The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-02-18
PRESIDENTS DAUGHTER
BECOMES HAPPY BRIDE
Miss Alice Roosevelt United in Marriage
to Congressman Longworth In His
toric East Room of White House.

Washington, Feb. 17.-With a plain
circlet Of virgin gold, in the historic
East room of the White house, at
thirteen minutes after u o'clock today,
Alice Lee Roosevelt, eldest daughter of
the president of the United States, and
Nicholas LongwoFth, the representa-
tive In congress from the First district
CT Ohio, were united in marriage.
The ceremony-One of the most i'm
pressive ever performed in the execu-
tive mansion-was according to the
rites Of the Protestant Episcopal
church, Of which the bride is a mem
Der. It was solemnized by the Right
Rev. Henry Y. Satterlee, bishop of
Washington, and was attended by all
the solemn state of a grand official
function and by the devotional beauty
of a cathedral service
Distinguished Company Present.
No ceremony of a similar kind ever
was witnessed by a more distinguished
assembIage. There were present as
guests not only the most emil
nent representatives OF the Amer
can government, but the personal en-
voys Of the kings and pOtentates Of the
civilized world, constituting an assem-
blage not only one of the largest, but
Iue ulDSl ulSLl1SUlSieu lGldl mas ever
gathered at one time in the White
house
A halo Of a hundred years Of roman
tic White house history hung over the
bridal couple Miss Roosevelt was the
twelfth bride, according to accepted
authorities, TO plight her tToth within
its classic walls and the Identical spot
where she today Joined hands with the
husband OF her choice, for better or
for worse is hallOwed in the memory
of another White house bride, Nellie
Grant, who thirty-two years ago on
that same spot became the wife of an
Englishman, AlgernOn G. T. Sartoris.
Tender, indeed, must have BEEN the
recolleCtions of Mrs SartOris of that
day, now long ago. for she was one of
the witnesses OF Miss ROosevelt's we'd
ding.
Legion of Wedding Guests.
While the bride herself and the pres
ident and Mrs. Roosevelt had desired
that the ceremony Of the marriage
should be as quiet and simple as pos
sfble. ii was found iTapractieabie to
limit the function as was intended at
first, TO the immediate relatives of the
bride and the bridegroom IT became
necessary to include among the guests
invited certain official classes and per-
sonal friends of Miss Roosevelt and
Mr. Longworth and, in all, the people
hidden to the ceremony numbered a
thousand.
The ceremony took place in the East
room, made famous by q century Of
brilliant social functions, but no event
IN its history was ever so brilliant and
beautiful as that OF today. The classic
splendor of the great apartment was
enhanced by the exquisite and artistic
decorations and the brilliant sunlight
of a gorgeous day. lent added beauty to
the setting of the wedding.
Tt had been intended TO light the
magnificent room with the hundreds of
softly shaded electric lamps of the
great crystal chandeliers, but, while
artificial lights were utilized through
out the rest Of the White house. it was
determined to flood the marriage scene
with sunlight
Sun Shines on Happy Bride.
1t was beautiful conceit, founded
on the pretty proverb. Happy is the
bride the sun shines on" No lOvelier
day in winter ever dawned. The air
was as balnly, almost, as in spring.
No more suspicious day for wedding
could have been imagined.
For days the White house, ordinarily
open to visitors during specined hours
OF each day had been closed, pending
arrangements for today's ceremony.
The East room, in which the ceremony
occurred. was decorated most elabOr-
ately Not since the incoming of the
administration of President Roosevelt
have the White house apartments been
so exquisitely graced with flowers as
they were today. While no space nee
essary for guests was taken up with
6craI decorations, every room in the
lower part of the executive mansion
was brilliant with flowers and decora-
tive plants. The decorations We're
planned and executed by George H.
Brown OF the government botanical
gardens, who studied with the eye Of
an artist the color scheme Of the rooms
of the White house and developed his
ideas of floral decorations in conso-
nance with the cOlOring Of the various
apartments.
Elaborate Decorations.
While the decorations in the other
rooms on the main floor Of the White
house were beautiful they were less
elaborate than those In the East room.
The vases in the Green room were
filed with Enchantress carnations Of
delicate pink, and fern frOnds. The
Blue room vases bore easter lilies and
fern fronds, while two great vases at
each end Of the msntei were filled with
easter lilies end white roses. In the
window recesses small palms and flow
ering plants were disposed effectively.
In the Red room, to harmonic with
the color scheme of the apartment, the
vases contained JacquenninOt roses in
setting of fern and asparagus
frOnds. The state dining room, which
was not thrown open TO the guests IN
til after the ceremony, was a vision
of grandeur. The great high walls and
ceiling, pane1ed in walnut like the halls
of a Saxon lord of old, bearing lust
below the ceiling the hunting trophies
OF the president, formed a magnificent
setting for the beautifully decorated
table on which, amid a simmer Of sill
yer and cut glass, the buffet wedding
breakfast was laid. The great table
extending almoSs the entire length of
the apartment vas decorated with
vases of America beauty and bride
roses, ferns and asparagus. In the ,pri-
vate dining roan, which opens into the
state dining 20 an the north. the