Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-12-27
HUNTING A HOME.
REPORTED THAT Mr.. CLEVELAND WILL BU I
WASHINGTON PROPERTY.
Real Estate Spectators 10 Fever at thsp In
ounCement-ROs.is Park the Most Favorably
Regarded By the Next President
Historic Ground.

The Chicago Herald'S Washington cor
respondent sends his paper the follow
ing:
Real estate spectators in Washing
ton-and there are many OF them-are
on the qui vive over the information
that Mr.. Cleveland is again on the look
out for suburban residence. He can
be accommodated in any locality he pre-
fers, for presidential residentisa good
advertisement for any suburban prop
erty. The first report was that his law
partner, Mr.. BisSell, had, through rep
resentatives, bought the old Lay farm
on the Seventh street road from Don
Cameron for n price somewhere near
500, 900, which would be a little over
81. 900 an acre. The second rumor soon
followed and was to the effect that
it was lot Don Cameron's place, but
ex Governor Shepherds Bleak House eS-
tate, farther up the road. The price
was not given, and the story was not so
substantially circumstantial as the
other. Then futtering all over the
country were little predictions that eX-
Marshal AL Wilson was looking for a
country place for Mr.. Cleveland in
MARYLAND somewhere along the beauti-
full rocky stream known as the North
west branch. As Mr. Wilson was the
Individual who in 1886 bought OakView
for Mr.. Cleveland, his reconnaissance
in that direction were foundation for
almost any kind Of story.
AGENTS AND LAWYERS SILENT.
None OF the agents or lawyers who
have charge of the lands said TO have
been bought for the next President will
say q word in regard TO the alleged
sale. 1t is believed that instead OF
having bought farm Mr.. Cleveland
has taken an option on two places until
ne and his wife can 90 and inspect them
in person aud decide which they want
to buy. One thing is certain--Mr. and
Mrs. Cleveland will live in the White
House just as little as possible during
their four years stay here. They found
their life at Oakyiew so comfortable
in the hot summer and fall months at
the Capital that they would not think
of any other place than the country Us
a home while here. This is rendered
especially necessary with baby in the
Presidential family. The apparent
choice of the Presidents representatives,
is the Lay farm. This, now known as
Rosie Park, embraces ninety-one
acres. Don Cameran bought it five
years ago and spent several thousand
dollars in subdividing II, building roads,
planting trees and otherwise improving
il. 1t was put on the market, but
at such high prices thst nobody
bit at it and it has remained
intact as one holding. IL is
bound on the north by the Bleak house
property, on the east by the Seventh
street road, on the south by Congress-
man Cooper's farm, which be bought
last summer for $4,000, and on the
west by the proposed Rock Creek Park.
There is fine, large farm mansion on
the place and the greater part OF the
ninety-one acres is IN grass. An electric
road runs in front OF Rosse Park aud
turns at the northeastern corner off to-
ward the the pretty suburb Of Takoms
Park, which would be Mr.. Cleveand's
nearest postOffice.
NEXT DOOR TO A CONGRESSMAN.
His next door neighbors would be Mr.
Cooper, the lively Indiana Congress
man. b. II. Warner, a we'll advertised
real estate operator, bank president and
Y. M. c. A. Christian, and Louis p.
Shoemaker, a popular country gentle
man With fine stable OF riding horses
and a splendid pack Of hounds. Bleak
house is inhabited only by people who
take care OF the place during the ab-
sence OF its owner in Mexico. The big
stone mansion with its sumptuous
furnishings is never opened ex-
cept for its regular airing and
busting. If Mr.. Cleveland
should buy Bleak house he would have
probably the fuest suburban place south
of Philadelphia. Shepherd fitted it up
in the sunniest period of his stormy ca
reer and not q dollar was withheld that
could in any wise add TO its luxurious
ness The view is one of rare natural
beauty and the Seventh street road, q
wide highway, we'll macadamized for
eight miles out into the country, is the
most important thoroughfare leading
out OF the city. 1t was down this road
that Jubal Early came In 1864 and
threatened the safety of Washington.
There was sharp fighting on both farms
that Mr.. Cleveland is said to have In
mind for house. The old barn on the
the Lay farm was riddled with bullets,
and for over q quarter OF century the
schoolboys have been digging them out
Of doors and nntels with their jack
-nfves Inst south of the Law farm is
the battlefield of Fort Stevens, where
nearly 200 Johnnies bit the dust before
retreat was sounded
AN INCIDENT OF EiRLY's RAID.
About a mile northfof the Lay farm
is the old MOntgOuhry Blair place.