The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-06-21
A LUNCH WITH FREMONT.
A De;Ightsa; Interview with the
Family Of tEc lars.
Fremonf'& Appearance.

FfeHa0Hff$ appearance
TCrofut's New York letter.
/ had tie pleasure the other day oil
taking midday lunch with Gen. John
G. Fremont, and Mis-. Fremont, at their
plea ait home at New Brighton. Staten
Island. Twenty eight years ago made
tie acquaintance, during that memora-
BILE campaign when the Young path
frder' was surrounded by the enthusi-
nstic youth of America, and this I had
renewed more recently since their settle
ment in New York.
The residence OF the Fremonts is q
modest white house, perched high on
the inside of the broad road that winds
through trees along the New Brighton
beach, and its front windows command
wide II ach of the New York bay and
the estuary of the Kill Won Kull. 1t
must be an agreeable and comfortable
llou to live in; it is certainly de-
lightful house to visit in. The general
and Mrs. Fremont are not seen in New
York society as often as they were, even
in those entertainments for charity's
sake where they used to take so much
pleasure; probably they find the society
children pleasanter.
There are two sons and daughter in
the house of Fremont. The eldest son,
John Charles, or Jack" as he is famil-
iarly called at home, lives with his
handsome wife and two sturdy boys up
the Hudson. He is in the navy, and
his duties are connected with the ar
rival and departure of ships in this
harbor. His younger brother, Frank,
is lieutenant in the army, stationed up
in Montana territory, WHITTIER he has
taken the young wife he recently
captured in New York, a daughter
of John D. Townsend, the law
yer Both of the boys closely
resemble their father. when Frank
went west" said Mrs. Fremont
"I suggested that he stop and call OIL
Gen sibley, in Minnesota, who had
never seen him He did 1T; called il
citizens dress, and said Gen. Sibley
who am II You're Fremont said
the general; there's no mistak;ng you
How is your father?'' The sons are both
tall, black-haired, black-eyed and
bearded like pard, and they both,
like their sister, show strains of Gallo
blood-the influence of their grand
father, the poor, scholarly French
| gentleman, who came to Virginia at the
beginning of the century and found
| their grandmother in her teens.
| Mrs. Fremont-that "Jessie Benton, .
| the mention of whose name in the nota-
BILE campaign of 1855, always eyokes q
cheer-holds her own remarkably we'll.
| Tt doesn't seem possible that she could
have made her famous runaway match
near. y forty three years ago. She was a
handsome blonde when she ran away
from the headquarters of "Old Bullion
in Washington and joined the fortunes
of the young explorer; now her hair is
as white as snow, but she shows few
indications of aging and talks as brill
iantly as ever.
And how much she looks like hel
father, the eminent statesman o.
Missouri. Her face is very much like
his and even her gestures and manner
when animated by conversation reminG
me much of him as | saw him in Wash
ington after he had left the senate
She possesses the lineaments of hei
father, somewhat softened, as she in
herits his studious and logical mind
and his commanding spirit.