Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1896-08-14

Is on hand they know that the newcomer
must be given the marble heart" other
wise the telephone.
Unlimited SecIusiOn.
Mr.. Cleveland purchased Gray Gables
and the land around II Tor the particular
purpose of shutting himself off from the
rest of the world for three months in The
year, and he succeeds. 1t is well under
stood that no one is to call upon him or
Mrs Cleveland unless previously in
vited. Within five or six miles of the
house are the country homes of numer-
Gus friends of the family, the Appletons
and Jeffersons of New York, the ParKin-
sons, Hardings and Williamses of Bos-
ton, but none of these break the long es-
tablished rule, with the exception of Joe
Jefferson, who is always welcomed, and
he comes to see Mrs. Cleveland and the
three little girls whenever he drives that
way.
Mr. Cleveland's life here would be mo-
notonously wearisome to most men. For
a week at time he does not see any one
except his family and his house servants.
Of the latter there are quite number.
There are two nurses and a governess
for the children. There is the coloced
all the supplies for the house and man
ages things generally. There is the coach
man and butler, the latter young col
ored man. Then there is colored cook,
a laundress, an upstairs girl and Mrs.
Cleveland's maid. Two farmhands are
also employed and last but not least,
there is bud" Wright and his wife, who
take care of the place all the year round.
A Notable Parsonage.
Bud is certainly the most important
person about the place. 1t is he who goes
fishing with the president every day; he
digs the bait, sails the catboat Ruth,
manages the engines in the launch Es-
Their, or row the president about in the
Two Sisters. He knows every square
foot of the broad water running out from
the bay for 20 miles in any direction, and
the exact spot to anchor for the particular
kind of fish the president may be after.
He is curious man, with high idea OF
the equal rights of good American .iti-
zens. He talks with a twang that would
put a banjo to shame, and he always
carries with him a stock of funny stor-
les, most of them moss grown with age
and about as mirthful as the Puritans
who originated them. These he doles out
to Mr.. Cleveland with charming freedom.
The president practically lives out Of
DOORS He is up in the morning at
o'clock, and oftentimes breakfasts before
the rest of the family are out of bed. He
shaves himself every morning, and his
hand is as steady as a rock. Generally
he is ready to start on 3, fishing trip al
1880 o'clock If the weather is favorable
he sails in the Ruth, as he prefers the
excitement of the catboat to the steady
work of the launch. Susie, the cook, has
a modest lunch packed up. Bud has a
tin can full of bait, and the poles and
lines arranged, and the start is made
from the floating dock, so yards away
from the house, without delay.
GO-as-YOu-PIease Clothes.
On these trips the president looks >uy-
thing but a dude. He wears a soft lat
which sun and salt water have colored
like subdued rainbow, spots and blotch-
es predomlnating. He wears an outing
shirt, pair Of baggy serge trousers ant
serge sack coat, spotted and stained
like the hat. When the sport is excep.
tionally good he does not return until .
or o'clock in the afternoon. Generally
he sails back for dinner at / o'clock, ar
to read the mornings mail and the som
munications from Washington. Then be
three hours of sport.
There is another mail late in the after
noon. and this he reads on his return be-
fore supper.
! One day at Gray Gables is much lik,