Mr. Eustis to Mr. Olney.
Paris, September 27, 1895. (Received October 7.)
Sir: My telegrams of September 20 and 23 informed you of the arrival of Mrs. Waller with her family, and of my engaging their passage for New York on the steamer Amsterdam, sailing from Boulogne on the 2d of October next. The family is composed of Mrs. Waller and four children: Minnie (Bray), Jennie, John, and Helen, aged respectively 23, 16, 13, and 8 years. They have been provided with tickets for the second-class cabins, for which I have paid 1,125 francs. I have also provided for their hotel accommodations, at a cost of 32 [Page 284] francs per day. As they arrived on the morning of the 21st instant and will leave on the 2d of October, the bill on this account, including the unavoidable extras and perquisites, will run up to about 400 francs. In accordance with instructions he received from the Department, our consul at Port Louis, Mauritius, has drawn on me for the sums of $481.22 for expenses incurred in sending the family from Port Louis to Marseilles, and $65.25, amount he sent to our consul at Marseilles to defray the railway expenses from that port to Paris, which draft has been presented and its equivalent in francs (337.95) paid.
I have also sent the consul at Marseilles the sum of 58.10 francs, which he laid out on their account. The railway tickets to Boulogne will cost nearly a hundred francs. There will be other expenses. The party will need for the ocean trip wraps to guard them against the rigors of a climate to which they have become unused.
In connection with the Waller case I shall also have to pay the traveling expenses and hotel bills of Messrs. Alexander and N. B. Eustis on the occasion of their journey to Clairvaux.
I inclose copies of telegrams exchanged between the Department and this office with regard to this matter. In my telegram of the 23d I stated that Mrs. Waller had decided not to visit her husband, fearing that, glad as they would be to see each other, after the meeting her husband would feel far more miserable than he could be at present.
I have, etc.,