| Show onn rt a n r 5 s IN I GLORY AND OBSCURITY Y i I Jessie Don ton and d Empress E Understood U i l i l situ I Mrs Jessie Benton Denton Fremont Tremont who died Jt tl recently at nt her lieI home In Lot Loa Angeles Angel j had known knowlI every president of the Unit Id tl d States sine ainee Jackson Her life lite touched ou the extremes of ot fame fain und cud nd ob obscurity She lived hived an Mato l Pal kal al et n aunt Inam more romantic Mutt nd mare fa mason I ln n sting tin than any the modern ha hat imagined Hh She hl knew and knew vf welt Mrs Mr Dully IMly Alex AIx ut m 1 r Hamilton Quern Queen Victoria the nIp i nd n 1 Moat hoot o 0 the till matt women of or both s lI lII sA A l litlie of nf n nt lit H N the bride I or f a Il runaway marriage At t 17 surd t for fe f fI of ur the thi Ih nr arst t candidate lor tor I 1 incident In is for Cor years arll she IIII lived lid lidI I I In tn quiet t and nn obscurity In a little r bow r d cottage at Lo Los Angeles Angela 04 ea Co for l by y per her devote dauGhter and s ported d chiefly b Ity by the th pension of a year r granted her by 11 st In r of or the gr great t public services s n o at hired hirl h The r r II Between n her r RIM um anti Vial fiat of o Huy u t genie former emp M of o th the Pr Fren there Is n o certain and jjr oJ arr years vears the two 0 women I conducted a It c f p lenee In on one of f her ht r the Ihl san Met Mr Mix fremont wroth wrote We live P are att tired my t and 1 l 1 In May 1901 11 President dlIthe ley y a d the presidential visited Los Loa Aji gales geles els and the president an Ill I ry drove e out to call aril on Mr 11 F Fem m nt t At Al that time Mrs Mr Fremont was wa d to hiv her chair by b an to h her r tap hip Pr leered leared over and 1 hook hands h with the old Id l I ly Tl ii he h took from his fill t a white lOll anti and h handed ml l It ti e t her Is hi the thus only doper I over ever I h hI said Mid tI and I 1 want Tnt to le this qc with nith 11 h you ou our Mr r Ff Fremont mont thanked thank th d l him and rd then 1 turned turn to Secy See Hay stay whom ih she had bal kno known n yearn before In ID Why Wh John she liRe Mid said with a 1 smile 11 I hov ho you ou hue have grown since silica I 1 saw raw HI If you OU I I last hut i Mrs Ira Fremont remont 1 h hd had d small email sympathy for tor the ambition of the modern meern woman oman to make a 1 earlier of ot her own I have lived she eteo meld laM enly enty to tomake tomke melee make my home and my m husband ban P JI rr wa waa as the da of f t this the tb famous S r ri r Thomas Thom dart Hart of MU scarf vurl When during the Civil war nr Admiral loner had heel command of 0 the tM federal fleet ile t on 1111 the h Mississippi hn ho us liS hid hIe hS the steamer Benton ham nam hamad ad d after Mrs 1 father The in admiral mimed the little Under lender at attached attached I to tilt the 11 ht I Fremont Tremont and ami he Im wrote to t f Mrs Mr Fre I moat munt In explanation You la have halft al 01 always always I ways sailed close clos to your sour our husband and andy y your ur tether futher U Oen Gen Fremont and his wife fe tiler alv existed the tet t con When hn the general was hs p elected ru d the t first States Staten senator relator fro from state Blate he hI hell sally cally o ll saved from train faille into the hands handi or of the election wn was held helt at It Ban Ean Jose JOle The season of ot rains was AI on and Mrs frS Fremont WM flU 79 50 away way nt ret Monterey y so 80 ther there N m i little chance that she Rhe hear har of oC her for vern lays Ue early sarty earl on the le Ul t rt r the tie n a 1 terr ac storm Wat at over Mont te rev When night night ht clime came Mr alts lit her lamps ant and sat d m In the tho th of ot their home to 10 tos s sew dad and nn w d lIel der r how hot her haro ho hunts hu husband nil h had fiat f fa read rf l Mann outside outBid came noth lit tug but th Ih sound of driving rain 4 f fhe he tie rat PAt lung Into tubo the night and It was wn marl nt ir t I In the morning when some seine lI one bet beat upon the tho outside out dour Mrs Fremont F mont threw It open and then ther awed III hr her 1 husband dripping lul with rain TIp The mum nt the Ihl I tolt WI over h l upon MH I hOI hots ird Ord rd edon d J on th Ih 79 iG hll rids ride to lo tak take th to t his hl hI wit And before dawn i ar he h It hi hod d acme aln and hla hili M bar hor tor hack bal to totes s san Jo JOM Joee e snaking making a II ti tl t tell tul rid 1 nn un horseback of oC miles in he order that this his wife wH might not ant be I Vent kept In Sn su hr hI her c youth at Washington MM Mrs Tremont lev to Ik k part m In some of the most mo t splendid ria Ilal i functions the notional national IR hai has ever vel known the most meet famous Camous at of these functions was the marriage of Gf Boron Daron the rus nus won minister a n man more than thu 60 iI years mrs old td who ho was WaR known to the of ot those thos d days s as II tM the