New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-06-22
President and Cabinet Men,
berS Attend the Marriage
of Miss Mccormick.
STORM SP0ILS THE PLANS
Floral Outdoor Wedding Given
Up and the Ceremony Takes
Place in the Emerson
Home.
IA TeLeeranh 10 Do rrLhune.

Baltimore. June 2l-The first Cabinet
wedding Of the Wilson administration
was solcmnized this afternoon n o'clock
At Brookland Wood. the magnificent home
Of Captain Emerson. The bride was Miss
Ethel Preston Mccormick. daughter Of
Mrs. Emerson. and the bridegroom Fran
els II. McAdoo. son Of the Secretary Of
the Treasury.
Elaborate arrangements had been made
for a floral outdoor wedding. but Just at
tho hour set for the wedding the storm
broke in all its fury just az the wedding
procession was forming, and the ceremony
was transferred TO the drawing room Of
the Brookland Wood mansion
President Wilson and his party, travel
ling from Washington I'm motor cars
reached the house just ahead OF the
storm. They were DELAYED by several
"blov-outs" to their machines. and also
lost their way for n short time.
Accompanying tho President were Mrs
Wilson. two Of their daughters. Misses
Jessie and Eleanor. Miss Helen Woodrow
Bones. q cousin of the President, and DIT
Carey Grayson, tho White House physi-
clan.
The Cabinet party came from the capital
I'm a special parlor car. under the escort Of
Secretary McAdoo. These guests included
the Vico-Prcsident and Mrs Marshall the
Secretary OF State and Mrs. Bryan, tho
Secretary OF Labor and Miss Wilson. tho
Secretary OF the Interior and Mrs. Lane
the Secretary OF Agriculture. David r.
Houston. and the Attorney General
James &. McReynolds.
The officiating clergymen were the Rev
Godfrey Brirlcy. Of St PauIs School.
Concord. y. r.. and DR.. Edwin Barnes
Niver rector Of Christ Protestant Episco-
pal Church, Baltimore.
The brides attendants were Mrs Ralph
H. Mathiewson. Miss Florence Farley
Miss Katharine Dunn and Miss Fcuch-
wanger. all Of New York The maid Of
honor was Miss Mona McAdoo. tho sister
or the bridegroom. The bride was attred
In a gown OF ivory satin with a long coat
or point lace
The fourteen ushcrs. most Of them
school and college mates Of the bride
groom were Edward Whitman Harry l.
Osborne. Herbert Townsend. II. Barlow
Farr. William Fellowes Morgan. ir and
James J.. Brcesc, ir. all Of New York.
John H. Potter. Norman Machic and
Robert Clement. all OF Philadelphia,
Thomas Atkinson. ir Of Richmond Va;
Frederick b. Read. OF Providence. VIII
lam r. Scott. OF Pittsburgh. and s Bon
sal Brooks and Henry Ilillen Jenkins. Of
Baltimore. The best man was William
6. McAdoo. jr., the brother Of the bride
groom
The presents more than two hundred in
number. include In addition 90 the dia-
mond dog-collar presented hy Mr.. and
Mrs. Alfred g. Vanderbilt a magnificent
diamond chain from Mr.. and Mrs. Emer-
son and silver service and all tho fat
silver from the bridegroom and his
father
The President and Ms Wilson and the
Misses Wilson sent a large silver vase
and handsome presents were sent boy all
Of the Cabinet members.
Late this evening the bride and bride
groom left here on Captain Emerson's
yacht, the Margaret II. on which they
Will spend their honeymoon
Among the wedding guests were the fol-
lowing from New York: Senator and Mrs.
James A. O'Gorman. Mrs. William Il.
Preston. grandmother Of the bride, Mr..
and Mrs. Henry Graves, Dr. and Mrs. u.
s. Haughton, Mrs. r s. Farley, the
Misses Mccormick. William q. Fargo, the
Messrs. Preston. Mr.. and Mrs. J. Borden
Hartman. MIR and Mrs. James J..
Breese. Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Straus. Mr..
and Mrs William Fellowes Morgan. Miss
Sarah Morgan and Norman Armour.
President Wilson and his party lett
Brookland Wood at y. IN. 10 return 20
Washington I'm their automobiles.