The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-03-19

NEW YORK, March "a Washing
ton special to the Press says: While
President Cleveland is seeking recrea-
ton at the shotgun's muzzle in dis
NAL swamp Of the Carolinas, a novel
and interesting report has become cur
rent in Washington about his future
plans for pleasure. 1t is said that at
the expiration of bis term of office two
wears hence Mr. Cleveland intends to
make q tour of the world. He Is vain
enough to believe that his circuit OF
the globe would equal, il not excel, in
its receptions to his august self the cell
ebrated journey made by General
Grant at the expiration of his second
term in the White House.
Ex-President Grant, 1t will be re-
membered, was accompanied, among
others, by John Russell Young, whose
command of the English language
was utilized in writing a history
of the tour. Mr.. Cleveland proposes
to initiate General Grant even in
this detail. 1t is said he will be &C
companied by Secretary Dan Lamont,
whose literary abilities will be taxed
to depict the giories accorded to the
President by tile monarchical govern
ments.
The projected tour OF Mr.. Cleveland
is planned upon a scale of such mag
nihcence, that although its proposed
beginning is two years distant, pre-
parations are said to have already
been begun. The plans include the
construction of all entire new yacht.
The Oneida, the comely and COM
Portable craft in which Mr.. Cleveland
has so often bounded over the blue
waves as a guest of his broker friend,
T.. G.. Benedict, will not be large
enough to accommodate the entour-
age with which Mr.. Cleveland pro
poses to surround himself.
1t is understood that q new yacht,
IN which Mr.. Benedict and Francis
Lynde StetsoD, Mr.. Cleveland's law
partner, may have joint interest, is
TO be constructed on the Delaware by
the Cramps. 1t will be modelled upon
the general outlines of a fast naval
gunbOat. and at the same time will be
equipped with every comfort and con-
venience. The resources of naval
architecture will be drawn upon to
make it the most luxurious private
yacht afioat, while its outer works will
present formidable appearance.
1t is well understood in Washington
that Mr.. Cleveland has accumulated a
large fortune. His private resources
are amply sufficient to meet the cost
or such magnificent tour OF the
world, as he contemplates. While
acting as President of the United
States, Mr.. Cleveland is not supposed
to be actively engaged in pri vate
business. 1t is generally believed,
however, that his personal relations
with prominent financiers in New
York, including Mr.. Benedict, the
Havemeyers, and indirectly, through
his law partner, Mr.. Stetson, with
financiers OF worldwide fame, have
not ceased. When Mr.. Cleveland re-
turns to New York as a private citi
zen on March 5, 1897, he may find the
profits of the blind pool in which he
Is supposed to be interested in many
current financial operations will have
grown, of course without his knowl-
edge or personal participation, to a
large sum. j
These profits added to the personal
estate which Mr.. Cleveland has al
ready accumulated, will make it pos
sible for him to make q journey
around the world whose dazzling
glories Monte Cristo might envy.
Dan Lamont, who is also q rich man,
is fitted by both newspaper and poll
tical experience to act as literary
chronicler and diplomatic agent of
the expedition. 1t is not known who
will make up the rest OF the proposed
ships company.