Show WANTED ahn on tel by ELMO SCOTT WATSON W tomb of ulysses S grant victorious civil war general and president of the united states which for more lhnn 30 years has stood in an unfinished state on riverside drive in kew york city Is at last to be completed the grant monument association Is now engaged in raising by popular subscription nearly a halt million dollars necessary for carrying out the original plans for this his landmark the terrace surrounding the monument Is to be planted with shade trees narrow walks bordered by low granite walls banked with ornamental shrubbery will promenades tor visitors and a portico with sculptured decorations Is to be placed over the main entrance the apex of the portico directly under the caned motto let Us have peace but most important of all the additions Is to be the equestrian statue of the general wearing the familiar uniform of civil war days which Is to stand on a raised pediment in the 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 Is to boale the equestrian statue to find n photograph of ulesses S grant on horseback yet such Is alie case according to guraedy G gue a writer for the new york herald tribune who in a recent issue of that newspaper tells of the unexpected ties hae been encountered as follows the search for a photograph of central U S grant on horseback to aid the sculptor who Is an equestrian statue or the plaza in front of grants tomb now has covered the collection of the ew tork historical the public library and numerous dealers in rare prints and other pictures without discovering the much wanted camera made portrait while nobody can ba found who believes the hero 0 the civil war never faced the camera when mounted during the four yeara of the great conflict it Is nevertheless true that nobody can be found who li sure he has ever been such a picture the new fork herald tribunes quest included a visit to the studio of the daniel chester french one of whose many well known works Is the bronze statue of grant on horseback in fairmont park philadelphia asked whether he had an equestrian photograph to aulde him when he made it in 1898 the venerable artist who wa eighty years old on april 20 promptly replied no T am sure I 1 had none made from life and I 1 had every photograph 0 grant I 1 could fand dr robert underwood johnson who s associate editor of the old century forty alv years ago may be eadd to have discovered grant as an author and induced him to write the memoirs which rescued him and his family from poverty in his last days was quite certain he had seen at least one photograph from life of grant in the caddle when asked why he ald not publish eo rare a picture in the century war book battles and leaders of the civil war the veteran editor revised his statement and finally concluded on telephoning C C buel his coworker co worker of that in the photograph he had in mind the general was not in the caddie but on the ground holding his horse by tho bridle in making inquiry at the union league club where there Is a notable collection of wartime portraits the librarian suggested that general warren M healy be consulted general kiealy la the oldest living member of 1 the grant monument association having been one 0 its organizers with general horace porter soon after grant died in As arct of carriage and as dear of mind as he was when he marched away with the thirteenth in april he ays when calad upon to state his age im ninety one now with nine mar beira to go general healy waa one of choie who asked the army war college at wash to set its research section at work to fand a photograph of grant on horseback for use of the sculptor he haul done eoma hunting alo acut as yet without success t c t yi jf mf V w n ther are alk portrait of general grant in the library of the new york historical ao clety and among them are several of him in uniform and in tho caddie these bow ever are all engravings etchings or lithographs ranging from currier ivesa cheapest commercial product to the fine proof etching made by li mer cler a noted french artist the print room of the public library haa another equally large collection of drawings but nothing in the nature of a photograph from life or a photo engraving 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 dealers in back number photographs with about 1 in stock the resources of the establishment were placed at the disposal of the herald tribune A search of the envelopes on grant and of gardner s rare photographic sketch book of the war tailed however to uncover anything of the general in the saddle asked where one would look for such a picture arthur brown bug that the hunt be extended to private collections of wartime war time photographs to the war zone in the west and south where some local photographer might have made a plate and to the families of grants descendants who may perhaps possess such relic it seems curious indeed that no such photograph of grant cin be found when one considers that so much of his life was spent en horseback and that of all our presidents not een excepting washington and roosevelt he was most famous for his horsemanship read through bis Memol rb and you will nd repeated examples of bis love for hordes and any number of incidents which apparently parent ly stand out clearly n bis mem ory because a horse was associated with them go to the united states military academy at west point today and they will show you among the records made there the highest jump by a cadet on horseback it reads grant upon york and the mark Is more than sir feet As a cadet at west point grant was a poor student in most subjects but he was a fine horseman of him one of his classmates gen agbert velle has 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 it grant selected it for his horse ne rode it aery day at parade and bow he did ride the whole class would stand around admiring alg wonderful command of the beast and his grace ful evolutions upon abts fradua aton from ahe academy grant hoped to secure a commission in the cavalry but ironically enough there were no places open n that branch of the sen ce at the time and the best horseman that west point had ever known became a second lieutenant in the fourth infantry I 1 but the mexican war gae him a chance to show his horsemanship even though he remained a commander of foat soldiers when general a army started its invasion of mexico lieutenant grants company commander mccali abbed him if he did not intend to got a horse grant replied that elace he belonged 3 to a toot regiment be would walk mccall insisted however that hla lieutenant should ride and pointed out a three year old mustang which one of the colored servants with the regiment had purchased at corpus christie tor three dollars with the remark there grant Is a horse for you the young lieutenant bought it for 5 grant records in his memoirs the result as follows the day we started was the first time the horse had ever been under saddle I 1 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 1 choose exactly the part of the column I 1 would march with but after that I 1 had as tractable a horse as any with the army and there was none that stood the trip better grant not only won the admiration of his men by the way in which he mastered this wild horse but during the battee of montarey Mont crey he performed a feat which won him renown throughout the army as a daring soldier and a matchless rider with his characteristic te modesty he records the dent in hla memoirs as follows e had not occupied this position when it was discovered that our am was growing low I 1 volun i leered to go back to the point we had started from report our position to general twiggs and ask for ammunition to be forwarded we were at this time occupying ground oft from the street in rear of the houses my ride bick was an exposed one before starting I 1 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 exposed I 1 started at full run it wig only at street crossings that my horse was under fire but these I 1 crossed at such a flying rate that generally I 1 was past and under coer of the next block of houses before the enemy fired I 1 got out safely a scratch during the civil war grant had several horses names are well known among them were egypt presented by admirers in southern illinois and jeff dails which had been captured from the confederates but his favorite was cincinnati n big bay sired by lexington the lead ing racer and sire of his time aln donatl was presented to him by a resident of the ohio city after grant s victory at chattanooga and the general rode him almost dally during ohp wilderness campaign of and until the cloae of the war cincinnati was seventeen 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 else to mount him although be made at least two exceptions one was in favor of ad maral daniel ammen who saved grant from when he was a boy and th other was president alln coin when lincoln visited grant at his headquarters on the james river he placed cincinnati at the presidents disposal and in his memoirs he writes that lyas a fine horseman and rode my cincinnati every dav he once refused an offer of for the animal and after lees surrender retired him from active service cincinnati died on a maryland farm in september 1874 but riding horses were bof grants only horseflesh interest lie was also corid of tat harness horses during his scara as president in washington grant visited the cs every day at ahe close of business in the white house he wanted to see tor himself that the stock was well fed i |