Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1879 — The Meeting of Mrs. Grant and Her Son. [ARTICLE]

The Meeting of Mrs. Grant and Her Son.

The meeting of Mrs. Grant and her son Ulysses in tiie harbor of Ban Francisco, is thus pleasantly described by the Ban’ Francisco Chronicle: “The party on board the tug boat stood uuder the awning aft, and when the steps were finally adjusted there was a moment of respectful waiting as Ulysses Grant, Jr., came forward and mounted them. From the time when the Tokio was descried he had stood in the wheel house with a field glass in hand, with which he eagerly watched the steamerjx ostensibly for the General, but in rfeality, as every oue on board knew who watched his face, to see tiie mother whom he had parted with twd'years and a half ago and had conversed with since only by letter. Long before the Tokio came alongside he descried her on the bridge and waved a handkerchief as greeting. She stood also with glass in hand scanning the tug, but at first did not see him. When sbedid she waved the handkerchief for a moment, but coijld not wave it Jong, for it went up to her eyes and stayed there, despite the etforts that the mother’s hand made to wave it against the mother’s tears of joy, that made the meeting of her son the central and sole picture in all that grand scene. The “Milieu Griffith” slowly drifted toward the iron hulk, beside which it seemed so magnificent. Before the steps could be adjusted young Grant mounted them—the first man up—aud hastily ran to the gangway, where Colonel Fred, waited to meet him. Arm in arm they passed along tbe deck, reached tbe stairs, and hastily traversed the bridge. The General was passed with a hasty and affectionate salutation of “father,” but the mother, who stood behind, received a kiss that. 'Somehow is the same from palace to hut, and an embrace that told that while she may be Mrs. General Grant to all the waiting world of America, she was only "mother” to the son who met her after the absence of years.