The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-02
dents Grant Hayes and Garfield. with their
wives used the opposite room. which faces the
south and looks out on the large grounds on that
side OF the mansion.
MISS FOLSOM.
How She Spent the Day In New York-The
Departure for Washington.


Departure for Washington.
New YORK, June Wilson S. Bissell, of
Buffalo, President Cleveland's former law part
ner called upon Miss Folsom at the Gilsey
House, at noon to-day, and spent nalf an hour In
conversation with her. He said he should &C
company Miss Folsom and her mother to Wash
ington this evening. He said that President
Cleveland and his bride would soon take trip
to Europe The date of their departure, how
ever, ne could not give. 1t was his intention, he
said, to accompany them abroad. The trip will
probably be made he added, just after Congress
adiourns. Mr.. Bissell and Mr.. Benjamin Fol
som left the hotel about 1890 o'clock.
Miss Folsom spent the forenoon quietly at the
hotel At l o'clock she was alone with her
mother, and busy with her correspondence.
Since her arrival in this city she has received a
heavy mail. and not a few letters from ''cranks.
This mornings mail brought her letter from
man in Cleveland. o., signing himself ~ j..
Martin, friend Of the laboring class He
wanted TO know if she would teach her husband
to study the amelioration of the sufferings of
the laboring classea Twill you,' he wrote,
ssadvise your husband how to deal with these
teach your children to have the interests of the
laboring classes at hearth We know the letter
concludes, that you are large of heart, and will
respond to these entreates.n
Mrs. Folsom and Mrs. Secretary Whitney
drove out this afternoon. Miss Folsom and her
mother devoted the spare time of the afternoon
to packing of trunks and other preparations for
the trip to Washington.
Miss Folsom took dinner with her mother and
cousin They sat down $50 P. NJ and did not
arise until about Z. The trip to Washington and
the incidental circumstances were the principal
topics talked about during the meal.
Shortly after o'clock the hotel porters came
20 the private parlor of the Folsom suite to take
charge of the baggage. Most of Miss Folsoms
trunks were In the baggage-room below but five
stairs Altogether, eleven large trunks were
piled on the express wagon that was
waiting at the hotel steps to 60
to Washington. and five others were
addressed to 394 Mine street. Buffalo, N. Y. By
40, Miss Folsom had completed the prepare
tIOns for her journey. She was then dressed in
elose-ftting black silk dress and wore a peak
chip hat with high white feather resting upon
IL. that IN no way concealed her face The de-
Hign of her white cuffs and collar included mar
row stripes.of black. AS she emerged from the
parlor, the carried black shawl over her arm,
and in her left hand was bouquet. The other
hand held an umbrella OF bright red shade that
Was purchased 10 London before her
grandfather's death. Miss Folsom, Mrs. Fol
som and Benjamin Folsom came down
the main stairway of the hotel crossed the lobby
and reached closed carriage in waiting on the
street. at the ladies' entrance. Mr.. John Rres-
lin, prorietor of the Gilsey House, assisted the
ladies into the carriage, and Mr. Folsom fol-
lowed, carrying two handsatchels. The balcony
above the entrance was filled with ladies, who
enthusiastically waved their handkerchiefs at
the bride-eect as she was driven away. This
was at ESQ p NJ The bay and gray team
ferry. The route was toward Fifth avenue
and then down past Washington square and
transversely over the same route that the Presi-
dent hurried only a few nights before to meet
his chosen bride. The same ferry boat that Mr..
Cleveland crossed in was waiting. The carriage
was driven aboard, and Immediately the boat
steamed for Jersey City. Having arrived there,
the station entrance was sought and the party
alsghted and assembled the stairway leading to
the reception room. From there they entered
the waiting-room, and finally found their
way to the platform. Here it was found that the
private car that had been intended to convey the
party to Washington was not on the track This
surprise was overcome by the quickly de-
cision to enter regular parlor car. Car No.
BOB was chosen, and the ladies were conducted to
it with promptness Miss and Mrs. Folsom
seated themselves in the drawing room, and Mr..
Folsom went to attend to the baggage. An at
bacn6 OF tne nOtel nanueu the DrlUo-elect q Dou-
queJ that had been intrusted to him
by a guest of the hotel. Miss Fol
som expressed her thanks, saying
at the same time that she felt much gratitude
for the kindnesses shown to her during her stay
In New York. The private car that had been
apportioned to the party was subsequently
backed upon the track, and the ladies were con.
daeted to It, All the curtains in the were
drawn. The was then hitched on to the
train, and, at 9:20 was hauled out of the station.
@shinnaa m a. M on a
same train. Secretaries Endicott Whitney and
Villas, with their wives, returned TO Washington
the $3.50 p NJ. train. Col w. s. Bissell left
-at midnight.
FRANKIE IS IAN AMERICAN GIRL"
''She belongs said one of her old friends,
speaking of impressions of past years, 'to what
should call very ordinary don't mean in
the sense of common vulgar-but familiar
frequent type of American country girl. She is
pretty, interesting. sympathetic You don't
have to demonstrate things to her. She catches
them quickly, falls in with what you say, re-
spends to it, is alive with interest over your
views She has had precious little chance to
have had many of her own. But don't make any
mistake about her. Her adaptability will carry
her through. She will learn quickly, and sur
prise everybody by her ease. / tell you she is
an American girl all through. Sensitive, sympa-
thetic, with eyes that open wide new
things. and thank God. pretty much everything
here and OH the other side is to nice
American Girl who has grown pretty in her
native village. as the flowers do, because God
makes them So" and my friend threw out
bis haad in his retrospective enthusiasm and
tipped his gin cocktail ell over the neat round
club table. An impression not unlike this Miss
Folsom has made everywhere The incest thing
one hears about the early courtship is that it
cost New York paper round to get a
photograph of her taken in Seneca Falls just
before she started for Europe, because the photog
rapher had been placed under pledge and bond
to part with no copy of the negative, whose only
print was to go to Grover Clevelands dressing
table. A copy of it, not over good, appeared in
most like her. and of the published portraits the
most stunning picture, which is as much as pos
sible what one cannot doubt Miss frankie wishes
she looked like. appears in the last copy of La
Vie Moderne. This in Worth gown and cut
which would have sadly startled the village girl