The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1906-02-23
BRILLIANT,
Wedding of the Presidents
Daughter.
Every Country In the World
Represented last
Saturday.
Washington ID. C. Feb. II, 1906.

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The wheels Of business stopped in
Washington to-day while the daugh-
ter of the President was led to the
alter. Miss Alice Roosevelt was
married to Representive Nicholas
Longworth at noon by Bishop Satter-
lee and all Of Washington not hidden
to the White House for the ceremo-
ny watched and waited while the
nuptials were performed. 1t was
the most notable wedding that the
Capital has ever known. Miss
!. Roosevelt was the third White House
bride. This in itself was a distinct
ion. But never before has a White
House wedding attracted such at
tention. Never before has there
been such distinguished gathering
of society people in the mansion and
certainly never before has there
been such an array of wedding gifts.
Every country in the civilized
world even il China is included in
that category was represented in
the tributes that were showered on
the bride. Representative Long
worth too was remembered IN
way. But il was not his day.
The young Ohio member who has
already won for himself very fair
reputation as a new Congressman
was distinctly not in the running.
He was an adjunct to the ceremony
but that was all and that was as it
should be. Miss Alice was the OBJ
ject Of interest of the day and con-
tinued to be till the couple quietly
stole away toward evening in an ele-
ctric brougham for the honeymoon,
which it is understood will be spent
in a country homestead just outside
of Washington.
The Executive offices at the White
House were closed all day. There
was no business transacted for the
first time perhaps since Mr.. Roosevelt
has been President. Promptly at 10
A. M. the gates of the White House
were closed and thereafter there
was no entrance without one of the
magic admission cards. There were
a little short of a thousand guests
present. a gathering that crowded
to the utmost the East Room where
t he ceremony was performed. Only
ten representatives of the press were
present, the three members of the
local papers the three association
and four personal newspaper friends
of Representative Longworth and
the President. But society was re-
presented from all quarters of the
country. There were the members
of the two families, the justice of the
Supreme Csurt and members of the
Cabinet, the members of the Senate
who have formerly held cabinet posi-
tions, and the general run of invited
guests who included most of the
people of prominence whose names
usually appear in the society columns
of the New York papers.
The wedding ceremony was per-
formed by Bishop Satterlee. standing
under an arch of palms on the west
side of the East Room. There would
have been a jungle of greenery
about the improvised alter but for
the firm protest made by the BRIDE
to-be yesterday. She had put her
foot down firmly against having the
whole scene shut off by palms and
ferns from the very people who had
come to witness it and at her order
the taller plants had been moved
back to the wall 50 that there was
reasonable clear space in front.
The service was brief but impress
sive as the words and the occasion
warranted. The party moved al
most Immediately afterward to the
breakfast room where there was
buffet luncheon for the most of the
guests in the Blue Room. The new
married couple, President and Mrs.
Roosevelt and about sixty of the
guests sat down to the wedding
breakfast in the Green Room.
The breakfast lasted well into the af-