Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 125, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1904 — CLEVELAND’S LONELY HOME. [ARTICLE]

CLEVELAND’S LONELY HOME.

Spot in the Sandwich Mountains Too Desolate Even for Farmer*. Politicians and others who have sought ex-President Grover Cleveland at his new summer home at Sandwich, X. H., are telling of the dlfflcultles they encountered in reaching bis retreat. Most of them expressed the opinion that Sandwich, Carroll County, is the. "jumping-off place,” Tt certainly is very near to being the end of travel in the direction of the Osslpee and Sandwich mountains. All of the roads there have a habit of leading up to some secluded farmhouse and there stopping. Further on there is only a trail leading up the mountain. It is a drive of something like a dozen miles to the Cleveland' home, but more than one visitor has put the number of miles at twenty-five before lie lias covered the ’distance. The roads are rough und uneven. They wind through the valleys and over the hills, particularly over the hills. The early settlers in the region appear to have had a craving for traveling around on the mountain tops. Mr. Cleveland’s domicile is on the top of a hill in in open field. It is half .a mile from the main road- and is reached by a common cart path, which is uncommonly hard to travel over..: The nearest postolfice is at Whitefall, three and a , half miles away. Everybody knows that Mr. Clevli,, land is fond of fishing. At Sandwich lie is obliged to walk or drive six to ten miles to reach ■ a pond, though there are several trout brooks within two or three miles of the house. Sandwich is out of the way of steam cars, trolley lines and most other adjuncts of modern civilization. It is a good place in which to bury one’s self. It is surrounded by forests seldom trod by men, and abounding in game, There are fetver houses and fewer people than there were thirty years ago. Probably in no township in New England are there more abandoned farms than in this. The visitor discovers deserted farm buildings going to ruin in every direction, and all around is land which shows signs of once having been cultivated, but which has been abandoned to bushes aud rabbits. It is a lonely region even for New England.—New York Sun.