St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-17


with the uptown branches Of the family,
and was on agreeable terms with all of them.
William ii. Vanderbilt liked her from
the beginning, and showed a friendly feel
ing toward her on many occasions. Her
death was the result of cold which turned
into pneumonia and carried her Off i'll a few
days. There was large attendance at her
funeral this morning at DR.. Deems Church
of the Strangers. DR.. Deems was one OF her
old friends, and the commodore became his
friend in a substantial pecunlary way TO
please her. AS well as | remember, it was
q matter of $50, 900 or So arranged In his
will. Although the commodore was not
exactly a religious man, he and DR.. Deems
got on together very nicely.
~
Our other commodore, G. K. Garrison,
who died somewhat suddenly the other
day, also left just half million and his
house to his widow. Commodore Garri-
son was supposed year ago to be worth
ten or twelve millions. How his estate
will really turn out remains to be SEEM
The assignment that he made q few
months ago did not indicate insolvency.
He had grown old and became entangled
i'll several things which he was no longer
able to manage, and turning his affairs
over to younger heads and hands was the
best way out. The death of his only son
couple of years ago was heavy blow, and
after that he was not the same man. His
will provides $500, 900 for his sons widow,
who has four children. The children are
given 500. 900 each. A daughter, Mrs.
Van Auken, also receives $500, 900, and
each of her three children 500, 900. All
the estate, whatever it may turn out to be,
is kept in the family. The lives of the two
commodores were very much alike. Each
began next door to poverty. Both men
found the beginning of their fortunes in
steamboating ON the Hudson, and both
afterwards did steamboating on an extern
siye scale in connection with California and
ports on the Pacific. They then worked
into great railway schemes. and made much
more money that way than the other. Gar
rison survived Vanderbilt by eight years,
but became badly shaken toward the end.
The two cOmmOdores were of sturdy and
somewhat rough type that seems to be
passing away.
49,
Gen. Grants photographed history of
the war promises to be the most famous
book of modern times. The competition
for the honor of publishing it was so great
that pretty much all the profits will find
their way to the generals own pocket, and
the sales will be enormous. The successful
competitors were Charles L. Webster &
Co., the company being Mark Twain.
This firm commands the distribution for
the whole United States, and has already
orders On hand for 2OO,O copies from
various publishing houses throughout the
country. j. r. Stoddard of Philadelphia
takes $4,000. The work will be mOnu-
ment to the printers art, as well as to
THE FAME OF GEN. GRANT.
Money is being lavished upon it, the paper,
printing, binding, everything will be the
costlieSt, and the cover will contain fac
smile representation of the medal pre-
sented to Gen. Grant by the congress of
the United States. The first volume is in
proof. and is illustrated by a portrait of
Gen. Grant as young man, in the uniform
of a lieutenant copied from photograph
in the possession of Mr.. George w. Childs
of Philadelphia. The second volume will
have a portrait of the general of recent
date. Gen. Grant was very angry at a re-
cent paragraph in city newspaper, to
the effect that Gen. Badeau was writing
his ''history." There is not the slightest
foundation for this assertion, in fact every
line is written or dictated by himself, and
the internal evidence will be conclusive that
Gen. Badeau. the ''vagabond' of Noahs
Sunday Times and Messenger, nearly
thirty years ago, is not the author of Gen.
Grants war record. The work will be in
two Volumes the first one OF which will
not make it's appearance till December, the
second, a month later. The price will be
$3.50 per volume.