Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-17
GROVER At HOME.
cIeveIand's Quiet Life in Quiet New Jersey
Village.

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distance CT two or three steps by a heav-
lily built man. who seems to have diff
Guilty in Keeping up with her
The couple exchange friendly greetings
| with the people whom they meet as they
| walk along. They seem to be known to
| everybody in the village, and if the in
curing stranger fails to recognize them
any citizen can tell him that they are
| Grover Cleveland and his wife, who a lit
| tie more than a year ago, moved out of
| the White House to make way for their
| successors.
| The ease with which a man may step
from even the highest official place in
| this country back to the ranks of ord-
| nary citizenship has often been COM
| mented on one of the unique features
| of our American scheme of government
| In no case has it ever been more strik-
| ngly eXempli!ied than in that of the port
| ~ gentleman who may be seen any day
| on the streets of Princeton.
! A very quiet sort of life it is that Squire
| Cleveland leads in Princeton. He has no
| nothing more serious to bother his head
| than the comfort of his family and his
own endowment When he went out Of
office there were many rumors AS to his
| future course.b but he seems content to set
| tie down to the life of country gentle
man. thereby following the example Of
washington and most OF the early pfeSi-
dents.
Indeed. it seems that satisfactory
| occupation for eX-presidents has yet to
| be discovered. A few. like Grant made
essays in business, but without much sue
cess. John Quincy Adams went back to
Congress and died there Buchanan
Grant and Van Buren, wrote books after
their presidential experience. Benjamin
Harrison has practiced law, as Arthur
did before him.
But most ex-presidents have found no
occupation that seemed suitable after
leaving the White House and have been
content TO live out the remainder of
their lives in peaceful retirement This
Mr. Cleveland evidently finds to be the
most Congenial.
MIR Cleveland usually rises between Z
and each morning. After breakfast
he reads the newspapers and the mail
which Is brought to him, or if he feels
so inclined he strolls down the village
street to the postotfice and calls for his
# any improvements are being made
within his spacious grounds he supern
tends them in person and 50 passes the
The morning letters are answered, and
then the ex-president usually goes for
a drive. either with his wife or alone.
He is fond Of fine horses. and takes
pride in having a handsome pair in his
own stable, characteristic that was
Motel during his stay in Washington
himself and let's his coachman attend
to all the driving.
Very often one of the ex-president's
New York friends comes out TO take
dinner with him. on such occasions
Mr.. cleveland usually drives to the sta
ton 10 meet them and strolls UP and
Gown ny bldIolh "nlle "ilIhS iot
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The lights in the Cleveland mansion 20
out.
This is the ordinary round of the ex-
presidents daily life. but he often varies
in hunting boots ana broad -hrimmed
hat, with 4 gun across his shoulder.
Then he will tramp away across the
fields and hills. returning lit night with
perhaps three or four rabbits as the
days spoil.
Mr. cleveland was always an ardent
sportsman, ana ms propensity IN TINS a.
| rectloh II even more marked no" mat
ne mas more leisure to indulge IT. The
section OF New Jersey in which he lives
- hol pattlcuihfly IeFtlie IN titlS u!Fec-
ton. The only game being, few rabbits,
squirrel ana cartridges, put Mr. CleVe-
land i not easily discouraged.
He mas tramped all over the centfai
part OF the state ana VIII walk patiently
an Gay long Tor Inc sake OF q shot or TWO,
stopping now ana then TO chat with some
hafG-hahued old larHer "hom ne runs
across.
All Inc latter Tor miles around knew
the eN-presidcht. lhoush they are lnVet-
| crate enemies OF the Guy spoFlslneh VINO
oCcaSloh1HN oNerruh thelf heIds' they are
- -
! it" ""fqS WIN theit ulstlhsuisied helSh-
Dor anu are hngelE hohored IL ne Will
consent 70 pass an opiflon on theF nome
proved appieJack or nara cldef.
MF. tleNetand mas an occasional oppor-
tqhtS 70 lhduise ms ionnness ior ilshlng.
Near Irlncetoh there Is little stream
callea NIL orook. N when mere are q
IeW pass anu PIKE SOME tiihe ago INC
eN-prGslueh. hoticeu /. Mhlle out drNhS'
ana lhroush Il mutual friend u was soon
| hIiindteu 20 one OF me RESIDENTS Oh tne
shlltS III my stlealii, il4t VT, 1leNeldhd
Would hke 70 Try ms luek tnefe.
ne owner OF tIe podts' tHousn SOME
| thlng or iishefinah' was appalleu az the
prospect u plloNlhs tae generous DUN 81
/ ms FAMOUS to"hshiaH Gown thc sWiit
stfeam ~ one ol tfe niue craft. ,it
paced ms po'ts az tne ulspIs"t o. NJ
| tleNelaHo' put eAtustu hlliiSeh from 81
| ing.
| me eN,prcsldeht recently Dough. q
/ rocky niue Idith apo"t thleF hitits iipih
| Princeton; ~ mas ptei S'iu tltt lnls
/ was the peglnhlhs OF Dig game pre-
| modestN
| ~ Simply convenient stoppluS plact
Wheit out iof oa9 huhl,.'h, sdlo MI:
| cleveland 10 the "riter' any spot
where one can shoot without tItsPdss!ns
| on ms nelghnors. WIN lhe coIoperdti1 on
OF the SURROUNDING lahuoMilels ~ may w
| maze 10 help IN pfeseIF!hS tie iltt VI az
game OF the region, out IL Woulu DC 100