The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-06-12
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and Mr.. Fred c. Clerihew, acquitted
themselves nobly. Miss Smith sang Can
tons "As the Dawn and Mr.. Clerihew
Schnecker's tsBedouin Love Song
Among the party who went were Mrs.
Smith, Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Smith, Mrs.
Elmer underhill. Mr.. and Mrs. w. p.
Underhill Miss Kate Burrow, Mr.. George
Burrow, Mrs. Chandfess, Miss Chandless.
MI. and Mrs. Homer Speer, who are
again, residents of Glen Ridge; Mrs.
Clerihew and Miss Griffith.
II is not generally known to their
friends that Miss Jessy Smith and her
brother Thomas, have together COM
posed several very creditable pieces of
music. Mr.. Smith furnishes the melody
and his sister celebrates upon it. Their
ariehus are urging them to publish.
One of the most unique and beautiful
weddings of the year was solemnlzed re-
Gently at the Hotel Empire, Boulevard
and Sixty-third street, New York, where
the Rev. George c, Bennitt of this city
married Miss Cora Elizabeth Noble,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. William Noble,
q NO. no West F1fty-seventh street, and
Mr.. Daniel Edgar Evarts, paying teller
Of the New Jersey Title Guarantee n
Trust Company. The ceremony took
place in the white and gold parlor. at
a magnificent canop of green and pink,
under which presided the officiating
clergyman. Just in front of it hung a
most eautl bell of pink roses FIVE
NCCl III QldliiclGT, uuQ6T WHICH the DflQdi
party stood while the ceremony was
being performed. Extending from the
canopy on either side the room was
rounded out to the mantles with tropical
on either sid of the parlor were banked
with pink roses, and the walls extending
from them to the main corridor were
covered with portieres of roses and car
dividing the parlor from the main cor
ridor were entwined with roses and
smilax. h large corridor on the parlor
moor was beautifully decorated with
where delightful t~ete-a-tetes might be
had during the reception hours. The cor
ridor west of the parlor was reserved
Tor the bridal party, and here the pro-
cession to the altar was formed.
AS the Royal Russian Orchestra played
the Lohengrin Wedding March the bridal
party entered. Two little boys, William
Noble. the younger brother of the bride.
led. They were followed by Mr.. Bennitt
and the ushers, Mr.. James E. Price and
Mr.. w. P. Gardner, and the maid of
honor, Miss Ida Noble, with the best
groom entered together. The brides
gown was of ivory satin. She wore a
tulle vefl fastened with orange blossoms
and carried a bouquet of white roses and
was gowned in pink satin and carried a
large bunch of pink roses.
AZ Inception followed the
supper was served in the large dining
room. The ROOM, which is 1870 feet by
100 feet, was divided Into grottoes by the
artistic formation of palms and tropical
plants In the centre of the room, sur
roundinga q large fountain, was a table
from which the guests seated in the
hundreds of g~rottoes formed by palms
and towering plants were served by an
army OF French walters.
The BRIDES table, at which a party of
Twelve sat, was a round board, about ten
rect in diameter, and artisticaliy and
charmingly arranged. The centre piece
was a bed of pink roses four feet in
being a mirror covered with lace and
strewn with dainty ferns, and pinks and
small ornamental pieces. The party at
groom. were Miss Ida Noble, Miss Mar
garet Wuppermann, Miss May Pinkham.
MISS EAoise Brown, Miss Nett;e Connor'
MI. Slocum, Mr.. circuit, MI. Kohler'
Mr.. w. P. Gardner and Mr.. James n
Price.
Among those present were:-Mr. ana
MIS-; Charles 3; Evarts, Mr.. and Mrs. E..
F. g. Young. Countess Nazeli, Mr.. and
". G. Bumsted. Mr.. and Mrs. j. e. HuIs.
hizer Mr.; and Mrs. George F. Perkins.
Mt: and Mrs; A 9. Garretson, Mr.. and
Loan. Mr.. and Mrs. Edw. +. Clarke. NJ
N. johnson, Miss Jessie Van Wrinkle. Mr.
and Mrs Van Wrinkle, Mr.. and Mrs.
Mrs: F. II. Earle, w. c.. Bartlett, w. J..
McIlroy, Mr.. Thomas Bedle, Miss Harriet
De Witt, DR.. Benz. Edge. Mr.. and Mrs.
Gratuan. Mr.. Walter F. Gardner, Mr..
James e. Price, Ernest Foster Slocum.
MI. and Mrs. c. Kelley, Mr.. Henry Kos
ter, Mr.. Alexander Morrison, Mr.. H. q.
Van Loan, Miss Alice Van Loan, Mr.. and
Mrs. De Witt Van Buskirk, Mr.. and Mrs.
7. W. Van Loan, Mr.. and Mrs. George
Miss Eloise Brown, Miss May Pinkham'
Miss Nettie Connor, Mr.. Frank Lodmann.
Mr.. Fred Kohler, Mr.. and Mrs. J. W.
Noble, Misses Berrian, Mr.. Louis Berrian,
Misses Feilnan, Mss Wuppermann, Mr..
and Mrs. H. e. Johnson. Mr.. and Mrs.
Fl. p. c.. Johnson
Mr.. and Mrs. Evarts are now in the
Adirondacks. Upon their return they
vii reside in this city.