The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1893-09-16
SENATOR STANFORD'S LOVE FOR
PALO ALTO.

| lhe san francisco EIHWlRf1, III
speaking OF Senator Stanford's love for
Pao Alto says: Palo Alto was al lays
the home above all others to the dead
senator. 1t was there that he found
the only perfect rest which the world
would allow him, On his return from
Washington or Europe it was his un-
varying habit to hurry away down to
the farm and spend as much time there
as his business would permit. He had
a touching love for the magnificent do
main. Picked up piecemeal as was
the immense farm, he bought with the
land all sorts of old farm rookerles,
houses, barns and the what-not OF
farm life, but such was his veneratlon
for the things which have been and the
forms that have gone that he would
not permit one relic of the olden days,
disfguring or edoring, to be torn away.
An old adobe cabin was falling into
runs in one Of the paddocks, and its
topping walls w1re menace to the
grazing colts. One day the senator
found force at work tearing the house
down. He was terribly angered
at the desecration. If it is dangerous
to the horses prop up the walls and
build fence around it, he ordered.
HIS orders were obeyed, and the adobe
is there yet, pile of misshapen adobe
bricks.
He built beautiful driveway from
the residence to the stock farm. Two
trees stood in the line of the road SO
closely as to barely permit of the pas
sage OF carriage between them, Let
them stand and built the road around
them, he said. They are in the mid
die of the road. Palo Alto is covered
with trees, but not one has been cut
with the vandal ak since the senator
r bought the place. He used the milk
sheds of the Coot's place for thorough
bred training stables, and the pioneer
cottage on the main farm has been th'
r superintendent's home for years. HI
r loved the inanimate things OF nature
and would not have them disturbed.
S Every small thing carrying with 1t
breath of the pioneer days was to HIN
sacred. The bleak little cemeter'
which received the dead of the SAINT
Clara valley in the days long gone stl
, lies undlsturbed on the hill back OF tn
v training barns. He would not hav
desecrated It even to make ground TO
d the university.
q Palo Alto was futher endeared
the dead man because it was there tn;
V Young Leland Stanford spent the day
of his boyhood. From the band
o horses at the farm the boy selected
le dapple gray horse by Mohawk Chic
y. out OF Flita, a thoroughbred mare, as
saddle animal. Cheatem was the col
id slant companion of the boy in his far
,e rambles. When the boy died Cheate
was brought up from the big barn al
I'd given quarters in the private stable
S. From that day he has been exern
lie from duty of any character. He h
" munchcd the choicest oats and roil'
w in the richest paddocks. He was Oh
.st OF the sacred things. He IS I6 yea
old now and the dapple gray has tu
ed ned to white, but he does no wor
on He awaits his call in ease.
he Inside the private stable is anott
in evidence of the dead mans love
av the things CT other days About
carriages of all styles were kept at P;
yle Alto for private use. Among them l.
ed rockaway, cumbrous, sway back'
he old fashioned and altogether que
ese 1t IS the first carriage ever owned
the senator. 1t carried HIM and
lis Young wife to the early festivities ab
md Sacramento long before the Cent
Pacific had reached Ogden. 1t
,air received the scrupulous care which
oly bestowed upon the more modern r