St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-06-15
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The Romantic Courtship of
the Private Secretary Has
eliminated.
j. Stanley Brown and Pretty
Mollie Garfield Are Made
One.
Harry Garfield and Miss Belle
Mason Also Link
DeStinies.
The Dual Nuptials Celebrated
The Dual Nuptials Celebrated
at the Homestead in
Mentor.
Special to the Globe.

MENTOR, o., June IA courtShip
that began at Mentor eight years ago
eliminated here this evening in the
marriage of Miss Mollie Garfield, only
daughter of the late President Garfield,
to j. Stanley Brown, ex-private secre.
tary of the martyred president. At the
same time Harry Garfield, eldest son OF
the late president, welded Miss Belle
Mason, daughter of the late Hon. James
Mason, of Cleveland, once prominent
corporation lawyer and chief counsel
for the Lake Shore railroad. The double
wedding took place at the family resi-
dence at Mentor, and was witnessed by
a large number of guests, including
many well-known people from the cities
of Cleveland, Chicago, Cincinnati, Buff
falo, New York, Boston and Washing
ton. The hour fixed for the wedding
was 5 p. m, and soon after 4 a special
train arrived from Cleveland bringing
more than 100 invited guests, who were
conveyed in carriages from the railway
station to the Garfield homestead, where
about fifty relatives and friends
of the Garfield and Mason families
had already assembled. The house
was beautifully decorated with
palms. pOtted plants and cut flowers, and
its atmosphere was fragrant with the
perfume of roses, Syringa and white
carnations. Festoons and pendants of
intertwined daisies hung
LIKE A CURTAIN OF GREEN,
white and gold in the wide doorway be-
tween the two large reception rooms on
the first floor; the window seats along
the winding stairway leading to the
second story were filled with blossom
ing fucfhsias; the mantels were solid
banks of roses, white carnations or deli
cate maiden-hair ferns, and the
large bay window in the library,
where the wedding parties were
to stand during the ceremony, was
canopied with roses and smilaX and
lined with palms and semi-tropical
plants so as to form an alcOve of soft
greenery. In front of this recess. and
partly under the canopy of roses and
smilaX, stood a low kneeling desk over
which had been thrown piece of
Egyptian drapery covered with delicate
white and gold embroidery. Here and
there on the low book cases stood large
vases filled with red or white peonies
and spikes of dark blue lupine; and
over the marble bust of Gen. Garfield in
the northwestern corner of the room
had been draped the flag of the Will
liams college "Class of '56,S which hung
over the banquet table on the occasion of
the meeting of that class in Washington
Oh the eve of Gen. Garfield's Inaugural
ton, and which was sent by DR.. Root to
Mrs. Garfield to be used at the
WEDDING OF HER CHILDREN.
Roses decorated also the portrait of
foil LOFT
Mason, of Cleveland. At the appointed
hour Mrs. Garfield and Mrs. Mason,
with the members of their families and
the large company of guests, assembled
in the spacious library and to the Or
chestral music of the ''Wedding
March" from Lohengrin, the first
bridal party entered the room.
1t consisted of Harry Garfield
and his bride, accompanied by Miss
May Mason. of Cleveland; Miss Helen
Newell, of Chicago, and Miss South
worth, of Cleveland, as bridesmaids,
and James r. Garfield, Bentley Warren.
of Boston, and Frank Baldwin, of
Cleveland, as groomsmen. Miss May
Mason acted in the capacity of maid of
honor to the bride, and James Il. Gar
field as best man to the groom. Miss
Belle Mason, the bride, was dressed in
white pOult de sole silk, trimmed with
Valenciennes lace, wore white tulle
roses. Miss Mary Mason, who acted as
maid of honor for both her sister and
Miss Garfield, wore cream white crepe
made over white silk, and carried JAG
uueminOt roses. Miss MasOn'S other
bridesmaids were dressed alike in cream
white null draped over white silk, and
carried yellow roses. The party took
places in front of the empowered bay
window, and the marriage service, ac-
cOrding to the Presbyterian form, was
read by Rev. DR.. William V. w. Davis,
who is now pastor of the Union church,
at Worcester, Mass, but who was at one
time pastor of the Euclid Avenue Pres
byterian church, in Cleveland, of which
Miss.Garfield and Miss Mason are MEM
bers. During part OF the service the
bride and groom knelta at the little desk
under the canopy of roses and smilaX,
and at its conclusion all OF the first bri-
dial party took positions at the southern
end of the room. The orchestra, which
had been playing very softly during the
service, then broke the half silence
again with
THE LOUD, JOYOUS STRAINS
of the wedding march and the second
bridal party entered the library. 1t
consisted of j. Stanley Brown and his
bride, Miss Mary Garfield, accompanied
by Miss Mabel Kittridge, of New York;
Miss Minnie Garfield, of Cleveland;
Miss Sallie Foster, of Cincinnati, and
Miss Ellen Window, of Winona, Mimi,
as bridesmaids, and L. j. Hatch, of
Chicago; J. j. Chickering, of Washing
ton; Irving Garfield, of Mentor; Charles
Jewett, of Buffalo, and Percival Far
quhar, of New York city, as grooms-
men. l.. n. Hatch was the groom's
best man, and Miss May Mason acted
as maid of honor. Miss Mary
Garfield, the bride, was dressed in
a charming but simple gown of white
crepe laid in soft folds over white silk.
She wore no veil but carried June roses.
The bridesmaids all wore gowns of pink
null draped over white silk and carried
bouquets of pink roses tied with pink
ribbons. When the bride and groom
had taken positions in front of the low
kneeling desk the marriage service
was read by DR.. Davis second time to
the accompaniment of very faint music
from the orchestra in the upper hall.
At the conclusion of the ceremony both
of the bridal parties stationed them
selves in front of the alcove of greenery
and the newly welded young people
of their friends while the orchestra
played Mendelssohn's "Wedding
March," At 6 O'Clock supper was
served in the lower rooms, all the
guests being seated at tables beautifully
decorated with flowers and lighted.
The special train returned to Cleye-
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