New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-07-02
WHAT SOLDIERS MOST NEED.
MRS ULYSSES s. GRANT TELLS HOW MEN
WHO ARE FIGHTING SHOULD
BE PROVIDED FOR

HER REco11.EcTIoNs OF THE CIVIL WAR AND ITS
sUFFER1NG-sHE SPENT THREE WEEKS IN
THE GOVERNORS PALACE HAVANA
Mrs Ulysses s. Gran, arrived in this city on
Thursday en- route for Magnolia Mass she Went
Immediately TO the Fifth Avenue Hotel where MrA
sartoris who came a few days before. awaited her
The whole party Including Mrs. Sartorss TWO
dauzhters their maid and MIS-. Grants companion
leave the city this morning on the 10 O'Clock tram
Although Tot feeling well and much exhausted oy
the heat. Mrs Grant gave an audience 10 IFl0u'e
reporter yesterday afternoon. apologizns 'or oehs
Obliged to lie down. The delay in leaving Washing
ton until the extreme warm weather mas arrived
was due 20 Mrs. Grants anxiety TO finish me DOCK
OF "reminiscences which she has been writing
IT wanted to leave It typewriter and ready she
said go that the detail work would be accurate
and the facts well put together as possible IN
case anything happened 10 me. No. ! have not
sought q publisher yet nor have given the volume
any mama II lie merely recollections
When asked which OF the many kinds OF war re'!es
work that women are doing was in her opinion the
mos. helpful and the needed. Mrs. Grant sac'
81 commend anything that will give comfort 10 me
men al the front, Necessaries are the things they
want: wha: We call necessar.es, and they call luxu-
r.es I, IL the duty OF citizens TO take caro- OF the
Door at home. A soldiers palry SIS month can
go far toward supporting family tho families
must have known thi. when the men went They
are not worse of than II the men stayed hero and
were unemployed. Let the unfortunate be helped
but the men who are nghtng need all that can be
done FOR them"
do you think the troops are less we'll PROVIDED Tor
now than IN the Civil War; was asked.
mo" was the reply: but President Lincoln bad
more time TO prepare :or the provisioning OF an
army han the Government has had now have
seen soldiers actually suffer FOR food she added
General Grant never good oommissary for
himself order IN large Quantities tor his men ana
provide well for them MS forte but his own
table was wretchedly poor. I renemoer when he
went down 10 Lookout Mountain to relieve Genera!
Rosecrans The men were IN fsmisnins state;
they were robong the horses CT their provende- and
deyouring the coarse corn General Gvent told them
that supplies were on tho way; that comtorted
them. and the provisions did arrive shortly"
YOU are the president Of the WomAn's National
War Relief Association. are you not Ms GrantY'
Yes am so called" was the smiling reply. Mrs.
Eugene Mclean. wno Is d friend Of mine. is inter
ested IN the movement. and asked NE 10 take the
of1ce 0, president have no executive amhty.
Know how 70 tske the irst step But Ms Mclean
whose husband was a rebel general and became
begged me for the sake Of tina, time l accepted.
can't do anything bu, my generals are fully capa-
be s and al k saey 10 Is Hgnt w ,,oue,. .sou, N.
soldiers being paid during the Civil War. such as IL
ne T ease POW Mr. era Grant ,,s SAID no, ,a
then. Aren't they paid now? That ought 70 be at,
tended TO- o, course and dare say Il Will be al
right No doubt the rush OF things and It's all being
90 new make some delay"
The length Of Army cots spoken Of. but Mrs
Grant said she did not know what the regulation
size was s. She said. however. that she had sent
on 10 Boston and got especially good sort Of ham
mock. Of extra length. which she mas sent 10 her
son. General Frederick Grant who mas been so III
at ChickamaUga- photograph of the General
which was shown bore striking resemblance 70 his
Nustrious father He Is much larger man in build
and weighs, his mother says. over two hundred
pounds. Another comfort she has cent him Is a
ptth helmet and che added that auxiliary
would DO well 70 send these 10 the men, as they ara
% fne a protection from the sun.
ASKED about her recollections OF Spain and Cuba
when she visited them in company with her nus
band. Mrs. Grant said she was most kindly received
IN both countries.
We were beautifully treated IN Cuba" she added
and thoroughly enjoyed the three weeks We occu-
pisc the Governors Palace in Havana
The Fourth OF July. being the birthday OF General
frederick Grants young son. his mother has re-
turned from Chickamauga 10 take him back on
visit 70 his father. This young fellow Is not yet old
enough 10 Join the Army. but a nephew OF MIS-
Grant Is on the Vixen. which Is cruising about the
cuban coast waiting FOR chance TO do some execu-
ton