The National tribune., 1885-12-17
At SPIEGEL GROVE,
EX-PreSident and Mrs. Hayes at Their
Fremont Home.

manners and customs than any OF the othsi
Presidents. 1t is true that each has SHOWN 'he
same transformations tastes and CONSCIENTIOUS
desire 10 serve his country without regard TO
the effect upon himself personally OF the course
lie aGopied HAYES and Cleveland are also the
ONLY two of our Presidents who have ever re-
signed as Governors of States to come 10 WASH
iuaton to begin a term OF the Presidency, |
though other Presidents have been Governors |
of States and Polk term as Governor OF len
uessee expired just a year before he was elected |
President. |
HAYES resigned as Representative from Ohio |
before his term in Congress expired to become |
Governor of Ohio and before his last term as
Governor (he having been elected three times
TO tnat Office was over he resigned TO become
President. .
Cleveland also had to resign succession oil
offices to accept of higher ones. Before ms
term as Sheriff in Buffalo expired he was elected
Mayor of that city, and before. his term as
Mayor was over he was elected Governor OF
New York, and he resigned the LATTER once
two years before the expiration OF his term to
be inaugurated President.
President Cleveland has restored the early
hour President and Mrs. Hayes had Tor break
fast as he, like them, is an early riser, 0ut a
sound sleeper while about it. President CleVe-
land breakfasts at $50 a. M, lunches at ?. M,
and dimes about Z or 7:30. Presidents Hayes
and Garfield breakfasted at $50 also, and the
former had lunch at 2 p. m. and dinner at .
o'clock Garfield dned at 3 during the priei
time he was in health after his inauguration
and had supper at o'clock instead OF a iate
dinner. As was the custom with Presldeht
and Mrs HAYES, President Cleveland drives
between lunch and dinner time, and, like them,
declines to use four horses to his carriage, much
10 the disappointment of Albert, the coIored
coachman, who began his term OF service at
the White House when Gen. Grant was fresl-
dent and has been there continuously since as
the Presidents own driver. He was never
thoroughly happy after driving Mrs Grant
and her daughter and their friends in coach
with four horses until President Arthur gave
him the privilege of driving him and his son
and daughter in the same style. Albert ire
ouently. but in vain. entreated President Hayes
to have a coach and iour.
President Arthur rarely breakfasted before
10 or IL a. m but had lunch about o'clock
and dinner whenever he was ready Tor 1T, never
before 730, and often at o'clock. He usually
had a hot supper about midnight, or between
that and a. m, for himself and any gentlemen
who were spending the evening with him. lie
rarely went to bed before 3 a. m.
Readers of THE TRIBUNE who know OF the
great interest, both while in public life and
since his retirement from the Presidency, Gen.
HAYES has taken in those who fought for the
Union, will in turn take an interest III hearing
how happily situated he and his family are IN
their beautiful home just mile from the cen
ter of the thriving town OF Fremont, ". he
has hundred acres in the Enclosure In which
his spacious brick residence is situated. 1he
part nearest the house is laid out in perfectly
kent lawns and flower gardens and grove OF
fine old trees natural growth, only cleared
enough to permit of rides and drives through
it. Beyond the grove is the farm, on which
vegetables, grain and hay are raised.
The farm is well stocked with horses, COWS
hogs and sheep. all of the finest breeds, and
Mrs HAYES has a couple of Angora goats, and a
number of chickens and ducks flock to meet
her whenever she approaches the poultry yard.
as she does regularly at least once day She
also makes great pets of her Jersey cows, and
regularly visits them in their house. She still
has the twin calves. now, of course, fully
grown which were born in the lot south OF the
White House while her husband was President,
they having brought their own COWS to Wash
ingtcn with them.
1t issurprising to those who have never made
the comparison TO observe how closely the lite
ex-President and Mrs. Hayes are leading on
their farm, Spiegel Grove, resembles that led
by eKsPresident George Washington and his
wife at Mount Vernon after his retirement
from the Presidency.
In proof of this the following extract from
Custis's "Recollections of Washington may be
given George Washington Parke Custis, the
author of it, being Washington's adopted son
and the own grandson of his wife,
Custis writes: "In the Spring of 1877 Gen.
eral and Mrs. Washington, bidding adieu to
public life, took their leave of the seat of Gov
ernment and journeyed to the South, prepared
in good earnest to spend the remainder OF thelI
days in their beloved retirement of Mount
Vernon. The General resumed with delight
his agricultural employments, while the lady
hustled again amid her domestic concerns
showing that neither time nor her late elevated
station had in anywise impaired her quallfca-
tions for Virginia housewife; and she was
now verging upon threescore and ten."
In the same manner Mr.. and Mrs. Hayes
though both are younger than Washington and
his wife, seem to have resolved before leaving
the National Capital, as they did within q
hours after President Garfeld's inauguration
that they were leaving it and public life to
gether forever. He has not returned here since
except when he came TO attend President Gar
fields funeral in the Capitol and she did moi
then accompany him. Both have received
several invitations 10 make visits here, which
they have declined. They were invited to b'
present at the memorial services for Preslden
Garfield in February, 1892, and also to attend
the National Bazaar at the Capitol for the Gar
field Monument Fund, and to come here las
February TO the ceremonies attending th
dedication of the Washington Monument, bu
declined, though while President and after
wards Mr. Hayes took keen interest In tn
completion OF the Monument. 1t was Will
he was President that work upon 1T was begun
again, aIIer Delng suspended ~ years. II
gave a great deal of his time and attention &
matters connected with the Monument Will
President, and rarely failed to attend meeting
of the Monument Society. That great shat
being now completed, ex-President Hayes take
a keener interest in the erection OF a suitabl
building TO accommodate the vast Congressional
Library than Ill any other work undertake.
or likely soon to be undertaken in the Nationa
Capital. While he was in Congress he wa
Chairman of the House Committee on tb
Library, and those who have had bushes
dealings with that Committee then and sine
say he was the hardest worker and most atter
tive Chairman that Committee has ever had.
The reason ex-President Hayes has decline
invitations to come here has been only becaus
he preferred TO follow the example set b
Buchanan and other earlier Presidents, wh
did not seem to think it the digDifed cours
for an ex- President TO return to Washington.
He and his wife always speak OF havin
greatly enjoyed their life in the White Hous
but say they have had enough of the pleasur,
as well as the trials incident to public lli
and never desire to have either again.
Republicans ought to gratefully rememb'
that President Hayes was never heard OF du
ing his Administration as receiving terrIb
Tebuke at the polls from the people, but on IL
contrary, finding his party in the minority an
with one House of Congress belonging to ii
opposition throughout his Administration, al
both during half of his term, his party mat
constant gains during his Administration, al