New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-09-06
ANOTEDWEDDING RECALLED
,,,D,up ov1rDo,s SECOND MARRIAGE.


,t,,o Frances Amelia Bartlett-Oviedo. whose dla-
r,ond wedding with Don Esteban Sancta Cruz
Oviedo IN 1859 caused social sensation, was mar
r;ed Yesterday morning IN Trinity Church 10 Oolo-
mol Rodo Won Gliimer of the Mexican Army Inc
ooremony was very quiet and was witnessed only
NV few personal friends. The organisi' MI
'Tbursch PLAYED Horsey's wedding March as INC
bride ana groom entered the church and wake" "P
tho aisle followed by Mrs. Oviedo'' SISTER
n-law. Mrs Marie Bradley, and Ne"o'
Imam n. Navarro, the Mexican consul
Ceneral The bride is handsome bionde Oh ""'
nrosence above the medium height, and ler I''o ~
sembles the well-known picture OF the E'npio'N
pugon,e taken in profile She wore n llSh' DUO "''
oade silk dress and white chip oolhe. ",o'"Ou
with white ostrich feathers and Marechll Ne ''0'
4, nor corsaoe Her diamond ornaments were very
COSTLY. Large solItaircs hung IN her ears anu N'i
hreas;uiu was gold bar with DIAMOND pen'an''
Clpsters of diamonds adorned her bracelets ana nei
nocklace and chatelaine were set OIL with brliiaht
s,o,nonds Island turouoises Colonel Won Glimer
&c fine looking German, thirty-nne years ola
oonractlv built. of ford complexion, with herce
hocL rnustache He was dressed in the Mexican
uniform. n D.,;d
The ceremony was performed by the Rev. paV'u
J. Avres one Of the assistant IectorS ol li,r''S
Parish. and a personal friend of the BRIDE "'nln
IL Gebhard and Mrs. Marie Bradley S'ood up WIN
the nair and the bride given away 10y inc MA
icon Consul-General. There were no brldegIOomS
or bridesmaids. Among those VINO offered cone'"-
tniations were Governor Loomis OF Connecticut
Airs Admiral North Frederick $ Stedman, MIS- u
rs Hail Senior De Ramo and DR.. j. IT, 6damS'
The strains of Memberships Wedding March
followed the couple on their dep'r-
ture from the church. and the party
was driven to the Park Avenue Hotel, where an IN
for,oai recention was neld and wedding breakfast
no hr
and other watering places IN the afternoon; va
their return they VIII I'VE AT ole ~ Mexico
The bride has lived in Havana for nearly tWentoY
wears having gone there after her marIIdSe ioD,
fCbe last wear She has spent at the faIh avenue
foteI In that time she has made only one tIlp 10
Havana and the return passage TO thls cry IS
SAID to have made tho acquaintance Oh hor Pi'S0i'
Mrs, Won Gliimer who is forty three years Of age
has still large landed property III C1pa IeI' 1 ia
by her first husband Her parents are Eea3 anu 1nv
has no children Colonel Won Gumer lelt germany ny
in his youth and came to America he serVe4 III a no
Confederate Army, and finally entered the MeAi0"n
Army where he eaI ned his military tue. ,
There are many persons in New-lork 10 whom
Cha ,neuiorv of the former nuptlals OF Mauahe
Rartlstf Oyiedo twenty-three years ago, with its
lavish spendor, will be recalled TO mlnu ny sne
modest wedding Yesterday Inc lhcluehtS % t tnt
social epsode and the hostile correspondence nat
Dassed between the father OF the Drde anu T. -
Stedman because of the pit bicauon IN me WI 5ig
TINE of Mr. Stedmans poem he Dlailonu "ou
dinc y were published tar and wide at the time not
only by the newspapers OF the nlted states, pu'
also the journals OF England anu tn9 Ood IN en-,
Frances Amelia Bartlett was the daughter OF Lieu
tenant w. A. BaItlett of the nteu otaSeS -se ~
who was also the first American acalae e oI oah
Francisco Miss Bartlett was very DeautIiui anu
raiQped al eighteen years, the undlspu'u uolIo
Of Newlork. Tall and dsnlned' WIN a i ao Toa
plexion and light blue eyes, her IllchlS anu
lives proudly pointed out her resemblance 10 INC
Empress Eugene, of France. In January 300,
han the social season Of New-YOrk was at It's
h@Cht Miss BARTLETT met Il Cuban gentleman Don
Tsteban Sancta Cruz de Ovledo. lie was MI i've
years old, swarthly AS "a mulatto, win olack yes
that set oil - cOunenance OF resOlute ehrhesluess'
Wherever he the story OF his vast pusSesS'"hs
his plantations OF sugar and tobacco and ms count
less slaves, preceded him. He lived III pIihcel!
