Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-01-10

| ever said that 10 me, and for some
reason then unexplained, felt de-
pressed, l left him there, and that
was the last time ever saw him alive.
alive.
II lived out In the suburbs at that
| time and as / was enroute 10 the
| White House the next morning ]
| heard the newsboys crying their
extras. ] cried as | read the sad news.
| i have always felt that II / had obeyed
my original impulse to accompany
the president the tragedy would not
have taken place"
OF the thirteen presidents and 20
secretaries to presidents who have oc-
cupied the White House since then
only President Wilson, former Presi-
dent Taft and Roosevelt and Secre-
taries Horace Porter, r. M. Douglas
and L. S. Grant, Jr., are still alive.
| And not one OF the men that sur
| rounded Lincoln during those tragic
| days that perpetuated the United
States is now alive. Crook is the sole
! survivor.
Brought the News.
President johnson on succeeding
| the lamented Lincoln selected Crook
| as his personal guard. He accom-
panied the president throughout the
! city on his walks and his drives. He
sat inside of the office during all of
! the time that the president received
| callers. At the request OF the presi-
| dent he followed the Impeachment
/ proceedings in the capital. When the
verdict was rendered he ran all the
way from the capital to the White
| House distancing all others and was
first to break the news to the presi-
dent and his wife that the impeach-
ment failed,
II was something OF a runner In
those days" said the Colonel, but l
think on that day hung up a record
that stands even yet You know there
were no trolley cars then, only buses.
! And they were too slow for me. When
told the president he looked at me
/, for a minute, sort of gulped when l
came into his eyes and he shook my
hand and walked away. Mrs. john
son thanked me for my trouble"
Was Close to Grant.
President johnson gave Crook a
| clerleship in the White House. And
when President Grant came into Of
he asked that the young soldier be
| retained in the Job. So soon as
| General Grant found out that Crook
was a veteran OF the war he ordered
| him kept on the force. The relations
| between Crook and his chief were
peculiarly close under General Grant.
| The latter was attracted by the ef
| ficient manner In which Crook dis
! charged his duties and on several oc>
, casions, in the absence or Secretary
Robert T. Lincoln, he detailed young
| In
this way that he received the title Of
! Colonel. In the days after the war
all persons close to the president re-
! ceived military titles and Crook was
no exception.
"They simply called me Colonel
and 1t stuck" said Crook today Now
everyone gives it to me as a right ana
have long since stopped trying to
explain that it is only an honorary
distinction"
When President Garfield was
assassinated Crook was in the window
Of the White House as he was carried
to the building
"The president recognized us and,
although suffering eXcruciating pain,
he waved his hand to u.s." said Crook.
when | saw Guiteau l recognized
him as man / had barred from tho
| White House some weeks ago. He
| had been accustomed to come into
the reception room, which | was then
| in charge of, to write letters. One
! day l gave him some old English note
paper of a peculiar light blue tint on
which to write. He left only to come
back and demand more. / told him
that / did not have any more. He
! became very mad and demanded:
"'You don't know who l am
am ! guess"
81 said: 4 didn't know that you
were anyone in particular
We'll l am the man that made
| Garfield president he said
Sketched the Murderer.
(Which one" I asked, and he left
very angry. l reported the affair to
| the secretary and he told me that
thereafter Guiteau was 10 be kept
out of the White House. had a GUS
tom then of making rough sketches
of peculiar characters and 1t was one
Of my sketches of Guiteau that was
| first printed in the New York Graphic,
| it being the only picture or sketch
available that night"
| Colonel Croow saw five White House
| brides united in marriage. They
were Miss Nellie Grant: Miss Plat,
niece OF Secretary Hay who married
| General Hastings; Miss Frances Fol-
som, who married President Clevc-
| land; Miss Alice Roosevelt and the
Missy Jessie and Elanor Wilson. He
| was In the White House when two