Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-01-02
I. II. Gilroy. of Kansas City, Mo.

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| place on the day of the wedding and
was IN progress by half-past 10 o'clock.
| While Jesse Grant was not able to
play that day his interest in the team
induced him, after dressing for the
! wedding to slip down to the ball
ground and suggest that substitute
for himself be pressed into service.
After Jesse had returned home one of
his eliminates proposed that the gam e
be postponed and that the members of
the team go to the wedding in body.
The Marine band struck up the we'd
ling march just then, SO off dashed the
boys to the ceremony, with ball and
bats in hand, regardless of their soiled
hands and faces.
To their surprised delight they
found that the door to the main en-
trance was unguarded. The officers
and ushers, usually on duty, had
Joined the crowd in the east room to
witness the ceremony. So intense
was the interest in the proceedings
that the guards failed to observe
small boys crowding and crawling
their way into the brilliantly lighted
apartment where the Presidents
daughter was being married. Some
of the boys in their endeavor to obtain
closer view of the bridal party
while lodging the legs of the uni
formed officials, got tangled up with
the side arms and other accouter-
ments and received in return indig-
nant pushes and kicks, accompanied
by growls at the White House func-
tionaries for allowing a lot of dirty
little urchins to be present on such
gorgeous occasion.
A Silver Wedding.
How President Rutherford B. Hayes
and Mrs. Hayes celebrated their sill
yer wedding in the White House is
related by the late Benjamin Perley
Fooree in his Washington reminis-
cences in interesting detail This was
the first celebration Of the kind that
had ever occurred there. The vesti-
bules, the halls and the state apart
ments were deliberately trimmed with
bunting and running vines. In the
east room, at the doors, and in the
corners and alcoves, tropical plants
were clustered in profusion. The
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ored cut flowers, smilax was entwined
In the huge glass chandeliers, and
elsewhere throughout the room WIRE
stands Of potted plants. Over IT,
main entrance was the national coaE
of-arms and just opposite two imS
mense flags, hanging from ceiling to
floor, completely covered the large
window. The green, the red, and the
blue parlor were similarly decorated,
the flowers being chiefly azaleas, hya-
cinths and roses
The Marine band, precisely at 9
o'clock struck up Mendelssohn's tfWed-
ding March," and President Hayes,
with his wife on his arm, came down
the stairs, followed by members of the
family and the special guests, two by
two. The procession passed through
the inner vestibule to the east room.
where the President and Mrs. Hayes
stationed themselves, with their backs
to the flag-draped window. There they
remained until the invited guests had
paid their congratulations. Mrs. Nit
chell, the daughter of the presidents
sister, Mrs. Platt, stood beside Mrs.
Hayes and clasped her hand, as she
did when child, during the marriage
ceremony twenty-five years before.
Mrs. Hayes wore white silk dress,
with draperies Of white brocade, each
beaded with two rows of tasseled
fringe, and with full plating at the
sides and bottom of the front breadth.
The heart shaped neck was filled with
tulle, and the half long sleeves had a
deep ruching of lace. Her hair in
plain braids. was knotted at the back
and fastened with a silver comb, while
kid gloves and white slippers COM
pleted the bridal array.
Two Presidents Married.
Besides Mr.. Cleveland, the only
president to be married during his
term of Office was President Tyler,
who took as his second wife Miss Julia
Gardner, Of New York, but they were
not married in the White House.
The first wedding in the White
House was that of Miss Maria Mon
roe, the youngest daughter Of Presi-
dent Monroe, who was married in
March, 1920, to Samuel l.. Gouveneur
of New York. This ceremony was
held in the famous east ROOM There
was another early marriage in the
east room, that of Miss Elizabeth Ty-
Ter to Willard Waller of Virginia.
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