style al the St Nicholas Hotel. lie gave ball at
his hotel at which it was said he directed the halr
dresser to arrange the mar OF every lau9 III 'HO
IN Don T,tebaps visits were most frequent at the
d louise of Lieutenant Bartlett, at NO. % Mes'
W Fourteenthst. The beautiful American haq cap
fnre1 the heart OF the wealthy Cubdn III was
said that through tine medium of an interpreter
he profiered adulatiOn The lady consented 70 nis
snt The course OF thciI love was smooth ana
serene until the Cuban Don was stricken GOWN
with fever aud ague at the 1T. Nicholas hotel;;
Thronph a wearying illness she faithfully nulseu
him back to health. After his cohVaIeScence t ti
minds Of the afianced par were aDs9rDeu IN aire
nreparations Tor their wedding The dally papers
feemed with minute details o! me 1dbuIous
amounts expended Hundreds OF thoU-a OF
dollars were dIsbursed by the Cuban WIN IdVlsn
nrodipalitv The trousSeau at \. L. stewards was
said 10 have cost 500 900. As much was expended
at Gcnn's and at AL * Blacks. The wedding
dress cost $4,000 and was brought from ans -;
Tihanvs Golfers swolled TO the extent OF
$4,000 also The climax was reached wIiG men,, U n
October 10. 1899, Don Esteban was married TO
Miss Bartlett. The bride had previously adopted
tie Roman Catholic faith of her husband anu the
ceremony was performed by Archbishop hughes III
St Patrick's Cathedral, in hottest. he church was
packed 10 the doors ana the crowns oNeihoSSo .,
iuto the streets. The description OF tho pliuo
"parure OF diamonds. and OF heI pearls anu en-
erads published at the time reads like st0Ty IRON
the Arabian Nights The Don scarf dlspl aSeu d
solitaire diamond pin of large proportions. -,
Elaborate accounts of the young brides jewels
were published all over the county but the most
marked attention was directed to them Dy the poem
of Mr. SteOman, which appeared III the lHE IHlb .,
IJNE of October Is, 1859. Lieutenant BaItIetI
forthwith sent challenge to the author Dut IOi
lie intervention OF friends a duel would probably
have been tie immediate result of the poem. AS II
was considerable bitterness was felt bl the FANNY
of the bride toward the poet for many years
Eventually GOOD feeling was established and II as
at the mterces>iOn of Mr.. Stedlnan thaU secretary
Stanton had Lieutenant Bartlett aitel"ard Trans
ferred to IA comfortable post at Ofire MObIoe
Madame OVIeio did not 80 soon forgive the poet
With Der husband she travelled III EulOPe IOI q
year after her marriage and then they hNtG on hIf
plantations III Cuba Twelve years ago Don L'tSpdL
died, leaving his immense estate To Ills wlie hey
had 10 children. TWO years ago she requested L. =
Benedict, the BrOad-st. banner, to brlg aDout al
introduction to Mir. Stedman. This was done by Mt
Benedict and ali aspeItlee of the past were forgot
ten The author ana the heroine OF " The Diamond
Wedding have remained. ever slence constant
friends. sanza of the poem runs thus deScrlD4As
The marriage:
In they swept. all riches aud grace.
silks and sa,ns and HOnOn lace;
III they sHep, from the dazzied Gun,
Three preates stood on the chancel high
A Knot, tat gold aud silver can buy
Cold and silver may yet unite,
Unless II e tightly fastened; 49, .,.,....uou
What's worth OOIng al ais worth doing well
And the sale OF young Manhattan belle
lie not TO De pushed or hastcned
60 two Very l.everends grdced the scene
And the tall Archbish y stood between,
By prayer and fasting ohastcnedj
Tho Pope himself would have come from Rome,
But urgent matters kept Inn al home.
HAPPY these fODod preiatts thought
Their words were the power that tied the knot;
But another power mat IoNe-AhOt tle1,