Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-27

RICHFIELD SPRINGS, N. Y, September
26.-Mr. Emmons Blaine and Miss Anita
Mccormick were married to-day in the Pres
byterian Church at this place. The Rev.
DR.. Herrick johnson, of Chicago, performed
the ceremony, assisted by the local pastor,
Rev. S. v. V. Holmes. Among the we'd
ding guests were the family OF the groom,
Secretary of State Blaine and wife, the
Misses Margaret and Harriet Blaine,
Walker and James G. Blaine, Jr.; the
brides mother, Mrs. Cyrus Mccormick, Mr..
and Mrs. Cyrus Mccormick, Jr., Miss Vir-
ginia Mccormick. Mrs. Algernon s. Sulli-
van, of New York, who is daughter, and
her SONS Harold and Stanley; Hon. Stephen
B. Elkins and wife, and Rev. DR.. John
Hall, oil New York.
The church in which the wedding took
place was beautifully decorated. On the
walls screen of smilax hung ten feet above
the floor, and completely encircl-d the sides.
The space between the floor and the screen
was occupied by richly blooming plants in
pots. The communion table was banked
with beautiful water lilies. The chancel
was adorned with large Abyssinian banana
trees on either side, while rare palms and
rich plants in pots circled the communion
table. On either side OF the chancel the
arches were handsomely and profusely dec
Grated with ferns, autumn leaves and wild
clematis.
PLENTY OF FLOWERS.
At Clayton Lodge, where the Mccormick
family reside, the floral decorations were of
the most elaborate nature. Palms and cut
flowers adorned the stone ratings, and ivy
hung gracefully from the pillars. In the
hallway tennis net was draped against the
wall from one end to the other, and was
completely filled with orchids and rare
roses.
On the mantel, nestled among palms and
banks of roses, was huge Norwegian
drinking bowl, also filed with orchids and
roses. Palms stood at the foot of the stair
way and the balustrade was worked with
smilax and bride roses. The parlors at the
opening directly of the hall, contained
wealth of palms, and the large mirror man
tells held prodigious supply of bouquets of
roses in fancy vases. The sitting room was
profusely decorated with Papoganta and
Bennett roses.
The large fireplace was banked with roses,
into which smilax had been woven with
artistic effect. The dining room had lat
tice over each window hung with smilax.
Eight large palms stood at either side of the
four windows. The fireplace was ef-
fectually hidden beneath 400 American
beauty roses and a quantity of smilaI.
THE DISTINGUISHED GUEST.
At II o'clock the guests began to gather
in the little church, and it was completely
filled at the hour announced for the cere-
mony. James G.. Blaine entered escorted
by Harold Mccormick, while Mrs. Blaine
leaned upon the arm of Frederick Keep.
Walter Damrosch entered with Miss Mar
garet Blaine, and James G., Jr., with Miss
Henrietta. The four occupied one pew.
A few minutes after II o'clock the we'd
ding party entered and marched Up the
middle aisle. Harold and Stanley McCor-
mick led the party. Messrs. Keep and
Sprague followed, and the bride, leaning
upon the arm of her brother Cyrus, brought
up the rear. Organist Tomlins played
selection from Tannhauser during the seat
ing of the guests, and the wedding march
was Wagner's "Lohengrin."
For the exit Mendelssohn's wedding
March" was played. The groom was
dressed in well-ftting suit of the cutaway
style of fine diagonal material. A white
rose adorned the left lapel of the coat.
Neither bride nor groom wore jewels of any
kind.
MARRIED TO MUSIC.
A soft improvisation was played during
the ceremony. which lasted scarcely 15 min
utes. The responses of the groom were
scarcely audible to the people in the rear
half of the church, while the bride an
swered in clear, firm tone that could be
heard by all.
The bride, who was Miss Anita McCor-
mick, is the eldest daughter of the late
Cyrus Mccormick, the founder of the great
reaper industry that bears his name. She
is a tall, slender brunette, somewhere in the
neighborhood of 20 summers. In Chicago,
where the family resides during the greater
portion of the year, she has taken promi-
nent part in society affairs. She is of a very
charitable disposition and has fortune of
So, ,O0O, 900, which by the terms of her
fathers will she came into possession of to-