Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-05-27

Said 10 be Marked Down for the
Third Saturday i'm June.

Third saturday in June.
New York Times.
WASHINGTON, May 25.-"The President
is to be married to Miss Folsom on June
10TH" This is the information obtained
from trustworthy source, one entitled
to great consideration, that is vouched for
as true now, and is likely to remain true
unless some great calamity should over
take one OF the principals to the proposed
ceremony. The day was fixed, it was
understood, with some regard to the ex-
acting obligations of n closing session of
Congress upon the President. The round
of duty in the White House may seem an
unimportant matter to those who are con
templating marriage, if they do not
happen to know how easily vast accu-
mutation of important affairs can fall be-
hind by the neglect of day or two. All
the reports that have hitherto gone out
have insisted that the wedding was TO be
on Wednesday. This was only natural,
as it is the admitted popular day
of the week with brides. The 10Th day of
June is the third Saturday of the month.
Saturday is not at all a favored day in the
estimation of brides, but it will be very
| convenient day for carrying out the ar
rangements made for the Presidential
wedding. Occasionally, when the Presi-
dent has seen fit to leave town for n day
or two of recreation, he has quietly dis
| appeared on Friday, his going away ex-
citing no curiosity until Saturday after
noon, when the few visitors to the White
House would learn that he had gone
away and the fact would be announced in
the papers in three or four lines. As the
wedding is intended to be private affair,
at which none but few of the Presidents
most intimate personal friends, Colonel
ID. s. Lamont, his private secretary,
and some of the relatives of the bride, are
to be present, il was regarded as unneces-
sary, If not unwise, to give formal notice
of the event, as information of the date
would naturally be accompanied by u
statement of the place where the cere-
mony was to be celebrated. The stories
about the engagement of rooms for Mrs.
Folsom and Miss Folsom in Baltimore
and the assumption that the wedding was
to take place in that city, are disposed of
by persons who know them to be highly
absurd. Their home is not and never has
been in Baltimore. They would be
strangers in strange place, whereas ut
Buffalo, or some place near that, they
would be thoroughly at home and among
friendly neighbors.
From other sources of information than
that conveying the date of the wedding it
is learned that the President will leave
here on Friday, the day preceding the
proposed wedding day, or perhaps MS
early as Thursday, in the same quiet way
that he recently went off on his trip down
Chesapeake bay with Mr.. W. i. Scott. A
nights journey will carry him to the
place at which the wedding is to be cele
brated. An idle day will follow, and then
the President, il is expected, will return
with his bride to Washington. His re
Gently acquired cottage out on the Ten
allytown road is not yet ready for the re-
ception of bride, but the White House
is in good order, with brand new roof,
just completed, the furniture is in good
order, and the hothouse and conservatory
filed with flowers that can be used to
decorate and make fragrant the interior
of the mansion. That there will have to
be some sort of summer reception, for the
purpose of presenting the new mistress OF
the White House, will occur TO everybody
here as the correct and desirable and per.
haps inevitable thing. If there is such nm
event now it will be noted as one of the
most important of the social events
of this administration, and will attract O
distinguished throng of diplomatic, of.
fetal and private persons, notwithstand.
ing the lateness of the season.
The arrangements for the wedding, sc
far as the Presidents movements are con
cerned, have been left in the hands Of
Colonel Lamont. No more discreet and
worthy confidential agent was ever in
trusted with the management of such Z
matter. Some of his friends who have
learned of visits to New York that have
not been made public are disposed to in
, sist that the talk about wedding in the
western part of New York is absurd, af
making long journey necessary. They
say that it is to take place in New Yorl
. City and that the secretary's trip to the
I city on Monday was made as much fol
: the purpose of arranging for the wedding
as it was for the arrangement of thu
Decoration Day movements of the Presi
, dent. The arrival of Mrs. and Mis-.
Folsom may cause some change in plans
but will scarcely affect the date decided
upon some time ago.
Washington people, in and out of office
are delighted at the prospect of sooi
, having "Lady of the White House )
! who will be entitled to all the honors o
: the position as the wife of the president
The curiosity about the wedding is alto
, gether the expression of friendly concern
not vulgar impertinence or a desire I,
NEEDLE in anybodys private affairs
Some regret is expressed that the Presi
dent will be obliged to bring his wife to
house that is more public than mos
others, house that is overrun, even il
the so-called private part, by from 10 {,
100 privileged visitors every day. TIL
crowds are not usually so great in tn
summer as they are in the winter season
, but the fact that the wife of the Presiden
is soon to be there will undoubtedly at
tract an unusual number of visitors, an,
!, inspire many of them with the hope tina
: by getting into the "home siden of tn
: mansion they may be able to get
1 glimpse of the bride in her new home.
. New YoRK, May GA gentleman VIII
arrived from Washington yesterday de
, clared positively last night that Col. La
a mont isto meet Mrs. 6ndMiss Folsom and t
! arrange with them the details of the mar
riage. He may go out Of the city for
: day or so, but he will be here to greet tn
bride-elect upon her arrival. The Git
3 of Chicago, on which Miss Folsom an,
her mother are passengers, is not ex
7 pected here before tomorrow or Friday
Their stay in this city will be brief one
: but while here they will be the guests O
one of young lady's schoolmates, VIII,
lives in Fortieth street, between FIT
and Sixth avenues. The lady'a name an
j the exact location of the house are IN
b known. They will probably leave 70
a Baltimore within "a honra after a,riv;,,