The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-06-26
Times Dispatch Bureau,
AIunsey Building.
washInston, D. C.. June rs

Washington, D. c.. June IS.
Grover Cleveland and Fitzhugh Lee
were warm friends for twenty years
and more. Mr.. Cleveiand's first visit
to Virginia was during the administra-
ton of Governor Lee, when the Presi
dent attended the commencement ex-
ercises OF the University of Virginia.
1t was largely through the personal
friendship which Mr.. Cleveland, who
was not university man, felt for Gov
ernor Lee that the trip to Chariottes-
Vile was made.
a fearfully hot day in June ii was,
and nobody suffered from the heat
more than President Cleveland. whose
avoirdupois made him fair mark.
Gen. Lee. scarcely less in weight suffer
ell also, but he knew ways of Tending
oft the effects of the heat. After the
ceremonies President Cleveland went
to his room at the house OF one OF the
professors, and General Lee went to
the home of another. where he was be-
Ing entertained. But General Lee did
not go to his room. He sought out the
cool library, where the family and
guests We're assembiec. and pretty
soon several odorous Ju:eps were ready
to discharge their cheering and cool
Ing mission.
Excuse me- said General Lee, TAX
ing UP one of the glasses and start
ing from the room.
Where are you going, GOVERNOR"
asked his host.
81 am going to take this to the
president" replied General Lee, and he
went across the lawn to the house
where President Cleveland was lodged.
| his room.
Never mind about that" replied
General Lee. and he marched on up.
stairs, bearing the mint-crowned glass,
Il and knocked at the door of the Presi-
dents room.
Come in,' said throaty voice, and
General Lee strobe In
! 81 found the President sitting be-
fore the window" said General Lee.
"his coat and collar off. his shirt open
lat the throat while he was tanning
away with big palmleaf, trying to
get cool. handed him the julep WIN
| ont word He took 1t without
word and drained 1t. Then ne TOOK
| a lump OF the ice and cracked II as
| a squirrel cracks nut. a..
.:I 90. YOU have saved my me- ne
| ..id and / rather believed MN.
4 A,thonrh Mr.. Cleveland was no. q
4 Great story-teller himself, there Mas
1 no man who enjoyed a good yarn ny. ~. =.
| His great fondness for John fanuotp -
tucker was in large measure ,, ~. :,
4 tho wonderful storytelling aolley u
4 .ha+ araat yireinian. Mr.. Cleveland IS
, rn, 10 have fallen out of his char
ane evening while laughing at MT:
| fuckers celebrated smelling po..ie
/ story. It has been said, often, tnae
I Mr.. Cleveland would not appoint MT.
4 tucker to the Supreme bench pecause
1 he thought the latter had 700 Ihu nue.;
4 leyity. Certain 1t Is that ne hau lhs
greatest admiration for the intelieceual
i powers of Mr.. Tucker.
one If the stories Mr.. Cleveland used
to like to tell was about an experience
he had with Chick Bruce, q famous I'M. 8
/: Adirondack guide. who accompanied
him on several hunting trips IN the
(. mountains. One morning In the woods
i C,hick left Mr.. Cleveland sitting on a
i log. while he himself went out to drive
4: down deer If he could lind one. y.
i When he returned in an hour or Two
\ without having raised a deer he found
A his presidential employer sitting, pa
\ tiently sitting. on the log, but With the
4 butt Of the gun on the ground and
4 the muzzle pointed directly at his chest
Here shouted Chick, quit that
4 blank blank ye. S'posin' tibet gun
\ should 20 off and ye'd kill Syerse'f, what
i would happen to me? Dern We. every
u body knows I'm Republican!
When Mr.. Cleveland was a candidate
for the presidency In 1884 newspaper
4 correspondent In New York was told
4 by William Dorsheimer that Mr.. Cleve-
4 Hand had framed the Morrison tariff
4 bill-"the horizontal tariff Billiard
4 the story was generally published. Mr.
4 Cleveland did not think that as Gov
ernor of the State Of New York he had
anything to do with Federal legtss~
ton, and lie told Charles A. Dana thnt
J. he Had nothing to do with drafting
! 1.-The BILL The correspondent, when he
read the denial, was greatly troubled
|by the thought that he had lost stand.
& ling with man w..om he admired &C
4 deeply, and he fastened to Albany tc
make his peace.
4 "A large, cheerful man received him
cordially. and asked him to smoke q
cigar with him and Wilson Bissell
!. equally large, and afterward larger.
/ tits pretty strong cigar" said thu
correspondence II
81 guess you can stand It," said Mr.
Cleveland. 'You are In good society
your surroundings are propitlous; you'll
like the smoke. Almost everything
| depends on your surroundings usctt
Ito smoke cigar in Buffalo when J
was young that seemed to me to b.
excellent. and had some made AM
|, sent to my room. But when they go
there 7 found them pretty poor stuff
!. used to smoke them at one Of the biz
beer gag dsnsa Ehpt xYhen N got then