The life of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, nineteenth president of the United States . ularity, was town is readily accessible by means of one of the great eastand west trunk railways and is within easy distance of Toledoand Cleveland. It has an air of well-to-do comfort and pros-perity, and is noteworthy for the number of attractive homeswith well-kept lawns and gardens, and everywhere abundantshade and fruit trees. The houses and cottages of artisans andthose in the humbler walks of life are almost invariably neat, their front yards beautified with flowers and kitchengardens
The life of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, nineteenth president of the United States . ularity, was town is readily accessible by means of one of the great eastand west trunk railways and is within easy distance of Toledoand Cleveland. It has an air of well-to-do comfort and pros-perity, and is noteworthy for the number of attractive homeswith well-kept lawns and gardens, and everywhere abundantshade and fruit trees. The houses and cottages of artisans andthose in the humbler walks of life are almost invariably neat, their front yards beautified with flowers and kitchengardens in the rear. In no quarter of the town does shiftlessnessor poverty seem to abide. It is the home of many cultured andrefined people, largely of New England extraction, who havepride in their schools and churches, who know good music andread good books, and who are interested in all the better thingsof life. A kindly, gentle, hospitable folk, indeed, whose linesare fallen unto them in pleasant places, and who, whatever theirinterests or activities, still have time to be > 2 THE RETURN TO SPIEGEL GROVE 331 At the western edge of the town, a mile from the businesscentre, one comes to Spiegel Grove. ^ It covers an area of twenty-five acres, triangular in shape. On each side runs a public high-way, the road on the longest side, Buckland Avenue, bearinsaway to the southwest, and falling so steeply that most of it ishidden from view. The surface of the land is for the greater partlevel, but the southwestern angle drops by an abrupt declivityto a level some thirty feet below the larger tract; and the watersof a spring long ago ploughed out a miniature ravine, where nowtwo tiny lakes have been made within retaining walls. Thegrove is of primeval forest trees, among which, however, havebeen planted evergreens, historic trees, like the Charter Oakand the Napoleon willow (from Mount Vernon), and somespecies not native to Ohio. There are majestic oaks that haveweathered the sto
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