Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1886-06-03
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FROM ALL QUARTERS.
FIRST LADY OF THE LAND
Miss Folsom Becomes Mrs,
Cleveland.
SIMPLE WEDDING CEREMONY
The Scene in The Blue
Room.
HERR MOST AT The ANVIL.
POwderly's Enemies Score
a Point.
HERR MOST AT The ANVIL.
THE BRIDE OF THE WHITE HOUSE

THE BRIDE OF THE WHITE HOUSE
Blue Room-Only Few Guests At.
tend-The Bride Wears an Enchant.
ing Wedding Dress of Ivory Satin
with No Jewelry Whatever Except
Her Engagement and w edding Rings
The Presidents Gift to His Bride A
Magnificent Diamond Necklace
They Leave for Deer Park After the
| Wedding Feast.
| WASHINGTON, June 2.-That notable event
the marriage of President Cleveland occurred
tonight. Notwithstanding the exalted posi-
ton of the President, and that the opportu-
nifty and occasion almost demanded a bril-
liant State wedding, the affair was quiet and
homelike, in accordance with the Presidents
wishes. The day was ushered in with bright
beautiful weather and almost with the rising
sun came the bride and her kinsfolk to the
/ executive mansion after the night journey
| from New York. The day at the mansion
| was a comparatively quiet one when the in
| portance of its closing events is considered.
| Of course there considerable stir and
| excitement on the part of those upon whom
| devolved the duties of final preparations for
the wedding. But it is safe to say the Presi-
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| any about the mansion, was the least excited
| of any. He was early in the library trans
| acting official business He directed that
| three private pension bill vetoes be sent to
Congress, had a conference by appointment
with Senator Van Wyck, saw Secretaries La
| mar and Fairchild about Interior and
Treasury department matters, had several
conferences with DR.. Sunderland about the
details of the marriage service and found
time in the afternoon to take drive alone in
his landau.
About $50 o'clock this evening the hustle
and excitement of preparation for the event
began to transform itself into realization.
The invited guests, Cabinet officers and their
wives, who were not abiding in the mansion,
then began to arrive. They were at once
shown to the State dining room where they
Invested themselves of their wraps and re-
paired to the Blue room where Miss Cleve-
land and other relatives of the bride and
groom together with DR.. Sunderland were
waiting to receive them. The assembled
guests, standing on the eastern and western
sides of the oval-shaped Blue room where
the ceremony took place, had but few min |
utes to wait, for promptly at o'clock the |
President with Miss Folsom leaning on his |
arm came down stairs and entered through |
the northern door and advanced to the CEN |
ter of the and stood facing |
the background of palms, ferns and flowers |
in the southern end of the room.
DIR. Sunderland, assisted by the Presidents
brother the Rev. William Cleveland, stood
facing the bride and groom. The invited
guests present who witnessed the ceremony
were: Mrs. Folsom, mother of the brideyl
Miss Cleveland and Mrs. Hoyt, the Presi-
dents sisters; Thomas F. Bayard, Secretary
of State Daniel Manning, Secre-
tary of the Treasury, and Mrs. Manning;
William c. Endicott, Secretary of War, and
tary of the Navy, and Mrs. Whitney; Will
liam F. Villas, Postmaster General, and Mrs.
Villas; L. Q. C. Lamar, Secretary of the In
terror; Daniel S. Lamont, the Presidents
private secretary, and Mrs. Lamont; Benja-
min Folsom, of Buffalo; Mr.. and Mrs. Rogers, |
of Seneca Falls, N. Y; Mrs. Goldman and
Miss Huddleston, of Detroit; Mr.. and Mrs.
Harmon of Boston, relatives of the bride;
Miss Nelson of New York and Mr.. w. S.
Bissell of Buffalo, the Presidents
former law partner. Immediately after
the entrance of the President
and Miss Folsom DIR. Sunderland avaneed
and proceeded with the ceremony as follows:
s'Forasmuch as assembled to observe the
seek the blessing Of the great God our Father,
whose institution it is and therefore beseech you
now to follow with rsverent hearts in prayer to
him Almighty and everlasting God, the father of
our spirits, the Trainer Of bodies, the giver of
the end from the beginning, who knowest what is
ita Of mar riqOa tn ha
throughout all generations regard now. we beseech
him pi LEM with thy grace and fill him with
wisdom to walk in thy ordinances Be very nigh to
bties day BY day May the law direct him and thy
strength uphold him and be thou forever his sun
down upon this, thy dsughter even as thou didst
favor the chosen Rebecca and many, noble women
precious boon Of God to her husband to cheer and
h% tss
sight @has she ws j. Ry dwell M'
do and un thy the Ws of s and in w
we live and graciously assist them,this man and
this woman who are here to be united in the bonds
holy wedlock according to the institution of thy
word. Mercifully be pleased Almighty God to
to each Of them thy grace tina. they may
they now about to mako to each other in the | {
presence of this company and before thee, and that
live together as to rejoice in the solemnzstion OF
through Jesus Christ our Lord-Amen.
After the prayer DR.. Sunderland made the I
address:
Marriage is honorable among all men in that a |
man shall leave his father and mother and cleavs
It was constituted by creator in the first Para
disc. 1t confessed by patriarch and priest Z
teaching and adorned with the presence of the Re {
1eemer and has been honored by the faithful keep
gan It is therefore to be undertaken lightly
1ad Int
man come now to enter: If any now can show just
,fas;e let him speak slse hereaftsr forever
-iage YOU viii signify the same by joining your '
right hands. {
Here the President and Miss Folsom joined
hands. The clergyman then asked: "Gro- I
yer, do you take this woman whom you hold {
by the hand to be your lawful welded wife,
20 live together after Gods ordinance in the :
holy estate of wed1ocka Do you promise to !
owe, cherish, comfort and keep her in sick :
ness and in health, in joy and sorrow, and 8
Eorsaking all Others keep You only unto her
30 long as YOU both shall live!" President r
Cleveland responded firmly: "I do" DR.. +
asked: Frances, do you take this man whom c
you hold by the hand to be your lawful we'd /
led husband, to live together after Gods Or 6
linance in the holy estate of wedlock? Do
you promise to love him, honor, comfort {
and keep him in sickness and in health, in r
10y and sorrow, and forsaking all others .
Keep you only to him SO long as You both i
'hall 1iveg' The lady responded: II do" q
in token of the same, }" said DR., Sunderland,
let the wedding ring be placed" The
President then placed the ring upon the =
oride's finger. DR.. Sunderland then pro
the sanction, saying:
Forasmuch as Grover and Frances have here
Igreed and covenanted to live together after Gods
ordinance in the holy estate OF wedlock and have
confirmed the same by giving and taking wedding
ing, now, therefore, in the presence OF this com
)any, in the name of the Father. the Son and the .
Holy Ghost. pronounce and declare that they are
husband and wife and what God has Joined to- .
sether let not man put asunder
Dr. Sunderland then concluded the cere-
nony with the benedction in the following q
words: y
God the Father, God the Son and God 7
he Holy Ghost, bless, keep and preserve you The
ord mercifuly fill you with an temporal and AL
piritual blessings and grant that you may SO live .
ogether in this world that in the world to come
'ou may have life everlasting Amen. :
Congratulations were then ordered and .
Hrs. Folsom was the first to congratulate
Ter daughter and son-in-law. Congratula- t