Morning journal and courier., 1886-05-29
MISS FRANCES FOLSOM.

Dr. ". H. Hotchkiss is a Passenger on the Same Steamer With Miss l FolsOm-What He Has to Say About
 Her-The President's Intended. Yesterday noon Dr. William +. Hotchkiss | of Church street, returned from a six | months visit to Europe, which time was
 largely spent by him in visiting university towns the continent. Dr. Hotchkiss re-
 turned on the steamer Noordland of the Red Star line, and had the pleasure of meeting Miss Frances Folsom, who will be married to President Cleveland next Wednesday at the White House. When
 seen at his house by reporter yesterday he did not seem inclined to be interviewed but during the conversation said: 'sWe left Antwerp thirteen days ago. Just before we
 sailed party consisting of two ladies and a gentleman came aboard. The captain pointed out the youngest lady to me and said: That is Miss Folsom I asked him who Miss Folsom was, and he replied, evil dently with some surprise at my question: Why, the lady that is going to marry Presi- dent Cleveland
 "You see," continued Dr. Hotchkiss, :'I had been in Europe six months and had not heard of this affair At our first lunch on board the steamer I scanned over the list of passengers the passengers you know appear in the saloon at the first neal-but did not find Miss Folsom's name. Then counted those at the table and found we had
 on board three more than the list called for They were, as 1 afterwards found out, Mrs.
 Folsom, Miss Folsom and MT. Benjamin Fol
 som. I shortly afterwards had the pleasure of meeting them and found Miss Folsom 8 very accomplished lady. 1 don't think any of the passengers mentioned the subject of the marriage to any of the Folsoms and I am %t,r1& alrTn1 ,,,-o
 nation. It was commonly believed that Miss Folsom is to marry the President, how ever. All our information was gained from the American papers. She is very remark able young lady and one to be greatly admir- ed. The opinion of the passengers so far as
 grace the White House." Miss Folsom
 is described as possessing fine fig
 ure and charming presence. Her
 superior character impresses itself upon all
 who come in contact with her. She has
 light complexion, with large blue eyes.
 Her manner is winning and without any
 afectation. The Folsom party were taken
 off the Noordland on a revenue cutter upon
 which was Colonel Daniel Lamont, the Presi
 dents private secretary. President Cleve
 land goes to New York on Sunday to partic-
 ipate in the Memorial day exercises in
 Brooklyn with his cabinet.
 Toward the close of the voyage the cabin
 passengers Ol Lu6 NOOTulduu puOllSuoO d Slu- gle copy edition of manuscript newspaper
 called the North Atlantic Spray. Miss Fol som one of the contributors to this journal. Although the contributions were all anonymous, it was generally under stood that Miss Folsom's literary effort
 was an original story, the heroine of which is "Little Moll," a New York news girl, who has aroused the sympathies of the ''criminal reporter of one of the daily newspapers. Moll shows her appreciation of the reporters kindness to her by pre- venting her father, a hardened criminal, from murdering the reporter while the latter is discharging an unpleasant duty in connection with his profession. Moll is given an education, and is finally married to the un- fortunate reporter. The story was well told, and afforded much pleasure to the readers of the little paper. On Wednesday, when pilot boat No. g spoke the Noordland, over 300 miles off Sandy Hook, Miss Folsom was standing on the bridge near Captain Nickels. That gentle man then surrendered the command of the vessel to Miss Folsom, who immediately sig nailed to the engineer to stop the engines. After the pilot had climbed board the vessel was started up at signal given by the fair hand of the young American lady, who, it seemed, was still in command.