The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-02-23
WEDDING BELLS
RING FOR alice
CONGRESSMAN LONGWORTHA AND
DAUGHTER OF PRESIDENT
ROOSEVELT MARRIED.
Famous East Room in the White House
Is Scene of the Brilliant Event
A Thousand Guests Present-The
Ceremony Described.

OSSellUSu.
/ Washington, Feb. 19.-With a plain
circlet of virgin gold, in the historic
East room of the White House, at Ii
minutes after II o'clock Saturday,
Alice Lee Roosevelt, eldest daughter
of the president of the United States,
and Nicholas Longworth, the represen-
tative in congress from the First dis
trict of Ohio, were united in marriage.
The ceremony was one of the most I'M
pressiye ever performed in the exec
utiye mansion-was according to the
rites of the Protestant Episcopal
church, of which the bride is a mem
Der. 1t was solemnized by Rt. Rev.
Henry Y. Satterlee, bishop OF wash
ington, and was attended by all the
solemn state of grand official func-
ton and by the devotional beauty or
cathedral service. No ceremony OF
similar kind ever was witnessed by a
more distinguished assemblage. There
were present as guests, not only the
most eminent representatives OF the
American government, but the per-
sonal commissioners of the kings and
potentates of the powers of the civil
lied world, constituting an assem-
blage not only one of the largest, but
the most distinguished that ever was
gathered at one time in the White
House.
While the bride, herself, and the
n Ia1 do
sired that the ceremony of the mar
riage should be as quiet and simple
as possible, it was found Impractical
BILE to limit the function, as was in
tended at first, to the immediate rela-
tives of the bride and bridegroom. 1t
became necessary TO include among
the guests invited certain official
classes and personal friends of Miss
Roosevelt and Mr.. Longworth and, in
all, the people hidden to the ceremony
numbered thousand
White House Decorated.
+ For days the. White House, ordi-
narily open to visitors during speci-
fed hours of each day, had been
closed pending arrangements for Sat
urday's ceremony. The east room, in
which the ceremony occurred, was
decorated most deliberately. Not
since the incoming of the administra-
ton of President Roosevelt have the
White House apartments been so ex-
quisitely graced with flowers as they
were on this occasion.
fo{i in
magnificent marine band orchestra
under the personal leadership of
Lieut.. William H. Santelman, the di.
rector of the band. A special pro-
gramme had been prepared for the
wedding. The music was selected for
the most part by Miss Roosevelt her.
self.
At four minutes after II o'clock,
Mrs. Roosevelt, on the arm of her eld-
est son, Theodore, Jr., descended the
main staircase and entered the east
room by the west doors.
The Groom Takes His Place.
Following her almost Immediately
came the bridegroom, Hon. Nicholas
Longworth, accompanied by his best
man, Mr.. Thomas Nelson Perkins, of
Boston, one of the members Of the
corporation of Harvard college and a
classmate at college of Mr.. Long.
worth. They descended the main
staircase and entered the east room
under the escort of the military aids
The groom and his best man took
their places at the foot of the EN-.
broidered platform to await the com
ing of the bride. Already Bishop
Satterlee had taken his place on the
platform, attired in the purple and
ivory robes of his clerical Office.
The Bridal Procession.
Scarcely had the bridegroom en-.
tered the east room when the doors of
the state dining room were flung open
and the bridal procession started for
the eXtemporized altar. Following
the ushers came President Roosevelt
and the bride of Mr.. Longworth, her
hand resting lightly within the right
arm of her father. AS the procession
moved through the main corridor
and into the east room, the marine
band rendered effectively the grand
march from Wagner's Tannhauser
Miss Roosevelt never appeared to bet
ter advantage. Perfectly self-pos-
sessed and thoroughly appreciative OF
the situation, she graciously recog
nized and bowed to personal friends
who lined the way to the altar.
The Ceremony.
AS the ushers reached the platform
they separated and the president and
the bride passed through the two
lines. Mr.. Longworth stepped for
ward and received Miss Roosevelt
from the arm of the president, and
together the bride and bridegroom
assembled the two steps of the plat
form. Miss Ethel Roosevelt relieved
the bride of her bouquet and held II
throughout the ceremony. AS Miss
Roosevelt and Mr.. Longworth faced
Bishop Satterlee, hush fell over the
| assemblage Every one of the thou
sand present wished to catch every
| syllable of the ceremony which was tc
| follow. In distinct, resonant voice
| the bishop began the beautiful mar
riage service of the Episcopal church
The responses of both the bride and
| bridegroom were audible distinctly
throughout the great apartment.
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