The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-30
THE PRESIDENTS WIFE.
She is Gradually Resuming Her Old
Place in Washington.
From the New York World.


Washington, April 25.-Mrs. Cleveland
is gradually settling down into her old
place in Washington. Much to the de-
light Of the pastor and the congregation
of the First Presbyterian church on
Four-and-a-half street, she has indicated
her intention of taking pew there per-
manentlY, and has already attended the
Sunday morning service several times. 1t
is a curious coincidence that on the occa-
sion of her first visit to the church since
coming back to Washington she should
have been subjected TO almost the identi-
cal annoyance she suffered upon
joining the congregation six years
ago. On that occasion she was so hustled
by the curious people who swarmed
about her as she left the church that two
policemen We're required to dispense the
crowd and help her to her carriage, and
even the officers were powerless to pre-
vent a kodak fend from taking snap
shot at her as she entered her carriage.
Last Sunday Mrs. Cleveland had sim
liar experience. A photographer con-
nected with an illustrated New York
newspaper braved the police and sue
ceeded in taking photograph of the mis-
tress of the white house as she assembled
the church steps. In spite of threats of
the police to run him in the photog-
rapher waited about until Mrs. Glove
land reappeared, and then climbing upon
the shoulders of a stalwart negro whom
he had engaged for the service he leveled
his camera and deliberately took another
negative. The police arrested him, but
as they were unable to invent a charge
upon which he could be held he was re-
leased
Mr.. Cleveland's attendance at the First
Presbyterian church has caused a marked
increase in the size of the congregation,
and also, the church officials say, in the
amount of the Sunday morning collec-
tions. The officials enjoyed this same ex-
perienCe six years ago, and are delighted
with the prospect of increased prosperity.
Mrs. Cleveland is very fond of the the
alter, and has already seen half dozen
plays since her return to Washington.
She enjoys almost any entertainment that
is good of its class, and seems to like a
clever farce comedy quite as well as q
finely staged tragedy. When she first
came to Washington she went to the the
alter a good deal, but was particular to
request the managers not to announce the
fact that she was expected to attend. Her
appearance always caused a fiutter in the
theater, however. and hundreds of people
used to wait on the sidewalk to see her
enter her carriage. These crowds were
always very respectful, and Mrs. Cleve-
land was not at all annoyed. She soon
CdliiC W DC COuotlOuS also blldU IL UlHOo
very little difference whether her attend
ance upon the theater was advertised or
not, and when one especially importunate
advance agent who had managed to inter
view her urged her to permit him to an
nOunce the fact that she would be present
on the opening night of a new piece, she
laughingly replied:
80, yes, say what you like about it. ]
do not think that it is matter of much
Importance, but if it will help your play
you are quite welcome to say 1 will be
there"
Mrs. Cleveland is very anxious to move
into the new country homo out on the
WOOdley Lane road which the President
has leased for term of years. She has
made several trips TO the house, which is
now undergoing repairs, and all of the
alterations are superintendent by her
One of the largest and most cheerful
rooms on the second floor has been set
apart as a nursery.
While living at Oak View Mrs. Cleve-
land was very fond of sitting out under
the trees in a big wicker chair reading or
knitting. One particularly large and
graceful elm, which grew about fifty
yards from the house, was known as
Mrs Cleveland's tree" ana there she
spent long afternoons busy with fancy
work or watching the President as he
grubbed about in the flower beds with q
short-handled hoe. Mrs. Cleveland is
very fond of flowers, and the white house
gardeners will be very glad to send some
of their surplus stock out TO the country
mansion to beautify the lawns and drive
ways.
Mrs. Cleveland anticipates much pleas
ure in driving about the country roads in
low, comfortable phaeton, which the
President has bought for her use She is
an excellent driver, and during the Presi-
dents first term she got to be a familiar
figure on the suburban roads
The Presidents country house, by the
way, is ninety-thrce years old, having
been built in 1900 by Francis Scott Key,
and all the bricks in the old mansion were
brought over from England. Three Presi-
dents-Van Buren,, Tyler and Buchanan
occupied the house as a summer residence
and it was at one time the summer quar-
ters Of the German legation.
Bishop Nichols Of California proposes 20
mark the spot on the coast where Sir Francis
Drake chaplain, Francis Fletcher, held an
Anglican service on June "a, l573 with an ap-