The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-19
MRS. TlLToN AND BESSIE rURNER
Present Whereabouts of Two Famous ChaxS
acters of Ten Years Ago.

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acters of Ten Years Ago.
New York Letter in San Francisco Chronicle
Once in a while the question is heard. ssWhaz
has become of Mrs Tiltonar The little woman
who was a few years ago the most widely knows
American woman In the world lives with hea
aged mother, Mrs Morse, on Pacific street. ID
Brooklyn, in comfort and quiet. Ever since
the remarkable scandal trial she has lived in thu
same way. At no time has she inhabited gar.
ret taken in sewing for living, or lived in any
of the poor ways rumor frequently declared
she did Mrs Morse, her mother, Is the wifi
of the veteran Judge Morse, one of the firsi
presidents of the Union Ferry Company, and
a retired and honored member of this
same wealthy corporation. The home Of
Mrs. Tilton with her mother is one oz
taste, refinement and elegance. Many Of the
pictures that were made famous by the Oft
repeated yarns in the courtroom of how Theo-
dore, In his night shirt used TO go around the
house rehanging them at all hours Of the night
are to be seen the walls of her present brown.
stone home. In the boys bedroom is q lires
sized photo of their father, said Theodore, takeA
when very young man, with his arms folded.
his head dropped upon his breast his eyes closed,
and his poetcal locks curling on his neck. The
attitude and the facial expression say, Look al
me, and Go aught but admire me if you cam
bare books and various art works en-
Tilton is still the same quiet pious little
woman that she always was, only d
shade or two sadder and much older She
has rare faculty of trying TO be always cheer
ful, and believes fully in the efficacy of prayer
and that what God wills he wills y and his GREAT
ures must follow his law to be saved hereafter
Her hair is snow white, her figure little mors
robust and rounded, although still childish ia
stature and form. Mr.. Tilton has never stepped
across that threshold since the trial Certainly
not Mr.. Beecher. 1t would not be we'll foE
either one to make the attempt. The two sons.
Carroll and Ralph, are young men now, both
occupying good clerkships, and live with
their mother. Carroll, the elder, is q
Tilton in look and nature Ralph is q
mothers boy, a fine, promising young character.
The two daughters are both married and both
mothers. Alice, the younger, lives in Chicago
and Mrs. Tilton visited her not long since. Thai
Mrs Tilton was 'forsaken by her friends" al
the newspapers would have it four and i've year,
ago, is not true either. The fact is, there ID
more intellectual company entertained in Mn
Tilton's home in the course of year than thai
of dozen families-"best families'-all told
Nothing would be pleasanter to Mrs Tlton than
to know that the outside world had forgottex
her. TO a certain extent it has, but still she ha6
large circle or friends.
Bessie Turner is married to a Mr.. Schoon
maker scion of very old Knickerbocker fam
lily. Bessie was badly advised for.awhile byt
journalist well sknown as ';Joe Howard
Through his advice and friendship, in which h
pictured an immense fortune to the deluded Gin
If she would only go upon the stage. she mades
failure and fool of herself. Neither she n0
Joe" made cent, quite to the latter's chagrin
Since her marriage she has lived very quietly
and is now a middle-aged fairly good-lookini
woman, passed in the streets without recogni
ton as a notable.