The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-12-10
TII0MPS0N-- --UHL NUPTIALS
YALE INSTRUCTOR WEDS 4 DIUGH-
 TER OF GERMAN AMBISS1DOR.


 Ceremony an Elaborate but Private Func- tion-Only Forty Invited Guests Present. Including Members of United States Elm bassy and Consulate-Reception Follows the Wedding-New Haven Represented.
 Berlin, Dec. 9-The marriage of Miss Lucy Follett Uhl, of Grand Rapids, Mich, to Guy Van Gorden Thompson | of Yale university was celebrated at the residence of the brides father, United States Ambassador Edwin F. Uhl, s Thiergartenstrasse at o'clock this evening.
 The ceremony was private function, attended only by the family of the bride, the nearest relatives and the staff of the United States embassy and United States consulate in Berlin The salon, the dining room, the library and the small reception room were hand somely decorated with flowers, palms. the Yale flag in flowers, etc.
 The ceremony was performed in the reception room, where had been erected platform decorated with flowers. An orchestra was stationed in the alcove of the library. At the appointed hour doors from private apartments were thrown open and the bridal party en- tered. Before the party Mrs. Chl, mother of the bride, was escorted by her young son, Marshall Mortimer Uhl, to the reception rooms. Mrs. Uhl wore a white and gold brocade train dress trimmed with ermine and ostrich feathers. She wore a large diamond ornament in her hair and a necklace of sapphires and pearls.
 The bridal party consisted of four ushers, who walked in front and drew pink ribbons from the dining room through the salon to the wedding room The guests formed behind the line of ribbon and made an aisle. The four ushers were: Thomas Ewing Moore of Washington, Frederick l.. Chase of Yale university, w. H. Robertson of Washington and Robert Chiffon of Robertson.
 The maid of honor was Miss Alice Edwina Uhl sister of the bride. She wore a pink silk decollette dress, veil ed with pink tulle and trimmed with pink roses. and a short pink tulle veil and carried a bouquet of pink roses in her hand. A page and flower girl fol- lowed.
 The page, dressel In pink satin, was H. G. Squier's three and one half-year- old son Bard. The flower girl, who was dressed In pink silk costume, was Herr von Tempsks daughter, Marie. of the same age. Then came the bride on the arm of her father She wore a white satin dress, with a long train, trimmed with white point lace and or ange blossoms She carried bouquet of lilies of the valley. At the altar the bridal party was met by the bride groom and his best man, David F.. Uhl, of Grand Rapids, Mich, eldest son of the ambassador, All the men of the bridal party wore buttonhole bouquets of lilies of the valley.
 At the close of the ceremony the or chestra played Mendelssohn's wedding
 
 guests. Supper was served In the din ing room. The bridal party, consisting of the bride, groom, best man, four ushers and Miss Rutter, Miss Uhl, Miss Mabel Goodsell of New York, Miss Do- ley and Miss Boise of Berlin, sat in the center of the room at a table under bell of pink flowers. Other guests sat at small tables. The bridal table was decorated with white lilacs. The deco rations were arranged by Thomas F, Moore, United States consul at Wei mar.
 President Cleveland and the members Of his cabinet wired their congratula- tions and cablegrams from other friends in America were arriving every minute. Fifty persons sat down to supper. Beside the members of the family and the staffs of the embassy and consulate were Messrs. Jones, Trowbridge, Mcgee, Major von Tempsk, all with their wives; and Misses All man of Grand Rapids. The band of the Alexander Guard regiment played in front of the ambassadors residence from to 9 o'clock They were sent by the officers of the regiment in honor of the bride.
 A reception, to which the entire dip lomatic corps were invited, was held by Mrs. Uhl. Baron Marschall von Bieberstein, foreign secretary, and the baroness; the under secretary, Baron von Rotenhau, and Baroness von Ro- tenhau, and the ambassadors and their wives were present. A breakfast will be given by Mrs. T. B. Jackson to-mor- row, after which the bridal couple will leave Berlin for short wedding trip. Their destination is a secret.
 Mrs. Uhl will hold reception on the 30th in honor of the returned bridal couple for the American colony in Der lin.
 RRYAS TO MAKE TWO SPEECHES,