The St. Louis Republic., 1904-03-17

Florida resorters who live in ST. Louis
show no signs of returning northward
Even Easter is not expected to bring many
of them home. since the unusually early
date this year for Easter-April S-argues
that cold, or at least cool, weather and
possibly disagreeable storms may pre-
vail.
Down at Miami, Henry Clay Pierce has
private-car party composed entirely Of
New York friends. They hold the shark
record for last week, having landed A
monster nine and half feet in length, in
ADDITION to bringing in thirty-five king
fish. Mr.. Pierce has taken his guests this
week on board his steam cruising yacht
Yacona OF the New York Yacht Club, and
after rambling through the Caribbean Sea
and visiting all points of interest in the
West Indies they will land at Tampico
Mexico. where the Pierce private car has
been sent on to meet them and return to
the States by raN.
Miss Jeanne Capen has come I'D from
Lower Florida and Joined her mother. Mrs
Frances Capen. at the fashionable Ponce
de Leon, st. Augustine. She is much ad.
mired at this resort, having been there ip
previous seasons. and is wearing a series
or stunning costumes. At a large and very
elegant reception given by the Doctor An
dersons at their stately winter home.
Markland; last Friday night Mr.. and Mrs
GIanuel Iaa Sapen' Mrs. Capen and Miss
Jeanne Capen were among the guests
VINO included also some of the most prom
lnent society people of New York and the
entire country. from Maine TO California.
MISS Capen wore dress in moonlight
erect OF shimmering pale blue satin with
the new moonlight iridescent CLINT In it.
which was heightened by a garniture of
silver fish scales. 1t was one of the great
SdrtOrldl successes of the evening
At ormond Mrs. McClintock. who owns
winter place there, is entertaining Mrs
wife Of Captain Slocum Of jefferson Bar
racks, and formerly military attsche to
st. Petersburg. Russia. Mrs. Socum is
not a stranger to ormond, having spent
last winter there and being a. much feted
and admired as she Is in st. Louis.
Doctor and Mrs. I. Griswold Comstock
sailed last Saturday from Florida to Cuba,
where they will remain a week and then
return to st. Augustine.
LODGE-GLBERT.
The marriage of Miss Helen Gilbert.
daughter of Mrs. A. E. Gilbert. No. 1A10
South Ewing avenue. to Henry French
Lodge. brother of Mrs. George Mepham
and Miss Beatrice Lodge, took place last
evening at o'clock at the Church of the
Messiah: A large number of guests filled led
In greens. The service was read by the
Reverend J. W. Day.
Green and white prevailed in the brides
costume and that of her attendants. and
these colors were used at the house. where
there was no reception, merely an informal
gathering of the bridal party after the
ceremony.
The bride wore white chiffon cloth,
trimmed in some rare old rose point, with
a tulle veil and arm bouquet of valley
lilies and asparagus fern. Miss Billee Gill
bert sister of the bride, was maid of
honor. and Mrs. Richard Shelton. the ma
tron. while Miss Beatrice Lodge and Miss
Florence Gottschalk were the two brides
maids. They all wore dresses of the same
material as the brides, with short wells
of tulle. and carried showers of the
feathery asparagus.
Landon Carter served Mr.. Lodge as best
man. while the ushers and groom5rnep
were Calvin Robinson. Orman McCawley.
Elmo Daudell. Philo Stevenson. Arthur
Burg. Louis LIE Beaume and Robert Miller
Mr.. and Mrs. Lodge departed late last
night for the South. where they will spend
several weeks in travel. The bride will
receive in May at the Gilbert residence,
which Mr.. and Mrs. Lodge will occupy
during the summer, in the absence of Mrs
Gilbert and her family