Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-19
CARNEGIE'S LAST GIFT.
Pittsb0rC's Millionaire Magnate Bestows
His Niece Upon n Grandson of Abrnm
Garrison-The Ceremony at Calvary
Concise Chronicle of the World Of So

, less it must be declared that Miss Carnegie!
wedding brought together more beautifu
gowns than have ever been seen at nupt1a
in Pittsburg before. The house reception
being correspondingly as large as the AT
tendance at the religious ceremony was the
cause of this brilliance Those invited tt
the house sat in the front OF the church, and
never was there such brilliant array o
beautiful and magnifcently gowned women
They came in in dozens, wrapped IN
long opera cloaks, which the exl
gencies of a low thermometer demanded
Nearly all we're in low cut gowns and bare
headed. Jewel boxes had been rified OF
their entire contents by their owners, and
were glittering ON throats and heads every.
where. Black men and maid servants stood
at the doors to remove wraps, and either re
tanned them or in several cases carried them
to the pews, and flung them over the
backs of the pews until the place nad
an appearance not unlike an opera
night when favorite prima donna sings.
The church was decorated in simple man
ner and very beautifully. There was no
banking of plants, but instead, the chrysan.
themums were grouped under the windows
by the communion table and near the chan
eel railing. 1t was one of the most artistic
arrangements used at any wedding so far.
Nothing of the beauty of the chancel fur
nishing was destroyed, rather it was
all discovered and emphasized to
an unusual degree. The hour of the
ceremony was fashionably late. The in
vitations read o'clock, but the bride as
serted her privilege to keep the bridegroom
waiting and did not arrive at the church
door until $40. Then the vestibule door
/ swung open and those of the vestry room
likewise, and as DR.. Hodges and an assist
ing clergyman with the groom, Mr.. Ricket-
son, and the best man. Mr.. McClintock
came along side aisle. up the
central aisle came the bridal procession.
MIR. W. H. Price, Mr.. Dawson Speer, Mr..
Nathaniel Holmes Mr.. Joseph McCord, Mr.:
Winfield Shiras, MI. Andrew Carnegie and
maids, Miss Harriet Watson, Miss Johnston,
of Chicago; Miss Sallie Ricketson, Miss Susie
Dilworth, Miss Hopkins and Miss Bessie
Howe. These young ladies were in white
folds of which mingled with those
Of the heavy drapery Of the
| the bride came next They were small
enough to be exceedingly cunning and large
| enough to be a bit abashed, holding their
| were also in white, with profusion of rib
| bons and bows. An older sister followed
alone, and her dress also carried out with
consistency the idea of a white wedding.
1t was pretty girlish gown made wholly of
brocade. Mr.. Carnegie came next with his
niece leaning on his arm. Though not very
| equal in height to her distinguished uncle.
| She wore white armure imported robe,
almost concealed beneath q heavy bridal
veil, and lavishly trimmed. The bridal
The bridemaids wore wreaths of the BRIDES
flowers in their hair and the
sprays of il from in the ae
mony, which was performed by DR.. Hodges,
the flower girls came first, then the bride
and groom, next Mr. Carnegie with Mr.. Nc
u{,,k@ I, -l,ar.e hrid
maids. Mrs. Thomas Carnegie, the BRIDES
mother, sat among the guests in the reserved
pews and was the first to leave the church
a handsome robe Of black velvet.
Mrs. Ricketson. the bridegroom's mother,
in gown of silver gray silk walked down
Garrison. When the near relatives had all
been conducted out, the reception guests re-
tired. Then the general body of the people
1et nG an
after which they left for the East.
Rev. DR.. Alfred Arundel, the recently
appointed incumbent of Trinity Church,
will preach his first sermon on next Sunday
morning The rector has just returned from
England and will be Joined here shortly by
his family, who are still the Continent.
MIS-. Arundel ana ner children hevo boon
living in Europe for some time,
having gone there for Mrs. Arundel's
health. 1t had become none too good,
thanks to the exalted altitude of
Colorado, where DIR. Arundel's charge
was until he was removed to Pittsburg. He
is described as high bred cultivated man
and delightful companion, and has created
SO great an interest in his coming parishners
Sunday morning. DR.. Arundel is the guest
at present of Mr. and Mrs. A. E. W. Painter
at their Irwin avenue house.
1t is not uniting amid all these wedding
festivities to say few words about one who
was bride herself only year ago. When
Mrs. Harry Fitzhugh's death became known
in the community forming her little world,
there was sorrow felt as if each of its
households bad lost beloved member. No
young bride, a stranger in measure, was |
ever welcomed as she was upon coming to |
Allegheny from Detroit last season the |
wife of young MI. Fitzhugh. She entered |
the house of her husbands moth er and oc-
cupied place, as real daughter. that |
never before had been filled. Her friends |
sneak with regretful pleasure of this lovely |
young woman's observance of every duty, |
social. Christian and charitable. The uni
versal grief has disarranged toa degree many |
social obligations of the early season-some |
being deferred and others given up entirely.
Mrs Fitzhugh was the daughter Of General
Orlando NJ Poe, of the United States Army,
and is buried in Detroit, the home OF her
girlhood.
In Hazelwood last. night the marriage of
Miss Katherine Margaret Barbour and
James B. Howard was solemnized at the
Christian Church. The hour was $50; the
Rev. Thomas Garland and the Rev. Mr. Nc
Wayne, of the Christian Church, officiating.
The guests were ushered to their pews by
Messrs. George Getz, of Chicago; Henry
Price, of Indianapolis; Robert Barbour and
William Ogden, of this city. MI. Howard's
m |
bride was unattended, and wore u dark
green travelling gown, with harmonious ac-
cessories. The bride and bridegroom left
after the wedding for an Eastern honey
moon.
Mr. Howard is Virginian, in business in
and his wife belongs to q family
which, though now its representatives live
with Southern social life. Mr and Mrs
Howard will be in Richmond after Decem-
ber s. The wedding festivities began on
Tuesday eyening, eye ing, with ut s, farewell dinner
women friends. The ushers at the cere-
mony the next evening were included in the
Miss Nina van Zandt, whilom Mrs.
Augustus Spies, appears to have made a
very happy choice of it in her second matri-
monial venture. Stephano Malates, now an
American correspondents for European
papers, is the only living male representa-
tive of noted old family whose estates are
near the city of Palermo in Sicily. |
The members Of his family, consisting of his
mother and his three sisters, received the
girl, upon her recent visit to
Europe, with open arms, and showered at |
,entions and gifts upon her. She received
he jewels which go to the wife of the oldest
ngly valuable and beautiful. Mrs. Malates
Is in love with her husbands native coun-
~, though they have decided to make the I