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Show THE MIDVALE JOURNAL •• 0 • non rse Thursday, June 26, 1930 One Example That Upset Young John D.'a Theory John D. H.ockefeller, Jr .. lecturing to a clnss at the Carnegie Institute, declared that there was no such thing as luck. "1\fo matter what seems to be lucliy," be declared, "will prove strictly a case of cause and effect, when carefull~ anal~'zed. It is work and ahiiity of some sort that mnltes suC'cess, even for those chaps whoru we are prone to cull lucky." "And yet, Mr. Rockefeller," Interposed a student, ''I have a friend who really is lucky, with no sort of work or ability connected wlth lt." ''You'll have to show me," grinned John D ...Jr., and the class declared that its fellow member did make good when he said: "Well, I have a friend who's got a wife nnd a clgurette lighter and they both work." KEEP drains open ; ;~ at first sign of stoppage empty a ean of fast working Lewis' Lye ID the drain and flush Hith hot water. 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The terrace surroundJog the monument Is to be planted with shade trees; narrow walks bor· dered by low granite walls, banked with ornamental shrubbery, wlli provide promenades for visitors; and a portico with sculptured decorntions Is to be placed oYer the main entrance, with the apex of the portico directly lmder the carved motto "Let Us Have Peace." But most important of all the additions is to be the equestrian statue of the general, wearing the famlliar uniform of Civil war days, which ls to stand on a raised pediment In the plalt!. in , front of the tomb. And thereby hangs the tale of what promIses to be a fascinating mystery: why Is it Impossible for the sculptor, who fs to make the equestrian statne, to find a photograph of Ulysses S. Grant on horseback? Yet, such is the case, according to Gurney C. Gue, a writer for the New York Herald Tribune, who in a recent Issue of that newspaper tells of the unexpectf'd difficulties wltleb have been encountered as follows: HE The se~trch for a photograph of GenU. S. Grant on hor~eba.ck to ald the sculptor who Is modeling an equestrian Btatue !or the plaza ln front of Grant's tomb, now has covered the colJectlone ot the New York Historical .eociety, the public library and numerous dealers In rare prints and other Pictures without discovering the mu~h wanted camera-made portrait. While nobody can be found who believes the hero of the Clv!l war 11 ever fac ed the camera when mount ed during the four years of the great conflict, It Ia nevertheless true that nobody can be found who is sure he has ever seen such a picture. The New York Herald Tribune's nuest Included a visit to the studio of. the sculptor Daniel CheRter Fren ch, one of whose many well known worl~s Is the bronze statue of Grant on horsebac k In Fairmont park, Philadelphia. Asked whether he had an equestrian photograph to guide him when he made It In 1898 the venerable artist, who was eighty years old on April 20, promptly replied: "No, I am Eure I had none made from li!e and I had every photograph o! Gra11 t 1 could find." Dr. Robert Underwood Johnson, who "" a"soclate editor of the old Century Ma~azine forty-l'ive ypars Rgo, may be said to have discovered Grant as an author and Induced him to write the memoirs which rescued him and his fam!ly !rom poverty In his last o!ays, was quite certain he had seen at least one photograph from ll!e of Grant In the saddle. When asl~ed why he did not publish eo rare a picture In the Century war book "Battles and Leaders of the Civil War," the veteran editor reviBed his statement and finally concluded on telephoning C. C. Buel, hie co-worker of 1887, that In the photograph he had In mind the general wa11 not In the saddle but on the ground, holding his horse by the bridle. In making InQuiry at the Union Lea.gue club, where there Is a notable collection ot wartime portrnlts, the librarian 1ug~ested that General Warren M. Healy be consulted. General Healy Is the oldest living member of the Grant Monument al!soclatlon, having been one ot Its organizers with General Horace Porter, soon a!tel' Grant died In 1886. As erect of carriage and as clear of mind as he was when he marched away with the Thirteenth Maesachusetts In April, 18GI, he aays when called UDon to state his age: "l'm ninety -one now, with n lne more yea.ra to J!'O." O.neral Healy was one o! those who asked the army war college at Wash' ln.&"ton to set It• research section at work to tlnd & photograph of Grant on }lorl!eback for uBe of the sculptor. He hu done aome hunting hhn~>elt, also, lnH &II yet without aucceliB. ~rt~-1 There are something like 200 portratts of General G1·ant ln the library o! the New 'York Historical soc iety, and among them are several of him in uniform and in the saddle. These, however, are all engravings, etchings or lithographs, ranging from Currie•· & Ives's cheapest commercial product to the fine proof etching made by L. Mercier, a noted French artist. The print room of the public library has another equally large collection of drawings, but nothing In the nature of a photograph from llfe or a pho to-eng;ravlng of the man who often faced grape and canister on horseback, yet who seems to have always run away from the camera. At the offices of Brown Brothers, who may be described as deal e rs in backabout with photographs, number 1,800,000 In stock, the resou1·ces of the establishment were placed at the disposal o! the Herald 'l'ribune. A search of the envelopes on Grant and of Gardner's rare "Photographic Sketch Book ot the War" failed, however, to uncover anything of the general