two
o'clock
The first few moments after he had been thrust out of the relief work , Grant spent sending his men in the crowd to summon the members of the Council ; then he turned and hurried to his office in the Vanderbilt House . For an hour he wrote . Henry Fenn came , and later Laura Van Dorn appeared , but he waved them both to silence , and without telling them what he had written he went with them to the hall where the Valley Council was waiting in a turmoil of excitement . It was after two o'clock . South Harvey was a military camp . Thousands of citizens from Harvey were hurrying about . As he passed along the street , the electric lights showed him little groups about some grief-stricken parent or brother or sister of a missing militiaman .