The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 18, 1906, Page 43

] Pages431to 56 { GAEN T CALL i e g Pagcs—zgg S - T Y TR 23T SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1906, ' ALICE LEE ROOSEVELT BECOMES THE BRIDE _, O REPRESENTATIVE NICHOLAS LONGWORTH 1 ’17/7 7//15*71771'_;/0;7'( East koo;rz of ‘f/7€ White House and in the presence of one of the most briliiant assemblages ever gathered in the Executive Mansion, Alice Lee Roosevelt, eldest daughter of the President of the United States, and Congressman Nicholas Longworth of Ohio were united | n mar-riagg’ yesterday by the venerable Bishop Satterlee of Washington. 1 > WEDDING CEREMONY TAKES PLACE IN THE HISTORIC EAST ROOM OF THE WHITE HOUSE » Brilliant Gathering | : e : W itnesses the Services. GREAT HOMAGE PAID TO BRIDE S All Foreign Rulers| Represented by Diplomats. e MANSION GAY WITH FLOWERS Happy Couple Start on Short Honey- moon Tour. of Wash- Hous TWELFTH WHITE HOUSE Z - G ke and artistic orwa twelve ed before the W carelessness an , designed In curi- ires. In colors red ked back of the plat- he windows were beauty and This group base with | No m auspic 1ld have been ima EAST ROOM. 1 of greenhouse smilax and aspara- ouse, ordinarily | SuS. With scores of the loveliest Bride Shirs nestling in the green. The ef- ng specified closed, pending o-day’s ceremony. hich the ceremon < ed most elabor orations in the other rcoming of the main floor of the White dent Roosevelt eautiful, they re less partments been 10se in the t room. - with flowers as room were filled they we . . While no space nec- | With Enchantress carnations of dell- for guests was taken up with | cate pink and fern fronds. The Blue | Jecorations, every room in the | room vases bore Easter lilles and fern fronds. while two great vases at each end of the mantel were filled with Easter te Executive Mansion h flowers and decoras The decorations were |lilics and white roses. In the window ned and executed by Geonge H.|recesses small palms and flo w of the Government Botanical | plants were disposed effectively. In the Red room, to harmonize with the rtist the color scheme of the rooms | color scheme of the apartment, the v White House and developed his | vases contained Jacqueminot roses in a of floral decorations in conson- | setting of fern and asparagus fronds. e with the coloring of the various | The state dining-roons, which was not Snents. | thrown open to the guests until after o huge vases, filled with Easter | the ceremony, was a vision of grandeur. and fern fronds, occupied each of | The great high walls and cefling, pan- the East room, and two | cled in walnut like the halls of a Saxon lord of old, bearing just below the cell- ing the hunting trophies of the Presi- sardens, who studied with the eyve of .manuls 1 dsome tables, one each at the north | d south ds of the room, bore jar- | nieres of flowering rhododendrons. dent, formed a-magnificent setting for At the great center windows, directly | the beautifully decorated table, on opposite the main entrance of the room | which, amid a shimmer of silver and cut and overlooking the east terrace, a |glass, the buffet wedding breakfast was superb floral bower hed been contrived / laid. . The great table, extending almost P SCENE IN THE HISTORIC EAST ROOM BRIDE OF CONGRBESSMAN FATHER, o OF THI NICHOLA! G W OTHER RELATIVES AND. NVITED WHITE HOUSE ‘WHEN 'ORTH GUE! the entire length of the apartment, was decorated with vases of American Beauty and Dride roses, ferns and as- paragus. In the private dining-room, which opens into the state dining-room on the north, the vases on the mantel were fllled with Bride roses and fern fronds. Vases cn the table contained American Beauty and Bride roses and ferns. The decorations of the main corridor were heautifully artistic. The niches were filled with plants, stately palms and tree ferns. The two great jardl- nieres between the cclumns along the corridor were planted with handsome rhododendrons in full flowers. The blossoms were purple and pink and the plants were S0 arranged In the jardi- nieres that they formed a 11ving screen Just twelve inches high. BRIDE SELECTS MUSIC. Behind the screen was stationed jn the vestibule the .magnificent marine band * orchestra, under the personal leadership of Lieutenant Willlam E. Santelman, director of the band. A spe- clal programme had Leen prepared for the wedding. The musit was selected for the most part by Miss Roosevelt | herself, During the wedding and. the reception and breakfast which followed the hand rendered the programme, which follows: " R Grand march—“Tannhauser” (Wag- ner. 3 = Overture—"Jubllee (Von Weber). PRETTY. ICE OF OHIO IN ' THE Amuucz % LEE ROOSEVELT BECAME THE OF HER DISTINGUISHED LI Ballet music and wedding procession from the opera “Feramors” (Rubin- stein). * (a) “Dance of the Bayaderes” No. 1. Moderato. 