Middletown transcript., 1893-10-28
AoUAKER WEDDING.
A Quaint Ceremony in the Old Friends
Meeting House.

For the second time in twenty years
the old-fashioned Quaker meeting
house known as the Hicksite mansion,
at Fifteenth street and Ruthford place,
says the:New York Sunday World, was
the scene of wedding yesterday when
Miss Bessie Willets, of No. IS West
Fifty-fourth street, youngest daughter
of John T. Willets, became the wife of
DIR, Samuel N. Lambert, Of No. Q East
Thirty-seventh street, in the presence
of large and fashionable congregation,
whose stylish attire and gay chatter
seemed strangly out Of place in the
cherries old assembly room, where
only the quaint old Quakers have been
wont to meet and pray.
The bride is not Quaker, having
never Joined the Society Of Friends, as
her mother had never become men,
Der, and neither is DIR. Lambert; bat
Mr.. WiIlets, the brides father, is
Quaker from birth, and his family has
always been one of the warmest up
holders of the Friends Society. 1t was
to please her father that Miss Willets
was united to DR.. Lambert in the
Quaker fashion.
Three thousand invitations were is
sued to witness the ceremony ,and there
were about 1000 persons, principally |
women, present when the bridal party |
walked up the central aisle In the GUS
tomary fashion, the ushers- Alex
ander Lambert, the bridegroom's
brother, J. Henry Carson, Charles
Farnham and William Carey first.
The bride wore a white satin gown
with puffed sleeves. and point appli-
que veil caught with clusters of orange
and looked pale and pretty.
The bridesmaids we're Helen Willets
and Catherine Lambert, sisters of the
bride and bridegroom, who wore simple
gowns Of apple green silk. with the
square necks of their corsages filled in
with net. They carried big punches
Of daisies, and had ribbon headdresses.
There was no music, and the entrance
,f the bridal party caused hush to
fall upon those present who moment
before had been chatting and laughing,
discussing the event about to take place.
At the rostrum, where slight attempt
lad been made to enliyen the gloomy
Interior by arranging ferns and palms
lbout, Miss Willets passed from her
'ather to DR.. Lambert, who was wait
ng there with his best man, DR..
Narkoe, and the simple formula Of the
Quaker marriage ceremony was begun
Taking the BRIDES right hand in his,
Dr.. Lambert announced in clear, dis
inet tones that echoed throughout the
diice:
In the presence of the Lord and
lhese, our friends, / take thee TO be
ny welded wife, promising through
Divine assistance, to be faithful and
ffectlonate husband until DEATH"
Miss Willets made the same declara-
ion in regard to DR.. Lambert, and the
Wedding was over. They signed a
ertificate, which was read aloud by
dr. Howard j. Wright, clerk of the
meeting, stating that they had been
uly wed, and then arm in arm husband
nd wife left the meeting-house. The
eremony did not take FIVE minutes
ime from beginning to end. Later
he guests at the wedding breakfast
iyen BY the BRIDES parents, Mr.. and
drs. John T. Willets, at their home,
70. 55 West Fifty-fourth street, all
ppended their signatures to the docu-
nent. Mr.. John 7. Willets is Presi-
ent of the Leather Manufacturers
Bank. He is son of the late Robert !
Villets and nephew of the late
amuel Willets, one Of the richest
luakers in Philadelphia, whose estate
5 valued at SIC. 900, 900. a
The i st Quaker wedding in the old Z
Meeting house took place year ago /
asst summer, but it did not attract |
Iearly as much attention, probably be- 7
ause the contracting parties were not ?
0 well known socially. Many of those 4
u attendance yesterday drove in their g
syn carriages and both sides of Fif- !
eenth street, around through Ruther- a
ord place to Sixteenth street and Third
venue, were lined with private turn
uts.
OF THE INNocENTs.