The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-11-26
Wedding Of Miss Jessie Will
son Marked by It's Sim
plicity and Homelikeness
DOUBLE RING
CEREMONY is USED
Company of Distinguished
Officials and Diplomats
Attend Ceremony

Washington, Nov. 26.-With a smile
of confidence and happiness toward eact
other, Francis Bowes Sayre and Miss
Jessie Woodrow Wilson, second daugh
ter Of President and Mrs. Wilson, were
Joined in marriage at the White House
late yesterday before a company OF
distinguished officials of the United
Estates government, members OF the dip.
lomatic corps and close friends and rela-
tives.
A scene of hrilliancy was presented
! as the president and Mrs. Wilson stood
in the East room aud gave in marriage
the first of their three children. The
meaningful words were spoken before an
altar of palms, ferns and white lilies.
The double ring service was used, aft
er which the assemblage united in the
Lords PRAYER. Then the Marine band
struck up Mendessohn's wedding march
and the scene was transformed into gay
animation and joyfulness.
The reception for the guests by the
president and Mrs. Wilson and the new
" welded couple followed and soon the
East room was cleared, where the young
folks danced well into the evening.
When the guests were gone the bridal
party sat down in the breakfast room
and the bride cut the wedding cake with
the sword of DR.. Cary T. Grayson, u.
S. n, the presidents physician and com
panion.
Then followed merry dinner and an
affectionate goodbye and the couple
were whirled away in a White House
automobile on their honeymoon, the des-
tinatiou of which they kept secret. but
it is known they will go to Europe
to return early in January to Williams
town. Mass, where Mr.. Savre viii be
assistant to President Garfield of Will
liams college.
Notwithstanding its official hrilliancy,
there WINS n distinct touch of LONELINESS
in the days affair. Rev Sylvester W
Beach. pastor of the First Presbyterian
church of Princeton, n. J.. where Miss
Wilson long tanqht Sunday Bible class
and where the Wilson family worshinped
a score OF wears. had been selected as
the officiating clergyman.
The maid of honor was the eldest
daughter of the president, Miss Margaret
Wilson. The bridesmaids were the
brides Younger sister Miss Eleanor Ran
dolph Wilson and Miss Mary G, White
of baltimore: Miss Adeline Mitchell
Scott of Princeton and Miss Marjorie
Brown Of Atlanta, the last q relative
and the Others chums of girlhood days.
The best man was DIR. Wilfred T.
Grenfell, with whom Sayre spent MANY
months ministering to the sick and
needy on the rock bound Labrador coast,
The ushers were the groom's college
mates Benjamin b. Burton of New
York; DIR. Dewitt Scoville Clark, jr.
of Salem, Mass; Dr. Gilbert Horrax of
Montclair, n. j., and Charles Evans
Hughes, jr, a son of the justice of the
supreme court.
The bride and groom-both blonde
and of about the same height, she.
known as the White House beauty be-
cause of her classic Grecian features,
and he, tall, 1.-THE, young man athletic
in appearance with sharp features and
n fair complexion--wer busily occupied
during the forepart of the day minglipg
in the bridal party, their relatives and
house guests, TO whom alone the White
Honse was accessible before the we'd
ding hour.
The two young people, who have lived
the hardships of the poverty settlements
in big cities and who have inquired into
life's social and economic problems first !
hand, would have preferred quiet we'd
ding, limited to the family circle and |
close friends-such as it might have been |
had not the parents of the bride been |
elevated to the foremost social position
in the gift of the nation. Reluctantly |
was it made an official affair.