Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1886-06-11
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.

Written and compiled for the HERALD.
The President and his bride are
at deer park. 1t is evidently his
attention to make his honeymoon
as much his own private business
as was his engagement and mar
riage. While thousands of eager
citizens awaited about the front en-.
trance of the Executive Mansion,
while gdminS climbed trees and
lamp posts and dignifed citizens
and their wives struggled for stand
ing room and craned their necks
in the innocent hope of seeing the
President and has wife, and while
a syndicate of newspaper reporters
hired a number of carriages in or
der that they might follow the Pres.
ident to the last,-the latter enter.
ing a carriage from the rear of the
Mansion, was driven to a special
train on the side track and was
Oh" Over the hills and away"
before the reporters were aware
that be had left the White House.
President Cleveland shows a natu-
raj taste in selecting Deer Park for
he enjoyment of his honeymoon.
At the altitude of three thousand
feet above the sea, and with beau
tiful bride with French clothes, he
is perhaps as near heaven as he will
ever get. He reached this sublime
height in the private car of Pres
ident Garrett of the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad, and he is quartered
at the Deer Park residence of the
railroad King. 1t may seem inyid-
ious to criticize a newly married
man, but we cannot forget that
this is a reform administration, and
that President Cleveland paid his
own fare in coming to Washington,
and that the Democratic press and
stump have never ceased to below
this and similar facts as proofs of
their millenum of reform
The cottage occupied by the
President and his bride is two
story frame structure, containing
ten rooms, all handsomely furnish.
ed. A force of one hundred detec-
tives was at once detailed to gaurd
the grounds, and to prevent any
one from approaching the house.
1t is expected that the President
and his bride will come back to
Washington in a few days, and
that upon their return a reception
will be held at the White House.
The absence of Attorney General
Garland from the wedding occasion
ed much comment. 1t might have
been attributed to his distaste for
social OCCASIONS and his detestatiOn
Of dress suit. A few days before
the marriage a friend told him that
he could not escape wearing a
swallOw-tall coat OH that occasion.
He replied " You don't kOwn |
can get out off,
The arrival OF the bride and her
mother Wednesday attracted but
little attention. They were met at
the depot by Miss Cleveland, aud
in accordance with the secrecy and
and mysteriOusness which have
characterized everything connected
with the wedding, were driven by
a retired. roundabout route to the
White House This was hardly
necessary, however, as Mrs. CIeve.
and does not seem to be annoy ed
by the public attention which the
the President tries so ingeniOusly
to avoid. During the hasty drivel
to the White House she caught
sight of cab in which some New
York reporters were following her
carriage. She laughed heartily
and seemed 10 gOOd-naturedly ap-
preciate the, situation.
All sorts of tricks and devices
were resOrted to on the wedding
day by persons whose devouring
was to witness the cere. |
mony, or at least catch a glimpse |
Of the bridal party. Of course, no |
effort was successful. One young |
man, of more or less original ideas, /
hunted up Prof. Sousa, leader of
the Marine Band, and asked the |
musician if he didn't waut to put a |
fifty dollar greenback into his peck !
Of. The leader remarked that he
had no particular aversion to |
greenbacks of large or small de-
nominations if honestly come by.
Ig Wall y said the voun0 man or