The herald., 1895-05-12

Miss Nellie Grant, Daughter of Jesse Grant
Prom photograph loaned by Col. Fred D. Grant.
will rest the responsibility of carrying the
hame down to posteritv.
These grandchildren form peculiarly
interesting group. and at this time, so
near the anniversary of General Grants
birth. are particular subjects of interest
TO the American people. There are
twelve grandchildren IN all. some of them
in England, others in the far west. and
Others in the east Many thousands OF
miles separate them, but in each OF their
childish hearts tender thoughts have
gone up to the man whose memory is so
lovingly cherished by them.
Through the courtesy OF Col Frederick
Dent Grant, eldest son of the General,
and the present head of the family, por-
traits of eleven OF the grandchildren were
obtained. The missing portrait is that
OF the youngest son of Jesse Grant. who
now lives at San Diego, California. These
portraits have never been published be-
fore in collective form, and to the tens of
thousands of admirers of the late Cen
eral they possess an unique interest
Col. Fred Grant has two children, a nd
they now live at No. % East Sixty sec
ond street. The elder of the two is Miss
Julia Grant young lady of Is, who is
attention has been given to her education
and today she is a lingust of considerable
skill and an artist of no small ability.
She has not dabbled in art. like the aver
age girl, but has made a serions study of
it, and has done portrait work in oils
which has commanded the attention of
connosseurs.
The younger of the two children is a
boy, who is the particular admiration
OF all the branches of the Grant
family. and OF all the people who
know him. He will be II years of age on
In ~ J, nf I,,1 l.
1881. two days after the shooting of Presi-
dent Garfield.
This boy is named Ulysses S. Grant,
and he was the pet of the closing years
# his grandfather. 1t was General Grants
hope to make great soldier of his young
lamesakc, and just prior TO his death he
1T Il letter addressed to the President of
the United States in 1896. asking that
the boy be admitted to West Point. 1t
will fall to President Clevela md S lot, un-
less the fates intervene, to answer this
letter.
The boy is very tall for his age, stand
ing about five feet eight, and prom ising
to grow into an unusually tall man. He
is SELF possessed and courteous, and has
displayed studious traits which are re-
garded as marvellous by his instructor at
the Cutler school in East Fiftieth street.
where he is the prize scholar. He not
only speaks French and German bot he
languages. He also knows something of
Italian and is proficient in Latin.
His school companions nave made him
editor. in-chief of the school paper and
while he has four associate editors on his
staff, the bulk of the work falls upon
him.
He takes deep interest in military
matters, and OH one of the upper floors
OF his home has an army of 5000 lead SOL
ditrs. which are put through all manner
Of intricate evolutions.
Colonel Grant modestly declined to talk
about the boy. hut asked the writer to see
his school instructors, saying at the time,
The boy has exceeded all my expeota-
tions: In fact, | never hoped that Il
member OF my individual family would
be 50 clever Colonel Grant is ~ abnor-
mally modest man, and delicattly keeps
IN the background those qualities which
have won him the respect and esteem of
countless friends.
Az the school the boy attends he is
reckoned as its best mathematician. He
has record OF securing $40 and some