The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-06-23
THEO. ROOSEVELT, JR.
is NOW A benedict
Welded to Miss Alexander
A Brilliant Affair
ROUGH RIDERS WERE REMEMBERED
Over Six Hundred Presents Received,
Including One From President
Taft. Couple Will Reside in
San Francisco.

New Theodore Roosevelt,
IF., and Miss Eleanor Butler Alexan-
der were married in the Fifth Aven-
ne Presbyterian Church Bride and
Bridegroom knelt on white satin
cushions for their responses. The
brides voice was inaUdible but
young Roosevelt said Il do with an
emphasis that brought many smiles
among the guests
Long before the hour set for the
wedding the neighborhood of the
Church was packed with crowds of
the curious. A special detail of 100
policemen held them at distance.
Over the shoulders of the officers
peeped milliners and dress makers,
notebooks in hand
Conspicuous among the guests
were forty-two Rough Riders in full
uniform Col Roosevelt decided this
morning it would never do to leave
his old comrades out in the cold at
mis- eldest sons wedding Accord
fngly he sent out hurried call at
the eleventh hour to as many as were
10 be found. The troopers sat in the
gallery.
When the colonel had taken his
place with dignity, he turned to look
for them and when they waved at
him, he waved back with boyish free
dom
More beautiful floral decorations
than those of the church are not
remembered at any Of the brilliant
weddings TO which a sophisticated
city as grown used The bride walk
I'd to the altar down a lane walled
with white roses on a background of
&eathery ferns. Pink rambler roses
almost hid the greenod adlu adj an
almost hid the organ. The pulpit
was carpeted in roses. The pillars
we're wreathed in roses. Roses
framed the windows.
Colonel Roosevelt sat with his
wife and their children, Quentin and
Archie. Behind them sat Mr.. and
Mrs. Nicholas Longworth. Mrs. Long
worth wore a white chiffon gown
trimmed with black and pale yellow
with big black and yellow hat and
a profusion of jewelry.
The bride wore a high necked
gown of soft white satin and blue,
richly trimmed with duchess lace,
which had been worn by the brides
another and grandmother at their
weddings Her train was three yards
long and her veil fell to her waist.
The brides mother, Mrs. Henry
Addison Alexander, gave her away.
Mrs Alexander wore pale yellow
chiffon gown with a Louis XIV
train of blue and gold brocade and
a large ostrich plume.
The matron of honor was Mrs.
gnowden A Fahnestock, who was
Miss Elizabeth de Iron until a few
weeks ago, when Miss Alexander
was maid Of honor at her wedding.
She wore a bodice of dull pink tat
Teta and carried forget-me-nots.
The bridesmaids were Miss Ethel
Roosevelt, the bridegroom's sister;
ahe Misses Harriet and Janetta Alex
Jean w. De Lena and Miss Jessie
Jessie Wilmington Drake. They wore
1eghorn hats trimmed with pink
zases and white chiffon gowns. Bou-
auet of pink rambler roses were in
&heir arms.
Kermit Roosevelt, a brother of the
bridegroom, was the best man. The
ushers were George Emlen Roosevelt
and Monroe Douglas Robinson, cou-
sins of the bridegroom, and GEORGE
F.B. Roche, Hamilton Fish, Jr., Full
Aon Cutting, John Cutler and E.
Morgan Gilbert.
The ceremony was performed by
The Rev. DR.. Henry M, Sanders,
great-uncle Of the bride.
While the guests assembled there
was an hour of music by an orcnes-
ira of fifty pieces, all the selections
for which were chosen by the bride,
herself an accomplished musician.
There were 600 presents to the
bride but her husband would not
permit list of them to be given out.
Those acknowledged by the donors
were a diamond medal from Mrs.
Russell Sage, diamond tiara from
Mrs. c.. B. Alexander, dozen silver
plates from Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew
Carnegie, an imposing silver water
pitcher from President Taft and
gold vanity mirror from George j..
could.