St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-29
THE BRIDE TO BE.
Where She is ana What She is
Doing.
Special to the Globe.


Especial to the Globe.
: New YORK, May 2s.-Instead of going
; TO private house with Miss Rose Eliza
beth Cleveland, as was currently reported
Hast night, Miss Frances Folsom, the al
famed bride of the president of the United
States, and her party went to the Gilsey
;;house, where Col. Lamont had engaged a
suite of rooms for them. The
FOlsoms were no strangers there,
as they always stopped at that
house when visiting the city. The rooms
are parlor and a sleeping room on the first
floor, with southern exposure and lmme-
diatelv on the Twenty-ninth street entrance.
fThe parlor is No. s, and the room which
adioins it on the east is No. 6. Next to the
parlor is No. 10, Mr.. Benjamin Folsom's
room. All the rooms are upholstered
in red silk. They are three of
the handsomest and pleasantest rooms
in the house. Parlor No opens on to a
broad balcony. The rooms are known i'll
the house Familiarity as the presidents
rooms" They are the ones usually occu-
pied by President Cleveland when he is in
sthe city. Col. Lamont stopped at the hotel
long. enough to join the party in light
supper, and then he fastened to the Hotf-
man house, packed his Satchel and took an
for Washington. Before doing so he tele-
,graphed to the president the news OF the
arrival. He carried with him
MESSAGES AND LETTERS.
from Miss Folsom, and it is to be supposed
also that she had long letter to read be-
fore she closed her beautiful blue eyes i'll
sleep. The party were all up by 9 o'clock
this morning, and Miss Folsom breakfasted
in blue-strlped dress with a blue over
skirt. They sent down for the morning
newspapers, and were able to read
the report of their arrival and recep-
ton down the bay. The baggage had now
yarrived and was HOW stocked up near the
grand stairway. Two of their trunks were
sSaratogas of formidable proportions one a
grey trunk five feet long and three feet
wide. and the other black trunk not quite
SO big. They have no initials, but at the
ends were two crimson crosses. Then
there was grey canvas-covered trunk with
the name of Folsom Oh the side and a
long, fiat wooden box bearing the markings
of a Paris express company. All the
trunks had Paris marks. At II o'clock
the first caller arrived and sent
up Der card, Miss Rose Elizabeth
Cleveland, the presidents sister. She was
in the city with the express purpose Of
meeting her brothers betrothed. She was
shown upstairs at once. and presently came
out again with Miss Folsom. The latter
had changed her dress, putting On gray
cloth dress and a natty little turban. The
dress was OF Paris make and showed her
tall, fine figure TO good advantage. Her
fresh complexion had tinge of brown,
lent by the ocean weather. Her hair is
light brown, and
HER EYES ARE BLUE
and she aDDearS to be in vigorous health
The private house of Mr.. j. II. Breslin,
the proprietor of the hotel, is No. Is West
Twenty-ninth street. and adjolns the hotel
On the east It's connected with the hotel
By private door, and Miss Cleveland and
Hiss frankie entered Mr.. Breslin's
house through this door and
went out of his front door. They
found Miss Cleveland's cab outside
and were driven toward Fifth avenue.
Miss Folsom was too tired to go out to-day.
Capt Goldman, of the Nordland. said this
evening:
1t is due to the passengers to say that
While they were perfectly aware of the in
tended marriage, and Miss Folsom was fully
cognizant of their knowledge the matter was
not once alluded to, although the young
lady and her mother Joined in general con-
versation and made themselves most
agreeable to their companions on the voyage.
The future lady of the White house fasci-
mated US all with her beauty and CONVERSE
eion, and the passengers of the Nordland will
remember both Miss Folsom and her mother
with the same esteem in which we should
have held them had they not been so proni-
Eently before the public.