The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-23
After Twenty Years He Recognized The Man Who as Boy Had
 shown Him About

Louisville CourfeP-Journal
 In the year 1877 there was a stir of anticipation in Louisville. The coming of Gen. Ulysses s. Grant was an event breach between the North and South was still a wide one. Great prepara- tions were made for the Generals com ing John M; Marlan, S later 4r,,1 Justice of MT. w. N. Haldeman MT. Joshua Speed. Major Bonnycastle, MT. Horace Scott. Dr. E. D. Standiford, then President of and MT. David P. Faulds comprised a committee which went to Indianapolis to meet General Grant. That was the year he had left the Presidency and was nous trip around the world. Mir. Faulds. on account of his personals acquaintance with the Grants, was in special charge of kthe ladies of the party-Mrs. U. S. Grant, Mrs. Fred Grant and Mrs. Potter Palmer.
 The morning of the arrival came, and all Louisville thronged the downtown 1t was with difficulty that MT. Faulds piloted the broughams fin which the par fy rode through back streets to the rear of the Louisville Hotel Guns boomed and bands played. It was big and rather unexpected reception.
 But the reception to the ladies of the party was the climax of the visit 1t Has given at o'clock in the afternoon
 
 Sixth Street. now known as the "old Ehreve place." and Mrs. David Faulds was the hostess to all the pick of the womanhood of the commonwealth. Mrs. one of the three Misses Sheridan known throughout the South for. their beauty and talent Of the three, Belle house, survives, living still in the old home. Mir. Faulds recalls with some amusement that he was one of three gem tIernen outside of the party who attend cd the reception: The others were Gen. Eli Murray and Mayor John Baxter. The house was magnifcently decorated, and General Grant, on bidding his hostess fained in the finest homes and palaces in the world in the past year. but never have seen more ideal home. Mrs. Faulds. nor have seen such women as the women of Kentucky"
 The first meeting of General Grant and Mir. Faulds had occurred years before this, when the latter was little more than a boy. and the General. then a IT m his bridal tour. At that time Mrs. -samuel K. Page related to Mrs. Grant, Walnut Street. between First and Sec ond Streets, the centre then of the fash 1onable life of the city: Mrs. Page in. trusted to young MT. Faulds the duty Of showing the bride and groom about
 The bridal tour occurred in the early forties. In the summer of 1878 Mr. and Mrs. Faulds and a number of members of the Shreve family were travelling to the Centennial at Philadelphia. The weather was hot and the slowness oi trains intensified the temperature. sev eral of the ladies grew faint At Deer Park up in the Virginia mountains, Il was decided to leave the train, and the party went to a little hotel to recuper- ate. Alter dinner Mr Faulds was sit. ling on the verandah smoking. when another party entered. A short grizzled gentleman approached within twenty-five feet and a negro servant was brushing him off vigor ously, when he glanced aver his shoulder. "Why, how do you do, Mr. Faulds?" exclaimed the, Presi. dent of the United States, and came over and shook hands. Twenty years had Dassed since he had seen the Louisville man, then hardly more than boy.
 "A man never forgets people he meets during his honeymoon" was General Grants response to Mr. Faulds's expres- sion of surprise at being recognized