Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-09
CLARK WEDDING WAS BRILLIANT
NEW YORK JOURNALS DESCRIPTION OF THE cEREMoNY-S0cI
ETY. THR0NGED THE C~HURCH-W0NDER-
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New York %Journal.)
The marriage Of Miss Katherine Stauf-
fer Clark, daughter of Senator William
A.. Clark of Montana, and DIR. Lewis
Rutherford Morris, descendant of Robert
Morris, who signed the Declaration of In
dependence, took place in st. Thomas
church Monday in the presence of a fash
ionable throng which packed the beauti-
ful edifice to the doors.
The etails of the ceremony were ar
by DR.. E. NJ. Culver, who mar
fied an older sister of the bride some
years ago and seldom has a more beauti-
full wedding been seen in New York.
Under the gothic arches of that impos-
ing edifice at Fifth avenue and Fifty
third street. known sometimes as ST.
Thomas n sometimes as 1.-The church
of weddings" a daughter of Montana
n a great-great-grandson Of New
York were united Alonday in the holy
bonds of matrimony.
1t was a memorable wedding even
among st. Thomas fu~nctions-the mat
ing of Miss Katherine Stauffer Clark and
DR.. Lewis Rutherford Morris. 1t was
such a wedding as a princess royal might
have enjoyed, so far as all the concom-
itants of cost and show were concerned.
simplicity and good taste as American as
the bride. 1t was a wedding in silver
and blue. 1t marked the mingling of the
red young blood of the silver state with
the cerculean fluid which flows in the
veins of a descendant of old Knicker-
booker families. the Rutherfords and
Morrises-famiies. the sires of which ran
farms where high-priced city lots now
are, and who, when George III. got up
pish, put their pens to n told
him to go hang himself, or words which
meant the same.
If any criticism We're to be made It
was that the invitations had been sent
out with too. liberal a hand. Many women
had to stand in the aisles or galleries,
and when they left the church some of
them looked as crushed as the big peon-
les and roses and carnations which Dec
orator Thorley had punched SO prodig-
ally at the pew ends, and which suffered
sadly in the general crush.
GUESTS NOT RIDDEN LOOKED ON.
When johnson, the man who knows
everybody worth knowing in the social
life of the city, took his stand at the en-
trance of the canvas funnel into which
The invited guests were shot to their
places of vantage or disadvantage in the
church, Fifth avenue was already taking
on the signs in that vicinity of an event
OF more than usual consequence. Forty
policemen. under Acting Captain Lam
try of the Ffty-first street, station. We're
scattered along the curl and at the
crossing, some intent on keeping back
the fast increasing crowd Of feminine
sightseers who We're bound to get as near
as possible and just a little nearer to see
the marvellous gown that cost more
money than they would have to spend in
a lifetime; the point lace shawl, in tn:
making Of which a patient human being
had been immured in a. damp and dark
some cellar for five and twenty Years,
and some of the finest jewels that have
sparkled on a bride since the corner
StOn of St. Thomas was laid.
There We're no such crowds as those
which made whole streets impossible
when daughters of the Vanderbilts and
those crowds came because the Gould
and Vanderbilt names are better adver-
tised than those of Clark, and because
oh, we'll, the ladies do like to see a titled
bridegroom, and do not care very much
for the grandson of an old chap who
merely signed a Declaration Of Independ-
ence. But there were crowds enough te
try the patience of the policemen who
came to clear the way for the daughter
Of the copper king and to keep the i'm
perturbable Johnson wide awake, as
they tried to get past the sentry boz
without the necessary passport.
But they know how to do these things
up in Fifth VENUE, and although there
came a rush of vehicles and a crush o.
sight seeing folk, they were handled del
icately and with kids loved considera
ton, but as firmly as if they were 81
many unruly children, which they mucl
resembled.
SEATING WENT MUCH BY FAVOR
Inside the church the guests found
themselves confronted by a schema
which one irreverent lady aid reminded
her Of the division of the sheep from tn,
goats on the Last Day. Those attempt,
ing to go in at the center aisle We're me
by ushers, arrayed in afternoon attire
adorned with lilies of the valley ant
armed, not eap-apie, but with formidabl
looking lists.
Are you invited to the house?" wa
the question asked.
IT one answered in the affirmative, h
or she was invited to enter. If nay wa
the reply, the unfortunate had to do tn
best he could in the side aisles or tn
galleries. Meanwhile the ushers, VIII,
were DR.. Culver. the brother-in-law O
the BRIDE: w. A. Clark, jr., Writ Howe
Newbold Morris, q. Francklyn Lawrence
and DR.. Charles T. Parker, struggled val
iantly with their lists bur could not keel
up with the arrivals. and soon the cente
aisle was chOked with women in fecep
tion finery and men in frock coats, look
ing hot and crushed and uncomfortable
1t doesn't pay to have too many friends
But the ushers, good fellows, We're in
dustrious, and in good time they go
tnelf aisle cIedT anu Slfelcneu the WHIT
satin ribbons, which We're supposed t
wall in the guests and leave a clear pat
for the bridal procession.
The decorations were very beautiful
Only once before nave they been NOR
elaborate In st. Thomas That was o
the occasion when Miss Vanderbilt be
came Duchess of Marlborough. 1t is a
u~ngracious task to attempt to describ
floral effects in cold type.
ASCENSION LILIES AT THE ALTAT
The altar looked resplendant in il
bridal veil of beautiful Ascension lille
AT the altar rail two columns Of gree
covered with lily blossoms stood lk
sentinels, marking the place where til
bridal couple, less tall than they, stoo
as they were made m and knelt to r,