Ills brIde was Will one ons Oil of c t li little c Miss Bruton l schoolgirl friends a tt Miss MIM MI Will Ism only 16 IS years sears nr old In or 01 der to males mak the wedding 11 party cons conchs I tent but It was Itt that the eight ul oil II o be 01 glue faux ran mt tog irom from is a to tu 10 years old lId while the die eight fight groomsmen should be tie of ot the saute same age as all the groom room Jessie Jesle then 14 U was one ot or the tho mid and lid she chic was WitS escorted to the tho altar by James Buchanan lately I returned to the tile United elates OB nil minis t till ter r to Russia and antI then Rion a 1 senator of the tM United elates On ihl this Miss wore her het first long ions Ion gown and und tho the beautiful young youns bride was given glen glena I way away a by II Henry Henty Cl Clay y It Jt vas cent a curious that Ml Miss on this vc c alon i lon should have III been bean tuna man who In 1960 was w s the thc candidate for president of the th States Sta against her ler husband lien lI n Fro Fre Fromont l Fremont rl j f mont During her hr girlhood her father Sen lien Senator ator alot lien Penton ton teas often at the I Home In inference with I Jackson Old Hickory The Thu lh little girl was M n It tr great it favorite with the tho president pees I Ident ident dent and frequently r her father Wok took I her with him on hla his visits to the exe ne executive I cutlet mansion i nt Jackson welt accustom accustomed d when he lie list Hal to talk with Senator H Penton Banton to call the tho child to his hl tilde side and I carelessly pat let her long curls lIh his hili I hand Sometimes as ns he warmed with I his hll talk his hla long finger would take a It tighter grip In the little girls hair and occasionally by way of ot emphasis l he tit would give the girls curls curia M It 1 painful pull In order not to lo Interrupt the th debate little Miss Mla HimtOn Penton had learned to exer else circa a It Spartan courage on such cocas occasions ions and her hOl father recognizing herr her fortitude fott tul praised her courage highly To Tn the th day of her death the tho memory of ot these there White While House interviews was wasA uasa WI WIc A c notice our of mingled horror and amuse am use meat rient to tJ Mrs Fremont When then the Civil war broke out lien Oen Fremont 1 though still smarting under lil hits his defeat for the presidency quickly tod talc his liln place pace In the tho armies of time the Union Mrs Irs Fremont remont I was ns at nt the tune time rt rot St SL where nitwit much of ot her had III d Wen Men spent and where she sho was wall surrounded by old time friends Hut na os tho the wife Ifo of ot it II Union general Kellor 1 she Mho was aji left loft practically alone by tho the slave shave ho ding aristocracy and the Southern sympathizers of or St Louis und burl fcc months she tulle suffered greatly her husband took tho the field held Mrs Fremonte hair wan waa a n warm and sunny sunn brown row II When n a 1 few te months later hater she sho loft left St Louis Ioula for good It lied had turned to a n snowy enOW white For the first eight years yearn Of f her mar afar married rich ried life Mrs Fremont Tremont lived most of ot ottile time tile time l iii i her fathers homo home at nt Wash Washington ington In ton Finally In IS 1819 1019 19 she sho sh started to Join her husband on the Pacific Coast going by lIy way of ot the Isthmus of ot Pan Panama I Panama an ama She landed safely In tho the city of ot otI I but bul after a n few days there slit she stricken with Ith fever end and for tor trendy nearly two months lay Iny critically ill illIn In Mrs Fremont fremon purchased n a 1 tract of oC land for on Point San Francisco On this land she erect erected erected ed od a n house and Other buildings nt at n a to total total total tal cost of or In 1863 1103 tho secretary of or war ar ordered ion aon Wright titan then In command of ot the department of the to selzo seize flack Black Point and lud erect a n battery upon It He Ifs did so taking pf of Mrs property as well ns nil that of other residents After Atter the tho war Will repeated attempts were made to get gO the time government to pay for tor the property thus seized but bul they were all In vain aln and but for tor the thin pension her ber by Congress and the time pretty home homo given her by Ii t too tle o won wnm III en of California which stet u II 1 d 1 her husband saved t to O States Slates Mrs Fremont might leave have li cr R s I fend keenly from thin tha th pun pan v verty v city erty Commander John C Fremont r V t S H N K and Capt Francis P Fremont t r S A sons eons of ot Jessie Benton Renton Fre Fee Fremont Fremont mont moot amid flud the formers farmers son lion who Is nl al alen en sn In the navy lIa and who rondo made hl his mark markIn In tha war survive together with the daughter who leas has for tor fo so many years dears made the care of her mother the one object of ot her rago lIgo Tribune une I |
