The Winslow mail., 1913-08-30


score 13 being the luckiest of numbers in the
Wilson family
1t is interesting to consider the fact that three
of the round dozen of White House brides, includ
ing the first one, Lucy Payne, and the last one
Alice Roosevelt married congressman. Also that
two, Della Lewis and Nellie Grant became the
wives of foreigners. Only president, Mr.
Cleveland was married in the White House, al
though another, Mr.. Tyler, took to himself
spouse during his term of Office.
In earlier days White House weddings were
always celebrated in the circular room, the state
department, oval in shape which is now called
the blue But of late years Washington
society has expanded to such an extent numer-
ically speaking that with perhaps 1000 guests
to be invited the east room is none too large for
the staging of so important a spectacle as mar
riage in the White House
At the wedding of Alice Roosevelt, which oc-
Cured Feb II, 1905, the east room was almost
uncomfortably crowded.
The bridal pair were wed on raised platform
before an extemporized altar. The ceremony
performed by the Rt. Rev Henry Y. Satterlee,
bishop of Washington, and breakfast for sixty
persons was served in the state dining room,
buffet lunch for the other guests being furnished
in the green room
Nick Longworth at that time member of
gress from Cincinnati, is exceedingly popular. He
can do amusing things with the piano, is a first
class baseball player and has other accomplish
ments. At the date of his marriage he was
nearly forty Though not rich, he will eventually
inherit a considerable fortune from his mother.
His wife has spent most of her time since her
marriage in Washington where she Is a leader
of the young married women's set She has
children
There was a gap Of nearly twenty years be-
tween the Roosevelt wedding and that of Frances
Folsom who was married in the White House
June q 1886, to President Cleveland. She
only twenty years old at the time and was the
daughter of Mr. Clevelands former law partner.
On this occasion the ceremony was semiprivate
and the blue plenty big enough for the
bridal party and small number of invited
guests.
When her husband died, five years ago. Mrs.
Cleveland left very we'll off. In addition,
congress voted her the customary $4,000 year
the pension of presidents widow. few
months ago she married to Thomas ].
Preston.
When Rutherford B. Hayes was colonel of the
Third Ohio Volunteers the leutenantcolonel of
the regiment was Russell Hastings Whence it
came about that Colonel Hastings, in later years,
made the acquaintance of Emily Platt niece of
President Hayes Miss Platt a member of
the White House family through the Hayes ad-
ministration, being regarded almost as a daugh-
ter. When she became engaged to Colonel Hast
ings it was arranged that she should be married
in the White House, and the ceremony was per-
formed there June 49, 1878, at o'clock in the
evening. 1t was wholly family affair
Four years earlier took place the wedding of
Nellie Grant, the third daughter of president to
be married in the White House On this occasion
the spectacle staged in the east room, then
used for the purpose for the first time. The date
May 81, 1874, and the bridegroom was Alger
Charles Frederick Sartoris an Englishman
Ellen Wrenshall Grant handsome girl
of eighteen with brown hair and eyes, rosy
cheeks and plump figure. Sartoris who was the
son of member of parliament and was said to
JoN,o iro, O.0FQ n
first time on a steamer coming back from Europe
The wooing rapid, but General Grant disap-
proved of the match and did not give his consent
for more than year.
There are plenty Of people living today who