The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-17
Prom the New York world.

From the New York World
 K1N Iss ROSE D. CLEVELAND. IVE youngest sister of ex-President Cleveland, who. during his first term was the first lady of the Iand.s has become a farmer.
 It is nearly seventeen years since Miss Cleveland gained an almost world wide attention through a book of essays which she had written and which were publish ed while, with her distinguished brother, she was an occupant of the White House The book was called George EHot's Poe try and Other Studies" and had a re- markedly large sale.
 Miss Cleveland's farm Is on a wild and beautiful DO-acre island in Penobscot sound, off the coast of Maine. During the season just passed she harvested ten acres of oats and several acres of buck wheat and corn. Another portion of her farm, which consists of about 200 acres, was devoted to the cultivation of hay, She has two draught horses. a yoke of oxen, two cows and a pony. Her part ner in the enterprise is Miss Evelyn Ames, eldest daughter of the late ex- Governor Ames of Massachusetts, who is one of the most prominent and gifted women in Boston society.
 Miss Cleveland, as she goes about the farm, looks eminently businesslike. She dresses in a rainy day skirt and se- verely plain little jacket, throwing golf cape about her shoulders in the sharp morning air. Miss Ames also dresses in the simple fashion suitable for out of door work. There is a decidedly businesslike appearance about everything on the farm.
 Though Miss Cleveland and Miss Ames declare that they are working merely for the pleasure of doing and for the build dng of tied colony of summer homes, and not with the idea of making money, they have undertaken something that might be a capital business enterprise. And in one sense it is already, for 1t is through exceptional business and execu- tive ability that the retaining of the is- land and its development into one of the beauty spots Of the Maine coast have been so brilliantly successful at the start.
 Miss Cleveland and Miss Ames together own at present about sixth of the isl- and. Others, friends of theirs, own about a third more. The scheme of improve ments of which Miss Cleveland is the chief promoter includes the entire half,. and the plan is to secure by degrees the other half and convert the island into a single plantation to be owned by little group of intimate friends.
 By this means there will be gathered to- gether an exclusive summer colony which win be practically secure against inva- sion by the pleasure-hunting public.
 The name of this interesting bit of land Is Seven Hundred Acre Island" but residents shorten that to Acre Island.' Dark harbor, on Islesboro island. about three-Quarters of a mile away, is a fash ionable and exclusive summer resort made famous by the Islesboro inn, club house maintained in royal fashion by a select coterie of wealthy city men. It was started on the plan of charging its mem ber-guests $20 day, for which they were allowed whatever luxuries in the way of costly wines and viands that the house afforded. fff
 On the western side of the Island look ing toward Acre island Is the handsome summer home of Dr. Derby of New York where Miss Alice Roosevelt was a guest for several weeks last summer Several other large summer homes line this rug ged stretch of coast line.
 A mile or two to the northward of Acre island Is Long island, which was recently purchased by John A. Drexel of Philadel- phia and on which he has built a large summer home.
 A boat from Belfast, twelve miles up the sound, calls at Dark harbor once or twice week, but there is no boat to Acre island, and the usual means of ac- cess Is by way of Camden. five miles to the southwest by water. Camden is con nected with Rockland by trolley and Rockland Is connected with New York by rail. There is also boat between Rock land and Camden and Boston.
 Acre island is three miles long and two miles across at its widest point. Like all the Maine coast its shore line Is very ir- regular. The land Is cut into by many small bays and inlets, furnishing harbor- age for the fleet of small boats that Is necessary part of existence on the island. Miss Cleveland owns a handsome sloop of about ten tons, and her commodore, James Perry, who is considered the most slxillful and daring sailor on Penobscot island, has another of the same size.
 About two hundred acres of the island have been cleared. Some of this work was done many years ago when the isl- and was first settled by small farmers, but Miss Cleveland has also done a great deal and much more is planned.
 The first summer resident on Acre