Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-18
WHAT HAPPENED TO 4 PRESIDENTS

| family she left Richmond by carriage tn,
/ next morning, with the two Youngest
/ children and their nurses. She comfortec
! her husbands dying hours. She had
/ borne him five sons and two daughters.
While at the White House Mrs Tyler
! received rather ostentatiously on her re.
| ceptlon days. Twelve girls were her at.
\ iendants They all dressed alike. and
/ stood six on each side of her slightly
raised receiving platform She herself
wore n headdrcss of bugles, resembling n
crown, and a gown of purple, with a long
court train.
CLEVELAND's BRIDE.
While Mrs. Tyler was distinctly a
srande dame, President Cleveland's bride
was much moro successful in captivat-
ing the heart of democratic America.
Frances Folsom. now Mrs. Thomas l.
Preston, and the wife of a Princeton pru-
fessor. was an unusually sweet and
charming young girl. She was the daugh-
ter of Mr.. Cleveland's former partner and
was a native OF Buffalo, ~ Y. Their
romance was watched by the country
with absorbed interest
Miss Folsom arrived In Washington at
early dawn on the morning of her we'd
ding day, June 2, 1886. and was met at Tho
station by the Presidents sister, who
drove her to tho White House. There
the President met her at the entrance.
The South Room next to the library,
beautifully decorated. was set aside for
her use. Breakfast was served at S O'clock
and the remainder of the day was de-
voted to his duties by the President and
to reposc by the bridc-el
BY o'clock that evening the crowds
were gathering about the grounds The
ceremony did not begin until Z. The
Interior OF the Presidents house was i'm
festal array. The East Room presented
a MAGNIFICENT appearance. The floral
decorations were the most elaborate ever
seen in the White House. The four NAM
telpeces were banked with roses, orchids
lilies and madcn-hair fern plants filled
the hroplaccs: the mirrors were festooncd
win roses the chandeliers were wreathed
with ropes of smilaX. The centres of the
four large columns, which were encir-
Cled with roses of various colors were
adorned with shields four feet in length
bearing the national arms, the stripes
formed of rcd and white roses on n field
of blue one mantelpiece was banked
with dark pansies, bearing the date June
= 1856. In light pansies and the other
mantcl was covered with red roses.
At : o'clock the Marine Band struck up
the Mendelssohn Wedding March, the first
gun of the national salute doomed from
the arsenal, and every church bell aud
whistle in the city added to the glad ac-
CIalin. The President and Miss Folsom
entered from the private dining room, and
the % guests stood i'm a scmiclrcle about
the happy pair. The company, though
small, was distinguished.
Tall, graceful, bluc-eyed and fair Miss
Folsom looked the ideal American bride
for whose hand President even might
he proud to sue. A vision of lovcllness she
is said to have been as she stood there
h.ushing before her audience. Her gown
nf a In nj T,,Elf
silk arranged i'm GrcCian folds over the
corsaee and fastened in folds of satin at
the side. She carried no flowers and wore
no jewels, but her engagement ring. Her
train was "a marvel of graceful arrange
ment, as long as the room itself.
They spent their honeymoon In the
South. Mrs. Cleveland proved to be one
uf the most charming hOstesses of the
White House. and was well loved by the
American people