The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-06-05

An Addition 60 tho Psealdent'e Family
Expected Next Month.
The society column Of tho Washington
City Ereaing Star, which is edited by =
woman. has the prediction that Baby Ruth
Of the White House may soon be Joined by
. brother or sister: President and Mrs.
Cleveland moved out to their country
house on Saturday. The house has been
ready for them for several days. Mrs.
Cleveland went out early in the afternoon
and later in the day was joined by the
president The house is furnished with the
belongings Of the New York house. until las
winter occupied by Mr.. and Mrs. Cleveland,
and it presents an attractive appearances.
A secret, which has been whispered
around some time and about which natu-
rally members Of the presidents house
hold do not care to talk, is now no longer
q secret, as IL has been given considerable
publicity. That is that the members Of
the family are looking forward to an in
terssting event to occur, it is stated, in
July, one Of those events for which there
il always considerable preparation in .
household, such, a. for instance, the max
ing Of great array Of little garments.
The expected event explains why Mrs.
Cleveland has been somewhat anxious to
get into their own country home for the
summer.
The Mugwnmp Philadelphia Record,
which is not edited by woman and whose
owner Is q chum of Mr.. Cleveland, has the
following upon the same domestic sub
ject: 'At the end Of Mrs. Cleveland's
first year in the White House . rumor
was started which soon gained great pro-
portions and caused some excitement
among the good ladies who had taken
sentimental interest in its chief subject
from the time Of her romantic marriage to
the president in the White House. The
rumor grew and grew: then there was
sudden silence. Mrs. Cleveland was
not we'll and she passed through q brief
but dangerous illness, aud from that day
the mention Of the preparations of dainty
garments disappeared from the newspaper
columns. Since the return of the Cleve-
lands to the White House rumor of like
import. which had been in circulation for
some time before the Inauguration, has
taken definite form and has been an
accepted fact among Mrs. Cleveland's
friends ever since she came to the
White House. 1t will account for
the sudden illness report in a New
York newspaper which. it is said, pre-
vented her attending the Columb ian bah.
Mrs. Cleveland last week took the first
decisive step in the matter. She notified
the physician and the nurse whom she
wished to attend her in her sickness, and
has named the approximate date when she
will need their services. The necessity
for doing this SO soon lies in the fact
that the event will occur in the summer
season. when many physicians are on
vacations. The nurse whom Mrs. Cleye-
Ian j.
nanny, the usual Washington CITY at
tendant on such an occasion, but an En-
giishwoman who has been in this country
q short time only. The physician. il il
understood, Is DIR. Il. Taber Johnson. Pro-
fessional reasons would prevent these two
agents IN affirming or denying the report,
but II is set in circulation so circum-
s'antialiy that there is little reason to
ask a confirmation from them. The
date named is in July. What will interest
Washington City particularly now is the
question whether the event will occur in
the White House or at the summer home.
IL would deprive il Of one half its romance
If II was 10 occur in the country house and
it would possess hardly any historical sig
niicance. There have been other babies
born in the White House. The
Of Maj. Donnclson, private secretary
to President Jackson. Mai. Donnelson
was a cousin of Mrs. Jackson and the
president himself held the Donneison
baby at the christening. She is alive TODAY
and working in the sixth auditors office
% the treasury. She is the widow of Col.
Wilcox. OF Texas. Other children were
born TO Maj. Donnelson in the White
House. Folks private secretary. Knox
Walter, had several children born in the
White House. and one Was born to Fred
Grant.