St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-22
MISS MOLLIE WILL MARRY.
The Daughter Of Ex-President Garfield
to Wed in June.
BROWN A PLUCKY FELLOW
Mrs. Garfield Announces the Event
and Says She Is Proud
of Him.

The widow of President Garfield was
among the victims of last Mondays
blizzard, says the New York Times.
She did not suffer much, it is true, hav-
ing one of the best suites of rooms at the
Hotel Buckingham at her service; but
for all the luxury of the Fifth avenue
hoStelry she was a prisoner here against
her will. Just returning from Euro
pean trip with her daughter. Miss MolIie
Garfield, she was anxious to reach her
home, where many business affairs have
been long time awaiting her appear
ance. 1t was not till yesterday that
Mrs. Garfield was able to start west
ward.
Much attention socially was paid to
Mrs. Garfield during her stay here be-
fore and after the storm. She is enjoy
ing excellent health, and to those friends
most intimate she expressed herself as
content with her material lot. But
there was one matter on which Mrs.
Garfield was ill at ease. She felt that
some of the newspapers of the country
have been treating her and her family
with great injustice. One publication
that which most gave her pain-rep-
resented some time ago, Just after Mrs.
Garfield started to Europe, that the real
purpose of her long journey was to get
her daughter out of the country in order
to be the better able to break off mar
riage at she contemplated.
The story, as the types of the sensa-
tion-munger gay it, was that j. Stanley
Brown. who was Gen. Garfield's private
secretary, had won Miss MOllie Gar
fields heart and was anxious to make
her his wife forthwith, to Mrs. Garfeld's
intense dissatisfaction. Miss Garfield
was pictured as being carried off to cure
her of her love by rapid European
tour, wherein new scenes and new faces
were relied upon to make her fOrgetful
of her sweetheart. Mr.. Brown is scarcely
thirty years old. He has brains and
pluck and principle. Born of poor
parents, he has little fortune now, for
hard work and prudent ways have
brought him prosperity. When Gen.
Garfield was elected to the presidency
there were many advisors who thought
he was acting unwisely in making so
young man as Stanley Brown his exec
utive secretary, but Garfield thought
himself sufficient judge of men to
know his own interests, and young
Brown amply justified the soldier-states-
mans confidence i'll him. Washington
official circles soon trusted him implic-
lily, and newspaper men whose duty
it was to take part in the long,
solemn watches that followed
President Garfield's tragic fall
before the assaSsin's bullet found in the
Youthful secretary not only the spirit
of accommodation and kindness, but in
telligence and a rarely wide-awake
spirit. When Gen. Arthur succeeded
to the presidency he urged Mr.. Brown
to continue with him in the relation he
had had with Gen. Garfield, but the
secretary had other plans. Commodore
A. f. Bateman, who is now one OF the
leaders i'll Wall street, WAS then in the
banking and brokerage business i'll
Washington, and Stanley Brown became
his partner. When Mr.. Bateman left
the capital to come to New York, Mr..
Brown, deciding not to continue longer
in the brokerage line, took place in
the geological survey, where he re-
manned till about year ago. when he
determined upon course in life which
would be helped materially by college
training. Forthwith he entered 1ale's
scientific school, and is now i'll New
Haven pursuing his studies.
1t is intimated that an important post
in the Smithsonian Institution awaits
the young man. However that may be,
Mr.. Brown is preparing for further
course at Heidelberg. He will sail for
Germany in June. He will take bride
with him, and that bride will be Miss
Mollie Garfield.
Mrs. Garfield authorizes the Times to
make this announcement. 1t was not
till many days after her return home
from Europe that she learned OF the
sensational construction put upon her
foreign trip by newspaper scandal
hawkers. She and her daughters were
met on their arrival by Stanley Brown,
but he at no time permitted either the
mother or daughter to learn Of the
stories that had been published, though
putting him in an embarrassing posi-
ton. 1t was by accident that Mrs. Gar
field discovered the fact, and this just
before she was ready to start West. a
newspaper reporter sought to get her to
tell just why she was not willing to ac-
cept her husbands old private secretary
for a SOn-in-law. The reporter did not
learn.
"Now,'' said Mrs. Garfield to an in
innate friend, THAT the gosSipS have
presumed to put Mr.. Brown in such a
ldlSC DJSlllOii. Il uCVHl II uttll w nav
the young folks announce their engage
ment formally at once. Instead of OPP
posing the suit of Mr.. Brown, | have
welcomed it. | know how manly he is
and how worthy of every confidence.
could not trust my daughters fortunes
to any other that could make me hap
pier. am deeply sorry that my trip
has been made the preteXt for infiicting
embarrassment upon him. The only
fault that can find with him is that he
did not promptly deny the offensive
tale, as he had every authority to do.
Instead of thus putting himself right,
however, he deemed that it would be
unmanly for him to enter into anything
like dispute with the rumOr distribu-
tors wherein the names of ladies would
have somewhat to figure. He was pur-
sued by inquiries about the stories. but
he refused to discuss them. waiting pa
tiently for our return; and even when
we are here he has continued to ignore
the reports, fearing that we might be
annoyed at the liberty taken with our
names. That was manliness, wasn't it?
Do you wonder that am proud OF such
a prospective son-in-law and insist on
the formal announcement of the ell
gagement at Once"'
A THEA TER HORROR.