Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-22

Carolina. has about 1000 acres surrounding
his country place near Asheville, N. c.. and he
says he would q thousand times rather go
there than to White Sulphur Springs or Sara
toga. 'rhe idea of paradise for me-" he re-
marked the other day, us to get down at my
home in the mountains where can throw on
an old niger plow with a one-eyed mule"
Ex-senator Palmer writes me that he intends
to make tour of the lakes on one Of his
freight steamers, and after he returns he will
settle down In his log cabin near Detroit. This
log cabin contains about six rooms, and it cost
sl2, 900 to build. Palmer has lot of Jersey
cows, the milk of which costs him fully as
much as that of Senator Evarts. and bis farm
ing is one of the luxuries of millionaire; He
blows up stumps with dynamite, raises nsn IN
water into it. and entertalns magnifcently He
calls himself a pioneer, and his home is fcti-
tiously dubbed Font Hill, because be says there
is no fountain and no hill connected Win IL
HOMES IN THE SUBURBS.
During the last i've years our leading states
men have been paying attention to Wasning-
ton suburban development, and now not lew
of the Senators own farms and lots near the
capital. Outside of the city the climate OF the
District of Columbia is about the same as that
of Ohio. with the difference that we have here
more of a breeze, and our great men are learn
ing that they can just as we'll have country
home near their seat Of work as seversi nun, tIc
lls
fashion when he bought Grasslands Tor some
thing like $4,000 and made $4,000 out OF 1t dur.
ing his term of office. Don cameron oougnt
the other day s42 900 worth of suburban prop
erty and Sherman and Blaine. ex-senator kel-
logg and a dozen other prominent men own
more or less suburban land:
The good speculation which President Cleve-
land made in Oak View is well known. He
paid less than $50 900 for the place and sold it at
SIO000U profit. During his administration the
roads surrounding his property ana throughout
fba rhola euhn han District
piked and otherwise improved, and the
suburban drives of Washington are now finer
than those of any other city In the country.
This improvement has shot the price OF lands
from $500 an acre up to from LOCO to S500O an
acre. and all about the Presidents home land is
selling at % cents and upward per foot. A
square foot is a mighty small amount of land,
and 25 cents foot means in the neighborhood
of SIC, 900 an acre.
NEW TERRITORY OPENING UP.
The prospect now seems to be that great
suburban growth will spring up along the
Upper Potomac. The Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad, during the past month, has paid $so,-
900 for 90 acres on the Maryland side facing the
Virginia hills within about three miles 81
Georgetown, and the probability is that a rail-
road will be run from Washington to Cumber-
land on the bed of the old canal. This will
bring some Of the most picturesque country In
the United States within easy access Of WASH
ington. and already the ground is being plotted
and lots are being sold in this region.
Two Ohio men have bought one of the most
picturesque plots just below Cabin Johns
Bridge, and have called their suburb Glen
Echo. They have already constructed $4,000
rustic restaurant here, which is to be taken
charge of by Mr.. Page, the man who feeds the
United States Senators at the Capitol, and this
will probably be the great driving resort of the
coming season. An electric road is now run
ming almost to Tennallytown past Oak View,
and there is a hotel there which is largely
patronized by Senators. MISS GRUNDY, JR.