Connecticut western news., 1895-03-07
COUNT AND COUNTESS DE cAsTELLAxE.

COUNT AND COUNTESS DE CASTELLANE. seventh street and Fifth avenue This long looked forward to event took place under the most favorable conditions the threatening weather having abated, and clear skies shone auspiciously upon the newly married couple.
 Although those who witnessed the cere- mopy numbered less than 900. it seemed that half the city had come to catch n glimpse of the much talked of affair, for Fifth avenue and the side streets in tho vicinity were fairly blocked with mass of curious humanity. Men fought for convenient coigns of vantage from which to gaze at the open doors and at the cur tained windows. and women pushed and surged to and fro with an equal earnest ness. The crowd came carly and staid late.
 The wedding guests in their carriages were driven at srail's pace through the throng and entered the mansion through lines formed by a double guard of police men, who had to keep working all the time to keep the entrance clear.
 Unier a Purple Canopy.
 The ceremony was performed under a canopy of royal purple in the East Indian room of the Gould mansion, which by most elaborate preparation had been con- yerted into a veritable garden of beauty.
 Count de Castellane, escorted by his younger brother, Count Jean, took his station in tho turrcted alcoye of the Moor ish parlor.
 The other members of the wedding par ty assembled in tho library overhead, and when the hand pointed to the moment agreed upon tho group, with a pleasant little tremble of excitement and momen. tary confusion, divided according to the programme, started in the prescribed or der to the drawing room down stairs First came the four bridesmaids, Miss Gould and Miss Cameron walking ahead and after them Miss Montgomery and Miss Richardson. At Q short distance hc- hind came Mir. George Gould, with his sister, Miss Anna Gould on his arm, tho pages attending supporting the train Mir. Brockholst Cutting and NJ Duval, the | first pair of ushers came immediately aft CT the pages and were followed by Mir. | Howard Gould and the Prince del Drago. On reaching the Nfoorish parlor the par | ty proceeded to the alcoye, took their places, and the ceremony was begun. Masses of Flowers.
 The floral decorations of the library, in which the bridal procession formed, were elaborate The prevailing colors were pink, green and white, the flowers being Japan lilies and pink md white roses. The walls wero solidly hung with gar lands of green and loose flowers. The al- | cove and niches were banked with rare palms from tho tropics of America. The | walls and rails along the stairway leading to the floor below were decorated with the white lilies of Japan, white roses and smi- lax over a background of palm foliage. From the roof of the stairs were suspend ed garlands of asparagus plumosa entwin- i cd with lilies of the valley and whitc roses. | These floral ropes were carried across the hall on wires at height of ten feet, ! through the music room and along the path of the procession into the Moorish room and ended in the imperial purple canopy under which the ceremony took place.
 Hero Archbishop Corrigan and two priests awaited the bride. After the cere-