Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-07-25
MISS MARION CLEVELAND.
This Is the Name Of the President's
Third Daughter.


Probably Suggested by the New England
Town In which Her Mother spent a
suminer--Just Twelve Days oId.
BuzzARD's BAY, MASS, July 19.--The
President and Mrs. Cleveland have
named the little girl, now ~ days old,
Marion Cleveland.
AS In the case Of both Ruth and
Esther, no middle name is given. The
announcement was made this afternoon
by Private Secretary Thurber, who hap
pened to be at Gray Gables to-day.
The fair wife of President Cleveland,
the President and company of their
closest friends along the Buzzard's Bay
shore celebrated two events to-day
They were the naming of the baby, and
the first reception by the mother since
the birth Of the little one, II DAYS ago.
OF her intimate friends. There were the
members of the family of Mr.. Clark
Davis, Assistant Secretary of the Treas
ury Charles II. Hamlin and the Misses
Hamlin, from Marion; Mrs. Olney, the
members of the Jefferson family, and II
few others.
After the informal ceremony at Gray
Gables OF giving the little one the alto
gether pleasing cognomen of Marion
Cleveland in the afternoon and after a
somewhat brief, but none the less hearty
congratulation the party from Marion.
The west shore resort across the bay,
were driven to the railroad station and
departed for home.
ALL WE'RE ENTHUSIASTIC.
Every one was enthusiastic over the
name selected Gy Mrs. Cleveland for her
little third-born. One recalled that
Marion was where Mrs. Cleveland first
CAME to Southeastern Massachusetts, a
blushing bride, eight or nine years ago
to be the guest for brief period of Mrs.
Greeley, wife of the chief of the govern
ment signal service under the former
cleveland administration.
Mrs. Cleveland then gave the quaint
seaport town the boom as fashionable
Seaside resort, which has made it leader
81 the more exclusive resorts of the
Massachusetts coast ever since.
A POETIC RECOLLECTION.
When Marion was made a township
by separation from the parent town Of
Rochester, which away back embraced
Marion, Mattapoisett, Wareham and
hochester, the name was taken chiefly
because it sounded pretty. That and
lis pleasant personal association de.
termined Mrs. Cleveland to accept the
suggestion of a friend that the name be
| given to the little girl that has come to
be a playmate for Ruth and Esther.
AT tho time of the bi.centennial of the
mother town and her offspring, held at
Marion, 10 years ago, toast was offered,
which has become the one poetic recol.
lection Of the day in local annals. From
these corner rooms the visitor will
naming of the baby of the President as
well as it did when uttered BY Hon.
Girard Q. Tobey at that time. The toast
was.
Now comes Marion, far nymph of the
| sea,
Bowling to us out of the deep waters TO-
day, young aud fancy free;
The joy of the land, the darling of the
water,
And the sweetest of all youngest daugh-
ters."
A PLACE ALTOGETHER LOVELY.
The Marlonets have long insisted that
Mrs. Cleveland has ever remained true
" her first love, and that the advantage
OF their town has never been lessened in
her mind as the one place altogether
lovely in all Massachusetts. Now they
are certain that their insistence was well
grounded Mrs. Cleyeland's compliment
to their resorts shows to them that the
HaEN "a If