The Washington herald., 1915-07-01
Gen. Sherman's Ungrati6ed
Longing. =.

The last years Of the life OF Gen. Will
lam 7. Sherman were spent in New York
City and he seemed to rejoice as a child
would in everything that he saw and
especially in the daily movement in the
business thoroughfares. He delighted to
stand at his club window and look. with
a sort of nervous enthusiasm character
istic Of him. at the people as they pass
ed up and down the street The public
buildings and the construction Of them
especially the rapidity with which work
men constructed the lofty steel frames
for the tower-like business structures
attracted him. and he would stand some
times by the hour watching the workmen
in their dangerous vocation.
1t was one Of the most agreeable of
the entertainments Gen. Sherman found
in New York to stand at the window of
lofty office building at the lower end
Of Broadway. This was the Office of
Gen. Granville E. Dodge. with whom
Gen. Sherman was intimate in civil war
days. This intimacy was maintained at
the time Gen Dodge was building the
Union Pacific Railroad. for Gen. Sher-
man used occasionally to go from head
quarters at st. Louis to inspect sections
of the railroad which had been COM
pleted.
At the window of the lofty office build
ing Gen. Sherman could see far I'D the
Hudson River and his vista also extend
ed as far south as the narrows OF New
York Harbor. He would stand or sit at
the window by the hour, being especially
FOND OF following with his eyes the out
going ocean steamships watching them
until they got out OF sight within the
lower harbor of New York
1t was just after one Of the largest
OF the ocean liners had passed out of
view that Gen. Sherman confessed 20
Gen. Dodge what was the chief desire
OF the closing years of his life There
hung on the wall of the office a map
delfneating the Union Pacific Railroad,
and Gen. Sherman was fond of study
ing this. for with parts of the con-
struction Of the road he was familiar.
One day he turned from the window
and said to Gen. Dodge: II see that
they are extending the railroad from
Seattle north so as to make connee-
ton with the Canadian Pacific Rail-
road. 1 should be overjoyed IL when
that extension is completed you were
able to take me from New York to
Seattle, then north over the connecy-
ing links to the Canadian Pacific
and then home again by way Of that
Canadian railroad"
lust as soon as that link Is COM
pleted. I will arrange for a continental
peAt-iiho Trip OI tndt KIM IOr you,
said Gen. Dodge. In 1891. Gen. Sher-
man said to Gen. Dodge: II see that
reports from Seattle announce that
the connecting link is practically
completed by which you can get an
all-rail trip from New York to the
Pacific Coast and back again by way
of the Canadian Pacific
Just as soon as that IL actually
completed, general, will arrange for
the trip" said Gen. Dodge. and to this
Gen. Sherman replied: II don't know
Of anything that would give me great
er pleasure than to be able to say
that A. the years came upon me was
able to make = continental round trip
of this kind" Gen. Dodge went,
shortly after that. to San Francisco
and when he learned that the con-
Meeting link was completed he began
arrangements for the trip he had
promised Gen. sherman. Before those
arrangements ware made word came
to him that Gen. Sherman had died
after brief illness from pneumonia
The last great wish Of his life was
not, therefore, realised.
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