The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-06-09

Monroe hon eStead, under a large pine tree
in the garden. The widow Of her son, Sam
uel Gouverneur, Jr., resides IN Washington,
much respected, and chaperons two hand
some daughters in society.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS JR,
in 1926, during the administration of his
father, married IN the White House his
cousin, Miss Johnson. Jackson's admins
tration saw two weddings there, first that of
Miss Lewis, of Nashville, with Mr., Paqueot
of Martinique, subsequently French Minis
ter to the United States and later that of
Miss Easten, the Presidents niece, to Mr.
Polk, of Tennessee, kinsman of later Presi-
dent.
Elizabeth, the third daughter of President
Tyler by his marriage with that lovely lady
who was the only one among Presidents
wives to die in the Executive Mansion, was
married in her nineteenth year in the East
Room, January 81, 1912, to William Waller,
of Williamsburg, Va, a grandson of the first
Secretary of the American Colonial Congress.
The Oldest son of this marriage welded a
sister of the second Mrs. Jefferson Davis in
the Executive Mansion of the Confederate
States at Richmond. and her second son was
killed in the Confederate army. The seventh
nuptial ceaemony there was that of Nellie
Grant and Mr.. Sartoris, May u, 1874. Like
the marriages of the two previous daughters
of Presidents, it took place in the East Par
Tor. 1t was snowy wedding, with four
bridesmaids, chosen from prominent families
in Washington. Rev. Newman, Mrs. Grants
pastor, performed the ceremony, and Sir Ed
ward Thornton, the British Minister, acted
on the part of Great Britain.
In the second year of the Hayes admins
tration, in the Blue Parlor of the Mansion,
which was decorated for the occasion with
beam of flowers supporting floral marriage
bell, the Presidents niece, Miss Emily Plat,
was married to General Russell Hastings,
making the eighth and last marriage SOL
emnized there.
PRESIDENT HAYES SILVER WEDDING.
One silver wedding, that of President and
Mrs. Hayes, must be added to the bona fide
wedding above named. 1t was celebrated
privately by them on its exact date, Deem
so, 1877, in the Blue Parlor, but, as that date
fell on Sunday it was celebrated the follow
ing evening in the East Parlor before large
invited company. This was one of the most
tasteful private parties ever seen at the
White House, but it does not rank properly
among the weddings, so that should Presi-
dent Cleveland receive the blushiDg honors
of a bridegroom there he will be the ninth
man, but the first President in the goodly
list.
THE WEDDING PARLoR.
The Blue parlor in which the we lding
ceremony occurred, was decorated by Tiffany,
of New York and reOpened in the winter of
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furniture coverings and window hangings;
but 1t looks green by gaslight, which is the
light always used on state occasions The
ceiling is silvered over in a beautiful design.
Silver and crystal brackets on the walls have
gas burners, which, as well as those in the
handsome center chandelier of crystal,
always lighted at ceremonials. Although the
East room was used for Nellie Grants we'd
ding, the Blue parlor is the room in which
the most formal and ceremonious social
events usually happen at the White House.
There the New Year reception of the dipo-
matte corps and ali the other formal recep-
tons held by President or the lady of the
White House occur, and there on presenta.
tion of their letters accrediting them as
ENJOYS to this country the foreign Ministers
or Charges d'Affairs are first introduced by
the Secretary of State to the President.
HISTORIC ASSOCIATIONS.
The blue bedroom, which the President
has occupied whenever in the Executive
Mansion since his Inauguration, is the same
from which the last two brides whose we'd
dingS occurred in the White House descended
to be married in the parlors below. 1t was
Nellie Grants bedchamber during the
months preceding her wedding in the East
Room, Nav 81, 1874, and it was the bed
chamber occupied by Miss Platt President
Hayes niece, during the time she spent in
the White House before her wedding in the
Blue Parlor, June 16, 1878. The room, how
ever, now looks not at all as it did then, hav-
ing been thoroughly rtftted for President
Arthur before he moved into the White
House, in December, 1881. Then one of the
President sisters gave her special attention
to that room and had all its woodwork-for-
merly white-painted blue and its walls
decorated in a style to harmonic. Presi-
dent Arthur did not want all of this wood
work painted blue around the doors and
windows, but Mrs. McElroy said it ought to
be done, and then he yielded.
THE DovEcoTE
The furniture was all of pale blue satin
and includes a lounge, also covered with
that delicate color of satin. The white mar
bel mantel was covered with tandem
broidered blue lambrequin. The hangings
| at the two large windows were of blue satin.
| The bed in the apartment has its head to the
west; above is a canopy of lace over blue
satin. An elder down quilt, one side of
| which is blue and the other pink silk (the
| blue side worked with Kate Greenaway
| figures in colors), is thrown across the foot
| of the bed. There are three doors in the
large, square room, which Is on the north
| side of the building. One door opens into a
bathroom, and opposite is one opening into
the corner room, which adjoins the bed
| room. This corner room is about half the
| size OF the other and was fitted up the same
| time that the large one was for President Ar
| thur, and used by him and his successor as
| private study. Into the large room (the
bedchamber) President Arthur used to have
| the ladies shown after a State dinner, when
| the gentlemen were enjoying cigars down
| stairs. The married Presidents never used
the bedroom Arthur and Cleveland chose 10
i occupy. Presidents Grant, Hayes and Gar
/ field, with their wives, used the opposite
room, which faces the south, and looks out
on the large grounds on that side of the