Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1930-12-25

was only by Qlnt OF mucn persuasion
that most of them were persuaded to
return again.
Grants Interest In Exhibits
According to Judge E. N. Harwood,
former supreme court justice, who was
a young attorney in Billings at the
time, he was particularly impressed
with the interest that General Grant
took in the farm exhibits. He talked
with the people standing about like n
farmer to another, discussing the mer-
it's of the samples on display and ask
ing questions about farming methods,
prices, yields and similar matters which
would occur to one familiar with agri-
culture.
AS President Willard was speaking at
the rear of his train to the assembled
crowd, his daughter, a girl Of IL or IA
came out on the platform. Willard
introduced her and said, Il think more
Of my daughter than of the whole
Northern Pacific system" Years aft
terward, Judge Harwood visited the
Willard home on the Hudson while in
the east on legal business growing
out of the contest in the Andrew j..
Davis estate. In the hallway was a
life-size portrait of Willard, who had
died a few years before. The girl,
then grown to womanhood, was in the
room and the judge mentioned the
incident and asked if she recalled 1t.
She appeared greatly moved by the
recollection.
Jules Breuchaud Was Civil Engineer
In an article which appeared in the
American magazine in November, 1923,
concerning Jules Breuchaud, noted
New York civil engineer, who began
his career as a railroad contractor for
the Northern Pacific in Montana, some
Of his "reminiscences Of the same event
are given.
Breuchaud took a prominent part in
the early days Of Billings and was
the first county treasurer when yell
lowstone county was formed and at
the same time served as deputy sheriff.
B%reuchaud was put on a committee
with two Civil war veterans to pay the
honors of the day to General Grant.
But the two ~ex-soldiers could not face
the terrors of a formal reception and
deserted, leaving Breuchaud to extend
the hand of welcome alone.
The young deputy sheriff was some
what disturbed at the thoughts of n
PERTAINING General Grant alone. How
ever, Breuchaud was equal to the oc-
casion and hired a carriage In which
to show the ex-president over the town.
Grant Visited Boothill Cemetery
The general accepted the invitation
to see Billings, but the two or three
streets Of plain wooden houses with
not a tree to break the monotony were
0 passed in review. The young
host then undertook to show his dis
tinguished guest some Of the further
attractions outside the town, winding
up at a little wind-scarred burying
ground on a lonely hill"
This was the now widely famed
Boothill cemetery, named for the ira
dition that everyone Of the thirty or
more persons buried there died with
his boots on, in gun-fights with Indians
or white men, or by accident Or suicide.
Breuchaud left Billings in 1885 when
offered an important sub-contract at
Yonkers, N. Y, by Heman Clark, one
of the group of Northern Pacific cap
italists who had promoted Billings in
vestments. Breuchaud was afterwards
the builder of the New Croton dam, a
famous piece of masonry in connection
with New York's water supply and
he is called the godfather Of the sky
scraper for his invention Of the modern
system of underpinning.
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