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~ oer) a oo White House Transformed Into a ' Floral Bower—Uniforms, Gold Lace and Gowns Add Color to Most Brilliant Wedding in Its History. t (Continued from First Page.) stood to be married. _The President and Mrs. Roosevelt also received in the Blue Room. A buffet breakfast was eerved in the State Dining Room later. This breakfast concludes the most notable wedding in the history of the Executive Mansion. ‘The ceremony was performed on a semi-circular platform, ra‘eed twelve inches above the floor level at the extreme east end of the room between two wide windows. ‘l’hose who stood in the East, Room saw the wedding, Dut a good many others assigned to places !n the smaller rooms of the east wing caught only glimpses of the bride as she passed along cn her way to the improvised altar of lilies and ferns. The raised platform had a background of massed palms and flowers. Rope covered with ribbon was stretched from either side of the main door to smilax-covered, rpse-crowned posts placed about ten feet west of the plat- form and thence along the east wall. Back of these ropes stood the com- pany. . In a setting of greenery and flowers, the varied garbing of the guests gave to the place the aspect of a garden in bloom. The frocks of women, some of whom are known as the best-dressed women in the world, and the full-dress uniform of army and naval officers, brave with bullion and braid, loaded with decorations and blazing with jewelled orders, all these helped to make up a color scheme such, perhaps, as has not been seen indoors any- where since the coronation of King Edward. THE FAMILY GROUPED. The main body of guests entered the east doors of the White House at 11.15 o'clock. From that’ time on, for thirty minutes, they poured into the door steadily. At five minutes before 12 o'clock Mrs. Roosevelt, with her immediate family, entered the east room by the main door. Mrs, Roosevelt and the younger Roosevelt children took possession inside the rope at the foot and just to the left of the platform. Where they stood members of the Roosevelt family, mainly from New York, almost surrounded them. The space to the right of the little plat- form had already been filled by members of the Longworth family, leaving | space only for the ushers, Larz Anderson, of Washington; Theodore Roose- velt, jr, Vice Comte Charles de Chambrun, of France; B. A. Wallingford, of Clncinnat!; Guy Norman and Francis Bangs, of Boston, and Frederick Winthrop, of New York. Mrs. Roosevelt wore a heavy cream brocade satin gown, made princess, ornamented with blue and brown figures and embroidered in blue and gold. The skirt was made with panels of embroidered chiffon and finished with a long train of the material of the gown. Mrs. Longworth was in white embroidered chiffon. She wore a white directoire coat of heavy Irish point lace. Mrs. Longworth wore no hat. The Countess de Chambrun, Mr. Long- worth’s sister, was in brown velvet, with a sable hat. Miss Ethel Roose- velt’s simple little frock was of white mull, ankle length. Two minutes after Mrs, Roosevelt had taken her place Mr. Long-| worth, with his best man, Thomas Nelson Perkins, of Boston, entered, | also by the main door. They had descended from upstairs by the main staircase. A walk df perhaps sixty feet brought them to the foot of the platform where they halted side by side. MARCH FROM ‘‘TANNHAUSER.” The bend broke into the full, rich movements of the Wedding March from “Tannhauser.” From he elevator came the bride on the left arm of her father. Preceded by the ushers, they moved Steadily through the corridor and along the rope-guarded aisle in the East Room to the little raised dias, where Bishop Satterlee and Rev. Cotton Smith, rector of St. John’s Church, Washington, awsited them. The ushers fell into their appointed place om the Longworth side. Mr. Longworth stepped forward | to meet his bride, and together they stood, facing the venerable prelate in his full canonical robes, Miss Rooseyelt’s gown was a specially woven heavy white satin, elab- orately embroidered in silver thread. She chose the princess fashion which has prevailed so,.much this winter and which figured 6o conspicu- ously in her gowns. The gown was made with a full court train reaching from the