The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-08-24
MIR. CLEVELAND AT CRAY GABLES.
His Life a Very simple One-Solcmn
Dignity of His N~eIghbors.

His Life a very simple O~ne-Solemn
Dignity of His Neighbors.
Mr.. Cleveland's life at Buzzard's Bay.
so far as I could see or lenrn, is about as
simple as modern civilization will permit.
He is beginning to have some visitors
who come from a distance, or from nea r
at hand. The other day two men came
from Alaska, while another came from
the neighboring city of Providence. The
neig lbors. in their quiet New England
dignity. treat him with great respect,
aud, without any distinction of purity
p~rejudices, are frankly proud of having
him as II fellow townsman. They showed
that spirit of irlendliBess for him which
the New EugLander ~instinctiveiy feels
for p neighoor, and that due
the highest office in the country.
There Is no enthusiasm, there is no IA
miliarity. There Is an almost absolute
refusal on the part of those who come in
contact with him to be anything but
solemn. There is a good deal of CANA
JOYS friendliness. Therefore he solemn,
digniied. self-guardetness of those ex-
cellenJ sailors and fishermen, maintain
ing always q wall between themselves
and the eX-President, used at first to
make life as gray as his gables. 1t is
even said that be once threatened to dis
charge a skipper because be could not
prevail upon him to laugh. in conse
quence OF which he would frequently re-
turp from u successful day Of fishing as
blue as his catch.
Occasionally people drive up to the
porch and stare at the house and its III
mates with the Inconsistencies of those
whose ethical coda is that they have q
right to everything that comes their
WAV. Wh4n Snnh 81 man mr. hiQ yVifa GnHa
that he can look into the domestic life of
an ex aud possible future President by
imply tar1ng {, there is no rule of decency
that will prevent the staring. But an
noyances at Buzzard's Bay are the ex-
c%ention. 1t is an out-of-the-wAy place.
and the immediate neighbors are not
that kind of people.
Mr.. Cleveland spends his day in talk
Ing with the people who happen TO be
about, III reading kilograms and letters.
IN walking about the place, in sailing in
his able c%atboat, OF fishing with the JEFF
ferson's or some one else, or il he wants
to fish and there is no other one to 20
with him. he fishes with his skipper.
The house is on q point of land, the
water on the bay coming we'll around the
back, making n landlocked harbor. The
Monument River comes iuto the bay
here, and on the other side of the water
are the wooded hills of Ou-sst. dotted
win more ptetentlouS houses imam are To
be found on Mr.. Cleveland's shore. 70
the souuhwestward the waters of the bay
broaden out, and are broken by UNI
brageous Islands. 1t is a wonderfully
gifted place. Mr.. Cleveland says that he
has everything that he likes there. He
has sea-tishing, bathing, sailing. trout
streams. black bass. shooting and abso-
lutely pure air ana water.
Late at night. after the rest are asleep,
Mr.. Cleveland goes into his gun room anu
writes. He has not Yet got over his
White House habit of writing letters
from ten O'Clock in the evening untiI two
in the morniug. It seems tn be a bad
habit. but Mr.. Cleveland thrives under it,
aud rs he sits on his piazzs, or walks about
his place, in old clothes, flanuel shirt, and
soft hat, he LOOKS like the sturdy out-of-
door man aud strong character that he Is.
-Harper's Weekly.