Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1907-02-02
SPLENDID WEDDING OF
MISS PAULINE MORTON
ONE OF THE LARGEST occA-
sIoNs WITNESSED BY NEW
YORK SOCIETY RECENTLY.
Special to the Herald.

Special TO the Herald.
New York, Feb. Zone of the larg-
est and most brilliant weddings that
New York has seen in a long time
took place in the fashionable st.
Thomas church this afternoon, when
Miss Pauline Morton, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Paul Morton, became the
bride of Mr.. ]. Hopkins Smith, Jr-,
millionaire and yachtsman. A distn-
guished party of society folk came
over from Washington for the cere-
mony, and many other guests were
present from Chicago, Boston, Port
land, Newport, Philadelphia and other
places.
Seldom has there been seen pref
tier bride than Miss Morton, in her
magnificent imported wedding gown
of white satin trimmed with priceless
lace. The brides attendants included
a half dozen young ladies well known
in society. Miss Mary Candy of Chi
cago was the maid of honor, and the
six bridesmaids were Miss Lily Lee
Page, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. How
ard Page; Miss Martha McCook,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. John J. Nc
Cook of this city; Miss Matilde Town
send, daughter of Mrs. Richard H.
Townsend; Miss Katharine H. Elkins,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Stephen B.
Elkins; Miss Florence Rowland and
Miss Jean Oliver of Washington, D. c.
Mr.. st. John Smith acted as his
brothers best man. Eight young men
prominent in New York society were
the ushers.
SThe Rev. DIR. Ernest Stires, rector
of St Thomas, performed the cere-
mony, which was followed by a large
reception at the Morton home in Park
avenue
The bride of today is the youngest
daughter of Paul Morton, former sec
rotary of the navy and president of the
Equitable Life Assurance company,
and the granddaughter of the late
Sterling Morton, who was secretary of
agriculture under President Cleve-
land
Since she made her debut in Wash
ington a little over a year ago Miss
Morton has been much in the public
eye. She officiated at the christening
of the training ship Cumberland at
the Charleston navy yard, while an
other achievement that brought her
into the limelight was the loss of a
$4,000 pearl necklace on the street in
New York, which vas recovered
through the honesty of it's finder, a
young girl.
James Hopkins Smith, Jr., is ma
tive of Portland, Me-, and is only 25
years old He has, however, already
won international fame. He began
going on the water in Casco Bay when
he was only years old, with his Ger
man nurse and an old sailor. AS soon
as he was old enough, he had a boat
of his own, the Gee Whiz, and became
one of the best boy sailors on the New
England coast He also had great
ability as an oarsman. He rowed on
school crews at Groton, and in his
freshman class crew at Harvard,
where he completed his course in
three years, graduating at the age of
IS, in 1902. This was the year that
B. B. Crowinshield built the Uncle
Sam, 30-footer, and Francis B. Riggs
took her to Kiel TO sail for the emper-
or in the Kiel regatta Young Smith
was at Kiel in the Goelet yacht Nah
ma, and Emperor William asked him
to sail the Uncle Sam Smith won
two of the three races, and brought
home the cup.
The romance of Miss Morton and
Mr. Smith began a couple of years ago
when they met for the first time at
White House reception. Miss Morton's
only sister was married several years
ago to William Chapman Homer, a
mining engineer, who now lives in the
City of Mexico.