shoulder and falling in long folds at the back and on the floor, The train was of silver brocade. On the waist the modiste had used quantities of old point lace which hed been in the Lee family for genera- ‘tions, and which were given to Miss Roosevelt by her grandmother to be used on her wedding robe. The dress had no collar, another style Miss Roosevelt has affected so becomingly, and the sleeves were made elbow length. Miss Roosevelt wore a long tulle veil caught with orange blos- soms, She carried a huge shower bouquet of white orchids in her gloved hand. Her only jewels were a diamond necklace, the gift of the bride- gtoom. In her wedding gown she made a queenly figure, looking taller by inches than she does in street dress. IS MRS. NICHOLASLONGWORTH. The ceremony lasted barely ten minutes. When the Bishop put the question which begins with the words “Who gives this woman?” President Roosevelt answered “I do.” Then he stepped from the platform to a place at hié wife's side, leaving the couple alone upon the dais with the best man nd the two clergymen. Rey. Mr. Smith wore no vestments and took no part in the ceremony. There was no wavering in the voice of either as the » couple made the Tesponses. The bride spoke out clear and steadily, raising her veiled head proudly to answer the Bishop. She never looked as pretty ,*n her life as she did then. . At a cue the music of the Marine Band halted, and the couple knelt on silken cushions while Bishop Satterlee,prayed from the prayerbook of his church. Then he lifted his hands in benediction, and Alice Roosevelt was Nicholas Longworth’s wife. : Mr. Longworth raised her veil and kissed her full upon the Ups. The _ bride's father and mother, Mrs, Longworth and immediate relatives kissed ‘her. Many women—close friends and kinspeople—pressed forward. There ;. Was more kissing. Young Mrs. Nicholas Longworth flushed, with eyes that sparkled, and was radiant and crying. The band broke into a march, The guests advanced to the platform tendering their congratulutions to Mr. and Mrs. Longworth. Then the bridal , -party went into the private dining-room, while the body of the company had ',.® buffet breakfast served to them in the great state dining-room. LEST ENE PRCT ITNT EL RTT THE WORLD: SAT iis URDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 17, 1906. WHITE HOUSE THRONGED BY REPRESENTATIVES OF EVERY COUNTR CHARGE. OF THE UNINVITED TO THE WEDDING. By Maurice Ketten. % PRACTICING up the walk to the Executive Mansion carrying belated gifts. Express wagons, on the same business, drove to the side door, where attendants received from the drivers bulky packages and huge parcels of flowers. Servants and aides were bustling about in the area- Ways and passages. Crowds on White House Grounds. Pretty soon the drive in front of the great portico was filled with people. Knowing that the grounds would be cleared of spectators to give room for the carriages of the guests as they ar- rived, the sightseers made the most of their time. Groups stood looking at the curtained windows whef the bride has her suite. They could not see any- thing but the curtains, yet they craned their necks and looked and looked. Dozens of photographers camped about the gates snapshotting every notable who came in sight. One ‘of the first well-known persons to appear was Mrs, Nellie Grant Sartoris, the last daughter of u President to be married in the White House. She arrived from St. Louls fast night to attend the cere- mony. Upon every side citizens felicitated each other upon the beautiful weather. One might have supposed it was their own wedding day. The sun beamed from a sky as blue and unspotted as a polished steel buckle. The air was just cool enough to be bracing. A keen, nipping breeze swept over the wide green lawn. Pretty soon the waiting throng began to take on a more or less official aspect. Policemen, mounted, afoot and on bi- cycles, bustled up, all spick and span in new white gloves and boots polished to a painful, not to say superlative degree. Becret Service men circulated between the mansion and Executive ‘offices. Newspaper men arrived each with a tring of messengo: boys In bis wake improvise’ writing desks upon knees. or the thinks of trees. Hired cabs foregathered in thg offing near the Treasury Building. Mr. Lengworth