amid Ol either r In whole g or in part t trIno rIno It constitutes New News of t garnered t from the men n nI wh the from authoritative sources As in contributions ot of the tho Human Interest sort to te American history theas t I I articles havo n a ni all their thol r own I t It J Is pretty generally known that ohn G In whose Buffalo homo home PresIdent McKinley breathed his last was brn born In Egland England and those or of us whose memorie memories reach back vI Idly to the la lust t days of President Gr Oar feld fIeld ma may recall that they wore were spent In a cottage belonging to an English mana truly curious con wih with the deaths ot of two dents violently removed But the tho man mannor mannor nor In whIch President Garfield In hII his l last t days became the guest of an Englishman I do not believe has hns over ever ben been told hItherto In the tho hot Augst August of 1881 Garfeld Garfield upon his bed gf suffering In W Washing Washington ton pine pined for the sea e air said Bald Thoma Thomas J I Jame James in cabinet and my ty for this anecdote Ho spoke pr par I of Long Branch He imad visited that summer resort and WI was fond of bathing there And because I his mind kept reverting to Long LongBranch I Branch an and the tho sea there soon ap reports In the newspapers that that the stricken presidents were consulting as to whether or flot flothe he h would be able to stand the trip to Long Branch ad and once he was WIlS there what conveniences or of and quiet combined wl with h a a vista of the sea from a a window could b be obtained for him himIn himIn In th the midst of al all this con consults ula tion and talk the secretary of state Mr ElaIne Blame received a telegram from froma a Mr Charles arles G Francklyn offering his summer cottage at Elberon nea near Long Eruch Branch for Cor the ot of the tho pres preal dent his lis family hl his phy physicians and hIs nurses And Mr Went Wenton on to sy say that an adjacent cottage could b be fitted up easily aslY ns its temporary Quart quarters f for or cabinet who word In constant attendance upon him himo Who o Is this Mr Mr Elaine BlaIne asked The name seems fa familiar miar I 1 know nothing abut about him personally 11 Mr Francklyn was time the reply is 18 the In America of the Cunard Steamship company compan Ha Is a cousin or of Sir Edward wat Cn and hIs wIre Is n a daughter of the partner or of Go Sprague of Rhodo Island Thoroughly satisfied with this answer Mr BIano Blame Mr r cordial invitation to Im Garfield She recollected the cottage having It poInted out to tr her a ya year or two earler earlier when whon visiting tn in Long LongBranch Branch She Ild said that It seemed to her heran heran an Ideal place to ta take her husband So in to the course of the e day Mr Ir was that hIl his i lead had been JO t gratefully accept el eel and that ris 08 soon anon 1 us time the JI 1 arrangements coull could bo be made with the railroad com company pan the lice president Would b be taken to i Some daj days later when thee the president and thoo thoe who attended him arrived at thoy found that every de ever tal tail necessary for the comfort or of the r j patient Ild every one or of his party part had I been provIded by Mr NoU In log hd bud been overlooked swift communication wih with the i erg drug tor torea und amid carriage ser sen ice co arran ment with the I Io o t these e things and da mono had been arranged fo for and n an r adjacent cottage had been fitted up to n servo serve as a temporary for the cabinet J So through tics the kindness or of eart I and of an Englishman the te last great desire or of the tho dYing pres prea j see the tho Id and InhalE inhale Is its But though r Francklyn made the end end or of life for COI Garfield far more comfortable than I it would otherwise have hae been do r know that the Unit United States govern 01 ment In rio no way war whatever over ever eress cd 01 thee the slightest sense of gratitude or communicated to Mr ono one hInt of thanks for the tho great eat Service rlee hit he heep rendered What ho did l ignored ep as completely as though h g It h had n net been Ione done Mrs Garfield however privately expressed her deep aen sense e ot of gratitude to Mr Rut But that thanks and the that eyes es evere over ever gratefully turned towards toward the sea sea while yet thc they saw constituted Mr solo sole reward for al all tico trou trouble le to whIch dee e went to r case the II last t days of the tho hed head of Il a naton nation to whIch he wa was alien allon |
