Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-04-12
WAS NOT GENERALLY KNOWN
THAT HE WAS IN
THE CITY.
HAD AN ILLUSTP|0US RECORD
served During the Civil and Cuban
Wars in Addition TO Many Years
In the Philippines.

NEW YORK, April 12.-Grant Is
dead. The news flashed from the
apartments of Major General Freder-
ick Dent Grant at the Hotel Buck
ingham shortly after midnight sent a
shock through the city such as that
which startled the whole country up
on the death of his father 27 years
ago.
The news was far more sudden. IL
came less than an hour after the tlrst
alarm had been sounded that General
Grant was even seriously i'll. The
alarm itself had come before II had
been generally learned that General
Grant was even in the city as his pres
ence here had been kept secret
"Get a physician quick. The gem
eral is dying" This telephone call
received at the night desk OF the
buckingham at 1880 o'clock last
night. was the first news.
A bellboy was dispatched to the
office of DR.. Abbey, nearby, but the
physician, was not at home. MIS-
Grant was not informed and chatting
at the delay, she cried hyterically:
Get an ambulance, Get anybody
The alarm was sent to police head
quarters from which an ambulance
was dispatched. Calls We're put in
random also for physicians in the
Fifth avenue district and within
few minutes two had responded
When the ambulance arrived, with
in four minutes CT the alarm, it was
said that General Grant probably was
diving. He was in too dangerous
condition to be removed and the am
bulance drove away.
In the half hour previous to his
death. the alarm over his condition
had aroused all the newspaper Offices
in most of which the reports were
regarded with caution, in view OF the
fact that General Grants presence
here was not known. Many newspa-
per men were on the scene in a few,
minutes, however. but as none were
allowed to go to the apartments, the
exact state of affairs was matter OF
doubt until an end was put to all when
the hote, clerk was heard to repeat
over the telephone:
Grant Is dead"
1t was stated that the cause was
heart failure, following diabetes and
attending digestive disturbances.
Major General Frederick Dent
Grant. eldest son of Ulysses S. Grant,
eighteenth president of the United
states, was born at st, Louis. Mo-. May
30. 12EO. lie was with his father dur
ing part of the civil far, witnessed
he capture of Forts Henry and Don
elson and went with his fathers com
mand through the Virginia campaign
He witnessed also the fights at Co
rinth. Nicksburg. Nashville and Peters
lure
After the war young Grant entered
West Point and was graduated in
1871. For year he served as civil
engineer for the Union Pacific rail-
way and in 1872 accompanied Gen
eral Sherman on a trip to Europe.
He resigned his commission as Col
onel in the army in 1881 and for a
number of years was engaged in va
rlous enterprises. He was appointed
minister to Austria by President Har
rison in 1858. but assigned on the
election of Mir. Cleveland to the presi-
dency Under the reform administra-
lion of Mayor Strong he was one of
New Yorks police commissioners
but at the outbreak of the war with
spain in 1898. he became colonel in
the 1ith New York infantry and was
appointed brlgad1er general of volun
,eers on May %. 1898. On February
ts. 1901, he was appointed brigadier
general L. 5. ~. and reached the
Grade of major five years later He
served in Porto Rico and commanded
the military district Of San Juan. He
vas In command of various brigades |
n tile Philippine Islands for several
years returning to the United States |
in 1902. He was appointed major |
general in 1910 to succeed General |
Wood.
In 1874 he married Miss Ida NJ. |
Fionore. daughter of Hamilton Hon
ore of Chicago.
Women suffragists in Chicago are