The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-03-04
TIE cARRoLIeLANepoN WEDDING.
A brilliant Social Event.


Special DiSp0ich 10 ne baltimore sun.
new YoRH, March 3.--Thc wedding of
Mr.. Royal Phelps Carroll, son of ex-Gov-
crnor John Lee Carroll, and Miss Marion
l.angdop, was celebrated very quietly to-
day al the residence of the BRIDES step
father, Philip Schuyler, Mt Irvington-on-
the-Hudson. Several causes combined to
make the wedding of one of the most
beautiful of the bellies of the social circle
in quiet contrast to her many triumphs in
the worldof fashion. II is Lent, the peni-
tential season, and two relatives of tho
bride have recently died.
Miss Iangdon has been for the past
three seasons one of the admitted leaders
Of society. She has n considerable private
fortune, and has been prominent in all
the fashionable charities. Mr.. Carroll Is
q gentleman of wealth and leisure, whose
fame as hunter and lover of sports Is
continental. The wedding ceremony was
performed by Archbishop Corrigan, as
sisted by, his secretary, Very Rev. Mgr.
Mcdonnell. Only the immediate rela-
tives and few friends were present. In
London, at Pau and at Cannes, where
Miss Langdon has passed much of her
time, she has often been the guest of Lady
IIlda Higgins and IL was once rumored
that the title of aduchess would eventually
be her fate
lIr. Carroll is the great grandson of the
distinguished signer of the Declaration of
Independence, Charles Carroll of Carroll
ton. His father, Ex-Governor Carroll of
Maryland, married for his second wife
the handsome Miss Carter Thompson of
Virginia. Mr.. Carroll Is the great-hcphew
of the three celebrated beauties, the
Misses Cation of Maryland, who married
in England, and held the titles of Duchess
..FI \ \ I.1. AL, i.
marthcn. Lady Wellesley was q widow,
Mrs. Robert Patterson, and sister-in-law
of the famous Nine. Jerome Bonaparte,
who was Miss Betsy Patterson OF Balti-
more. Mr.. Carroll is allied with the
French nobility through his sisters, one
of whom is Baroness La Grange, wholives
in the Avenue d'Alma, Paris, and the
other is Comtesse de Kergolay.
Mr. Carroll little over year ago, un.
dertook an expedition into the interior of
Africa, the expedition being one of the
| largest of private nature which had ever
been arranged. He left Zanzibar for adj
ventures among lions, tigers and ele-
plants, and was the. only white man of
The party. He thus disappeared from the
civilized world for many months, and
finally returned to win one of the most
beautiful American girls for his wife.
His brother, Mr.. Charles Carroll, married
Miss Suzanne Bancroft, granddaughter
| of the late historian and octogenarian.
George Bancroft. The Schuylers live at
No. is Washington Square north, but it
was thought best to have the wedding at
the country house of Mr.. and Mrs. Philip
Schuyler, ON the banks of the Hudson.
This house is the historic Alexander
Hamilton mansion. Upon Mr.. Hamil-
toms death recently Mr.. Schuyler fell heir
to it. The service took place at 1 80 o. clock.
| The best man was Mr.. William Cutting.
The guests we're only seventy-fve, thirty
from New York City. Mr.. Royal Phelps
Carroll, the groom, had apartments at the
Cambridge and is n member of the Union,
University, Knickerbocker, Racquet. Gro
lier, Meadow Brook, New York Yacht
Clnb, Larchmont Yacht Club and Sea-
wanhaha Corinthian Yacht Club. Miss
l.angdon is a step-daugbter Of Mr.. Philip
Schuyler her mother having been Mrs.
Langdor- -Lowndes. Miss Langdon has
one sister, Miss Annie Langdon.
The wedding guests left the Grand Cen
iral station at 1880 in special train,
among them being young John Jacob
Astor and his bride, Who returned to the
city from their honeymoon trip for the
purpose Of attending this wedding. The
ceremony was performed under bower
of white roses and lilies. Tho wedding
breakfast was served by Sherry at small
tables. The bride and groom start to
night on an extended trip South.