Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-11-17
TWO CHANGERS.

Personal Sketches of Prominent Members
of the National Grange.
A member of the San Francisco Bulletins
staff, who was in Sacramento last week and
spent several days in Interviewing prom
inent members of the National Grange,
wrote to his journal the following concern
ing delegate Armstrong:
W. A. Armstrong. of Elmira. N. Y, Mas
| ter of the New York State Grange, and
editor of the Husbnndmdn, arrived on
Thursday He was welcomed by all the
elder Grange people, who regard him with
| the greatest respect. Armstrong is the
| brainiest man in our Order to-day" said
one enthusiastic admirer emphatically.
| Mr.. Armstrong, who counts it among his
great achievements that he was where Sac
ramento nov stands before such city was
thought of, is a stout gray-bearded man
about sixty, with strong features, and large
| eyes that tell of sympathy and courage in
| their possessor.
Eyes, and 1 was on the site of Marysville
f; before the place bore the mark of a white
man." said he, in the course of brief talk.
81 came out across the plains horseback
with ten others early in 1S49. We were at
the Missouri river ready to start before that,
| but had to wait for the grass to grow on the
plains. Our supplies all gave out long be-
| fore we reached here, and we had to rely
on what we could pick up. / could see as
l came down this slope of the Sierras some
| of the points we passed by on our trip then.
| There was not even trail or road then
over the mountains. San Francisco was
| lust hamlet when 1 reached it. Those ten
men that came with me have all disap-
peared One died of fever in Nicaragua,
one was cut to pieces out here, others went
back homesick, and have since died. want
to visit the Pioneers Society rooms and see
if can find any old friends"
| MIcHIGAN's GOVERNOR.
| Among the prominent men who reached
here few days ago with the National
| Grange party is Governor Cyrus G. Luce OF
| Michigan, now filling his second term as
| Chief Executive of the Wolverine State.
| 1t is his first vacation and outing from the
State in three years-in fact, since he has
been in office-and he is bent on making
the most of his excursion, intending to see
all he can of this State, of which he has
| heard so much but never before seen. AS
soon as the sessions of the Grange are over
he will travel about and visit many Sec
tons of the State. Mrs. Luce and daughter
accompany the Governor.
| Personally, Governor Luce strikes one as
a man of unusual intelligence, cautious
observant and practical. He looks in some
respects not unlike the late Governor Bart
| lett, although he is not so large and is
younger. Of medium height, with close
| trimmed gray hair and beard, quick,
glancing eyes. ready smile and cordial
manner, he would attract attention indie
pendent of his political station in any group
of men. He surprised every one at the
Grange reception last Tuesday night, where
all was laudation of California, by proudly
proclaiming Michigan's growth and great
ness and extolling her products, but no
banter troubled him, and all who knew
him realized that his praise was earnest
and not simply for speech-making pur-
poses. Congressman McKenna spoke chaff-
ingly of his remarks and facetiously talked
of Michigan allowing her Governor to roam
around Luce, and others referred to preva-
lent brag, but the Governors eyes twinkled
while he backed up all his statements with
| facts and figures.
I'VE are all much pleased said he, re-
| ferring to the visiting Changers. i've just
been writing back home that it seems, as |
look out, that am in one big flower gar
den. We saw some of California's pest
products in my State at Lansing, during the
session of the National Grange there two
years ago. The exhibit attracted much
favorable attention. l want very much to
look about, and expect to spend some little
time in San Francisco before long,