Bisbee daily review., 1906-01-02
THE WEDDING Of
 MISS ROOSEVELT
iKilI Occur in the White House ..- Will Be a
 Notable Even!

Washington. Jan. Lit has beer
 eighty five years since the happy notes or wedding bells were first heard in ! the halls of the White House Since
 then four other weddings have taken place there, so that Miss Alice Roose- Welt will be the sixth bride of this historic old mansion. Although so far only the bare an nouncement has been made that Miss Roosevelt and Representative Nicholas Lonsworth are engaged and will be married in February, all Washington Is lndulging in excited speculations as to the interesting details of the ceremony. Society not alone a. the national capital, but throughout the entire country, Is concerned in the event. The identity of the brides maids, ushers. and other attendants will be eagerly discussed. Curiosity win be displayed over the wedding presents, the rousseau, the ceremony itself, the honeymoon and all the other features that enter into the hap py event Invitations to the wedding and to the reception afterward will be anxiously looked for, to be saved as valued treasures for posterity.
 Mis- Roosevelt will be married in
 
 of this great house, where romantic memories and historical associations cluster thickest. Every room of the White House has an interesting his tory; every corridor and corner is burdened with tales of love and chiv- airy; every spot has felt the heel of feminine beauty-of masculine great ness. but the charm that ccaters in the East Room is the greatest of all The wise and noted men, the beaUti- ful and distinguished women who have crossed this official threshold and shone resplendent beneath the biaz- ing chandeliers, have made Ameri- can history.
 It was here that the first White House wedding was solemnized. The bride was Miss Maria Monroe, the youngest daughter of President and Ms. Monroe, and she was welded to Samuel l.. Gouverneur, afterward post master of New. York under President :: John Quincy Adams. in March, 1920. The eldest daughter of President Mon roe had married Mr George Hay. of Virginia. and Mir. Hay was President Monroe's private secretary. Both married daughters acted as hostesses of the White House, the mother be- ing too delicate to exercise the trying duties of mistress of so large house hold. Mrs. Hay was an obstinate woman who ruled by force, and to this day some remarkable stories are told of the way she managed the White House. She never sat at a reception in the East Room, and nobody dared to sit in her presence. She once re- fused to receive a near relative or allow him to be present at levee because he hadn't come with small clothes and silk stockings.
 It has been twenty years since a wedding took place in the White House. The last ceremony of this kind was on June 2, 1886, when Presi- dent Cleveland and Miss Frances Fol som were married. Only a small com pany was invited to the ceremony, which was held in the Blue Room Those invited were the members of the cabinet and their wives, and the near relatives of the president and his bride. There was no best man and no attendants for the bride. The president came down stairs to the main floor of the White House with his bride on his arm. They were un- even the brides mother waiting below with the rest of the guests. They were united in marriage by the Rev. Dr. Sunderland, and at once left for their honeymoon at Deer Park.