The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-14
E. H. COREY WEEDS
 MABELLE GILMAN
Nuptial Knot Tied After Midnight to Avoid Un-
 lucky Thirteenth.
HIS GIFT A CHATEAU.
Steel Magnate Did Not Give Actress $1, 1000 as
 Reported.

New York, May 14.-William Ellis Corey, president of the United States Steel corporation and Maybelle Gilman were married in the royal suite of the Hotel Gotham this morning at 1:2S a. m.
 It was intended to hold the ceremony at 12:30, as soon as the unlucky thir- teenth day had passed, but the supper was delayed and it was not until after l o'clock that guests moved into the salon from the supper room.
 It was just 1:23 o'clock when Rev. J. L. Clark, pastor of the Bushwick Congregational church at Brooklyn, began the ceremony and at 1:28 o'clock the former actress was declared the wife of the president of the great cor poration.
 Immediately the ceremony was over the relatives and friends of the bride and groom who had witnessed the mar riage crowded about and offered their congratulations As soon as the con- traeting parties and the witnesses sign ed the record and the certificate the guests departed and Mrs. Corey retir- ed to her apartmente to change her wedding gown for a travelling dress.
 The lateness of the ceremony tired out the most ardent of the watchers outside, and when the wedding actually took place the hotel corridors and the streets outside were deserted The two policement Who had been sent to con- trol the small crowd that gathered earlier in the evening had nothing to @.
 Detectives moved in and about the crowds that mingled In the hotel cor riders, and all whom came under sus- picion were passed quickly out into the streets.
 The royal suite in the hotel Gotham is on the third floor on the Fifth ave- nue side and consists of eight rooms.
 It is secluded. The salon and the dining rooms were decorated last night with hundreds of American beauty roses The management of the hotel and those in charge of the decorations were given carte blanche, and the we'd ding is said to have cost $5,000 The banquet is said to have been one of the most sumptuous ever served in this city.
 The guests assembled in small re- ception room in the suite, and at Il o'clock entered the dining room, where the wedding supper was served. The decorations of the rooms were beauti- ful and were tastefully arranged The hallway was fringed on both sides with potted palms dressed with sprays of ,dogwood and snowballs, while the re- ceptlon room in which the guests met was adorned with great vases filled with American Beauty roses and sprays of cherry blossoms and dogwood.
 In the dining room was a great square table, in the center of which was a bank of pink roses with sprays of lilies of the valley woven around at the base, the whole edged around with broad bands of pink ribbons. Here and there nestling among the flowers were tiny china Cupids and miniature china wedding bells. From the corners of the room were swung festoons of smi- lax intermingled with pink roses,
 After the supper was over the party, led by MT. Corey and his bride, passed down the hall between the rows of palms to the double salon, which was decorated to represent a small church. Broad white ribbons attached to small white posts formed an aisle down the center of the room, on either sIde of which were the chairs of those invited to witness the ceremony.
 At the head of the aisle was small white altar, before which was prie- dieu covered with white silk, at which the couple knelt during the ceremony On each side of the altar rose a white column, the two being joined by an arch The columns and arch were heavily draped with smilax dotted with hundreds of orchids. From the center of the arch hung large wedding bell of lilies of the valley.
 There was no music during the even ing, and there were no bridesmaids, Miss Gilman being attended only by Miss Frances Erskine Shaw, of Lon don. MT. Corey was unattended
 Miss Gilman wore an empire gown of white crepe de chine, the skirt of which was trimmed with garlands of embroidered wild roses. The bodice was trimmed with point daiguille lace, caught up with trails of embroid- cred roses. The bridal veil was of handmade tulle, four yards square, edged with point d'aiguille lace.
 Miss Shaw wore gown of white tulle with panels of oint-de-Venise lace, the corsage being trimmed with gold and silver roses.
 After the nuptials MT. Corey and his bride took an automobile and were wkirled away to Hoboken. where they boarded the Kaiser Wilhelm II. of the North German Lloyd line, which sails a. 7:SO this morning. They will occupy the captains suite, which has been specially fitted up for the trip. Mir Corey was anxious to secure the I'm perial suite," but 1t had been previous ly engaged. Mir. Corey was attended hv a valet and Mrs. Corey by a maid. Four ship stewards will look after the Corey suite. which has been made in- accessible to the ships passengers. The