The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-09-02

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Going Shopping In New York.
During the summer months the fam.
lily made their home in a stone cot
tage in the grounds of the soldiers
home, on high land, overlooking Wash
ington from its northern suburbs.
They thus escaped in a measure the
intense heat of the city. The Presi-
dent drove daily to the White House,
returning at night.
Summer in Washington was so ex-
tremely trying, however, that it was
decided Mrs. Lincoln should have a
holiday at the seashore, and on this
she set out August Is, accompanied
by her sons and a considerable party,
including John Hay, private secretary
to the President, afterward to become
celebrated as a diplomat and states
man.
The weather was unusually cool and
the party, after a Pleasant journey,
arrived in the evening at the Metro
politan Hotel in New York.
From the moment of her arrival in
the city Mrs. Lincoln found herself
the object of attentions that, at times,
were embarrassing. The metropolitan
papers each assigned reporter to fol-
low the movements of the Presidents
wife, and thereafter most of them
printed daily accounts of all her pub
lie doings until her holiday ended.
One paper in particular which had
been extremely bitter and at times
abusive in its criticisms of President
Lincoln in the early weeks of the war,
printed each day a Aattering article
under a standing headline, "Move-
ments of Mrs. Lincoln"
The day following Mrs. Lincolns ar
rival at New York was a busy one In
the morning she went shopping, the
names of the stores which she visited
being duly noted by the reporters. In
the afternoon she went for a drive
round Brooklyn Heights" and made
a call on a celebrity New York was
studying also-the Princess Clotilde
consort of Prince Napoleon. The titled
couple had arrived at New York few
days before in the yacht the Jerome
Napoleon, and were stopping in what
was then the most fashionable quarter
of the city, at Twenty-first street anC
Fifth avenue.
Her Arrival at Long Branch.
From New York. Mrs. Lincoln went
to Long Branch on the 18th by train
Though the train which brought
Mrs. Lincoln to the Branch was not
expected to arrive until l O'clock, "
wrote one correspondent, "the thronl
of people and crowd of carriages be-
gan to gather about the depot before
IL. All along the beach from every
hotel and in every dooryard for miles
around the American flag floated on
the breeze and flashed in the bright
sunlight.
1T had been arranged that thirty
four little girls dressed in white
should line the passageway from Mrs.
Lincoln's car to her carriage, but by
some mischance only twenty-seven lit
tie girls could be found, caught and
dressed betimes; so that by this ac.
cident the absence of seven seeded
states from the Union was typified.
Through the line of sweet little
girls, who courtsied as she passed,
Mrs. Lincoln, followed by a great
throng of people, proceeded to her car
riage, a large, open barouche. The
people pressed upon ner with eager
but respectful curiosity, and as she
drove off quietly to the hotel the car
riages wheeled in line and extern
porized a sort Of procession in her
honor.
Mrs. Lincoln was very neatly but
plainly dressed in travelling costume,
and was so closely yelled that the cur
iosity of hundreds of ladies, who filed
the porticoes of the hotel and the pri-
vate equippages drawn up along the
road, was unfortunately unqualified"
The Presidents wife proceeded to
the Mansion House, where she was
met by her eldest son, who was &C
companied by college friend, r. c.
McConkey. With Mrs. Lincoln were
her youngest sons and Mines: Shear
er and Grimsley"
"Tad" Lincoln Has a Bad Cold
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