Sun, December 3, 1892
MR. CLEVELAND GOING HOME.
Tourists and sportsmen -- Field sports - LodgesTourists and sportsmen -- Field sports - Hunting : Waterfowl and shorebirdInfrastructure -- Public - Government : Postal serviceTransportation -- Road - MaintenanceTransportation -- Water - Wharves
He Will Leave Hog Island Sunday Night for New York City.
EXMORE, VA., Dec. 2. -- Arrangements have been completed for the departure of President-elect Cleveland from Broadwater Island on next Sunday. The private car conveying the little party northward will be attached to the regular passenger train, which is due to leave Exmore Station at 10.31 P. M. and arrive at Jersey City at 7.50 Monday morning. The present understanding is that Mr. Cleveland will go direct to New York city and not stop at Lakewood, N. J., where his wife is visiting Mrs. Freeman, as had been expected.
Today was devoted to blind ducking, the programme and arrangements being practically the same as Wednesday and yesterday. The sun was bright and warm, the water was not so rough and the wind considerably abated. The gunners started from the landing a few minutes after 8 A. M.
The ducks were flying in considerable numbers and Mr. Cleveland succeeded in bagging some nineteen brant, ten broad-bills, six dippers and five shell duck, thus easily beating his record as a sportsman on Broadwater Island. The day's work is regarded as highly satisfactory. The party returned to the landing shortly after 4 o'clock.
Hog Island folks are beginning to anticipate some great advantages that will accrue to them when their visitor gets into the White House. Chief among their numerous wants is a postoffice over on the mainland, at Willis Wharf, where the islanders land for their mail and supplies. Two years ago a petition was circulated to this end, but in the category of Hog Island's yearnings for better things there is none that ranks higher than the desire for an improved public landing and highway. The spot now dignified by the name of wharf, consists of a number of piles driven into the mud at the end of a wagon road, while the latter is a lane that gradually winds and narrows until it is lost among the pines or hidden under the water at high tide. There is a strong, under-current of popular belief that Mr. Cleveland is a friend of Hog Island folks and will do much to right their wrongs when he takes his position at Washington.
Mr. Levering, another member of the club, arrived from Philadelphia early this morning and was taken over to the island by steamer. This addition makes five members now at the Broadwater club-house beside Mr. Cleveland, their Philadelphia guest and Mrs. Wheeler, the wife of one of the members.
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Tourists and sportsmen -- Other recreation - Resorts
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 2. -- A dispatch received here today from Old Point Comfort, Va., conveys the information that an invitation has been extended to President-elect Cleveland to visit that resort at the conclusion of his gunning trip. There is a probability that he will accept the invitation, in event Mrs. Cleveland and Baby Ruth will join him for a few days' sojourn at the Point. Old Point Comfort is not very far from Exmore. A ride of an hour over the Philadelphia, New York and Norfolk Railroad will enable him to reach Cape Charles, the southern terminus of the road. From there a delightful sail of 35 miles across Chesapeake bay takes him to Old Point.