The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-07
MIR. CLEvELAND's NEW HOME.
Ex-President's Family to Summer on
Farm in New Hampshire.

Sandwich Where is Sandwich
doubtless was the question asked by
many readers of the daily papers when
they saw the announcement that Gro
yer Cleveland, 1.-The only living expires
ident," and his family were to abide
this summer in that New Hampshire
town
Sandwich is out of the beaten track
far from the madding crowd The
rush and roar of the steam train is only
family heard on a clear day. 1t is ten
miles from the nearest railroad station
in one direction and Is in the other. To
reach the place from either side the
stage coach must be used. The trip is
well worth taking, even in such pri-
mitive conveyance. The wondrOus beau
ties through which you ride more than
compensate for all the jolts and bumps
you get.
vicinity recently. rented the typical old
farm which is owned by two sisters,
Susan and Elizabeth Hoag. 1t is I'M
derstood that the Cleveland family win
occupy it at an early date, following
the advice of the ex-presidents physi-
clan.
Sandwich is all hills and hollows and
is entirely surrounded by towering
mountains. In fact. one often asks if
the original settlers did not have con-
siderable difficulty in finding spots level
enough on which to build their houses
The mountains are so plentiful and
reach to such enormous heights that in
many a spot the days exceedingly short
The sun drops down behind the peaks
by the middle of the afternoon The
frogs begin to peep. the whippoorwill
bestirs himself and the owl wakes up
long ere the people on the other side
of the mountain have begun to think
Of nightfau.
There are wonderful trout brooks in
Sandwich. In fact, there are none better
in all New England. Swift river is near
the CleveIands' new home. 1t was of this
river that John g. Whittier wrote:
Why doth thou so madly- rush and roar.
Swift river, Q swift river2
There are other things in Sandwich be-
side the mountains and the brooks. For
instance. there are more rocks and Lodges
to the square mile than in any otner sec,
Then too maple sugar is made in TINS
township that is famous all over New
England. Plenty of this delectable article
is produced in other parts Of New Hamp-
shire, but the sugar that comes from
Sandwich is a little bit sweeter. the syrup
a trifie thicker and more luscious.
As for lakes. lots of them are at hand.
There is a Bearcamp lake, the waters OF
which find their way to the ocean, fully
fifty miles off. by way of Bearcamp and
Saco rivers. There is Red Hill pond. the
surface Of which mirrors the mountain
from which it takes its name. These wa
tiers also wander of to the sea. but by a
much longer and more tortuous course.
via the Mcrrimac river. There is
Squam,' the geography calls it Asquam,
but everybody drops the A only about a
quarter of this sheet of water lies IN Sand
witch, but the beauties of the Lake &C.
neva of America add greatly to the
charm Of the rugged old township On the
opposite shore OF this lake IS sunset h1tls
where grows the big, lonely old pine tree
that Whittier termed the Wood Giant
and from under whose branches he
watched the setting of the August sun for
many a year.
The rain god had a very soft spot in
his heart for Sandwich and there is no
droughts there. Every summer cloud that
fits across the sky seems to stop when it
reaches the town and If it does NOT spend
itself 1t seldom fails to send down re-
freshing drought Other and .neighboring
towns may grow dry and parched, the hay
crop fail and the garden truck burn up.
but these things never happen in Sand
wich- In fact, that place hasn't had a
drought sipce 20. and that one left traces
which win probably never be erased. II
was a long. dry spell and was followed
by q drenching rain of many days Ere
it was over the entire face OF one of the
mountains was washed into the valleN |
And that is how old Whiteface got his
name. Forty miles away. after all these
years. you can see the naked side of this
towering elevation.
Less than $50 years ago old Chocorua
and his countless tribe padded their birch /
canoes in the Sandwich lakes and rivers, /
built their Wigwarns on the banks and
hunted the wild animals OF the hills and
mountains. Today these same mountains
are covered with dark thick forests that
are still the haunt of the bear. the pen
Their and the deer. but the whizz Of the
red mans arrow has long been silenced.-
Boston Globe