Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-11-24

Aaron Burr, third vios-Prssidsnt vhils in
command Of . force Of seatinessal troopS IN
Orange county, New York, became acquainted
| with Theodosia Provost, IN accomplished LADY
and widow Of IN English o6icer who had died
In the West Indies. She wAs ten years his g.
nior and had two sons. They were married in
1852, and Q year after TAeodosia Burr vas
born. In 1874 Mrs. Burr died When Aaron
Burr became vice-Presidsnt his daughter
nns Culture was e., q and H
father bestowed great care upon her education.
She presided over his household and Was In
companion. One month before Aaron Burr
took his seat as Vice-President his besuti-
fui Iheedosia married Joseph Allston, Of
and contributed largely to his political infu-
ence BY her brilliant Wit and her social sttrac-
tions. The social life Of vice-President George
Clinton, q man Of eminenoe in revolutionary
and subsequent affairs, is q blank
The wife Of Rlbridge Gerry. fourth Vice
resident, was Ann Thompson, daughter Of
Charles Thompson, the secretary of the CONT
mental Congress and secretary Of the Senate TO
notify Washington Of his election. She shared
ital until her husbands death, which occurred
while on the way to Washington in the first
year Of the administration. Vice President
Daniel D. Tompkins played an unimportant
part In the social affairs Of the capital from
1911 70 1875, during the two terms Of President
vIcE-PREsIDENT JSo. @. CALHOUN,
who filed the Office through the administrs-
ton Of the younger Adams and three years Of
the first term of Jackson, when he resigned,
was represented by his cousin.wife. who was q
Miss Caldwell, In the brilliant circle Of fash
ionabie danes who enlivened the season dur
ing the stormy social epoch of the times Of
Andrew Jackson. She was q great friend of
AZ. Mrs w Emily Donelson, the presiding lady Of
sided with her against the President in his eff
forts 70 force his protege, Peggy O'Neil, Tim
beriake, Eaton, portion Of the time under the
latter martial cognomen as wife of his Secre-
tary OF War, into social recognition by his
Martin Van Buren, had been q widower for
some time when he took the seat of presi-
dent OF the Senate. His principal prominence
III the social affairs Of the times, both when he
was Jackson's Secretary Of State and Vice
President during his second term, was in do
ing the social entertaining, which Mrs. Donel-
son would not do. Richard NJ. johnson, who
was not much given to polite society, Occa-
stoned another lull in the social luminosity Of
the vice-presidential degree until Jno. Tyler
rode into the office by virtue of the support Of
the Harrison wings, whom he afterward sold
out politically.
were eminently a social family. They DOS.
sessed all the od-time pride Of colonial aristoc-
racy, with the manners and hospitality to back
it. The brevity Of Gen. William Henry Harri.
sons distinction in the presidential office ena-
bled Mrs. Tyler and her charming daughters to
step into the higher Office, and in which rela-
ton they are favorably known. After a social
interregnum OF an entire administration, lack
ing but one month, Vice-President George NJ,
Dallas introduced the social leadership and
genial hospitality Of Philadelphia into the fash
of oh
During the brief and domestic social expert
ences OF the two years Of Taylor's term the
surroundings Of the vice-presidential Office,
then occupied by Willard Fillmore. were quietly
attractive. Abigail Powers Fillmore was not
in the best Of health, but her gifted daughter,
who was young and attractive, aided in her
social duties until she entered the sphere Of
supreme rank by the demise of the hero of
Buena Vista. The next three vice-Presidents,
John G. Breckenridge, Hannibal Hamlin and
Andrew johnson, play ed an unimportant part
MRS. coLrAx.
Schuyler Colfax, the vice-President during
the first Of Gen. Grants administrations, con-
tributed more to the social gayeties Of the cap
ital during that period of his public career than
any person who had filed the Office for some
years. His second wife, Ellen w. Wade, might
be said to have been the bride Of the Speakers
circle, as they were married at Andover Ohio
before the first month after the election Of Mr.
Colfax to the vice-presidency had expired and
her debut in society at Washington was at the
New Years reception Of the Speaker on the
first day Of 1869. Mrs. Colfax was q lady of
fine intelligence, much beauty and winning
grace.
The next three vice-Presidents. Henry Wilson.
VIM. A. Wheeler, and Chester A. Arthur. were
widowers, and while always punctual and
prominent upon ali social occasions they con-
tributed little to the stock Of polite festivities
Mrs Mary Arthur McElroy will always be pleas:
her widower brother. Had vice-Presi.
dent Thomas A. Hendricks lived the social
surroundings Of that distinguished citizen
would have been particularly animated and at
precedence of any lady over the wife Of the
yice-President except the wife of the Presi-
dent She therefore denied the social priority
OF Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland and was pre-
pairing to assert her claims at the time of her
husbands death.
THE NEW ADMINISTRATION
will probably embark upon the next term COM
plete in all its appointments and auxiliaries
There will be an attractive matron at the head
of the social affairs of the executive mansion in
Mrs. Harrison and woman Of large experience
in the circles Of opulence and fashion as chief
lady Of the sphere of the Vice-President and
President Of the Senate in Mrs. Morton.
MRS. HARRIsoN's INTENTIONS.
Mrs. Harrison has written letter to an init
mate friend in this city, who is a member Of
the ladies' aid society of the Garfield hospital
association, expressing her delight Ii coming
back to Washington for many reasons.
Entirely apart from the honors of the Office to
which her husband has been elected, the most
prominent of which being that she may then
resume her active work in that charity and
contribute her share towards making IL all that
its projectors intended
In her Astounding interest in charity Mrs.
Harrison, in the Executive Mansion, will re-
peat the noble works of Mrs. President Madi-
son, who founded in 1915 the Washington city
orphan asylum.
The example set by Mrs. Harrison is likely to
create great boom in fashionable charities
during the next four years.
THE PRESIDENT AND MRS. CLEVELAND
will return to the executive mansion early next
month. 1t is understood that Mrs. Cleveland
will somewhat extend the frequency and scope
Of her own social entertainments in the direc-
ton of drawing rooms and luncheOna She