3 (b) “Candle Dance of the Brides of Kaschmirs I'Istesso Tempo et Moderato Con Moto.” (¢) “Dance of the Bayaderes No. 2, Allegro Vivace Assal. . (d) Wedding procession. Moderato. Polonaise—"“Military” (Chopin). Waltz—“The Debutante” (Santel- man). Serenade from symphony—“Rural Wedding” (Goldmark). Fleurette (Herbert). . “Hungarian Rhapsodie No. 2 (Liszt). Murch—"Bride-Elect” (Sousa). J 1 | i | I | | | 1 | | | \\:\\\\\\\\\\ | During the time the guests were sembling the military and naval ofi- cers detailed for the occasion to the White House as the soc!al aids of the President were completing the ar- rangements by seeing that the distin- | guished throng was dispesed of prop- | erly for the ceremony. The officers were: Colonel C. S. Bromwell, U. S. A, the President’s milltary aid; Lieutenant Commander A. L. Key, U. 8 N, the President’'s naval aid; Major Charles L. McCawley, U. S. ) C.; Captain A. E. Harding, U. 8. M. C.; Captaln Guy V. Henry, U. 8. A.; Captain Daniel Moore, U. 8. A.; Captain Fitzuugh Lee Jr, U. 8. : Lieutenant U. S. Grant, Third U. S. A.; Lieutenant P. H. Sheridan, U. 8. A.; Lieutenant Chauncey Shackford, U. 8. N.;/ Ensign Adolphus Andrews, U. 8. N.; Captain Spencer Cosby, U. S. A.; Captain A. W. Butt, U. S. A.; Lleutenant J. H. Poole. U.'8. A. Shortly before 12 o'clock, the hour set for'the ceéremony, Mrs. Wayne Mac- velgh, one of the guests in the East room, fainted. The incident induced no small commotion - among the other guests. Mrs. MacVeagh was carried by Ensign Adolphus Andrews, U. 8. N., from the East room to the Blue room, where she was placed on a couch. She revived almost immediately and was able to witness the marriage. —_——————— HARRIMAN WILL MAKE FLYING TRIP TO COAST Gasoline Car Expeeted to Break AN Speed Records Made by Pas- senger Trains. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 17.—All pre- vious records attained by passenger trains will be broken next week, ac- cording to plans of leading railroad officfals. A gasoline car which was tested here yesterday will make a transcontinental trip. It wil start from New York and is expécted to reach San Francisco in quicker time than any road has vet been able to make by means of locomotives. E. H. Harrfman, B. L. Winchell and N. C. ‘Brill' will 'be among - the rallroad oM- cials making the trip. PRETTY WEDDING SERVICE Bishop Satterlee of Washington Of- ficiates. Reads Beautiful Lit- urgy of Episco- pal Church. ot 'Bride Is Accompaniéd to the Altar by Her Father. Graciously Receivcs Congratulations of Friends. WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.—At four min- utes after 12 o'clock Mrs. Roosevelt, on the arm of her eldest son, Theo- dore Jr.. descended the main stair- case and entered the East room by the west door. She was preceded by Major Charles: McCawley and other mil- itary aids and was escorted to a point at the left of the platform, where the | wedding ceremony was to take place. The mother and sisters of the bride- groom and other members of his family already had assumed their designated places at the right of the platform. That a way be kept clear for the approach to | the extemporized altar of the wedding party twisted white satin ropes were stretched from each side of the main entrance to the East rcom to peints on the east wall of the apartment on the north and south side of the floral bower, Mrs. Roosevelt was followed by her son Kermit and her daughter Ethel and her sons Archie and Quentin, in couples. The children stood with their mother on the north side of the altar platform. As she entered the East room Mrs. Roosevelt graciously acknowledged the greetings of friends. She wore a su- perb gown of cream-colored brocade heavily and richly designed, on which were figures of blue and brown inter- laced with threads of gold. The dress was cut in princess style, with a long train of the same brocaded material. It was trimmed in brown chiffon, em- broidered in blue and gold. The yoke of the bodice was formed of embroid- ered chiffon, as were the trimmings of the elbow sleeves. The skirt, exquis- itely designed, was panmeled in blue and gold embroidery. She wore long white undressed kid gloves and ornaments of diamonds. - PRESIDENT ESCORTS BRIDE. Following her almost Iimmediately came the bridegroom, the Hon. Nicholas Longworth, accompanied by his Dbest man, Thomas Nelson Perkins of Bos- ton, one of the members of the corpora- tion of Harvard College and a class- mate at college ‘of Mr. Longworth. They descended the main staircase and en- tered the East room under the escort of the military aids. The groom and his best man took their places at the foot of the embowered platform fo awalt the coming of the bride. Already Bishop Satterlee had taken his place on .the platform attired in the purple.and fvory robes of his clerical office. Scarcely had the bridegroom enfered the East room when the doors of the state dining-room at the west entrance of the main corridor were flung open and the bridal procession started for the extemporized altar. The President and Miss Roosevelt had descended from the upper apartments of the White House by the elevator. They had passed into the private dining-room and thence into the state dining-room. There /they were joined by the ushers, Quincy A. Shaw of Boston, Frederick Winthrop of New Tork, Francis R. Bangs of Boston, Guy Norman' of Bos- ton, B. A. Wallingford of Cincinmati, Lars Anderson of Washington, D: C., Viscomte Charles D. Chambrun of the French Embassy and Theodore Roosevelt Jr. Mr. Rdose- velt and Mr. Shaw led _the bridal procession. Following the ush- ers came President Roosevelit and the bride of Longworth, her hand resting lightly within the right arm of her father. As the procession moved through the main corridor and into the East room the Marine Band Orchestra rendered effectively the grand mareh of ‘Wagner's “Tannhauser.” Miss Roosevelt never appeared to better advantage. Perfectly self-pos- sessed and thoroughly appreciative of the situation, she graciously r and bowed to personal friends who lined the way to the altar. Her wed- ding gown was an exaulsite creation. It was of heavy white brocaded saum, point’ lace, chiffon, flmy tulle and silver brocade. The material from which the gown “Continued on Page 44, Column &