Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-07-13

We happened to be at Long Branch
when these two Radical champions met
face TO face. The gossiping was gigantic.
We will allow Mr.. Lambert the cor.
respondent OF the Philadelphia Times,
in letter dated juno Goth, TO portray
the scene as follows;
Tho final meeting of President Gar
field and Ex. President Grant has lifted
an awful load of anxiety from the
mind of the average visitor to Long
Branch. Hundreds of people seem to
have come here for the particular pur-
pose of seeing the illustrious men meet,
and many of them stood around for
several days with their hands in their
pockets wondering what sort OF scowl
Grant would give Garfield and what
kind of faces Garfield would mako at
Grant. Calculations have been made
as to whether either Of the parties
carried concealed weapons, and the
court tailors were appealed to for in
formation as to whether it has been
customary TO build the Presidential
pantaloons with pistolpockets or 9th
erwise; the weight of the boots of
each man was considered and the
probable propelling force calculated,
but on none Of these points was any
satisfactory conclusion reached. For
three days, however, people went
around with buckets, prepared to save
the blood of the great men when the
collision came, and there were the
strongest evidences of agony and deep
concern among all the cottagers up
and down the beach for miles.
scowLINd ACROSS THE STREET.
For three days Mr.. Garfield had
lived just across the drive from Mr.,
Grant and Mr.. Grant had lived just
across tho drive from Mr.. Garfield. 1t
was exactly the same distance from
the cottage where Grant was to the
hotel where Garfield was as from Gar.
fields hotel TO the Grant cottage, but
the distance either way was too great
for either to travel. twas, however,
Just about the right distance for man
to see without glasses, and it was well.
known to every man, woman and child
in this place that Ex.President Grant
spent the greater part Of his daylight
time behind the window shutters Of
the house trying to see what President
Garfield was up to across the way.
At this identical time President Gar.
field occupied an eligible position be-
hind the window shutters OF the El
beron Hotel, where he closely watched
every suspicious movement Of the ex'
silent man across the avenue. The
strain of all this upon imaginative peo'
pie here was simply awful. 1t would
have been a great relief if one great
man had dared the other great man
half way; it would have been still
more gratifying if Garfield had gone
out into the middle of the road and
strutted around with n chip on his
shoulder, or if Grant had dared Gar.
field to come inside the fence or if any
thing in the world could have happen
ed It would have been very pleasant
to the expectant crowds who daily
hung around to see fair play.
now THEY FINALLY MET.
But the meeting finally occurred,
The great President and the great ex.
President got tired glanng at each
other through the window shutters.
The President went out TO ride and
tho ex.President went out 10 walk
and they most unaccountably encoun-
tered each other. II was one Of those
mornings when Grant had forgotten
to take his pistol from under bis pillow
and put il into his pocket, and as he
felt around under his coattails for IL
be turned white and began TO wonder
II he had left his will and his Mexican
Railroad and the third term in good
order He felt certain that Garfield
would get the drop on him, and he re-
garded complacently, as brave man
can, the closing moments OF an event
ful life. He did not know that Gar.
field had mis-laid his bowie-kniie and
be was not near enough to the Presi
dent to see that he turned pale at the
discovery. This was situation fol
two men whom the newspapers and
the gossips had got into a temper tc
chew each other in pieces. They had
finally met and neither had q weapon
There was not even club or a stone
within reach. A score or more specta'
tors, who had assembled to gather uT
the fragments of greatness after the
fight should end, were breathless with
fear. President Garfield looked at
OK. President Grant and raised his hat
OK. President Grant looked at President
Garfield sand raised his hat; the one
drove away the other walked on, and
the war was over.
You must have noticed the way in
which all this was done, much as 8
couple would nirt and finally meet OF
a pleasant afternoon in the Park. A
lady who entirely understood these
things pronounced the affair 'just too
sweet and lovely for anything"
THE RELATIONS OF THE MEN.
The other meeting between Garfield
and Grant took place yesterday, and
has been described in the dispatches
from here. 1t was purely forma
affair, General Grant having gone over
as a lot Of cottagers had, TO reception
Of the President. There is nothing II
common between these men, but neither
Is as small as the average of people
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