The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-09
BUT HE SOON RETURNS
HaStenS Back to the Gables to
SeS That All Is Going
Well.
CAPE CODDERs ARE ALL AG0G.
A Prediction That the New Arrival
VIII Take the Name of
Naomi.

BUZZARDS BAY, MASS, July s.
President Cleveland skipped away quietly
from Gray Gables this morning for days
fishing for trout ten miles away in Sand
wich. He was attired in positively the
worst-looking suit of old, Tusty-gray
clothing which it was possible to find
slowed away in the back of his stay-there-
all-the-year-round wardrobe at the Gables.
He wore an old brown hat with broad
loose rim. which tapped in the foggy
breeze and obscured the entire upper por-
ton of his face to his nostrils.
But he was happy-there was no mistak-
ing that.
The President went down the road in
his own carriage, with his driver on the
front seat, beside Charles B. Jefferson, and
beside the owner sat Joe Jefferson. They
fished all day in Mr.. Jefferson's private
boat, captured a small basketfuI of trout
and enjoyed themselves as thoroughly as
only these three when together alone
know how to do.
The fishing party drove into the village
after dusk. after their days outing, evil
IDENTIFY well pleased with the outcome
The President greeted his friends cordially
"the Crows Nest" and hurried away home
with the evening mail, in evident anxiety
to learn as soon as possible the tldings of
the day and how Mrs. Cleveland had
passed the weary hours.
Everything that is put out from the
Gables is in effect that both mother and
daughter are doing well and that nothing
but the most hopeful results may be ex-
pected DR.. Bryant is the family physi-
clan. and professional etiquette prevents
his saying aught of Importance about the
condition of things as he finds them.
There has not been the slightest indica-
ton of q desire among the townspeople
to enthuse publicly to-day over the especial
honor that the place has attained by the
birth of babe at Gray Gables. Yet there
is a latent interest here which requires only
a leader to result in demonstration.
Efforts in the past to pay marked atten-
ton to the occupants of the Gables have
not been met with the warmth which Cape
Codders give and take in matters similar
in their intercourse with each other, and
this cools their enthusiasm. All indulge
in comment, however.
The universal desire is well voiced by
one expressions, 'WelI, it's too bad it wasn't
a boy" 1t would have been good thing
for Grover and a big thing for the town.
One Democrat here tonight voiced the
feelings of others in saying:
"They will wake up here bimeby to
realizing sense that something happened.
faint that the folks don't want to do the
right thing, but they haven't had any en-
enlargement, and they're dead slow, too.
'If it had happened in any other town
than the bay they'd have had band out
tonight and given the President something
to make him grin all over his face when he
was in the village"
When the naming of the girl is sug-
gested to any in or about Gray Gables it
evokes a broad smile. All manner
of conjecture is at once INDUCED
in. There is a strong impression that
does not originate far away from the
her prerogative and that the President
will be called upon to exercise his in
eenuity, Judgment and taste in selecting,
without let or hindrance.
That the President is more fond of the
name Frances than any other, and that he
would have named either Ruth or Esther
that, in all probability, is believed.
This also would give him an opportunity
to finally present child with that much
talked-about but never yet seen $500 gold
ring which he has been so many times i'm
portuned to present to innumerable little
Franceses all over the country, SO named
in honor of Mrs. Cleveland.
There are those who vigorously assert
that Mrs Cleveland will mama ba- +h;l
born, as she did Ruth and Esther. and
that the chances are about 80 IN 100 that
she will go to the Bible and the Old
Testament to find still another cognomen
for her little one.
One of the seemingly shrewdest guessers
in sight tonight puts it thus: II Mrs.
Cleveland goes to the Bible for the name
it will be Naomi, for Naomi gathered
sheaYes with Ruth.