Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-05
WILSON WEDDING
ARRANGEMENTS
Francis 3. Sayre Selects Mont
clair Man as One of the
Ushers at Marriage.

WASHINGTON, Nov. "details OF
the marriage OF Miss Jessie Woodrow
Wilson. second daughter OF the Pres
ident and Mrs. Wilson to Francis
Bowes Sayre were learned from Mrs.
Wilson late yesterday through her
social secretary. Miss isabella L.
Hagner
The wedding win take place in the
east room of the White House at 400
p. M, November rs, and the Rev
Sylvester W. Beach, the Presidents
pastor at Princeton, will perform the
ceremony.
Miss Margaret Wilson will be her
sisters mad OF honor. and the brides
maids are to be Miss Eleanor r. VIII
son. younger sister. Of the bride; Miss
Mary G. White. Of Baltimore. a coll
lege friend of Miss Jessie Wilson;
Miss Adeline Mitchell Scott, the
daughter OF Professor William b.
Scott. of Princeton; Miss Marjorie
Brown. daughter Of Mrs. Wilson's
cousin, Colonel e. 7. Brown, Of At
lanta.
DR.. Grenfeli Best Man.
DR.. Wilfred T. Grenfell, with whom
Mr.. Sayre worked in Labrador, Is to
be best man. The ushers will be Benz
Jamin B. Burton, of New York city,
who was graduated in 1912 from Will
Jams College; DIR. Scoville ciarK, OF
Salem, Mass, whom Mr.. Sayre knew
in Labrador and with whom he trailed
Northern New Foundland; DIR. Gil<
bert Horax of Montclair, NJ J., who
was classmate at Williams Colleges
in 1903, and who is now at the Johns
Hopkins Medical School, and Charles
e. Hughes, IT.. son OF Mr.. Justice
Hughes, of the Supreme Court, and
a classmate of Mr.. Sayre at the Har-
ward Law School.
In the statement given out from the
White House yesterday no intimatiOn
was made of the number OF guests
who viii witness this interesting GER
emony. but II Is generally understood
that the number will not be as large
as that which attended the last White
House wedding, when Miss Alice
Roosevelt was married to former Rep
resentative Nicholas Longworth.
The invitations to the wedding read:
THE PRESIDENT and MRS.
/: WILSON request the pleasure
| of the presence of
............. ...........
| at the marriage of their daughter.
!: JESSIE WOODROW.
to j:
MR.. FRANCIS BowES SAYRE.
| on Tuesday, November the twenty
| Il: fifth, nineteen hundred and
| i: thirteen, at half after four
/: o'clock, at
| Z: THE WHITE HOUSE,
/: WASHINGTON, ID. G.
ssssssssss.......s. s......... --.sss.'...
The style of the invitation. which
Is quite the simplest form possible,
is in keeping with the idea of the
bride socially and officially. and is
| forerunner of the simple style that
viii mark the entire wedding. Tho
cards, which are to be sent strictly
| officially. will, undoubtedly. be en-
bossed with a gold seal of the United
| States
| other weddings Recalled.
| The first wedding in the present
| White House was that of Miss Maria
| Monroe, youngest daughter of Presi-
/ dent MONROE, who on March g.. 1920.
married her cousin, Lawrenee slaeglliazfzs
| erneur, of New York city, who had
been for two years the private secre-
tary to the Presidents family. On
| account of a disputed point OF etf-
| quette. which occasioned much dis
| cussion at the Time this wedding was
deprived of much of the ceremony
which would have been natural, and
was instead a quiet. private affair.
| Miss Elizabeth Tyler. youngest
daughter of President Tyler. was the
second. She married her cousin, a
Mr.. Waller who was congressman
| from Virginia, and the wedding was
| celebrated during 1912 in the White
House. This wedding was celebrated
| In the blue room and was festive
| occasion. and was one OF the few
| occasions. when the mother Of the
bride was able to be present.
The third daughter of q President
| to be married In the White House was
| Miss Nellie Grant. daughter If Presi-
| dent Grant. who was married to AL
| gernon Sartoris in the east room on
Nav 81. 1874.
This marriage was quite romantic,
as Miss Grant met Mr.. Sartoris when
| she was hut seventeen on steamer
| hound from ENGLAND to New York.
| He was but twenty-five. and 1t was
| long while before the President would
| give his consent to the enga ement-
| A beautiful wedding marked this
event. There were many attendants,
| beautiful music and wonderful deco
rations or feal orange blossoms sent
from the South for the event
| A thousand guests attended the
| wedding of Miss Alice Roosevelt and
| Mr.. Longworth. This wedding. which
was the fourth when a daughter OK
| the President was married In the
| White House, took place in the east