Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-02-22
Cleveland rs 4 Boomer.

Cleveland rs Il Boomer.
4 special dispatch TO the St. Louis
Globe Democrat from Washington says;
When he was President six years ago
Mr. Cleveland bought suburban prop
erty for 500 an acre and sold it for
5000 an acre. And now every holder
of outside property within five miles of
the White House is trying to guess
where the President will repeat the OK
pertinent. 1t is taken for granted that
Mr.. Cleveland will have suburban
home. His incinations are that way.
SO are Mrs. Clevcland's. Now that
there is Younger branch of the family
there will be additional motives FOR an
out-of-town place. The Cleyelands are
home lovers. The White House as q
home is an impossibility.
Since the election Mr.. Cleveland
has been accumuating information
about the suburbs of Washington. The
only effort this hos cost him has been
the opcuin. of his daily mail. The
spectators have done the rest. 1.-THE
President thought he had learned
something of the country round about
the national capital by his four years
drives. he must have concluded in the
past three months that that knowledge
was incomplete. Maps, pictures and
| descriptive matters have poured in
upon him.
The part of the District where Mr..
Cleveland located six years ago has
zone out of sight. For a mile around
the modest stone country house and
little farm he bought, streets and
avenues have been laid ont and paved,
fine houses have been built and prices
have gone up several hundred per cent.
With that object lesson before them the
spectators grow more vigorous III their
efforts as the time nears when they
think Mr.. Cleveland will be looking for
anew location.
Among the most interesting schemes
are those which propose to settle the
Presidents family on one of the high
Virginia hills which overlook the Poto-
mac, the reclaimed flats and the whole
CITY of Washington. For nearly thirty
wears this has been the region OF truck
patches and brick yards which supplied
the capital. So little change has taken
place Just south of the river that 1t Is
possible to see the old forts Of the Cos.
dismanllcd as 10 guns, but perfect as to
earth works. Just rs they were when
they defended Washington. Here and
there breaks have been made in the
chain offo.,itications by the bricE-burn-
ers. But old Fort Richardson stands in
tact. The cherry tree, said to be over 100
years old, from which the soldiers
gathered fruit. is still near the rcdoubts
The old Braddock road, over which
Braddock marched with his troops from
Alexandria to defeat at Fort Duquesne
in 1855, passes te!ow the fort. This
was also the stage route over which
Washington travelled from Mt. Vernon
to Philadelphia, to Baltimore and later
to the new location OF the national
capital. The old house where the
stage, with Presidents for passengers,
used to stop is still standing. Around
Fort Richardson it is possible to pick
up rusted bayonets, canteens and other
reminders of the scene, which. viewed
from the Washington side ofthe river,
inspired Mrs. Julia Ward Howe to
write the battle hymn of the republic:
By the watcf-;ircs of u hundred circling
camps.
Somewhere on these Virginia hills,
80 feet above the river malaria, the
real estate men hope to locate Dir.
Cleveland's suburban home for the next
four years. They have built an electric
road. They have laid out on paper
magnificent boulevard all of the way
through Alexandria to Mt. Vernon.
They have planned memorial bridge,
spanning the Potomac from just oppo-
site the White House grounds to
the Arlington estate, now owned
by the government. The traditions of
Virginia as the mother of Presidents
have been drawn upon for sentiment to
back up the argument in favor of this
south-side summer residence for the
Cleveland family. The President in
his former term was very fond of the
drive by way of Georgetown across the
old Aqueduct bridge and up the long
hill to Fort Myer and Arlington. He
may take kindly to the idea of tempo
rary home in the State where Washing
ton, Jefferson, Madison and Tyler lived.
1t is claimed that his study of the debt
question as one Of the arbitrators has
led him to feel deep interest in Vir-
GINA. If he yields to the pressure and
builds cottage at Fort Richardson or
on one of the adjacent hills the Redtop
speculation will be nothing to this later
boom.n
In connection with the above it is
said that the report was current in
Washington yesterday that Mr.. Cleve-
land would erect residence on the
Virginia side Of the river, and that he
even contemplates taking pew in
Christ Church, this city. These reports
are published for what they are worth.
A BoUSDARY L1NE.-The answer of
the State of West Virginia in the suit
brought by the State of Maryland in
the settlement of the western boundary