The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-04-19
ALMOST FORGOTTEN.
Mrs. Theodore TiltOn and Bessie
Turner.

Oncein while the question is heard,
"What has become of Mrs. Tilton?"
The little woman who was a few years
ago the most widely known American
woman in the world lives with her aged
mother, Mrs. Morse. on Pacific street,
in Brooklyn, in comfort and quiet. Ever
since the remarkable scandal trial she
has lived in the same way. At no time
has she inhabited a garrett, taken in
sewing for living, or lived in any of
the poor ways rumor frequently de-
clared she did. Mrs. Morse, her mother,
is the wife of the veteran Judge Morse,
one of the first presidents of the Union
Ferry Company and now retired hon.
ored member of the same wealthy cor
poration. The home of Mrs. Tilton
with her mother is one of taste,
refinement and elegance. Many of
the pictures that were made infamous
by the oft-repeated yarns in the court
room of how Theodore, in his night
shirt, used to go around the house re-
hanging them at all hours of the night,
are to be seen on the walls of her present
brownstone home. In the boys bed
room is a life-sized photo of their father,
said Theodore, taken when very young
man, with his arms folded, his head
dropped upon his breast, his eyes closed
and his poetical locks curling on his
neck. The attitude and the facial ex-
preston say, "Look at me and do aught
but admire me if you can" Rare books
and various art works embellish and
beautify the home. Mrs. Triton is still
the same quiet. pious little woman that
she always was, only shade or two
sadder and much older. She has rare
faculty of trying to be always cheerful
prayer and that what "God wills
follow His law to be saved here
after. Her hair is snow white,
her figure a little more robust and
rounded, although still childish in stat
ure and form. Mrs. Tilton has never
stepped across that thresho since the
trial. Certainly not Mr.. Beecher. 1t
would not be well for either one to make
the attempt. The two sons, Carroll and
Ralph, are young men now, both oc-
cupying good clerkships, and live with
their mother Carroll, the elder, is a
Tilton in look and nature. Ralph is a
mothers boy, fine promising young
character. The two daughters are both
married and both mothers. Alice, the
younger, lives in Chicago and Mrs. Til
ton visited her not long since. That
Mrs. Tilton was 'forsaken by her
friends" as the newspapers would have
it four or five years ago, is not true
either. The fact is, there is more intel
lectual company entertained in Mrs.
Tilton's home in the course of year
than that of a dozen families" best
families all told. Nothing would be
pleasanter to Mrs. Tilton than to know
that the outside world had forgotten
her To certain extent it has, but still
she has large circle of friends.
AN INTERESTING GIRL.
Bessie Turner is married to Mr..
SHOEMAKER, scion of very old
Knickerbocker family. Bessie was badly
advised for while by journalist we'll
known as "Joe Howard" Through his
advice and friendship, in which he
pictured an immense fortune to the
deluded girl if she would only go upon
the stage, she made failure and fool
of herself. Neither she nor Joe" made
a cent, quite to the latter's chagrin.
Since her marriage she has lived very
quietly, and is now middle-aged,
fairly good-Iooking woman, passed in
the streets without recognition as
notable.-New York Letters. F.
Chronicle. 9tE1