THE HOMES OF HAYES AND GARFIELD. 



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gers alike are welcome to the grounds, and the 

 laughter of merry children is heard as they romp 

 about in the long summer days. 



The grove, which is the one feature of the home 

 of ex-President Hayes, covers a tract of about thirty 

 acres, and fronts upon one of the main avenues of 

 the city of Fremont, Ohio, and lies about three- 

 fourths of a 

 mile distant 

 from the center 

 o f the town. 

 The grove is a 

 piece of native 

 woodland, 

 dense with 

 a heavy growth 

 of oaks, hicko- 

 ries, hemlocks 

 and other for- 

 est trees. The 

 house, a plain 

 brick dwelling, 

 roomy and 

 c o mfo r table- 

 looking, is al- 

 most in the cen- 

 ter of the 

 grove, so far 

 back from the 

 entrance that it 

 can hardly be 

 seen when the 

 trees are in full 

 leaf. A circling 

 driveway leads 

 up to it and 

 ends at the 

 steps of a broad 

 porch which 

 crosses the en- 

 tire front of the 

 building. 



The grove 

 has not been 

 marred by any 

 paltry devices 

 of civilization. 



There are no rustic seats to torture the bones of 

 comfort-seeking loungers ; no summer-houses to 

 belittle the great temple of the trees ; no signs to 

 "keep off the grass." The surroundings are ex- 

 quisitely neat. There is a good substantial turf be- 

 neath the trees and in the open spaces where the 

 trees have grudgingly made way for smooth lawns ; 



Or a Mass of Roses 



drives and walks wind throngh the grove, with here 

 and there in open spaces a modest flower bed or a 

 mass of roses from which one picks almost without 

 stint. Besides the grove, the household contains 

 more than an equal area of cultivated land. On this 

 a thrifty orchard, an extensive garden, a few vines, 

 grain field and meadow combine to supply the ma- 

 terial needs of 

 the home. The 

 whole aspect of 

 the place is 

 wholesome ; a 

 place in which 

 a man may find 

 rest for body 

 and mind, and 

 in which good 

 work may be 

 done. That it 

 is not the home 

 of an idler is 

 indie ated by 

 the business- 

 like look of the 

 library with its 

 desk piled high 

 with papers 

 and correspon- 

 d e n c e , the 

 many books 

 open at hand 

 and the well- 

 filled shelves, 

 which are 

 clearly not 

 filled for show. 

 The eight 

 thousand v o 1 - 

 umes overflow 

 the library 

 proper and en- 

 croach upon 

 parlor and 

 d rawing-room, 

 and even are 

 partly housed 

 in the roomy 



and well-lighted attic which also serves in turn as 

 the ex-president's work room. It is clearly a house 

 that is lived in, not merely made the temporary 

 abiding place of the owner, and in substantial sim- 

 plicity is well worth studying and copying as an ex- 

 ample of how an American sovereign should be 

 housed. 



