Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1910-06-20
Miss Alexander and Young
Roosevelt Wed this
Afteroon in Fifth
Avenue Church.
COLONEL c. NE
THIS MORNING
All Members of the Family
Are Present at the
Ceremonies.

New York, June 2O.-Theodore
Roosevelt, Jr.. and Miss Elanor B.
Alexander were married this after
noon at o'clock Great prepara
tions were made for the event All
members of the Roosevelt family eX-
cept the Colonel himself came in
this morning. The Colonel came lat
er in Secretary Meyers yacht, it is
said for the purpose of going over
political situation with the secretary.
The bridal couple will take a honey
moon trip of three weeks but where
has not been given out. They will
reside in California where young
Roosevelt will engage in the carpet
business.
Typical American Girl.
New York. June 20-In the Fifth
Avenue Presbyterian Church this ar
ternoon a broad-shOuldered, deep
chested young man OF twenty-five
wearing a cutaway coat. n white waist
coat and steel gray trousers, and
pretty and typically American girl of
twenty-five, her slender figure clad in
gown of white satin, fashioned on
simple and girlish lines stood before
a clergyman and answered to the sat
isfaction of the clerical gentleman
some questions propounded y him
Whereupon the minister said, said he,
81 pronounce you man and wife"
employed as a hand" in a Connect
cut carpet factory, and, after a brief
honeymoon in the South with his
bride, will go to San Francisco to take
charge of a branch Office of a manu-.
featuring company. The bride. while
charming and pretty and doubtless
the most remarkable girl in the world
in the eyes OF ner young husband, is
neither wealthy nor distinguished i'm
society.
Public interest i'm tho wedding Is due
10 the fact that the bridegroom Theo-
dore Roosevelt. Jr.. is the son Of his
father, who. with Mrs Roosevelt, Mrs.
Longworth and other members Of the
Roosevelt family, was present at to-
days ceremony The new Mrs. Roosc-
welt was Miss Eleanor Butler Alex
ander, the only daughter Of Mrs.
Henry Addison Alexander AS the
home OF the latter is too small for so
large affair. the reception will be
held at the spacious town house of
her brother. G. B. Alexander, in West
Fifty eighth street.
While the young couple received
hundreds Of wedding presents, none
was so pleasing to young TEDDY" as
the handsome rug presented by his fel
law employees I'm the Thompsonvillc
Conn, carpet works After leaving
Harvard young Roosevelt began work
In the mills ON October l. 1908. be-
ginning at the bottom. clad I'm overalls
sorting wool, and working his way up
through practically every department
Of the business. So rapid was his pro
press that the company appointed him
as its district manager for the Pa
cifc Coast and will assume his new
NhiifN do HDbU us Nlit IDNfg glNDOI lr
over.
Young Mrs Teddy's trosseau was
entirely Of American make The wed
ding gown was of white satin Of the
softest variety not the old-fashioned
kind brides once affected but moro
like what the French now call "satir
sOuple" Tho dress was very simple
and depended it's long graceful
lines for much Of IT'S charm. although
some wonderful old family point lace
which his mother. Mrs Henry Addison
Alexander. treasures highly because
Of associations and traditions. adorned
It, The lace was used ON the bodice
and sleeves
Following the fashion Of Engllsi