St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-06-30
CLEVELANDIS HOME LIFE.
How the Ttms Of the Ex-presidens and
His Vile Is Spent.
A MUCH SoUGHT-FoR COUPLE
Something of Their Charming New York
Home and the Invitations That
Are Sh0wered Upon Them.

Are ShOwered Upon Them.
Citizens of the United States are Just
now more interested in modest man
sionon 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 G. Marqnand,
who has leased it to the Cleyelands 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
parl0rs 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 on 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 a 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. Mr..
Cieyeland's fiat table desk occupies the
middle of the room and this, with
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
a number of large fur rugs. To one ac-
cnStomed to Mr.. Cleyeland'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 q plain, method
icaI business man, as regular in his hab-
its 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
yariably takes the first car and sits well
up in front. among the brokers, law
yers, spectators and the class of men
who go down at that busyhour Of travel.
Few of these people recognize him. For
that matter, Abraham Lincoln might
have ridden down town among these
money-getters and never have been no.
ticed or recognized. Arriving at Rector
street Mr. Cleveland leaves the train,
crosses Broadway, probably glaDcing at
the clock on old Trinity, and turns
down Wall street. passing the offices OF
eX-Secretary Eairchild and eX-Secretary
Whitney on that financial thoroughfare,
and e..ters the big Office building. No.
ID 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 its tllrong 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 bootbIack 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.. Cleye-
land is not a New York city man of
very long standing. and the men with
whom he has thus travelled and jostied
know few beyond the immediate circle 4
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
formidable array of law books. The
furniture consists of large fiat oaken
desk, the chair which he occupied in
the small bow-wlndoWed library Of the
White house, red leather-eoyered
couch and an oaken Office table. Mr..
Cleveland has large law business. He
does not take cases that require his APP
pearanee in the city or state courts. In
fact, il is not his intention to appear in
court at all.
Mr.. Cleveland's mail is enormous. In
this alone his character as q representa-
tive man is illustrated. When we con-
slider the fact that he is simply Dri-
Yate citizen whose political ambition,
we may reasonably suppose, has been
satisfied, who has no political favors to
dispense to his friends, who has enjoyed
no rank beyond that of temporary
public servant in various capacities,
who holds no position in mis- party ma
ehinery, directory or advisory, who is
not candidate for public favor in any
sense-thiS prominence as national
uRQlC 0LN OlkG esNtlNIO0o etetAAJ PANoT
sion of the esteem and good will of his
countrymen is something remarkable.
Presidents have come and gone more
or less honored or execrated, but Mr..
Cleveland stands alone Of all Of them
who nave punctuated the history OF the
country since the warof 1861, Two years
after retirement, in the great person
ality of his political character.
Even President Grant, whose military
fame suffered by his political career,
was less a figure in the public eye two
years after he had Quilted the White
house than is Mr.. Cleveland to-day.
Arthur was but local politician and
fractional party partisan. Hayes-weD,
the name of Hayes has always excited
but mild rldicule. The position of Mr..
Cleveland is quite anomalous. Public
men of both parties respect him and
are glad to call him friend. Men write.
to him from every part of the Union,
and even the most commonplace OF his
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