Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-11-17
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AT the back OF the hall a mahogany
staircase winds It's way to the second
floor AT the right as you enter IL am
other hall upon which are Gen. Jack
sons bedroom and library, while at the
left are the parlors which communicate
with each other. The dining room.
which II by far the largest room of
the house, is beyond these. reached by
a door from the veranda.
The furniture throughout il the I'M
est of old mahogany. There are sofas,
tables and chairs of this beautiful
wood. mellowed and darkened by age.
There are great brass andlrons. cut
glass chandeliers and clock which
was in the Hermitage before the death
of Mrs. Jackson. the hands OF which
are set at the hour that Jackson died.
There are n number of fine portraits Of
President Jackson, his wife and his
friends. and the bedrooms are fitted
up with old four posters which were
used In the Hermitage when Jackson
was alive and upon one OF which he
died.
WHERE ANDREW JACKSON DIED.
spent some time looking at the he'd
room in which this. one OF the very
greatest of our presidents, passed away.
II Is In the same condition today that 1t
was then. The same pictures are on
the walls. the same hangings on the
bed. and indeed the very same bedding
even to the white counterpart which
covered him when he breathed his last.
Imagine a room twenty feet square
with a great mahogany four poster bed
at one end of 1t. The bed has silk
hangings about It. but they are 40
festooned that they do not shut out
the air. At the left of the bed are
three little steps, and the mattresses
with the great feather tick on top are
so high that one must climb the steps
to get into e.. Those very steps were
used by Old Hickory and up them h.
climbed when he entered that bed for
the last time. Lying ON chair at the
right next the window is the silk dress
ing gown with the ruffled shirt within
It which Jackson used during his last
days, and beyond that is his bureau
with the mirror above II.
Just opposite the bed is fireplace
with brass fender. and antique and
irons so beautiful that almost any wo-
man who reads this would sell her soul
to possess them. There are logs on the
andirons ready TO light and over the
mante above the fireplace is a long.
low mirror I'm gold frame Just above
the mirror and facing the bed Is
painting which forms the life of the
room. the article in 1t which Andrew
jackson loved most. 1t is an oil por-
trait OF his wife. II is so placed that
he saw Il first on entering and 80 that
II met his eyes the last thing at night
and greeted them when he first opened
them IN the morning
THE ROMANCE OF OLD HICKORY.
The love of Andrew Jackson II sur
passed that OF ordinary men. 1t shines
out everywhere about the Hermitage.
There are paintings of Mrs. Jackson
in almost every room and he had me-
dallions and other remembrances of
her. We have all read the story of
his marriage of how he protected her
from her drunken first husband, brute
named Richards. and how he married
her after Robards was said to have
obtained divorce. There was great
scandal connected with the affair but
Jackson again married her when the
divorce was actually gotten, and he
lived forty happy years with her be-
fore she died, During his life he was
so devoted TO her and her memory that
he was said to have "A pistol always
ready for any who dared speak slight
ingly of her and those who did so
were only forgiven by him when he
came 10 die.
Her spirit seems to have been es-
pccially close to him in his latter years,
and long before he died he gave d.
rcctions that he be buried by her side
ANDREW JAcKsoN's TOMB.
But let us go together and look up
on the SPOT where these two lovers
now lie, We pass out through the
old-fashioned garden OF the Hermit
age which. with its flower beds sur
rounded by cir little brick walls, Is
kept today just ms II was when Jackson
lived, and at the back of II, shaded by
great magnolia trees, we find the
tomb. II is a little temple ending IN
dome. below which stands n pyra-
mdial monument on one side OF this
monument under slab lie the ro-
mains of Andrew Jackson and on the
other. under n similar slab those of
MS wife. The grave OF the great