Arrives. Curlously enough the crowds outside did not grow xreatiy vs noun drew Probably not more than one thoura: people clustered about the three en- trance gates as the carriages, automo- blles, hired rigs and herdics began to pass into. the grounds. cob, with his best AN Weshington was astir long before:/ reds of persons were bound for: the breakfast im anticipation of the wed- | White House to see what they might ding, and, as a consequence, before the | see of the wedding. sun got high enough to gild the top| For a good while they saw precious of the Washington Monument hund- lttle, Messenger boya were hurrying .Ho! For a Spin in the Park! + ew. you want a spickeand-span team of road horses—the kind that can Mr. Longworth in a man, Mr. Perkins, arrived early. He got @ faint round of cheers from the few people wine recognized the bride- groom. : A photographer tried to snapshot Mrs. Stuyvesunt Fish when she alighted from her curriage. but she turned her back on him and fumed up the collar of her fur coat. = EUhu Root's carriage went to the wrong gato and hnd to make ea wide detour, Then a pol'ceman closed the carriage door on the skirt of Mrs. Roo kown, ‘The police arrangements were Tae policemen cleared the grounds hong of the pushing or clubbing that Bar roper for New. York City. The crowds were curl: ous but civil, and at no time during the forenoon did’a bluecoat have to use any oree, fect. wkh The greatest Jam was due to the car- ringes. 89 great vs the crush of vehi- cles about the ga didnot reach the tunti, ume for the White House White House port cereinony to begin. Hurrying, into ti kghty near not gel ting. in His coachman had miviaid the admission card, and here wea f long delay in Jaekson place 4 at a merry clip if you Just give them the reins—don't mi: “y o is, pci Ly a ie re n't miss the “Horse and Car- _SUNDAY WORLD'S WANT DIRECTORY. t' Wille His Reverence fumed tn his oa), _ Funeral Passed Along. Wich: eresigent and wi 0, last rive Mrs, * Fairbanks | Qprived, ol FOR SOUVENI! Prd Saal op quaros) AND AT THEM” ae ly. The Falrbanke carriage reached the mansion just five minutes before the ceremony started. | A lot of the caos were shabby-looking, [hired affairs. Si New Yor | soclety people who failed to make res- time had to content them- selves with herdics rusty’ old coaches, Just as the o a soldier's ft 1 onit to Ariington passed ‘uneral 8 Wal the front (7 the White House. ‘Mhe police officer in har, stated that there were a hree hundred eq and. that the first one. en- tel 1e nds at 1115 and the last one at 11: Booker T. Washington, whom some peels expected to be among the guests, left this city Inst pignt ‘Boys in the sreets did a thriving bus!- ness selling ptxtos of the bride. Guests Arrive and Depart. At 12 o'clock the crowd about the White House was put at $500. After the last of the carriages passed inside the fence many of the spectators left. ‘The majority remained in the leghbor- hood, however, hoping to see the guests THOUSANDS OF Few brides not of so-called royal birth ever have been the recipients of so many and such valuable gifts as were recelved by Miss Roosevelt. For weeks these tributes of love and affec- ton have been pouring into the White House. The bride and the members of her family were almost overwhelmed by the number and character of the pres- ents, It was not that they were 50 valuable, intrinsically, although, in the aggregate, they represent a great sum; but it was the spirit which antmated the givers which appealed strongly to Miss Roosevelt. Many of the presents were accompanied by oral or written expressions of the deep and sincere re- gard in which the brite is held by per- sons of all classes, not only in her own country, but throughout the world. Weeks ago, in behalf of their daugh- ter, the Presklent and Mrs. Roosevelt let it be known that certain proffered rifts could not be accepted. It was their desire that the wedding, so far as the presents were concerned at Icast, Should be stripped of official character. An intimation was conveyed through iplomatic channels that it was the de- ‘sire of the President that no gifts should be made to Miss Roosevelt on Dehalf of foreign governments; that presents of such nature properly could ‘be received only from the executives of the