New-York tribune., 1885-10-21
4 KNIFE THIT WAS GENERAL GRANTS
POUND IN PAnKER's cREEK-$1oO PAID FOR IT.

rouSn IN pARKFR's CRRFK-S10O PAID FOR 1T.
IT had been q handsome knife in the days
when hand now cold and still In Riverside ParR was
wont to grasp it, Even now the tortoise-shch hahue'
with its god lining and mountings, gives niue hht oi
tie vicssitudes through which it has passed Ana tue
inscriptons General Grant and "september 27ls77'
on gold plates laid either side. arc rs leehle as
when the cngraver first finished his WORK. bu' 'ho
steel once bright maideDs eye, Keen AS haNee "lt'
and used TO the tips from no cne knows now many
thousand cigars is sadly rusted The water OF the sa
Atlantic, which creeps up Parkers Creek with every
rising tide has guawcd OF the edges OF inc Ionr
blades that each resembles miniature profile map OF the
Andes nnd one Of them, like thrcetoId joke has lost
its point.
ono brIcht morning in June, 1sS2-the 9th the
Long Branch express train for NcwIOr came huhucr
ing on to the low bridge Parers Creek at the rate Of
forty lniles an hour Ten seconds later owing TO "a
oosened rail- the lying wreck In the shallow
inlet Three passengers killed. and others received
injury Among the first to emerge, ha'ss but uhhur
and smoking his cigar with composurc that was rs
characteristic the cigar itself. was General Dr"n'
Tpon the scene of that disaster. about year ago. the
knife described found by the son OF Mrs Cordela h.
Conover living at Little silver. closely. 1t was brought
70 this city lust after the burial OF its former owner and
offered for for the benefit of the Grant Monument
Fund. Suspecting that 1t had been u giiI' "h"
surmisiug who might be tie fNer' I"
Nev-York gentleman brought the matter to the
IL al II.
Sheffield England, who from the description dchtuec
the knife at once On the occasion OF General Grant
visit to sheffield in making his tour OF the world he
xPresident escorted through the iAouS cutlery cry
works Joseph Rodgers " sons. As nenentncs OF lnt
visit Dr. Webster ordered and presented lS hhilc |"
General Grant and of six scissors to MIS- Grant
both being inscribed with the date. lnmcdatek upon
hearing OF tue discovery Dr. Webster offered 500 or
the knife in the Grant family should resign th'
claim to it, which they have done Yesterday cnect
for 90 was dispatched TO the Grant hOhument fuhu
by Dr. Webs ers representative.
Although Dr. Webster thus secures % mehchlo po>
sessng unique personal and historic interest us CON
irritation to the is act OF hearty homage
He has more than ordinary reason for the aHectlohat
regard in which he holds General Grants memory A
brother OF DIR. Webstcrs, Colonel (atterward GeneT3p
Joseph d. Webster member OF Grant btau III inc
battles of Fort DnnelsOU and shiloh Toward h" cInSe
OF inc days engagement on the latter ncu, AT ne
hour which some historians consider the most crlch l
Grants history "A General Colonel webster gathcfc"
abnt twenty pieces OF artillery together, whlch pore
couspicuons share repnlllug the last Confederate
assault OF the day. In tho February century Ieh-
er.l Grant made grateful reference TO thls ser
vice which has been recognized also by other "Il'eTs
both Union and Confederate. A peculiar Rltacnhehl
existed thereafter until General WebsterS d"ath oc
twrep him his commander; and therein M, brother
largely shared brought into dltcct re-
larons however, with General Grant, Dy apPolntm'h',
i'm July 1870, upon the Recommendation OF senator
Buckingham, OF Connecticut. to the consulate III ohc
field of which he has since been the luCuhpcu,' Ahu
from which he has bscn hOmbarding the Sta'c DePat'
ment with valuable reports on cutlery, st'e Ids au"
the allied industries OF that largo mahuAc'urhs ccue