People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1893 — BORN IN THE WHITE HOUSE. [ARTICLE]

BORN IN THE WHITE HOUSE.

Besides Being Distinguished a* the beughter of Her Illustrious Parent*, Baby Ruth’s Infant Bister Has the Honor of Being the First Child Born to a President In (fee Executive Mansion. Washington, Sept IL—There is a new baby in the white house. It’s a girl, too. Exactly at noon on Saturday the president’s second child was born. The event occurred without attracting any unusual attention, and it was two hours before the news of the baby’s arrival was made known. The announcement which was given out at 2 o’clock, was accompanied by the statement that Mrs. Cleveland and her new daughter were doing well at that hour and there was no anxiety felt for the safety of either. The president’s family physician, Dr. Bryant who has been in attendance at the white house for several days, made the statement. The president was the first person outside of the sick chamber to be informed that the crisis had passed and that Mrs. Cleveland and her baby were doing exceedingly well. The president had a private interview with the physician and received his congratulations on. the happy termination of their anxieties. At the president’s suggestion nothing was said of the event for two hours later, when he imparted it in person to Private Secretary Thurber with the remark that it might be made public. Within a few minutes after he heard the news the president was informed that the Japanese prince was awaiting in the blue parlor to pay his respects. The president had made an engagement to receive him at noon and he decided to keep it, regardless of his deep personal interest in other matters just at that particular time. The prince was in ignorance of what had occurred. When he was satisfied that there was no longer any danger the president returned to his office and resumed his duties =with a lighter heart and considerable more enthusiasm than he had displayed in the forenoon. Several members of the cabinet called to offer their congratulations in person. Just before the occurrence of the day the gates leading through the rear part of the Executive park were closed to insure absolute quiet about the mansion. Mr. Olney happened to be at the white house when the president came back to his office from the sick room, shortly after 2 o’clock, and was the first member of the official family to tender his good wishes. Bunches of roses from intimate friends poured into the white house and there was a general air of suppressed excitement about the employes of the mansiou. Telegrams of congratulation have been received from all parts of the country. The baby is a bright-eyed, healthy looking one. She has not yet been weighed, but is said to be of good size. The 9th of September will henceforth be a historic day in American history. Although the United States has been in existence as a nation for more than a hundred years no child of a president had ever been born in the white house until Saturday. There have been other children born in the historic old pile, but they were not descendants of the executive. There is a seeming fitness that the first and only president to be married in the white house should also be the first whose .child should be born there. Of the babies who first saw the light in the white house probably only two are living until this happy event added another. One is Mrs. Mary Emily DonelsonWilcox, daughter of Andrew Donelson, imphew of President Jackson, and secretary and confidential adviser of “Old Hickory” during hji\ entire official term, and the othqßfsk Julia Dent Grant, the first child born to Col. and Mrs. Fred Grant, now a young lady just past 16. Mr. and Mrs. Donelson had two other children born in the white house, which with a grandchild of President Jefferson and another of President Tyler complete the list