governments through —am- bassadors or ministera accredited to the American Government. Cuba's Alone Official Gift. ‘The only present, therefore, which may be sald to come directly from a nation is that of the Cuban Republic. It was pro- vided for prior to the recelpt of the President’s delicate intimation and in the peculiar circumstances could nist be declined, 5 Nobody witnour the circle of rela, tives and intimaate personal friends has been perimived to view the bridal! presents. For two daya they were placed. in the Mbrary on the second floor of the White House and not for A moment were they left unguarded. The fortunate ones were permitted to view the beautiful array, many of | which aré almost regal in, their splen- lor. ‘The eifts numbered nearly a@ thousand, nd itis known that all yet have noc The display coneits princl- ry and rare oanalia galls, it sowel nam ae ScissoR: depart. tages i he] read, with a rambling house set far ton serie Ranking the mansions © T hack from the Toad, but In plain view. FROM FRIENDS AND KINGS es ar TH ie ce cS ‘URTAIN [\ m= eee CRE A = OS 4 =K THE WHITE HOUSE UNWELCOME LADY VISITOR, REPELLERS . A dozen negro coachmen stot craps | on the asphalt in the shadow of the uuilding while a mounted po- smiled andulgeitly, & them. | It was 12.30 when the first carriage left the White House. It contained an ¢l- derly lady alone. Justice White, of the White fol. lowed. ately after paying «their congratula- tlons to the couple. Private Car Waits. The private car Republic, intended far the use of the couple, was still In the Southern Railway's yard this after- noon, A Secret Service man on duty at the White House toh! an Evening World reporter that he felt sure Mr. Longworth and his bride would go South over the Southern, leaving here ‘on the train starting at 3 o'oloc’ afternoon, ‘There Is a report that they Will board a vacht at Hampton Roeda, Va., for a crulse on the Southern coast. Tt is also reported that the couple will go. to “Friendship,” Lean’s beautiful country place just out- side of “Waahington. for the frat few ye of thelr honeymoon. Friendship” POX Great estate on the Tennallytown PRESENTS let#, fans of unique design, clocks, watches, vases, loving cups, punch bowls, pictures, rare laces, exquisite silks and embroideries from the Orient. delicate carvings In ivory and the pre- cious metals, handsome rugs and tapes- tries, rare silver and china table ser- vices, most of them manufactured from spécial designs, and every other gift which possibly could make glad the heart of a bride. Lee Laces and Jewels. Among the many beautiful things re- ceived are some rare old laces and jewels from Mcs. Lee, the grandmother df the bride, Had the bride's mother lived these, very likely, would have gone to her. In the circumstances they are more precious In the eyes of Mrs. Longworth than scores of the gifts in- trinsically of greater value. As heretofore indicated, no list of presents was made public and no com-, plete list that 1s given approximately ut among iss Roose- accurate can be compiled, the hundreds received by Mi velt are the following: . ident Loubet, of France—A m: nificent Gobelin tapestry made express: ly for Miss Roosevelt. It long and narrow and renowned in the h Thi is may 5 French "Government placed on sale. fs purely conjectural, cents. It Was présente Roosevelt, on behalf of President Lou- bet, by Al jor Juaserand. At phe same time Ambassador Jusserand, on behalf of himself-and Mme. Jusserafid, Presented to Miss Roosevelt an ex- Quisite fam of white ostrich plumes set on tortalse shell sticks and’ bearing a monogram of Miss Roosevelt's initials portray: of France, le only for ti never he is and in gold. Emperor William’s Gift. Emperor William of Germany—A bracelet of special design, studded with —— A VITAL ELEMENT of success is health, Drink POSTUM TO BE WELL. Read “ The Road to Wellville,” found in pkgs, * SoYouRWIFE'S GONE "To THE WEDDING? WELL SET OUT THE BEST IN THE HOUSE” OR ILL PULL YOUR WHISKERS MINA HURRY TO BE THERE |” MORE montously Inth the color scheme of the toilets, As the wedding was a morning ever, wore ny hats. Some of the notable tollets were the followime: Mrs, William 8, Cowles, sister of the President, wore sapphire blue satin trimmed with bands of velvet the same shade. The transparent