The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-09

tne Assembly, WnlCn was an old the
ater transformed into a ball room, she
stood on the very spot, robed in rich
velvet, where six years before. strug-
| Cling with her father through a mis-
cradle engagement of a few rainy
| nights. she played Lady Randolph "
| Mrs. Tyler was considered one of the
remarkable young women of the CEN
| tury. Her greatest trouble seems to
have been i'm paying visits. MRS.
Madison advised her to return them
all, and she spent three hours a day
three days a week driving about.
"The awful-looking Mr.. Webster" fire.
frequently entertained her with the
most charming gossip. She was assist
ed in receiving by Lizzie Tyler the
| presidents daughter, who was known
| as "the young princess" between
| whom and her sister-in-law there ex-
listed delightful sympathy. Lizzie
was married in the White House, which
was the first wedding that ever oc-
Cured there. and was the last until
that of Mrs. Cleveland, in whom are
revived the impressions made by Mrs
Robert Tyler, the most beautiful and
| vivacious mistress the White House
had ever seen.
During the last year of his term Pres
ident Tyler married the daughter of
his old friend, David Gardiner, of New
York. In a pleasure party given by
the president on the sloop- of-war
Princeton, salute was fired in passing
Mount Vernon, when a gun burst, kill
ing among others, Mr.. Gardiner. His
daughter Julia was one of the guests,
and was overwhelmed at the death of
her father Tyler, in endeavoring to
| console her, fell in love with an mar
ried her. Her portrait Is that of
beautiful young woman and her ac-
complishments are said to have been
many. She was married in New York
at the Church of the Ascension and
was called "the bride of the White
House," q title that would also have
aptly applied to Mrs. Abram Van Bur-
en-. Mrs. Tylers receptions were not
table in many respects. Mrs. Madison
was always present, and was a con-
slant guest at state dinners. Within
less than four years Tyler had lost his
wife, Installed his daughter-in-law as
| mistress of the White House. given
away his daughter ~ marriage and
taken unto himself a second wife. The
sad circumstances that eliminated in
his marrying Julia Gardiner though
much less remote, are not altogether
unlike those that probably gave rise
to the wedding of Grover Cleveland and
Frances Folsom. Eleven years before
this event, in Buffalo, 1t will be remem-
bered, carriage in which Oscar Fol-
som was driving was suddenly over
turned and he was killed instantly
Mr.. Cleveland took upon himself the
necessary thought and care for his
widow and little daughter Frances. His
guardianship of the young girl was
we'll known during her school life. He
sent her flowers from the governors
mansion at Albany while she was at
Wells college, and on the day of her
valedctory a stand OF white flowers
near her was the tribute of the presi-
dent Next June they will have been
married eleven years, which is the
measure Of time that elapsed between
Folsom's death and the wedding. AZ
ter the honeymoon at Deer Park hos
pitallties were inaugurated by a ball,
at which Mrs. Cleveland wore her we'd
ding garments. In arranging her
round of duties, such as luncheons, tea
parties, sccials and levees, she has diff
fered somewhat from her predecessors
and is styled an innovator. Rose
Cleveland, one of the most intellectual
and cultivate women of the White
House, and Mrs. Robert Tyler, one of
the most fascinating, were supplanted
by young wives whose elevation may
be said to have resulted from the acci-
dental death of their fathers.
1t is almost a century from the time
of Mrs. Cleveland's retirement back to
that when Mrs. John Adams went to
Washington. The history of the White
House began with the supervision of
Mrs. Adams and it's first century will
end and it's second begin with that of
Mrs. Mckinley. Mrs. Adams was con-
spicuously unlike Mrs. Washington.
She had been a poor girl, and after
marriage, following the example of her
husband, became diligent student. In
the list of presidents and their wives
there can not possibly be found any
two who read so many books as Mr..
and Mrs. Adams. When he was elect
ed president she was SO years old and
had for eight years, as wife of the vice.
president, been one of the leading la
dies in the social life of that time; she
had also spent several years in Europe,
and was acquainted with the usages Of
courts. For some time after her hus-
bands election, which antedates Nc
kinley's an even hundred years, Mrs.
Adams was i'll at her home in Massa-
chusetts, and she did not reach Phila-
delphia until after the abatement of
the yellow fever in 1889. In the fall of
1900 she journeyed in a carriage over
bad roads from Philadelphia to WASH
ington. The latter place she refers to
as ''only a city in name; here and there
a small cot without glass window in
terspersed among the forests" The
house was on a grand scale, but there
was no fence or yard, and the great
east room she used to hang up clothes
in. The oval room, now the library,
was Mrs. Adams drawing room, and
the number of visitors, considering she
lived in a forest, was surprising. The
White House was built upon a site
chosen by George Washington and af-
ter designs by James Hobson, a young
Irish architect of Baltimore. The model
was the Duke of Leicester's house in
Dublin. 1t was named after the dwell
ing of Martha Curtis in williamsburg
in which Washington courted and mar
ried her. Mrs. Adams fixed a day and
maintained the same forms and cere-
monies in receiving that Mrs. Wash
ington had introduced in New York
and Philadelphia. Mrs. Washington
did not join the president until four
weeks after his Inauguration. Sne
was lady of high breeding and was
quickly pronounced an aristocrat. The
presidential mansion in New York was
first at Franklin square and Cherry
street, later on Broadway below Trini-
ty church and in Philadelphia on Mar