Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1895 — ANOTHER WHITE HOUSE BABY. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ANOTHER WHITE HOUSE BABY.

The Third Daughter of the House of Cleveland Is At 4:30 Sunday afternoons girl was born to President and Mrs. Grover Cleveland at Gray Gables, their summer home. Mother and child are both doing very well. The new baby had been expected by. all the summer residents of Buzzard’s Bay; though beyond Vague, rumors of such an event it was not known generally outside. Saturday Mr. Cleveland did not go fishing, and the grown people told their children it would he well to look sharp, as the long-awaited visit of the stork to Gray Gables was close at hand. All of the neighbors of the Clevelands, both rich and poor, were in a state of suppressed excitement, and many of them strolled by Gray Gables in the hope of hearing something. A few saw Mr. Cleveland and asserted that he looked anxious but hopeful. There was a general feeling that the stork was going to do the proper thing and would bring a little one that would perpetuate the name of the great man. But Dr. Bryant found the Cleveland stork had again behaved itself in the traditional manner of the storks that bring baby presents to the houses of the great. And so Mr. apd Mrs. Cleveland have thres daughters each separated from the other by almost exactly two ye'ars. Ruth Cleveland, the first child, was born Saturday, Oct. 3, 1891, shortly after mid-

night, at 810 Madison avenue, New York. She was named Ruth, as that had been the name of Mrs. Cleveland's grandmother, and the mother always liked it Th« baby was baptized Jan. 9, 1892, in Lakewood, X. J., by Rev. Dr. Wilton Merle Smith, pastor of the Central Presbyterian Church. The second girl was born Sc-pt 9, 1893, in the White House, being the first child of a President to be born under that roof. It was decided to name the child Esther, and it was said that there was no special significance other than the parents’ partiality for Scriptural names and that it means “a etar” and “good fortune." The baby was christened in the White House Feb. ' 19, 1894, by Rev. Dr. Sunderland, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Washington.

MRS. CLEVELAND. (From a recent photograph.)