yoke and collar were Of point de Venice lace, the sleeves being elbow length and finished with Jace ruffles, Mrs. Robinson's Gown, Mrs. Douglas Robinson, sister of the President, wore reseda velvet, banda of sable trimming the skirt and edging the Jacket, which was in Empire effect, Mrs. Robert B. Roosevelt, jr, was in light blue chiffon cloth made in princess style with insertions of Irish lace. She wore a large picture hat of velvet of the same shade, with white plumes, Miss Olga Roosevelt wore white ohif- fon over white silk, and a picture hat in white, wreathed with rosebuds. STRIKING GOWNS AND WORN BY WOMEN GUESTS. No social event in recent years In Anerica. has induced so many elab- orale and beautiful tollets as the wed- ding of Misa Roosyvelt aad Mv. Long worth. The ghwns and hats of the Indies present w with the romamtle imp ont, | White the @aplay of jewels was not so great as it might have been had the wedding heen an evening atlair it never theless was notable. Many of the women present wore Jewels whic matched in cdlor their gowns, or, If they did not match, they entered har- funetion, the women guests, for the Most part, kept on ther hats. ‘Dhe la- dics of the President's ‘household, how- HATS V-shaped. insertions of lace, and a small hat of mink trimmed in lace, Mrs. Hilborne Roosevelt had a gray j cuiffon, trimmed with Insertions of lace and tavender velvet bowknot ture hat of gray, with large (eaah ornaments placed between narrow | Dorothy pale blue clot and | atrs. | gowa ju Roosevelt, to match 10k atuusyvelt, white noo n-colored Straw hat, = Jen Roosevelt, steel-blue t. with venetian collar aud cuffs; hat oftlace and feathers, Miss Christine Roosevelt, biue sill,’ with lace; large hat with blue Margaret Roosevelt, cerise crepe | and nat In same shade. Mrs. Longworth, mother of the bride- | groom, wore white chiffon cloth trim= med with a deep band of Irish lace at the hem and a long coat of Irish lace, She carried mauve orchids Comtesse de Chambrun, sister of Mr. Longworth, was In brown chiffon vel vet embroidered and trimmed with cloth of gold. Her sable toque had white aigrette. Mra, Fairbanks, wite ot the. ‘Vice President, was In violet ol velvet, with bat and loves, to: area the hat having long violet pl . Mira Root, wite of the Secretary State, wore dark green velvet, with small’ toque to match, and Miss Root a cerise chiffon velvet, with black velvet hat and dark furs. Mrs. Shaw. wife of the Secretary of the ‘Treasury, wore lavender satin, with t f the’ same color. Mrs, Cortelyou, wife of the Post: master-General, wore white voile, the fronts of skirt and. bodice, boing of hand a She had a white hat with plumes, Mrs. Bonaparte, wife of the Secre- tary of the Navy. wore the historic black lace which was sent by the bl) in Westphalia, Jerome Bonaparte, daughter,’ and which has hi ywn_to the Secre’ and Mrs, separte, The iace isin Hounces of great depth and was worn over coral Mrs, James Roosevelt wore black UNINVITED ef BRIGADES lace and a black velvet hat trimmed LADIES with plumes, eatin pe 80 eet the necro. Dins Mrs. Ji E, Roosevelt, ta: i and hair ornaments w: e! pre- fo oe Stan chiffon | tited to his American wife, Martha cloth, the skirt edged with a narrow band. of drink, the: bodice, having three | Latteeot. Cr, mecmore: Descre Ee med YOUR TEA CUP} WILL PROVE OUR CLAIM THAT. OF gems of rare value; one of the Works Of the Jeweller’s art. It was pre- fented by Ambassudor Speck von Stern- The Emperor of Japan—Two beautt- fully chased vases of silver and a piece of wonderful Japanese embroidery. ‘The latter 18 a plece of silk, eight feet squire. Its left corner shows a back- ground of heavy gold thread, but the reater part of the plece is embroidered With ‘chrysanthemums done in white silk on gold. Republle of Cuba--A. splendid neck- lave of selected pearls, the design of the plece being made in Paris on the order of the Cuban Government. It 1s one “f the most valuable gifts received by tae, bride. “The Emperor of Austrin—A diamond and pearl pendant exquisitely wrought. finest Ceylon and India Tea 18 THE MOST DELICIOUS TEA GROWN. - Lead Packsts Only. Trial Packet 10 cents. ‘At All.Grocers. BIGHEST AWARD ST. LOUIS, 1608. : NEW PUBLICATIONS. NEW PUBLICATIONS. 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