The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-01-28
OUT
HOPES BLASTED.
Thousands Of Eligibles Nursing
Hearts Broken BY White
House Wedding List.
lNLY 1000 INVITATIONS SENT
Disappointed Fair Ones Prepare
to Fly TO A-oid Too PERTH
nent Questions.
.tFron our Regular Correspondents.

U'rom Our Regular Corrcspondent)
WASHINGTON. d. c.. January d.
Who may know or adequately describe
the hcartburnings following the sending
out OF the thousand invitations to the
White House to tho marriage OF Miss
Roatcyclt and Representative Nicholas
I.ongworth on the 18th Of February?
Not only is 1t true that the half has
never been told, but, like Dederch
Knickerbocker. who said his history OF
New York was the only correct one that
ever mad been or ever could be written,
IL Is perfectly true that the half never
viii be told. Those who could tell won't
one thousand! Ten thousand would not
have satisfied all who hoped, with what
they fondly thought with reason, to be on
the list of those hidden to the marriage
feast, The invitations all went out yes
terday and there was an end of suspense.
There is one way OF telling who WAS
among the disappointed ones II a so
cety woman whom we thought likely
to be invited should leave town In a day
or two. and II she absepts herself until
after the day OF the wedding, set ii down
certain she was not hidden. No
j
fall Ito respond. and while she may ex-
plain that her health, you know, posi-
/ lively required a trip to the South and
stay at Palm Beach or ST. Augustine,
nothing short Of the stamp OF death on
her cuuntcnance will convince those who
know how the wires have been pulled
by the society women of Washington for
nm Invitation. that she got one and did
no, accept
nd ttrt fp.~ttt I..if MT
official Washington that had at least
shadow of right TO expect to be invited.
There will be only five hundred at the
wedding breakfast. which means henri
bnrnings among tho other 1--WE hundred
composing tho balance OF the wedding
guests who Will see the ceremony.
Short Wedding Ceremony.
The wedding ceremony VIII not consume
more than twenty minutes There will
b. = fun choral service. and the boys
ctoir from 81. Johns Episcopal Church
VII, cling the professional Selections Will
nsp ne sung from Elijah including
"re ,thou Faithful Unto Death" and
-oniatowshi'r IT'S Our Wedding
Morn Immediately after the ceremony
mo bridal party. including the pair, the
.gasident and Mrs. Roosevelt. the 9th
exiting Clergyman and the select five
hundred will go TO the State dining
'5on. whcro the brides health will be
y discussed. Mrs. Roosevelt. has already
rThered the breakfast. which will be OF
substantial character, but II will be
eaten standng the seating OF five
hundred guests at table Is not to be
tiiunght Of. even nj the White House.
The reception Will be held in the Blue
Rom. which Will admit of the guests
,hAklng the hands of the bride and groom,
and escape without having so much cloth
ing torn from their persons as to make
retiring room necessity before gong
home. The bridal couple Will leave about
four O'Clock, 1t II stated. for some desti-
nation unknown. II is probable they VIII
star; southwark at three forty-nve. II
IS whispered that Roswell, Ga. the
home OF tho brides paternal grandmother,
win be the first stop. and that Mr.. and
Mrs. Longworth will then spend several
Its ~ ,hojr honeymoon amid the or
auge groves and the pineapple farms Oh
Florida,
Diplomatic Corps Wrangle.
ME foreign representatives MT Wash
,ny,ou nre all split up over the matter
of making Miss Roosevelt bridal pres
emit. Some days ago. Baron Heneel-
,nulier. the Austro-Hungarian Amoassa-
dor. called a meeting for the ambassadors
IN consider the subject. The ministers.
especially the representatives OF the
South and Central American countries'
ON of the conference. Some of the min
ts,crs have said since the meeting that
they would not chip in. 1t Is understood,
however that Baron Hengelmuller, who
q, the acting dean of the diplomatic
corps. in the absence or Mayor des
Pranches, the Italian ambassador VIII
call another meeting of the foreign repre-
scntatives ministers included. and 1t is
said to he more than likely that they
will agree on some form Of ren1e1Ebrance
ito NIissRoosevelt. representative of tli,:
good wishes of the diplomatic corps. E
II is understood that many of the am
ghassaiors who are personal friends of the
bride will send her gifts representative
Sof their personal feeling. Baron Won
SSternburg. the German ambassador, for.
instance is the warm personal friend of
the President. and will almost certainly
send something which Will represent the
personal good wishes of the baroness and
himself Tho Kaiser will send a set of
CHINA. 10 be presented through the Ger
man ambassador and the Secretary of
State. Those members of the corps
diplomatic who are not the personal
friends of the bride will not, of course,
bo, expected to take her a personal Gift
Rough Riders Remembrance
The wedding presents Will be rather
more than the conventional numerous
and costly the adjectives done to dea. u
bW society reporters III describing stha
collection of present received by brides.
81 Ths Rough Riders are having made at
4fany's IA silver service OF rare design.
slne regImental emblem of the regiment
Mill be raised in gold on each piece, and
Inc stars and Stripes will be worked out
Il, gold III the larger pieces s IA All S S
The platter will represent he President
mounted on his horse at tho head OF tue
Rough Riders. 1T Is, rlmored that a, dele
CATION of Rough Riders will come to
washington to present the gift.
H Reports from New York have 1t flat
3thc diamond cutters of that city arc work
ling overtime on the dazzling array o c
atjewels which the friends of Miss Roose-
WELT are having set In special designs for