Sun, November 24, 1892
MR. CLEVELAND'S REST.
Tourists and sportsmen -- Field sports - Lodges
The Guest of a Philadelphia Club on Hog Island.
SNUG RETREAT ON VIRGINIA'S COAST.
Ensconced in a Comfortable Club-House in the Midst of Pine Forest, Surrounded by Game and Inaccessible to Politicians -- Incidents of the Journey.
EXMORE, VA., Nov. 23. -- The train bearing President-Elect Cleveland and party arrived here at 5.11 this morning, and Mr. Cleveland, who had traveled in the private car of General Superintendent Kenney, of the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad, started with his companions on the journey to Hog Island, his destination being the Broadwater Club House.
Shortly after the train left Wilmington, between 12 and 1 o'clock this morning, a midnight lunch was served for the party. People who gathered around the car at Wilmington Station saw the President elect seated at the table awaiting his meal.
When the train reached Harrington, Del., a party of enthusiastic Democrats, returning from a jollification at Milford, attempted to board the car, but were not permitted to do so.
At Laurel a band, which had but shortly before arrived at the station from the Milford celebration, serenaded the party, but Mr. Cleveland did not show himself. As the train approached Seaford the party retired to rest.
The train reached Delmar, where the Philadelphia, New York and Norfolk road begins, at 2.57 A. M., and the run of 72 miles to this place was made without incident in a little over two hours.
An overland trip of ten miles was necessary to reach the coast, and then came a ten miles' trip by water to Hog Island, or Broadwater Island, as its new owners have named it. Here the President elect is about as completely cut off from the outside world as though he were in Africa. The island is the property of the Broadwater Club, an organization composed of about fifty wealthy Philadelphians, and no boats can land thereon unless by the permission of the club.
The island lies twenty miles north of Cape Charles, between Great Machipungo inlet on the south and Little Machipungo on the north. It is maintained by its owners as a private hunting and fishing preserve. It is reached by a private steam yacht belonging to the Broadwater Club, running down Pocomoke creek from Exmore Landing, which is two miles distant from the village of the same name. The island is eight miles long, with a magnificent beach, on which the Governor has established a lighthouse and life-saving station. In the recesses of a pine forest, which covers a part of the island, a club-house and several cottages have been erected. Game is abundant. It is a perfect hunters' paradise.
RICHMOND, Nov. 23. -- Despite all obstacles, a Virginia official has already announced his purpose to call upon Mr. Cleveland. He will state in advance, this gentleman says, that he is neither an office-seeker nor has he come to give advice about the affairs of the nation to the distinguished gentleman.
POCOMOKE CITY, MD., Nov. 23 -- President-elect Cleveland and party passed through Pocomoke City at 3.49 o'clock this morning in a private car over the New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk Railroad.