In the .sa ddle. Asked where one would look for such & picture, Arthur Brown suggested that the hunt be extended to private collections of war-time photographs; to the war zone in the \Vest and South, where some local photographer might have made a plate, and to the families of Grant's descendants, who may perhaps possess such a relic. It seems curious, indeed, that no sueh photograph of Grant can be found when one considers that so much of his life was !'pent on horseback and that of all our P1·esidents, not even exceptiug Washington and Hoosevelt, he was most famous for his horsemam:hip. Read through his "M:emolrs" and you will fi nd rep eated example~'. of his love for hors es and any number of incidents which apparently stand out dearly in his memory because a horse was associuted with them. Go to the Unltrd States Military academy at West Point today and the.\' will show :rou among the records made there, the highest jump by a cadet on horseback. It reaus "Grant upon York'' nd the mark Is more than six feet. As a cadet at West Point Grant was a poor student In most subjects. But he was a fine horseman. or him one of his classmates, Gen. Egbert Velie, ~as written: "It was. as good as a circus to see Sam Grant ride. He was far the most fearless, rider there. There was a dark bay horse that was so fractious that it was about to be sold because nobody could ride lt. Grant selected It for his horse. He rode it every day at parade, and how he did ride! The who I e class would stand around admiring his wonderful command of the beast and his graceful evolutions." Upon his graduation from the academy Grant hoped to secure a commission in the cavalry. But tronlcally enough, there were no places open In that branch ot the servlee at the time and the best horseman that West Point had ever known beea.me a second lieutenant in the Fourth Infantry! But the Mexican war gave him a chance to show his horsemanship eYen though he remained a commander of foot·soldlers. When General Taylor's army started Its ln vasion of Mexico Lieutenant Grant's company com-' mander, Captain McCall, asked h!m if he did not Intend to get a horse. Grant replied that since be belonged to a root regiment he would walk. McCall insisted, however, that his lieutenant should ride and pointed out a three-year-old mustang which one of the colored senants with the regiment had purchased at Corpus Christie for three dollars, with the remark "There, Grant, is a horse for you." The young lieutenant bought it for $5. Grant records in his "1\Iemo!rs" the result as follows : "The day we l!tarted was the first time the horse had ever been under saddle. I had, however, but little difficulty in breaking him, though for the first day there were frequent disagreements between us as to which way we should go, and sometimes whether we should go at all. At no time during the day could I choose exadly the part o! the column I would march with; but after that, I had as traetable a horse as any with the army, and there was none that stood th.e trip better.'' Grant not only won the admiration of his men by the way in which he mastered this wild horse but durin~ the battle of Monterey he performed a feat which won him renown throughout the army as a daring soldier and a matchless rider. \Vith hls characteristic modl"sty he records the incident in his ''Memoirs" as follows: ''We had not occupied this position when It was discovered that our ammunition was growing tow. I volunteered to go bark to the point we had started from, report onr position to General Twl,e:gs, and ask for ammunition to be forwarded. We were at this time occupying ground off from the street, in rear of the houses. My ride back was an exposed one. Before starting I adjusted myself on the side of my horse furthest from the enemy and with only one foot holding the cantle of the saddle and an arm over the neck of the horse expo:.>:ed. I started at full run. It was only at street cros;sings that my horse was under Ore, but these I crossed at such a flying rate that generally I was past and under cover of the next block of hon!'es before the enemy fired. I got out safely without a scratch." During the Ci\·i! war Grant had several h orses whose names are well known. Am ong the m were "Egypt;• presented by admi r ers In southern Illinois, and "Jeff Davi s'• which had been ca pt ured from the Confederates. But his fa vorite was "Cincinnati," a big bay, sired by Lexington, the leadIng racer and sire of his time. "Cincinnati" was presented to him by a resident of the Ohio city after Grant's victory at Chattanooga and the general rode him almost daily durin .~ th., \\'ilderness campaign of 18G4 and unt!l the close of the war. ''Cincinnati" was seYenteen hands high, an animal of great endurance and Grant regarded him as the greatest mount any army ·commander ever had. Grant was so fond of him that he rarely permitted anyone elee to mount him, although be made at leaRt two exceptions. One was in favor of Admiral Daniel Ammen, who sa\'Cd Grant !rom drowning when he was a boy, and the other was President Lincoln. When Lincoln visited Grant at his headquarters on the .James river he placed "Cincinnati" at the President's disposal and In his "Memoirs" he writes that Lincoln "was a fine horseman and rode my Cincinnati every day." He onee refused an o!'l'er of $10,000 for the animal and after Lee's surrender retired him from active service.. "Cincinnati" died on 11 Maryland farm In September, 1874. But riding horses were not Grant's only horseflesh Interest. He was also fond of fast harness horses. 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