The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-27
NOTED PERSON AGES.
Mr.. Cleveland's Business Methods and
Personal Habits-Fairchild's New
Banking Venture.
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EfrHt ne D. LOUIS tcJ A0ttC-
NEW York, June 20-H the politicians
of the country who are already talking
freely about elections to occur more than
three years hence could see plain Grover
Cleveland, they would realize that their
gossip had little interest for the man who
goes IN and out about great city, just as
II no such things as preSldencies mad ever
occupied his attention, and as if for the
future such an office was certain to be abOl-
lshed- The truth is, that no man ever got
away from all the surroundings of his high
office, after leaving it, so quickly as id
this man. President on Monday, sign
ing or vetolng bills at the capitol in Wash
lngton, he was in his law Office in New
York on Thursday morning receiving his
friends and ready for clients. From that
time to this he has attended to business
quite as strictly as if he had been a clerk on
salary with all his fees and sours to win
His habits of industry, equslled by few
men in any position in life, are the same
here as they were in Buffalo, Albany aud
Washington. He has that magnificent
physique, tnat faculty of working long and
sleeping little which is possessed by few
men. de goes back and forth to
work on the seventh floor of No.
40 William street, taking the ele-
waited trains or the surface cars, as
may best suit his fancy He walks much
by some friend, as he does not like ing
alone. He neither seeks nor shuns the
crowds in the streets, anu lives sensib Y, as
becomes a quiet, hard-working gentleman
He has never been what is known as a
society man, and yet he has been compelled
since his retirement to accept many invita-
tons TO private dinners-neyer to a public
one without PROFESSIONALLY from a class
Of people who have not got into the new
fashion Of taking the world into their con-
fidence every time they put their
legs under their own mahogany with
a guest or two. For the SD inner his
habits of life will vary from this routine
less than those Of most men. Every F iiay
afternoon he makes his way to the Office of
the Fall River line and takes q sound boat
for an overnight trip. He travels without
servant or valet-a luxury he has never
INDUCED in. He is then on his regular
weekly visit to spend Saturday and Sunday
at Marion, Mass, about forty miles jour
ney by rail from Fall River. He has taken
a small 'ttage there-the property of a
Boston clergyman-for only two months
This quiet village lis situated on a little
arm OF Buzzards bay, and is in no
sense a fashionable resort. He
leaves on Monday afternoon, reach
iig New York on Tuesday and
putting in an appearance at his office. Mr..
Cleveland, contrary to the general idea of
omuivorous consumer of everything Just
from the printing press-but an intelligent
CO sumner of the best. He does not read
much general history nor a great deal
about politics aside from certain special
subjects in which he becomes interested
Novels which have commended themselves
as worth attention get it fro II him. Few
men in politics or business life read so much
poetry as does Mr.. Cleveland-something
which seems to have gone almost out of
fashion. He reads the best newspapers and
has genuine respect for them. When the
summer is over he will settle down in a
house on west side of Madison avenue, lust
above Sixty eighth street, where it is GER
tain that less attention will be given to
personal and political ambitions than in
5000 other homes within five miles of City
Hall
Ex-sECRERARY FAIRcHILD's NEW EMPLOY
MENT.
Another man new to the life of this city
is Charles s. Fairchild, ex-Secretary of tue
Treasury. He comes here TO engage in
business enterprises, having accepted the
presidency of the Security and Trust Com
pa ~, which will soon open its doors at the
corner of Wall and William streets, just
&C oss from the sub-treasury, from the
steps of which Mr.. Fairchild-in accord
ance with the custom of the Secretaries of
the Treasury-made last fall perhaps the
most notable and carefully prepared speech
of his life. This new banking company
will be managed by notable men. In addi-
to Mr.. Fairchild himself it numbers
among its directors Col. Daniel S. Lamont,
ex-Congressman William L. Scott of Erie,
Pa, James G. Hill of St Paul, president of
the st. Paul and Manitoba railroad, and
one of the richest men in the west, and
Samuel L. Hauser, ex-governor of Montana.
One-half the stock of the new institution is
owned by the New York Life Insurance
mainly for the purpose of transacting its
own business. Its stock could be sold for
175-par being 150-if any could be mad,
even before it has opened its doors for bust
ness. Mr.. Fairchild has bought house on
Eighth street, just off Fifth avenue,
in the quaint old-fashioned Wash
ington Square district-long the most
fashionable quarter of the city
Among his neighbors are ex-Mayor
| Edward Cooper, Gen. Daniel E. Sickles, ex-
Judge Charles p Daily, president of the
American Geographical Society, the widow
of Gen. Mcclellan and Mrs. Hicks Lord
He has a fine country residence at Gaze
novia in Central New York. Mr.. Fairchild
| is a man of large wealth, not only in his
own right, as the heir of his father, who
died last winter, but through his wife, who
was a Miss Ledyard, a daughter of Ho-
ratio Seymour'S sister, whose resemblance
| to that distinguished man has always been
| deemed SO remarkable. The ex-secretary,
| though still young man, is considered out
| of politics and will devote his tention to
| business and to the satisfaction of the quiet
and studi us tastes which have always dis
| tinguished him.