The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1932-04-22

bore these words General! The sidewalk l.
built"
Galena further honored its returned hero by
buying a fine brick house, located on a hig hill
east of the river, and presenting it to him for
his home. There the Grants established them
selves and took leading part in Galena society
until his election to the Presidency in 1865.
Again in 1879 he was given great reception
after his trip around the world at the conclu-
sion of his two terms in the White House. Once
more he settled down in Galena, only to find the
quiet life which he had anticipated disrupted by
the insistence of his friends that he be a can
didate for a third term.
Grant who was sitting in the Office of his
friend Rowley when the news was brought to
him that the Republican convention had denied
him the nomination and given it to Garfield, had
just lighted one of his famous cigars. Walking
out to the sidewalk he stood for moment in
thought, then tossed the cigar in the street,
turned and went back into the Office. Il can't
say that regret my own defeat" he said quietly.
by it / shall escape four years of hard work
and four years of abuse. And, gentlemen, we
can all support the candidate"
Across the street was jewelry store. When
the son of the proprietor saw Grant throw away
his cigar he sent clerk to retrieve 1t. That
cigar, the symbol of the end of Grants public
career is one of the Grant relics which is pre-
SeTNeu III Odltud W ILLS Iout IL 10 oIiy
one of the many which you find on every hand
there.
A modern paved highway leads you into
Gaena, but the moment you enter the town, you
realize the aptness of someone's description OF
Galena as "a town where time stands STILL The
crooked narrow streets which wind in and out
among the old stone and brick houses are the
same streets along which walked the notabes of
a century ago. But the booming river town of
;tca1f hot
$50 feet wide in 1874, is but a thin trickle now,
barely kneedeep. The levee where once scores
of packet boats tied up is gone For once you
realize that the much overworked words OF
sleepy and quaint" applied to little
town. are true because Galena is BOTH
There are innumerable landmarks which stand
unchanged by the years TO take you back TO
another century. They suggest innumerable in
teresting stories of frontier times in Illinos-of
the days of the voyageur and the trader, Of the
Indian wars, Of the old steamboat river days
But dominating them all is the memory Of one
mana late conner in the history of Galena TO
whom Galena clings as giving it now its only
claim to fame 1t is the memory Of Grant
Galena will show you the store in which
Grant cerked and the First Methodist Episcopal
church in which Grant and his family worshiped
They viii take you up along 1.-The Street of the
Generals" and point out to you the homes of
Grants staff during the war. and that of his
friend Doctor Kittoe who became medical d.
rector of the Army Of the Tennessee with the
rank of lieutenant colonel
They will take you out to the cemetery and
show you where rests "the only Grant who
stayed in Galena"-Samuel Simpson Grant,
Ulysses brother, who died in September. 1861
and is buried there Through the principal park
In the town. named for the general and dom
mated by bronze statue Of him. they will lead
you up the hill the brick house which Galena
. once gave TO her distinguished citizen and which
his son. Gen. Frederick Dent Grant. gave back to
Galena TO be preserved as a Grant memorial
There you may look dpon innumerable relics of
the citizen. the soldier and the President and his
family for it is furnished and kept as it
when the Grants occupied it.
In fact. there is scarcely place in the town
but that has its memento Of him con-
tribute some incident to the story of his career
Grant and Galena, Galena and Grant-the words
have become inseparable. His ashes may rest
In the magnificent tomb on Riverside Drive in
New York city. but the living memory of him
he found only in a little Illinois town "wher.
time stands still"
&c by Western Newspaper Uniou-)