The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1886-06-04

III and deliver lecture utter it Is all over to
al! the newspaper men who assemble In his
Office. He will also furnish an official ac-
count for tho associated press The presi-
dent and his bride will remain Mt the White
House for day or two after the ceremony,
but will probably then 60 away for q
week. The arrangements for this trip are
not yet perfected It Ii generally under
stood, although not yet fully determined
upon. that after the president aud his wife
return from their journey there will be
grand reception ut the White House, at
which the official and social world will have
al opportunity OF paying It's respects to the
now mistress Of the White House, It Is
not the Presidents intention at any time to
take up his residence Mt the suburban estate
which he has purchased He simply wants
place where ho eau 20 in the afternoon
and spend quiet hour away from all the
life md care OF the executive mansion He
will be resident OF the latter so long as he
remains president lie will not, therefore,
spend 'ar%. sum OF money in improving
the house OH the Tenuly Town road. 1t will,
when put in complete repair, answer his
purpose very well. and ho will spend good
many afternoons aud evenings there during
the warm mOntha
THE DLUE PARI.oR.
The blue parlor, In which the wedding
ceremony will occur. was decorated by Tiff
fanny Of New York. and rcopened In the win
ter of 1882. A robin's egg blue is used for
walls. furniture covering and window sfad-
ngs, hut it looks green by gas light. which
is the light always used ON STATE occasions
The ceiling IN slvcrcd over u beautiful de-
sign, silver aud crystal brackets on tho
walls. having gas burners, which, as
well AZ those in tho handsome
center chandeliers of crystals are
always lighted at ccrc,nontnls Although
the east room was used for Nellie Grants
wedding. the blue parlor is the room In
which the most formal and ceremonious
sociM events usually happen ut the White
house The wedding of John Quincy Adams
son In 1920. while his father was president,
aud nf President Hayes niece, Miss Platt.
occurred in this room. The blue bed room,
which the president aud his wife will occupy,
Is the same from which the last two brides
whose weddings occurred in tho White House
descended
TO DE MARRIED
In the parlots below 1t was Nellie Grants
| chamber during the months preceding her
wedding In the east room May u, 1874,
and it was the bed chamber occupied by
Miss Platt. President Hayes niece, during
tho time she tpent In the White House be-
fore her wedding in the blue parlor June
l6. 1873 That room, however, now looks
not at oil as 1t did then, having been thor
oughly refitted for President Arthur's use
when he moved into the White House In De-
cember. 1851. Then one of the presidents
sisters gave her special attention to that
room, and had all its wood work, formerly
white, painted blue, and elaborated In o
style tn hnrmoniZc. The furniture Is all of
pale blue satin. There IL q lounge also cov-
| cred " it'll that delicate color of SATIN The
white marble is covered with hand-em-
broidercd blue lambrequin. Tho hangings
1T the two large windows are Of blue satin.
The bed in the apartment has its head to the
west Above IL q canopy Of lace over blue
satin. An e,der-down quilt. one sido Of
which is blue and the other pink silk, the
blue side worked with figures in colors. Il
! thrown acroes the foot Of the bed There
are three doors In the large square room,
which IL on the north side of the building
One door OPENS into bath, and opposite Ia
| one opening into the corner room, which
adjoins tho bedroom. This corner room
is about half the size of the other, was fitted
up at the same time the larger was for
PRESIDENT ARTHUR
| and used by him and his SUCCESSOR a. Q
private study. Into the large room, the bed
chamber, President Arthur ueed to have the
ladies shown after q state dinner when the
gentlemen were enjoying cigar down
stairs. The married presidents never used
the bed room Arthur and Cleveland chose
to occupy it Presidents Grant, Hayes and
Garfield, with their wives, used the opposite
rooms. which face the south and look ont on
the large grounds on that side of the man.
sion. Superstition has had not little to do
with this wedding. 1t is q secret, treas.
urcd among q few confdents who have
kept 1t closely, that President Cleveland
slept the night before his Inauguration with
Il piece of wedding cake under hts pillow.
i'hls traditional charm was tried at the
Arlington hotel, and the inspiring genius was
Il prominent society lady long resident IN