Evening star., 1911-08-17
HAS CLAIM TO FAME.
Sandwich, Mass, the Home Of
Many Famous Men.
TOWN RICH IN LEGEND
Miles Standish and John Alden
Originally Surveyed Land.
RESIDENTS MOST EXCLUSIVE
Grover Cleveland and Joseph Jeffer
son and Other National Figures
Lived in Village. 's.'.
RESIDENTS MOST EXCLUSIVE
BY WILLIAM r. CURTIS.
Special Correspondence of The Star and th'
Chicago Record Herald.


SANDWICH. Mass. August ). 1911
Grover Cleveland. Miles Standish Jo-
seph Jefferson. John Alden, Richard Wat
son Glider. late editor of the Century:
James Otis a graduate of Harvard in
the class of 1743. and a signer of the
Declaration of Independence: John NJ.
Clark of Chicago. Col. Charles Fl. Taylor,
editor of the Boston Globe, and sundry
other persons of good repute have been
and some of them still are residents of
the ancient village of Sandwich and its
neighborhood. Miles Standish and John
Alden surveyed and allotted the land
upon which these villages stand. and the
farms are still cultivated. They did the
work in 1853. and at that time the most
attractive resident was Miss Priscilla
Mullins, 1.-The loveliest damsel in the co..
ony." to whom according to the legend,
Capt Standish sent his friend John AL
den with an offer of marriage. The in
cident has never been repeated.
GRAY Gables which was President
Cleveland's summer home for several
years is modest shingle-covered cot
tage. and is well described by its name
1t stands on the tip end of peninsula
projecting into Buttermilk bay. Between
the house and the highway is large
tract of second growth hardwood timber
oak. ash. hickory and chestnut, and there
is long drive through the woods. The
place is now owned and occupied by John
Hoar, Boston lawyer.
Residents Most Exclusive.
4 little railway station near the gate.
called Gray Gables. is used by several
families who have summer homes in the
neighborhood This is considered very
desirable and exclusive section of BuZ-
yards bay. and it is difficult to buy
place without it being known to and ap-
proved by the neighbors.
There are several peninsulas like that
on which Mr.. Cleveland built his house.
and each of them is occupied by COM
| Portable villa which stands on the water $
edge. There is no OStentatiOn in arch1-
lecture or in equipage, and plain living
and good fishing seem to be the desir-
ables The 'resorters. as the natives
refer to everybody who is not perma-
nent resident, sail around in catboats
and fish for sea bass. schrod tas small
Goldfish are called. bluefish and other
varieties. and spend the rest of their
time sitting on their porches and talking
about 1t. Some of them go up to Boston
| and others to Providence and Fall River
for business, when they are compelled to
do SO. But it is lazy life that most Of
them lead, and very restful.
The entrance to the proposed Cape Cod
canal, now under construction from Buzz
yards Bay, is in sight of Gray Gables, and
a temporary railway track has been laid
to carry the earth away it is excavat-
ed. The future occupants of the Cleve-
land cottage can have a good view Of the
shipping as ii goes in and out.
President Cleveland came here to en-
JOY the fishing and the companionship OF
Joseph Jefferson, the beloved Rip Van
Wrinkle, who was his intimate friend and
crony for many years. Jefferson was the
earliest Of the "resorters.' He built
substantial and artistic villa of brick and
stone on one Of the points that run out
into Buttermilk bay, and planted several
acres of pine trees around it. His son
Thomas and two three friends like
Cleveland built cottages in the neighbor
hood and formed congenial coterie. JEFF
ferson had several homes One of them
was at Hoboken. He had plantation in
Louisiana where he used to spend his
winters, but later he seemed to prefer
Florida and built cottage at Palm
Beach, where he spent his last seven or
eight winters and came here for the sum-
mer months. Mr.. Cleveland came to Gray
Gables only once after Jeffersons death
and then bought an abandoned farm In
New Hampshire. He fixed the old farm
house up very comfortably, introduced
running water. bathrooms, electric lights
and other modern Improvements. and
spent his summers there with President
Finley of the University Of New York as
his next door neighbor. Mrs. Cleveland is
there now, after spending tho winter IN
Europe where her children were in school
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