The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-27
GRANTS BEST DAY.
The Sick Man Rides Abroad in a Wheeled
Chair and Passes a Very Comfortable Day.

Mt. McGREGoR, June 26-"I slept three hours
continuously, last night, said General Grant to
his wife when she entered the sick room this
morning to inquire as to his condition. II have
had a very good night, be subsequently said.
DR.. Shrady said the General dozed off at 1890
o'clock, last night, but he did not experience
good sleep until about midnight. From that
time to 7:30 this morning the sick man slept and
rested we'll, and eight hours sleep were Oh
tanned.
The Bath chair that was received last evening
for use by the General stood at the foot of the
cottage steps this morning. 1t is a 'Tom Thumb
buggy supported by springs that rest on a set of
wheels arranged like those of a tricycle., two
large ones under the body of the vehicle and a
small one in front, the latter having a lever ar
rangement by which the passenger may guide
the chair, which is pushed from behind. The
chair seats one person, hasa leather top, is
handsomely upholstered, and is so arranged as
to be closed laterally by means of az adjusta-
BILE glass front. In this the General will be
rolled along the easy paths near the cottage and
hotels.
The thermometer at the cottage marked 72o
at 10 o'clock this morning, but visitors from
Saratoga reported a hot day in the valley.
General Grant spent the hour between IL and
noon in being trundled about in his new wheeled
chair by his colored servant. The latter was
somewhat SON hat. "inded by the work, and
dulged in several ~joeular remarks to the
Associated Press representative at the colored
mans expense, such as that the dragging of his
chair was "a considerable come-down in speed
for one who had been accustomed to drive fast
n0rS9S." and that fhApa EaS Espr dan~ap af hio
running away up hill" Returning from the
brow of the hill, the Generals chair was lifted
to the hotel piazza, and he was wheeled around
the house on the broad veranda. He repeatedly
lifted his hat in response to similar salutations.
After an hour Of such outing, he returned to the
cottage.
The Generals afternoon was chiefly spent on
the veranda, where at times he dozed. DR..
Shrady left for New York this afternoon. Soon
after DR., Douglas sat down near the General.
This is the best day you have had since you
came here, is it notF" he asked Of his patient.
Decidedly" replied the General, in an audible
tone.
The evening was spent upon the piazza by the
entire family, the General sitting beside DR..
Newman, who came up the mountain with his
wife this evening. At 9 o'clock the General re-
tired. The usual amount of moPphia was given
him, though DIR. Douglas was of the impression
that the patient might secure sleep without it.
HISTORY OF 'LET Us HAVE PEACE"
IVA A0obAOh oPOh G"O OOGOoSO B1oDHo tialo
evening turned upon memorable utterances
that have come with spontaneity. The General
was present. DR.. Newman said he believed
that all the great utterances of great masters
have been thoughts that had before been ham
mered out.
'But," interrupted Col. Fred Grant, II think
there are some expressions which have gone into
history that seem to have come with spon-
~taneity."
mo, | think they are only sequences, urged
DR.. Newman, and then added: "You have seen
that recent bit of unwritten history that tells of
the Generals first letter of acceptance, in
which it is stated that the letter had been
written but not signed when General Rawlins
took it from the table,, read and approved it, and
that then General Grant added the words: Let
us have peace and signed his name. That
seemed like a sequence" concluded DIR. New
man. whereupon' General Grant arose from his
chair, entered the cottage and wrote the follow
ing, which he handed to DIR. Newman on his
return to the veranda:
Let us have peace was not thought of up to
the minute when it was written. It came
naturally as a fitting close to what had been
written before"
THAT seems to disproye the unwrit-
ten history as we'll ais your theory
of sequence, and sustains my belief
in spontaneity," smilingly remarked Colonel Fred
Grant to DR.. Newman, when his fathers refer
ence to the famous expression had been read to
the party.
MIDNIGHT The cottage is quiet and dark at
this hour.