Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-30
mrs. CLEVELAND HOME.
ARRIVES FROM EUROPE ON
THE GEORGE WASHINGTON.
Accompanied by Her Mother and
Children - Party Will Visit
Friends in Connecticut.

Mrs. Grover Cleveland with her chill
dren. the Misses Esther. Frances
Grover and Marion. and son Richard
Folsom, returned from a sojourn of eight
months at Lausanne, on Lake Geneva,
on the George Washington. which reach
ed port yesterday afternoon. They went
away on September %. 1909.
Mrs. Cleveland was also accompanied
by her mother, Mrs. E. f. Perrine, and
her niece, Miss Mary l.. Hastings. The
family was met at quarantine by DIR.
John H. Finley. president of the College
of the City of New York; Mrs. Finley
and a group of other friends. including
the Rev. DIR. Henry Van Dyke. Paul
Van Dyke, Dean West and Prof. McClen-
ahan of Princeton University: DR.. and
Mrs Joseph II. Bryant and the Rev. NJ.
V. Bartlett, Frank Hastings, son-in-law
of Commodore Z. c. Benedict and one
of the executors of the Cleveland estate,
was at the North German Lloyd line
pier with the yacht Oneida. the craft
aboard which President Cleveland made
so many fishing and pleasure trips with
Commodore Benedict.
Receive Joyous Welcome.
The yacht brought other members of
the Benedict household, including several
young misses, who greeted the Cleveland
girls with joyous welcome. Mrs. Cleve-
land and her family will be the guests
girls with joyous welcome. Mrs. Cleve-
until they leave in a few days for the
Cleveland summer home, the old Siias
Frye farmhouse. built i'll 1773 in Tam
worth, n. Fl.
DR.. Finley showed Mrs. Cleveland some
photographs of bit of highway in the
New Hampshire town, one-third Of a
mile long, which has been rebuilt and en-
gineered bys citizens and summer resi-
dents into a memorial road to President
Cleveland, who loved the picturesque and
beautiful place.
The widow of Grover Cleveland looked
in fine health. She took her children
abroad to get them grounded in French.
They will now go into their home school,
she said. What school they will enter
has not been decided as yet She said
their schooling of the last year was not
the finishing process. but the foundation.
eff you want to learn French l think
it is best to go where they speak French"
she said. Il wanted them to have a year
of French. I believe a knowledge of
French will be quite necessary within the
generation
Richard Folsom Cleveland is thirteen
years old. He has not yet made up his
mind what he would like to do. Il asked
him few days ago what he would like
to be-" said his mother. land he said he
did not know. I am glad he is not yet old
enough to decide.
Pension of $5, oCO Year.
While Mrs. Cleveland was away the
Senate committee on pensions reported
favorably Senator Roots bill granting
her pension of 5000 year.
In December Mrs. Cleveland and party
were the guests of Countess Lazzari in
M ole tn ov; ~
Prof and Mrs. Mark Baldwin. Andrew
Carnegie's gift Of $4,000 to establish
the Frances Cleveland Library in honor
of Mrs. Cleveland at Wells College. OF
which she is graduate, was made in
her absence.
It was nearly twenty-five years since
Mrs. Cleveland had sailed into the bay
before At that time she and her mother
were taken off their ship on a revenue
cutter. she to become the White House
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