Show A ANEW NEW STORY the abs tbs important part women play in publio public affairs grant and hancock Uan cock 0 able to lo command and hold in ili n absolute volute obedience hundreds of thousands of men took back seats when they were at home Ier perhaps haps you yon do not know how the unfriendly feeling arose between grint grant and hancock Kan cock C it Is a moa interesting story nod and extends back before the war when grant and hancock were hot bogli young youn men both were stationed at S st F louls louis at it the time I 1 refer to 10 and neither of them lad had been married a great I 1 while la lie mrs hancock came from a southern family her feelings 1 were nil all that way while mrs airs grant on the other hand was in intensely northern at it that time lime tile llie IIan Ilan cocks moved in a little better circle than tile grants there never as was 0 good feeling 0 between them and mrs hancock snubbed mrs mra grant a fact which the latter never forgave after the alic war grant cams came to washington with his family to establish sta blish his headquarters there they went to willards hotel but ahn bills were too high iki h for the llie generals purse so lie 1015 told ilia his wife that ho he would like to goto go to housekeeping house keeping and asked her at the iho same time linic to select a 1 I proper residence mrs grant went out ind and finally decided that gen slid and mrs hancock were occupying the house site she would ike bile bho went home ond and told lier her husband and I 1 aid lie ho made out the necessary order you see sec grant outranked out ranked hancock Uan cock and was entitled to tile house according to precedent and established usage mrs hancock ancock II however was not to be out done by mrs grant so she persuaded her husband to write a I 1 sharp note to the general theu camu caine mrs grants turn site she mado made up her mind to have that house or die although li there vere a thousand other oilier houses just as good in the city so she influenced her husband to in kind to hancock ancock II there was quite a correspondence but grant of 0 course came out attend ahead and got t got the house A few days afterward grant said and in ili the street grant extended his hand as though nothing had happened for he was not a man to bear ill will a against ainest another for sonic some petty foolish thing but ila ancock II deliberately turned his bal balk back k upon him when wheat the assin assi assignment 0 n of division tah islon came later grant sent hancock ancock II way up tip in minnesota where lie he kept him six years maadi was mas blell gi en the division of the allan atlantic mith authority to establish his headquarters cither at it philadelphia or new york As meade was a laulan lie he those hose philadelphia pill 1 after meades de death ath ernnt assigned hancock ancock II to the command of the division of the atlantic with authority to liis headquarters either cither at it philadelphia or new york ill in precisely the same language 0 as had been given to meade As ilan cock w was is also a pennsylvanian the philadelphia people suppose supposed that tile tho bead headquarters quarters would ouia remain it where here they were urs mrs Ilau cok however however remembered that tile phil adelph ians had given mcada a 1 I house in that city and that they land had neglected gle acted to similarly remember her husband she determined that the headquarters should lie transferred to new and they were and remain so unto this day dai have re ore to do with bation national affairs than you have any ide idea a boston traveler |