The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-02-08
WILL NOT RESIGN.
Why Secretary Tracy VIII Continue In tho
Navy Department.

| fhsJ DophTtHents
NKw YoRK, Feb. 7.-Gen. Isaac S. Cat
lin, accompanied by Mr.. and Mr.. Robert
Graves, his daughter aud son.in.law ar
rived home from Washington Wedneu,
day night. He was at his office in the
Garfield building, Brooklyn, yesterday
morning. In answer to question rs "a
the possibility OF Secretary Tracy retir.
ing to private life because OF his bereaye.
ment, General Catlin replied: "There Is
no possibility whatever that Secretary
Tracy will retire from public life. OF
course he Is greatly shattered and 1t will
take long time to bring him around,
but he will persevere in his life's work,
lie is not only suffering from mental
shock but the inhalation OF smoke has
affected him physically. In the supreme
moment OF his suffering he said that II
he could not 20 on with the work which
he had begun in the Navy Department
he could not live.
The General said that the matter of
the final disposition OF the remains OF
Mrs. Tracy and Miss Mary f. Tracy was
still under consideration and the final
interment would be either at Greenwood
or at Oswrgo, n. Y. "My family" said
the General. "has lived here for over
twenty years, and in this city General
Tracy achieved the great triumph OF his
life. l think that until Mr.. Stranahan
arrived in Washington it was pretty
definitely settled that the remains OF
my sister und my neice would be finally
inferred at Oswego, but Brooklyn's first
citizens said that Greenwood was the
place, as Brooklyn had been the theater
OF General Tracy's successes rs lawyer,
and it was from this city that he had
been called to the Cabinet. The final
interment will be private and without
any demonstration whatever"
In reply to the question as to whether
the Secretary could recall any OF his ex.
periences during the FIRE, General Cat
lin replied: ~ had IN hours talk with
him alone over the incidents of the sad
event. He told me he had but one
lucid interval after waking from sleep
before losing consciousness. He saw
the smoke all around him and remem.
bers calling out My God, we aru lost!
His next awakening was To find the
fresluent bendlng over him at MIR. Ban
croft Davis house."
The General then feelingly alluded to
the great tenderness Of President Ilarr;-
son and his family toward the living
and the dead. II made laundering
attempt myselfto nerve up the Secretary,
which resulted in way / never con-
templated," he continued. 81 heard
Mrs. Wilmerding's daughter say to her
mother: Mamma, why do you cry? It
is true that grandma and Aunt Mary are
gone, but we have papa left. You must
take care of him, you know, MAMMA
l went straight to Gen. Tracy and re-
peated to him what the child had said.
He looked at me for an instant, und then
uttered such cry OF anguish as had
never heard. The strong man sobbed
MS if his heart wonld break. begged
Gen. Juurdan, who had suffered the loss
OF his own daughter, to try and comfort
the Secretary, and he succeeded well.
General, said the Secretary to him, Il
know you have suffered yourself, but
your daughter died natural death,
while my dear ones persisted SO fright.
fully" This is the thought that haunts
him and which time alone can banish."