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NEW YORK TIMES
April 23, 1885

ULYSSES S. GRANT'S CONDITION. OUT WALKING AFTER A GOOD NIGHT'S REST.

As Jesse Grant and his little daughter were coming down the steps for a walk yesterday afternoon, there were 20 or 30 men on the sidewalk with their hats lifted, all looking upward. The child watched them curiously and raising her head, followed the gaze of the crowd to the library window. "There is grandpa," she exclaimed, and breaking from her father's hold she put both her hands to her mouth and send a kiss flying toward the occupant of the window. The General nodded and waved his hand to her.

Although much improved and sleeping a bit better, the General is still a very sick man. He spent the morning as usual and was in sight from the street several times, and once, when the Colonel's little son emerged for the first time in trousers, the General and Mrs. Grant waved approval from the sick room windows at the way the little fellow managed his legs. At noon, the General and Mrs. Grant went riding and were gone nearly an hour. The General seemed much heated up on his return which was evidently due to having a heavy cashmere shawl around his throat. Mrs. Grant explained that the doctor's had advised it as a means of keeping dust out of his mouth. At 4 o'clock trudged unexpectedly down the stoop and walked with Colonel Fred down to Madison Ave. The walk did not seem to fatigue him, but Colonel Fred passed an arm under the General's some of the time and was most devoted in his attentions, as ever.

The General stood with his son on the corner, stopped to speak to a neighbor on his return, and went back into the house unaided. He was out 20 minutes. Mrs. Grant and Mrs. Jesse Grant watched him from the parlor window, and the windows of nearly every house had admiring occupants during the General's walk. There will be a homelike celebration of the General's birthday on Monday. "All the children will be here and we will have a little something extra for dinner," Mrs. Grant said with matronly pleasure. A few hours later, U.S. Grant, Jr. was seen in the second floor window, attending to the General as he made several turns about the room. The General seemed quite as steady as during his afternoon walk. He also gave a sitting to a sculptor who intends to make a bust of him. While out today the General was weighed, topping the scales at 141 pounds, against 162 pounds at the beginning of the year and nearly 200 pounds a year ago.

 

 

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