The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-12-07
WHITNEY EY-DEBEVOLSE
Wedding of Prominent Society People
 nt Noon Yesterday.


 Wedding of Prominent Society People
 nt Noon Yesterday.
 Miss Annie Farnam Whitney, daugh- ter of MT, and Mrs. Eli Whitney, and granddaughter of the great inventor, Eli Whitney, was united in marriage yesterday noon to Thomas McElrath Debevoise of New York at the pictur- esque and quaint old Whitneyville Congregational church. The wedding was perfectly simple in detail. The simplicity, however, did not detract from the charms of the affair. The old church, which was erected in 1796, and of which the brides grandfather was a member for many years, with its old fashioned interior decorations, was trimmed only in green. There were a dozen large wreaths of ivy internin- sled with spruce fastened to the walls near the entrance. Ropings of green were entwined on posts and gallery rails; the chandelier in the center of the church was decorated with smilax. The pulpit was solid bank of palms and ferns, as was also the small choir gallery. The first six pews in the church were trimmed with broad white satin ribbon, and here the family were seated. Harry B. Jepson, organist at
 ,attell chapel, was at the organ and assisted by a string orchestra compos- ed of Messrs. Haesche, Fichtl, Ranson and Wiedenhammer, played the follow ing programme while the guests were assembling:
 Olla Turker o........ ............ Mozart Andante from Op, Ill.,. .Tschaikowsky Minuet, from Symphony in G.. Mozart Serenade ........ ...... ........ Herbert Minuet ......... .....,...... .Haydn Lieder Ohne Worte. .... ..Mendelssohn
 The bridal party entered the church precisely at 12 o'clock and the familiar strains of Lohengrin's wedding march pervaded the building. The two ushers John F. Talmage, Yale '95, of New York, classrate of the groom, and Frederick T. Van Buren, Yale '9S led the procession with the brides attend ants, her sisters. Miss Henrietta and Miss Sarah Whitney, following. Then came the bride leaning on the arm of her father. They were met at the pull pit by the bridegroom and his best man, his brother, George Debevoise of New York, who had proceeded to the front of the church by side aisle.
 The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Newman Smyth, pastor of Center church. It was most impressive, a DOT tion of the Episcopal service being used. After closing prayer the bridal party left the church to the strains of Mendelssohn's wedding march, played by organ and strings
 A wedding breakfast by Maresi of New York was served at the Whitney avenue residence of the brides parents, immediately after the ceremony. There were about 150 persons present.
 The bridesmaids wore charming gowns of deep pink taffeta. Over slightly trained skirts were overdresses edged with chiffon, the high bodices half yelled with taffeta and finished at the throat with a tucker of white spangled satin. Their tiny velvet bon nets of the same shade were ornament ed with small black ostrich tips Both bridesmaids carried a large bunch of white roses tied with white ribbon. | The brides gown was of the cus- tomary heavy white satin, the skirt yelled in front and sides with point lace The long veil of tulle fastened with sprig of lilies of the valley fell to the | edge of the train. Her flowers were | lilies of the valley and white orchids, orchids also being caught on the long ribbons with which the flowers were l tied.
 MT. and Mrs. Debevoise left last evening for wedding tour, after which they will reside in apartments at West Eighty-third street and Eighth avenue, New York city
 Among the out of town guests were: I MT. and Mrs Charles Farnam of Den yer, with their daughter; MT. and Mrs. | Woodruff, George w. Debevoise of New York, the bridegroom's father; | John M. Cornell of New York, MT. and Mrs. Frank A. James of Tarrytown, Mrs. Sydney Thompson of Elizabeth, | N. J.; Mrs. Charles Whitehead of New | York, Mir. and Mrs. William F. Decker and Mrs. William Herrick of New York.