Show CLEVELANDS HOMES DELIGHTFUL ABIDING PLACES IN DELGHTFUL I THE LAKE CITY Morrow Tells of the Beautiful Euclid Avenue and of Prospect Street The Nature of the Average Clevelander Analyzed by a Most Friendly Critic Special Correspondence CLEVELAND Feb 2 The emphasized quality of Cleveland asa as-a city i its delightful home life We are a diversified assemblage of freehold era scattered a the way from Brooklyn Brook-lyn to Newburg and covering an area of twentyshe and a third miles Nearly every man of u can sit under his own vine and fig tree and snap h fingers at rent collectors col-lectors and all evicting constabularies We entertain all our visitors i the same way by first showing them the great stone viaduct throw river and fiat t connect the east and west side by driving them out Euclid avenue to Wade park and Lake View cemetery and then by giving then u turn through half a hundred residence streets beautified on either side by wide lawns busy fountains and sturdy forest trees Cleveland i a pearl on the bank of the blue Erie and the wayfarer who tarries herein here-in the month of June or September will tell you s Every homestead on the north or nabob side of Euclid avenue i almost a plantation A regiment of soldiers can drill on the lawn and pitch their tents in the backyard back-yard The mansions a of stpneand brick with gables great and small and dormer windows win-dows between Here i a tower there i a poetical angle and yonder i a polished pillar a picture in itself Tall trees with spreading branches line the walks and drives and throw long shadows when the sun goes down Occasionally Oc-casionally a American ivy crimson leaved and purple berried trails over a wall and loses itself the other side wal lose itelf on Happy children frolic in the grass and girls in white play lawn tennis with their best young men Such in brief i the viow in summer In winter there i a transmogrification and the tinkle of sleigh bells and the clatter of fleet hoofs heard in the broad ore hofs a hear brod thoroughfare while the robins and katydids have sought and found a warmer situation The average Clevelander i an ardent worshiper I wor-shiper at the shrine of nature He dwell among birds and flowers and he walks by the side of running waters Moreover he basks I in the shade of seven parks containing in all nearly ninetythree acres of wood and lake and yet he yearns for more I the early spring time he plants grass seed in every unoccupied un-occupied spot he buys a lawn mower and a med of garden hose and then he cuts and squirts and squirts and cuts morning noon and night until h habitation blooms like the rose and his hands take on the callous of a coal heavers I he receives a moderate salary say S 2000 a year he man tin a horse and phaeton and he lives better than the New Yorker who gets twice h pay I August he goes t Chautauqua for a fortnight wanders about that goat pasture until he thinks he i happy and then returns to Cleveland re reshed a he declares both in mind and body I he can afford ithe spends the heat term abroad or at the seashore and the biting months of winter near the Gulf of Mexico or on the islands in the south Atlantic antic Besides ou other qualities we are a community com-munity of cheap livers Our beefsteak but er and bread are butchered churned and bake at our very doors The cackle of the boastful hen can b heard in the suburbs nll l tne unintelligible howl of the huckster fresh from the pastoral regions beyond resounds in our back streets a seasons come and go The adroit sixpence seldom escapes our vii i lant care and if it does there i a hard chase you may well believe We attire ourselves in I furs and silks and support a half dozen I fancy dry goods establishments we load ourI shelves with fine books until the sellers thereof there-of wax exceedingly fat and yet we havent a first class grocery store in all the city Wear I We-ar too highly civilized t think much of eating eat-ing A baker informs me that a wealthy and well known citizen called at his shop the other day and ordered a eight cent loaf of graham bread At noon tho citizen was summoned east by a telegram tele-gram and at 2 oclock the mistress of the household came down town in her I cartage and countermanded the order Tho master had gone away she said and no other mruber of the family could tolerate un I > < bread Here i an illustration of iveland economy and by virtue of it we ear tall buildings and live in sumptuous munsioas Another opulent old chap i boss and butler in one After breakfast he jingles his keys and unlocks the store room Tho cook comes forth from her retreat of pots and pans and files her daily requisition Sugar butter flour and fruit are measured and weighed with tho nicest care the door i closed the keys hid away and then the gov of rnor business is driven bya man in livery t his place A bachelor can live elegantly in Cleveland on 1500 year He can b housed and fed in a fashionable neighborhood for 10 a week His horse can b maintained at the firest stable for half that sum and he has JO remaining for clothing and incidental expenses Pleasant cottages of wood in wide shady streets can b purchased for 5000 and 0 finely appointed house can b secured for double that amount All the houses are back from the street with grass and trees before them and another stretch of sward behind swad bWnd them I a m hat the ready money be can buy 0 roof t cover h head on credit and have it taken from him tken away h by some warm hear land shark i he chances to miss a wvment m Our rich people confine themselves to fours four-s > eta only Euclid Case ef onlyEucId Ca Prospect and Uilson The East End 11sn E however i the center of our civilization and toward it wa I salam at sunset It i truly a delightful spot to live All the upon streets and there upn Al stt ad are a great many of them are level grassy and arched over with oaks maples and elms These men of moderate means erect beautiful beauti-ful home and plant their grounds in flowers I I ur 1 ornamental shrubbery Charming little I ci tages can b hired for 300 a year and the I children of poor men con gambol on the gen I and take on the color of haymakers Clerks on a 1200 salary can live like gentlemen I sell tapes and ribbons sl tp rbbons in the day I and hear Browning discussed i the evening Over the way are two colleges I Adalbert named and endowed in honor of John Hays brotherinlaw who died die years ago at Yale and Case School of Applied Science Sci-ence Wade park and Lake View pk Lke cemetery are free t a with their romantic glimpses of landscape and then diversified drives and winding walks We are indeed a provincial people but pople there a 220000 of u within the municipal ity and we dont core a fig if we are pr vlnciol We fill our houses with the art stores of the east we coax nature until ar blossoms at our door we send our machinery and export our ideas t the remotest regions of the earth we are frugal and intellectual I and above all we are happy intletual I JAMES B MORROW I |