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Subsequently, the President, in consequence of a dispatch from General Grant to Secretary Stanton, decided to go himself to Fortress Monroe. "The following telegram received at Washington, 4.35 A.M., February 2, 1865. From City Point, Va., February 1, 10.30 P.M., 1865 "Now that the interview between Major Eckert, under his written instructions, and Mr.
Only the rebel "fly-by-nights" were more like the Irishman's flea "when you put your hand on him, he was not there!" The President looking in at the telegraph-room in the White House, happened to find Major Eckert in. He saw he was counting greenbacks. So he said jokingly: "I believe you never come to business now but to handle money!"
Go home, and there you will receive my commands." Pale and heart-broken, Eckert glided from the group; mocking laughter followed his steps through the saloons; no one had a word of regret or pity for him; no one remembered their former friendship and oft-repeated assurances of service and gratitude.
Referring to matters that will be taken up later in the narrative, Edison says: "After this Gould wanted me to help install the automatic system in the Atlantic & Pacific company, of which General Eckert had been elected president, the company having bought the Automatic Telegraph Company. I did a lot of work for this company making automatic apparatus in my shop at Newark.
Eckert began to grow communicative; he grew more and more at his ease, and more and more talkative and sociable. Another hour passed in the same way, and then all of a sudden Eckert said: "Oh, by the way! I came near forgetting. I have got a thing here to astonish you. Such a thing as neither you nor any other man ever heard of I've got a cat that will eat cocoanut!
I told him to let in any of my friends, but I have to keep him there on guard." "So I understand. They nearly got in the other night, but I hear that your camera caught them." "Yes, that proved that the machine is a success, even if we didn't succeed in arresting the men." "Did you try?" "Yes, I sent copies of the film, showing Turbot and Eckert trying to break into my shop, to Mr.
As the king turned, his eye fell upon the privy councillor Von Eckert, and the mild and conciliating expression vanished from his features; he looked hard and stern. "Has the coat-of-arms been placed upon the house in Jager Street?" said the king. "No, your majesty." "Then I counsel you not to have it done; this house is the property of the crown, and it shall not be sacrificed by such folly.
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