The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-05-13
Cooke ofHonoIuIu
to Leffcrts Of
FIatbush.
PAPERS
FULL REPORT
The Happy Nan Son Of the
President of the Bank
of Hawaii.

The Brooklyn Eagle of Friday, April
ding of C. Montague Cooke, Jr., son of
lie. NJ Cooke, president of the Bank of
Hawaii of this city, as follows:
A Flatbush bride, welded in one of
the oldest and quaintest houses that yet
remain within the limits of Brooklyn,
/ is one of the important features of the
wedding news of yesterday Miss Lila
Lefferts. daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
James Lefferts, was this bride. and the
ceremony that made her the wife of
Charles Montague Cooke, Jr., a Yale
man of 1897, of the old Boston family
of Cooke, now resident in Hawaii for
many years, was solemnized in the old
Lefferts mansion at 500 Flatbush ave-
nue., built just after the revolution, to
replace the very old house on that site,
burned down at that time, a farm
dwelling of the earliest Dutch days.
The ceremony of this bridal was not
large nor was the reception following
| of great size, because of the limited
capacity of these old-fashioned parlors.
Brooklyn society and the old families
| of Brooklyn We're very well represent
| ed, nevertheless. Its hour was five in
! the afternoon, and the officiating
clergyman was the Rev. T. G. Jackson,
rector of st. Paul's church, Flatbush,
assisted by st. Pauls curate, the Rev.
T. p Swift.
| The Lefferts mansions quaint and
low ceiling drawing room where bride
| and groom were married, was decorat-
| ed chiefly in green floral adornments
that were very beautiful while simple.
| Pringle served as the master of cere-
monies.
| White crepe meteor was the wedding
gown of this bride, the fifth generation
of Lefferts brides to be married under
this roof. This wedding gown was
trimmed with embroidery and point
lace. The vail Miss Lefferts wore was
wonderfully interesting. A vail of an
cient point lace, very nearly one hun
dred years old, it had been worn by
three preceding generations of brides
here It's first wearer was the Miss
Maria Benson, who, in 1923, welded
Judge Leffert Lefferts, and was the
mother Of Mrs j. Carson Brevoort
Miss Lefferts carried lilies of the val
Hey and white lilacs. Among her gifts
was her grandmother's wedding silver,
a tea set presented by her aunt, Mrs
Gertrude Lefferts Longmere.
A maid of honor and four brides
maids were in this wedding train. The
maid of honor was Miss Louise Alex
lander Lefferts, Miss Lefferts only sis
/ ter. Two of the bridesmaids were
]yeung girls of 14-Miss Alice Theodore
! Cooke of Honolulu, sister of the bride
groom, and Miss Celia Louise Brigham
of Pottsville, Pa, cousin of the bride
land two Older girls-Miss Mae Nc
/ Kinney of Brooklyn and Miss Ruth
| Alexander of Flushing, both the brides
cousins The younger bridesmaids
Wore frocks of white organdie with
pink sashes and carried pink carna-
!. tions. The older bridesmaids We're in
costumes of pink embroidered crepe de
chine and carried white roses. Miss
Louise Lefferts as maid of honor was
i CARRIED in white embroidered crepe de
chine and carried pink roses.
George Paul Cooke of Honolulu was
his brothers best man, and the ushers
were Frank H. Walker of Flatbush,
Alexander Atherton of Honolulu, Will
liam S. Hubbell, Jr., of Plainsfield and
! Victor Sutro of the Borough of Man
haitian
/ The wedding guests included Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Montague Cooke, who
came from Honolulu; Mr.. and Mrs.
John Lefferts, Jr. Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
Lefferts, Mrs. Lionel Garden, wife of
the English Consul-General of Cuba
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Enos, Mr.. and Mrs.
Leffert Lefferts, Mr.. and Mrs. H Wood
ruff Sullivan, the Misses Sullivan,
Henry w. Maxwell. Mr. and Mrs. J..
Rogers Maxwell, Mr.. and Mrs Howard
Frederick Whitney, Mr.. and Mrs. C. E.
Donnellon, Mrs. T. G. Jackson, William
Brown, the Misses Brown, Mr.. and Mrs.
| Edward F. de Selding, Mr. and Mrs
Joseph de Selding, Mr.. and Mrs. H. A.
lGroesbeck, Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick r.
Lefferts. Mr.. and Mrs Marshall LET
ferts, Professor and Mrs. Frederick r.
Hutton of the Borough of Manhattan
Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Arven Jones, Mrs
Lefferts Vanderbilt, Mr.. and Mrs. Will
liam McKinny. George B. Alexander
Dwight c. Lefferts, J. Lloyd Prince,
Mr.. and Mrs. Elijah r. Kennedy, Mr.
and Mrs. John Glib.