Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-11-12

Weight-Presents from All Parts
OF the Country.
Princeton, N. j., November Ito
the disappointment of the Princeton
students the name they had selected
for the Cleveland baby has been reject
ed When the advent of the babe was
announced they promptly christened
him Grover Cleveland, Jr. Yesterday,
however, they were informed that the
heir will be named Richard Folsom
Cleveland, in honor of Mrs. Cleveland's
father.
are being showered upon the new son
and heir. There are gold mugs and
gold plates and toys and pretty things
for him to wear. The ladies of the
First Presbyterian Church are said to
be clubbing together for the purpose of
presenting the distinguished baby
something that is really worth WHILE"
as they express it. What it will be no.
body seems to know just yet
By the way, various mistakes have
been sent abroad in regard to the young
master Of the Cleveland household.
One is that when he arrived he tipped
the scales at the weight of twelve
pounds. The fact is that he weighed
eight pounds. The former President
himself is authority for this statement
The infant now weighs ten pounds,
and people are asking whether ever
before a baby was known to gain SO
much avirdupois in so short a time af-
ter his birth.
Another thing that Princeton people
deny with Democratic ardor is the re-
port of the royal congratulatory mes
sage "No such message was ever re-
ceived in Princeton" say they. "The
story must have been manufactured
by the enemies of our distinguished
townsman."
There have also gone abroad stories
to the effect that a fine Jersey cow
of his babyship, and that he is to be
"bottle baby" Nothing could be
further from the truth, for Mrs. Cleve-
land, like the Czarina of Russia, is,
setting sensible example to all moth
ers Of Christendom.
NrincetOn people are looking for
ward to the time when Mrs. Cleveland
will again be walking and driving
among them. She is greatly missed at
the foot ball games, for she has been
an enthusiastic and almost daily spec
totor at the BID aunr o,;-oo
advent in Princeton. Sometimes at
the games she has been accompanied
by little Ruth and her nurse, and yes
terday Ruth was heard to remark to
her nurse that she "'Sposed Boy
Baby would play foot ball some day."
"Boy-Baby" is the name the new
,omer has been given by his three lit
lie sisters. Every afternoon the three
little girls, with their nurse, go for
walk along Nassau street, the main
treet of Princeton, and stop at the
stores while she gives marketing or
ders The family butcher, who also
Supplies the Clevelands with their
fruit, is in the habit of telling the
children to help themselves to the ap-
pies and pears which stand outside the
door. Yesterday morning when Mar
ion, who was the baby until recently,
was hidden by him to take some fruit
if she liked it, she picked up large
pear with the announcement: Il dess
l take it home for 'Boy-Baby.
All the way home she Rugged her
precious gift with zealaus care, but
whether or not "BoyBaby'' was al
lowed to accept this evidence of sis
terly regard is unknown.
Mrs. Cleveland usually does her own
marketing and shopping, and all the
Princeton tradesmen are loud in
their praises of what they call her
pretty ways" She goes to the
butcher shop and selects chops and
steaks and roasts with all the wisdom
of an experienced housekeeper. At
the grocers she orders her coffee and
sugars, asks after the welfare of the
grocers family and in everything that
concerns Princeton trade and Prince
ton people.