The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-06

on Tenallytown road, and that IL was for
tho purpose Of making money. 1t has also
been related to me that Mr.. Whitney furnished
the mon ~, which was about $2l,0O0, and that
the title to the place will never rest in the name
Of the President There scores of shingles
sticking along the fences and the houses in that
neighborhood announcing property for sale.
Quite good deal OF the property has been taken
at Option-that is. spectators have given GER
tain per cent OF the net value of the places for
optional sale within a certain length of time, and
it is hoped that the purchase By some one tor the
President and the celebrity that part OF the Dis
trict has gained will rush up the prices
and speculation will follow. Should the
real estate out there advance III value MIR.
Whitney will make lot of money, If reports
are true. This is. according to reports, second
instance in the presidential family where momen-
tary renown has been taken advantage of for
mercenary purposes. The Presidents sister
took occasion to publish book which found a
large sale because she was the Presidents sister.
Now the President speculates in real estate. or
his friends do so at his acquiscence, and there
is only the name OF the President to operate on.
Since the agitation of the people over the
Presidents marriage some very plain talk has
been INDUCED in by Mr.. Cleveland concerning
his future life. He talked to friend at the
White House, and little of the conversation
has leaked out. In the event that the President
is not renomnated. or in the event he is not re-
elected it is his purpose to return to Buffalo ana
practice law. He told this friend that he hoped
occupied without having to participate in the
real activities of the law practice This sugges-
tion has led to some inquiry, and the inquiry has
revealed that Mr.. Cleveland can retire from his
Office, and probably will retire. with wealth
valued at at least a quarter of a million dollars,
including that which his wife inherited.
So much has been said about the Presidents
marriage that the whole question OF matrimony
has been considerably asitated in the Washing
ton field. Quite a "bear" movement has been
Nhc dur ir fha eft We in ho of
marriage certificates. 1t has been predicted
that DIR. Sunderland who pronounced the cere
mony which made the President and Miss Fol-.
som man and wife. will marry as many people
as all the other men authorized to solemnize mar
lriages in this District Like the epidemic which
followed the elopement of the daughter of Mort
SIM, In New York, the marriage OF the President
has persuaded many other people to move in
that direction, and the prospects are that the
chief topic for some time vii! be weddings. Just
at this time there are fewer people in Washing
ton seeking matrimopy than for years past.
Usually the fashionable hotels are we'll filled
with old maids and gushing widows. was talk
ing to q fond mother, who has married off three
or four daughters, and she told me the great
takes In matrimony were the army officers
asked her how that was, knowing full well that
she spoke truly, and she replied
"Weii, never could really understand it my
self. l suppose. however. it is because army
men are received into the highest society, and
their business gives them ample opportunity to
properly observe all of the fashionable events,
md TO enter fully into the whirlpool of society.
Df course, know, as well as you, that army
Ulcers are no more gallant and handsome, and
intelligent than the run of other men. and
know, also, that their official orders often
take them into portions Of the coun-
try and into locations which are
very unpleasant for q wife. An army
officer. however, is pensioned for not only his
own life, but that of his wife and children, and
it is this realization with the society adyant
age that makes them so much hunted by ladies
who want to marry. Nearly all of these old
bachelors you see around the hotels are being
coached by somebody for matrimonial purposes.
It is seldom that half dozen young girls are not
after each one of these old men. some OF them
old enough to be on the retired list and to be
their grandfather. Usually army officers are
disinclned to marry. but there has been sucn an
impetus given this matter of late that l really
believe number of the old foxes will change
their lives and become benedicts."