The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-31

was the groom The first East Room wedding
was that Of Elizabeth Tyler, whose father was
then President, and William Waller, of Will
iamsburg, Va Miss Tyler was just nineteen,
as was also Nellie Grant. when married. Presi-
dent Adamss. son John Quincy. jr.. married his
cousin. Miss johnson, in 1926 The we'd
ding took place in the White House in
President Adamss administration. When Gen.
jackson was President there were two
weddings in the White House. Miss Easton,
his niece, and Mr.. Polk, of Tennessee, and rel
alive of Jackson were married The other was
that Of Miss Lewis of Nashville, and Mr. Pa
queol afterward French minister to this country
Martha Monroe married Samuel Souveneur
who was for while President NJ 0nroe's private
secretary. This wedding took place In the East
Room, and the bride was just turned seventeen
The wedding of Mr.. Cleveland will be the
ninth taking place in the White House. but 1t
will be the first wedding there of President
President Tylers second wife was the first and,
so far, the only mistress OF the mansion going
there bride. Mr.. Tyler and Miss Gardner
were married in New York, but came on to
Washington and held their wedding reception in
the White House. Her portrait painted soon
after, now hangs in the Green Room.
EVERYTHING DONE UP NICE"
Special to Cincinnati Enquirer.
All is quiet along the Potomac. The Presi-
dent has been delivered of his secret and is
serene and happy. To the wife of Cabinet.min-
lister who called early this morning to proffer
her congratulations he said, clasping his arms
across the back of a small sofa, as they sat in
the upper hall of the White House:
Don't you think we've done everything up
nicer
And he drew a deep, long sigh Mr.. Cleveland
takes the liyeliest interest in the wedding de-
tails OF the marriages of all his friends.
How were you marredg he continued to the
lady--''in churcha and did you 60 away on
wedding tour9'
No. indeed; was married in my fathers
house. ten miles from a city. as my father was
one of the original landhoders of Wisconsin.
and we remained under the family roof tree for
two weeks, the members of both families living
together, and sitting down to breakfast, dinner
aud supper in the English fashion.
WELL regret" resumed the President. 1--WE
are unable to carry out our original plan, and
invite more people to the ceremony"
NOTE AND INCIDENT.
The President does not intend to make his
new suburban house regular summer residence.
He will occasionally go there on hot afternoons
and nights for retreat from business cares, but
Mrs Cleveland will not stay there at all She
will go North in the hot season.
Washington society, whatever is said to the
contrary, is prepared to give a hearty welcome
to the bride, and wishes her a wiser reign in the
White House than that of her only youthful pre-
decessor Mrs. John Tyler, who brought many
follies into its dgnfed domain, and was the first
Presidents wife to have dancing at her evening
parties-a custom which soon fell into ''innocu-
Gus disuetude."
Tho President will leave Washington, as he
has already announced, on Sunday night, in time
to reach Brooklyn to review the Decoration Day
parade. He will be present at the services at
the Academy of Music in New York in the even
ing and return to Washington Monday night or
Tuesday morning. If he finds time to call upon
his iancee, 1t will be but to make brief visit.
Miss Folsom and Mrs Folsom will come to
Washington on Tuesday.
New York Mail and Express: What kind Of
lover is this. to send deputy to meet his be-
trothed and wait two whole days to come and see
bert 1t is announced that Mr. Cleveland will
not leave Washington till Sunday afternoon. He
will be busy all day Monday with the Decora-
ton Day exercises and proposes to return to
Washington Tuesday morning. To be sure, Mr.
Cleveland Is no longer in his first youth, and per-
haps cannot be expected to exhibit the ardor
which we should look for in younger man; but
this slowness is almost objectionable. The won
der naturally arises whether he will take tho
time to get married in person
In letter to the New York Evening Post Cap
tain Goldman, of the Noordland Says
ut is due to the passengers to say that while
they were perfectly aware OF the intended mar
riage. and Miss Folsom was fully cognizant of
their knowledge, the matter was not once aflud-
ed tot although the young lady and her mother
joined In general conversation and made them
selves most agreeable to their companions on the
voyage. The future lazy Of the White House
fascinated US all with her beauty and her con-
versation. and the passengers of the Noordland
viii remember both Mise Folsom and her moth
er with the same esteem in which we should have
held them had they not been SO prominently be-
fore the public"