Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-09-21
At Mentor,


dispatch from Mentor. ohio. SAYS: re-
porter visited the Presidents home here early
this morning. The family had been appraised OF
the Presidents death about IL O'Clock last
night by DIR. J. II. Robinson, who received a
telegram from Mayor HerTick about 11:30. z.
Rudolph Mrs. Garfield's father Joseph Ru-
dolph, her brother. his wife aud the Presi-
dents two little sons, Irwin and Abram,
ana anu. th .s geverness Mrs MeGraff,
with an outburst of sobs told Joseph Rudolph
that President Garfield was dead. the former
grasped Dr. Robinsons hands conyulsiyely. and
while his lips quivered and his eyes moistened
with tears. he replied in calm voice: II am not
surprised. We expected il. Doctor" Only
Joseph, his wife and Father Rudolph were in
formed of the death at that time. The citizens
OF Mentor were sleeping quietly in the hope that
their reyered neighbor was I'm no immediate
danger. Later in the morning Father Rudolph
was met by the reporter "a he was coming out
OF the rear entrance to the house.
''Iiave the boys been informed OF their fathers
death?'
mo. not yet The little fellows were told
Yesterday their papa was worse. and they cried
bitterly. We hate to break the news TO them.
1t will be very hard for the boys to bear"
Have you received any news from Long
Branch-any dispatches"
Nothing since James was taken there I
suppose Lucretia knew the worst. and dreaded
to communicate it to us. 1 wrote her letter
only yesterday. Poor girl. II will Ice terrible
blow for her to bear but thank God that she
has home left for her and her children"
The old gentleman Joined by Joseph
Rudolph. They spoke OF the dread and fore
boding they Q.ucretia and James, expressed
before leaving home. James told me- said
Father Rudolph. THAT he had rather thou
sand times go into the Senate than take the
cares and burdens of the presidency. Only
two weeks before he was inaugurated he talked
to the school children OF Hiram, and then he
said to me: Father. this seems more like a
funeral than anything else >" When the people
OF Mentor We're Informed OF the Presidents
death strong men broke down and cried and
women sobbed as though a member of their
family had suddenly died. Expressions of
intense grief were heard from all his neighbors
and strong denunciations Of his assassin.
WHERE PRESIDENT GARFIELD FIRST SAW DIR.
BLISS.-ln an interview with "A newspaper corre-
spondent yesterday, Steward Crump told the
following:-"On Sunday morning. Just after the
big crowd OF doctors had cleared out was alone
with the General and Dr. Bliss. The doctor sat
on one side of the bed and | was on the other
Gen. Garfield had hold of DIR. Bliss hand and
turned his head and asked me if knew where
he first saw DIR. Bliss. | told him did not and
he said then that he would tell me- He said
that when he was youngster and starting for
the college at Hiram he had just Sl5-a ten
dollar bill, in an old black leather pocket
book which was in the breast pocket Of his
coat. and the other five was in his trousers
pocket. He said he was footing it up the road,
and, as the day was hot, he took off his coat and
carried it on his arm, taking good care to feel
every moment or two for the pocket-book for
the hard earned S15 was to pay his entrance fee
at the college. After a while he got TO thinking
over what college life would be like. and forgot
all about the pocketbook for some time. and
when he looked again found it was gone. He
went back mournfully along the road hunting
on both sides for the pocketbook. After a while
he came to house where young man was
leaning over a gate and who asked him as he
came up what he was hunting for. Garfield ex-
planned his loss and described the property,
when the young man handed il over. The Pre-
sident by this time was laughing. and concluded:
That young man was Bliss, wasn't II, doctorr
The doctor laughed and said Yes and when
General Garfield said He saved me for college,
answered, Yes; and maybe if 1 had not found
your ten dollars You would not have been Presi-
dent of the United States The President
laughed at that. and said that if he got weland
made any mistakes in his administration Bliss
would have to take the blame"
PRESIDENT GARFIELDs LAST EXTENDED Con-
yERSATION-The last conversation of any great
length which President Garfield had with any
one, it is stated. was with Secretary Blaine. This
occurred on the evening of the LIST of July. and
but a few hours before he was shot. Mr.. Blaine
spent the greater part of the evening with him.
as it had been arranged that the Secretary Of
State should remain in the city and finish some
details Of business which the President had not
been able to do. Among other things said by
the President to Mr. Blaine during the CONVERSE
ton that evening, before his attempted vacation
tour, was this: :" have now completed four
months Of the administration, and everything is
going well. The Cabinet is each day becoming
more welded. There never has been an unkind
word said across that Cabinet table,"
From the White House to the poor house
everybody uses and takes st. Jacobs Oil.