New York Tribune, November 24, 1892

HE LEFT THE FIGHT BEHIND.

Tourists and sportsmen -- Field sports - Lodges

MR. CLEVELAND HAS GONE, BUT THE SNAPPERS AND ANTI-SNAPPERS ARE HERE.

When Mr. Cleveland turned his back on New York on Tuesday evening and started South in search of wild game and a deliverance from Democratic office-seekers, on the Virginia coast, he left behind him a fight between his old "Anti-Snapper" friends and his enemies of the Hill machine, which he knew would be waged bitterly, and relentlessly during his fortnight's vacation. Mr. Cleveland's postoffice address during his absence is given as Exmore, Va., a small station on the Cape Charles peninsula, which is reached by the Philadelphia and Norfolk Railroad, but his real destination is Hog Island, twenty miles north of Cape Charles, between Great Machipongo Inlet on the south and Little Machipongo on the north. Here a select coterie of Philadelphia men have a private fishing and hunting preserve. A private steam yacht connects the island with Exmore Landing by way of Pocomoke Creek, a run of about two miles. The island, which is eight miles long, has a Government lighthouse and life-saving station and a fine beach. The clubhouse of the Philadelphians is in a pine forest, which covers a part of the island and a number of cottages have been built there by wealthy sportsmen. Game is abundant, and the place is sufficiently inaccessible to make the President-elect reasonably free from intrusion from the foes of his "personal comfort," whom he so graphically described and warned in his parting blast, published in The Tribune yesterday.