The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1897-05-20

Room alone contained upwards of three
Thousand persons.
Ali eyes were turned toward that part Of
the room occupied by Washington Irving and
the lady who presided on this occasion with
surprising eourteousness and grace-Mn.
Robert Tyler.
Irving now grown more fat than bard
beSeems, is still distinguished by that glow
Of genius and humor in his eye and smile,
and utterance which made him the adored Of
the New York world of fashion.
Washington Irving is at the Executive
Mansion, now not as Washington Irving, but
as the ambassador TO Spain
'Who is that lady receiving such homage
from the new ambassador? She Is players
daughter, but Presidents daughter, also,
and is welcoming from her elevation her
mothers friend of bygone years-the Embas-
sador now created by her father"
And so it came through the silver cord Of
friendship that the genius of the " Alham-
bra" the Sketch Book, +" and Rip Van
Wrinkle, visited again the sunny land of the
troubadour the land of poetry and song,
where he had gathered many pearls OF
thought; the land of the past, living on her
faded glories and imagining that she is one Of
the grand old knights of other days.
DEATH OF MRS. LErITIA TYLER.
Mrs Robert Tyler continued in the role Of
honor until after Mrs. Letitia Tyler's death,
which occurred Sept 10, 1912. This was the
| second time death winged fatal shaft at the
| palace of the President.
| Mr.. Robert Tyler, at this time. made bust
ness arrangements in Philadelphia and Mrs.
Letitia Semple, the second daughter of the
President, assumed the duties of Lady of the
| White House, which she flied until May,
1874 On the 18th of June, 1914, Presi-
dent Tyler was married to Miss Julia
| Gardiner.
Miss Gardiner was the daughter of
wealthy gentleman of GARDENERS Island, New
York Mr.. Gardiner and daughter were on
| board the Inflated Princeton, and Mr. Gardi-
ner was one of the five killed
| Miss Gardiner entered society when very
| young. and it seems that Governors, Senators
| and Judges were suitors for her hand yet
she remained heart-whole and fancy-free until
! she met President Tyler. She was charming
in conversation, enhancing old and young by
her winsome manner.
/ The Presidents suit was successful. It
was his proposition to have the nuptials eele-
brated in the White House, but it was not
considered for moment by Miss Gardiner.
| She felt that the pantOmineS of royalty had
| no place in Democratic Government.
| When the President arrived in New York
| on June 25, numerous and varied were the
| current rumors. The next day the mystery
was over Miss Gardiner and President
| Tyler were married in the Church of the
| Ascension, in Fifth Avenue, New York, in
| the presence of limited number of friends.
| From this time until the expiration of
| President Tyler's Administration, Mrs. Tyler
presided at the White House. Visitors &c
| the Executive Mansion to-day will see, hang
| ing in the Green Room, beautiful portrait
of Mrs. Tyler. During Gen. Grants Admin
istration she returned to Washington, and
has since spent more or less time at the
| Capital; and while the years that have passed
over her head have borne away her youth,
still the same dignifed bearing makes her the
observed of all observers wherever she ap-
| pears.
| President Tyler retired from public life at
the close of his Administration, and returned
to his home in Virginia. For II years he
/ lived in retirement, until the War of the
Rebellion, when he enlisted in the cause Of
the Confederacy against the Government (;
but death saved him from active service. He
died in 1862.
| ITO be cofltinued)