St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-06-30
CLEvELAND'S HOME LIFE.
How the Time Of the Ex-President and
His Wife Is Spent.
A MUCH SoUGHT-FoR COUPLE
Something of Their Charming New York
Home and the Invitations That
Are Showered Upon Them.

Citizens of the United States are just
now more interested in modest man.
sion on Madison avenue, New York,
than in any other residence in the
metropolis. Not because there is any,
thing remarkable about it, but simply
because its occupants are EX-President
Grover Cleveland and his lovely wife.
The house is beautifully situated on
that fashionable thoroughfare, and is
daily pointed out to the curious visitor.
1t is No. SIC, second on the west side
of the avenue. above SiXty-eighth
street. 1t is plain four-story residence.
and is owned by Henry &. Marquand,
who has leased it to the Clevelands for
about $1,000 per annum. The general
appearance of the exterior does not pre-
pare the visitor for the more emphatic
evidences of taste within. The floors
are eXquisitely laid in hard woods. The
parlors are finished in white and gold.
On the lower floor is the entrance
hall, small reception room and the
dining room. The drawing room is on
the second floor. The sitting and liv-
ing room is Mr.. Cleveland's library. 1t
is at the back OH the second floor and
from its windows the distinguished ten
ant has lovely view of Central Park,
with the stretch of lawn of Mrs. Robert
L. Stuart's and section of Fifth ave-
| nue. in the foreground. The room is
fitted up with every taste and comfort.
Against the walls are mahogany book
| shelves loaded with volumes that bear
| evidence of having been read. On one
| side is built in large settee. uphOl-
| stored in tan-colored corduroy and filled
with luxurious pillows of down COW
cred with bright yellow silk. MI.
| Cleveland's fiat table desk occupies the
middle of the room and this, with a
number of odd-fashioned cosy chairs,
| completes the furniture of the room.
| The walls are decorated with photo
| graphs of Mrs. Cleveland, members of
| the late cabinet, an autograph picture
| of Bismarck, sent by the late chancellor
| to Mr.. Cleveland. ana the pictures OF
some personal friends. On the floor are
number of large fur rugs. TO one ac-
| cnstomed to Mr.. Cleveland'S tastes
while he was an occupant of the White
| house there is familiar air about the
whole surroundings. This is materially
heightened by the fact that Sinclair,
who answers your ring at the front
door. is the same man who has per-
| formed This service for Mr.. Cleveland
| ever since he was mayor of Buffalo.
The ex-president is plain, method
| ical business man, as regular i'll his hab
it's and as steady worker as any young
counselor striving for his first fees. He
| leaves his house about 10 o'clock every
weekday morning, walks through
| SiXty-eighth street to Fifth avenue and
| across to Sixth avenue, where he takes
| the elevated for Rector street. He in
variably takes the first car and sits well
I'D in front. among the brokers, law
yers, spectators ana the class of men
| who go down at that busy hour of travel.
| Few of these people recognize him. For
| that matter, Abraham Lincoln might
| have ridden down town among these
money-getters and never haye been no
| ticed or recognized. Arriving at Rector
street Mr.. Cleveland leaves the train,
| crosses Broadway, probably glanclng at
| the clock on old Trinity, and turns
| down Wall street. passing the offices of
| ex-Secretary Fairchild and ex-Secretary
Whitney on that financial thoroughfare,
and enters the big office building, No.
| 45 Williams street.
On the way. if you have followed
| him. you will always observe that he
| tips his hat to the big, handsome officer
of the Broadway squad who keeps peo-
| pie from being run over where Rector
street pourS it's thrOng of busy workers
into Broadway. He also has kind
word or nod for the woman who keeps
the little fruit stand at Williams and
Wall, and returns the Salutation OF the
newsboy and bootblack whose stands
are at the entrance to his own building.
During his trip he may not have seen
on this particular morning more than
half dozen people who knew him. For
1t must be remembered that Mr. Cleve-
land is not a New York city man OF
very long standing. and the men with
whom he has thus travelled and jostled
know few beyond the immediate circle
| of their business, and little or nothing
at all of national men or matters.
Mr.. Cleveland's offices are on the sew
enth floor of the Williams street build
ing, and directly opposite the elevators.
From his windows he has magnificent
view of the great Brooklyn bridge and
the East river, with its ever shifting
panorama of business life, is spread out
before him. His surroundings here are
those of other prominent lawyers. The
walls of his office are concealed by a
formidable array of law books. The
furniture consists of large flat oaken
desk, the chair which he occupied in
the small bow-wlndowed library of the
White house, red leather-covereo
couch and an oaken office table. MIR.
Cleveland has large law business. he
does not take cases that require his ap
pearance in the city or state courts. LII
fact, it is not his intention to appear il
court at all.
Mr.. Cleveland's mail is enormous. Ir
this alone his character as representa-
tive man is illustrated. When we con
slider the fact that he is simply pri
yate citizen whose political ambition
we may reasonably suppose. has beer
satisfied, who has no political favors tt
dispense to his friends, who has enjoyed
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