The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-04-27
THE NATIONS CHEAPEST
 GENERAL SAVE WASHINGTON

TAR WITH Mexico maYawel remind us. w of the greatest general save Wash ngtor1, who ever commanded the armies of the
 Ulysses Simpson Grant was born ninety-l two years ago in one of the two rooms of rude frame house in the village of Point Pleasant, 0. on the north bank of the Ohio above Cin- 1innati. His father was & tanner and his moth ser, born Simpson, came of a Pennsylvania farming family of English origin
 A name was chosen for the future general and president by the simple sexpedient of writ ing several names on slips of paper placing them in hat, and drawing out two. The first slip drawn in this innocent lottery sconducted by the honest tanner bore he name of Hiram z inc second sUlysses' Tn his boyhood when he hauled bark from the woods to his fathers tan merry, he was known tos his chums as v < I.ys' and Lysses,, z the latter abbreviation be- ing favored by his parents.
 Grants name was to undergo other vicissi-. ttrdes however When it was decided to send him him to West Point to be educated for a soldier, his belongings were placed in: trunk which was marked boldly with his itials H. U. z Young Grant, observing that his initials so gar ingly displayed spelled the word hug and reali zing that this could not escape the atten- ton Of the West Point wits, took the liberty Of reversing the order Of his names. He paint cd out the offending letters and substituted D. H. 6. and as Ulysses Hiram Grant he regis tered on the books of the military academy
 Fate was to have still another sswhack' al his name. He had secured the appointment to West Point through the influence Of con gressman who was old friend of the fam flY This legislative gentl knowing that Mrs. Grants maiden name was Simpson, as s11ned that that was he nliddle e name of her son and as Ulysses Simpson Grant he appeared on the nomination papers. The youthful West Peirlte had no bJection to this new name, to save the trouble of having it changed, accepted if as his own U. s. Grant he remained tl1roug ughollt the remainder Of his brilliant life, although in civil war days it was suggested that the initials stood for sUncondi tional Surren- der-s'hs
 Grants birthday will be widely celebrated today in many parts of the republic. Veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic in New York and vicinity will make pilgrimages today to the magnificent npausoleum where rests all that is mortal Of the T Tanners Boy,'' beside the body Of his devoted wife. This tomb was begun on Abrila 1891 ssa1nd was dedicated on Grants Birthday six years later, in the presence of one of the greatest concourses of people ever as seTnbled in the United States.
 GaIena H., where Grant lived for several years after retiring from the army in 1854, will also be a Mecca for many patriotic pilgrims to- day After the war the citizens of GaIena pre- sented Grant with a house, and it was from this home that he went to the presidential chair the first time, and to this house he returned from the White House and from his trip around the world. which he was received by Queen Vic- tofia and other rulers and di distinguished peo- ple After Grants death the Galena house was presented by the family to the people of the little city, to be preserved as a permanent me merial.
 The Dexel cottage at Mount McGregor, near Saratoga, where Grant died in 1885, was presented to the Grand Army of the Republic, to be kept by that organization as a memorial to their great commander-in-chie