Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-06-02
The Presidents Marriage.
HIS ARRIVAL IN New YORK .-CALLs UPo,
Miss FoLsoM-THE WEDDING.

The President Marriage
HIsARRIvALIN New YORK Calls UPON
Miss FoLsoM-THE WEDDING
President Cleveland met his betrothed Sum
day night for the first time since last Septem-
Der when the President end his prospective
bride parted in the White House. Mr.
Cleveland reached New York just after 10
o'clock. Secretaries Whitney and Lamar ac-
companiad him. but as soon as they got on
this side of the Hudson the President left
his companions and jumping IN cab was
driven to the Gilsey House, where Mrs. and
Miss Folsom were waiting patiently for him.
The man who sat on the cab box seemed to
think that he could not get the President to
his la1v love any too quickly, for he whipped
the horses into a rafting pace all the way up
town.
The cab reached the side entrance at ten
minutes to IL President Cleveland has
been a guest at the Gilsey on different occa-
sons, and he WAS in no need of guide to
point him the way to his waiting bride. He
hurried up the broad marble steps that led to
the ir.t door and disappeared from sight in
a twinkle. for the door of the Folsom apart
ments opened for him as if by magic as
soon as he reached it Only Mrs. and Miss
Folsom were in the apartments when Presi-
dent Cleveland entered. He remained until
near midnight and then lett for the home of
Secretary Whitney, where he is guest. He
found his host and Secretary Lamar awaiting
him.
Miss Folsom and her mother passed very
quiet Sabbath at the Gisev House The
Young lady did not leave the Hotel at all, and
the crowds that attended the various churches
in the hope of catching glimpse of her were
very much disappointed in consequence.
AN EXCLUSIVE WEDDING.
The wedding arrangements are now pretty
well made and are not likely to be changed
even under pressure Of the great desire to see
the affair which has been shown by ladies
high in official society. As fixed now. none
but the Cabinet officers and their families are
expected to attend but their families have
proven euch expansible articles in the past
that every effort is being put forward to make
, them as big as possible. Nearly every one
of the Cabinet ladies have received hints that
they can confer everlasting favors by taking
one or two well known ladies under their pro-
lection, and in one or two cases actual re-
quests have been made for the vacant places
of members of the families who will not be
able to be there. After the wedding Colonel
Lamont is to furnish the Associated Press
with a description of the affair, which he
SAYS will cover everything that can be said.
10 fashion correspondents will be permitted
| to help him, and the two or three feminine
society writers who have been usually in
cluded in White House receptions are left
out entirely
, These are the regulations, but they may be
broken If the President did not desire pub
licity he would not have been married at the
White House He has been willing so far to
have much of the gossip about the affair go
without opposition, and it is hardly possible
that the distinct announcement made by his
brother WAS given out without authority from
him. On this view of the case something be
sides Mr.. Lsmont's account of the affair can
be expected
THE WEDDING PARLoR.
The blue parlor, in which the wedding Ger.
emouy will occur, was decorated by Tiffany
of New York, and reopened in the winter of
lsS2-s3 A robins egg blue is used for the
walls, furniture coverings and window hang
ings; but it looks green by gas light, which
is the light always used on state occasions.
The ceiling is silvered over in a beautiful
design. Silver and crystal brackets on the
walls have gas burners, which. we'll as
those in the handsome centre chandelier of
crystal, are always lighted at ceremonials.
Although the east room was used for Nellie
Grants wedding, the blue parlor is the room
in which the most formal and ceremonious
social events usually happen at the White
House. There the New Year reception of the
diplomatic corps and sill the other formal
receptions held bv president or the lady of
the White House occur, and there, on pres
entatiou of their letters accrediring them as
envoys to this country, the foreign ministers
or charges d'affsires are first introduced by
the Secretary of State to the President. The
. wedding of John Quincy Adams son. in 1926.
while bis father President, and of Presi-
dent Hayes niece, Miss Plat. occurred in
this room
The blue bedroom which the President has
occupied whenever in the Executive Mansion
since his Inauguration, is the same from
which the last two brides whose weddings
occurred in the White House, descended to
be married in the psrlors below. 1t was
Nellie Grants bedchamber during the months
preceding her wedding in the east room, May
81, 1874, and it was the bedchsmber occu-
pied by Miss Plstt, President Hayes niece,
during the time she spent in the White House
before her wedding in the blue parlor, June
Is, 1873.
The informaiity of such invitations as have
been sent out for the wedding is thoroughly
in keeping with the informal character of the
whole affair. This is ssid to be an exact copy
of the little notes which were delivered to
each member of the Cabinet:
EXECUTIVE MANSION, May 20, 1856.
at at to be
to Miss Folsom. 1t will be very quiet affair." and
will be extremely gr1tded at your attendance the
OCCASION Yours sincerely,
GROVER CLEVELAND.
To the members who are married the invi.
} tation includes their wives.
How THE SECRET LEAKED Our.
al
ing account of how the secret of the Presi.
dents engagement first leaked out 1t saws ::
"a telegraph operator in this city was the
} first person outside of the Cleveland and Fol-
som families to discover the fact of the Pres
ident's engagement. This knowledge, how
ever, proved very unfortunate for him and
resulted ultimately in the loss of his situation.