The Detroit times., 1912-04-12
.TElEGRAMS OF SORROW
POUR IN FOLLOWING THE
DEATH OF GEN. f D. GRANT
Thought of Malady That Killed
His Father Hastens Death
in New York
FUNERAL DATE NOT SET
Heart Failure Seizes Distin-
guished Soldier and Death
Comes Soon Afterward
FUNERAL DATE NOT SET


NEW YORK, April 12.-Universal
sorrow was expressed today over the
death OF Gen. Frederick Dent Grant,
and the feeling OF grief was not con-
fined to military circles, as he was
popular in all ranks here. Pending
the issuance OF the Official statement
clearing up some Of the mysterious
incidents surrounding the generals
last illness there was wide specula=
tion whether worry had not been the
contributing cause OF death.
Fred Grant, as young man, was
the constant companion of his dis
tinguished father, Gen. u. s. Grant,
and he often told friends that the
sight OF his fathers suffering had
completely unnerved him. When he
was seized with throat trouble last
year, he was convinced that the
malauy which ended the career or
his distinguished sire, cancer OF the
throat and tongue, had laid its heavy
hand on him, and all efforts TO shake
off that feeling failed.
Friends believed today that this
feeling of depression must have in
terfered with the success OF the oper-
alton recently performed although the
cause of death as certified by the at
tendant physicians was heart failure.
kilograms and cablegrams of SYM
pathy were received from all over the
world at the Hotel buckingham to-
day where the grief-stricken family
are staying. The funeral will be a
military one and will probably be held
Sunday or Monday.
The general had been at the Buck
ingham only since Wednesday night,
having been taken there from the hos
pital in the hope that his surround
ings would be more cheerful and add
to the rapidity OF his recovery. Early
last evening he was feeling better
than at any time since he was first
taken ILL., but about IL o'clock he be-
came faint and soon afterward the
heart seizure followed Before doc
tors, who had been frantically tele-
phoned for arrived, the general was
dead. II was only when an .am-
bulance doctor was called5that II was
definiteIy determined that the gen.
eral was in the hotel. Even then for
a long time there was belief that 1t
was Capt. Grant, and not his father,
that was dead
Gen. Fred Grant was as much a
LET us have peace soldier as his
father was a I'll fight it out along
these lines IL 1t takes all summer
warrior. The son played up the So
cial end OF the army life more. He
and Mrs. Grant were the leading rep
resentatives of the army social life.
Their receptions and parties were al
ways notable events.
Frederick Dent Grant was born In
st. Louis, Mo-, May 80, 1850, the son
Of President Grant. During the civil
war he spent most OF his time in his
fathers tent upon the battlefelds,
and was shot once. II is said, while
returning from pleasure jaunt and
when he refused to halt at the SEN
try's order.
After the war he entered West
Point military academy, and upon his
graduation in 1871 was commissioned
an officer in the army. From 1873
until 1881 he was aid-de-camp OF
Lieut.. Gen. Sheridan. Later, in 1885,
he was appointed United States min
lister to Austria In 1894 he was made
police commissioners OF New York,
and helped Theodore Roosevelt clean
up the police corruption there.
Upon the outbreak OF the Spanish
American war he was appointed a
colonel OF New York regiment, ris-
ing rapidly to the rank OF brigadier
general of the United States army In
1901. He served in the Philippines
both before and after the close of the
war, and in 1906 acquired the rank of
major general, and was at that time
In command OF the department of the
east, being transferred in 1908 to the
department OF the lakes, with head
quarters at Chicago.
He was married TO Miss Ida M.
Honore. a member OF a wealthy Chi
cago family. In 1874.