Show HOW GEN GRANT BECAME BE AME AMEA A CONFIRMED SMOKER Detroit Mich Nov NOI J Fred D Grant who It Is II at the tho court martial now In session at I t Kort Wayne In the western suburbs of this city said cl to some friends here helO thit the cigar that initiated his father the late president U 8 i Grant Into the habit really figured quite strongly In tho Iho winning of tha tho battle batte of Fort FOlt Don ad on of at this Incident Gen Grant said My ly father futher was WiS in conference with wih Ad miral Foot on tho and nd had lwe ju t a cigar from Ie e ad miral when word worl como come Jo 10 him that the left lef lank of his forces was being re rc pulsed Hurrying and galloping on a I fleet neet horse horRe to tho battlefield he suc me 01 eee in rallying his forces so 10 com that chaos was turned into vic tory Gen Buckner had to comply com ph with my demand for fol an unconditional surrender s n el The newspapers took look up tho fact that father had rushed from the tho warship to t the tho battlefield without taking Admiral Foots l cigar from fm his bis mouth The dis dispatches dispatches patches from flom the tho front told how father had come on to the battlefield cool anil collected and Ine peacefully smoking a long black cigar People who read tho story began hegan sending congratulations and presents of cigars Tens of thousands of cigars came camo and anc my m father tather smoked many of or I made mado a confirmed smoker pf pr him But ho did not nol smoke as au many man cigars as people imagined ho did ld Some times one cigar that he would frequent ly 1 relight would last him from break fast to luncheon It I was tho fact that ho he almost constantly constant hold hII a cigar be tween his lingers that made people de describe describe scribe him as ns a great grent smoker molEr Gen Grant said that his father tried to acquire tho th smoking habit habit at nt West WestPoint est Point just because the lules smoking His attempts nt 10 ho ha was a I cadet however made mado him ver sid sick and when he left West eat Point ho ha practically gave ve them hem up During tho Mexican war Gen Grant said his fath father er e tool took n a liking to cigars and found that they tho agreed with wih him but when whon he ho returned to the tho north he again dropped the thc habit of to dent dont resume It after ater Donaldson Inci Inel Incident I |