The daily sentinel., 1913-11-25
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Roosevelt wedding seven years ago
but the Wilson's are newcomers in
Washington, whereas the Roosevelt
administration was then five years
old and officials and their wives had
had greater opportunity to establish
intimate relations at the White
| House.
Big Guest List.
i Members of the cabinet and their
wives and families. as we'll as the
Justices of the supreme court of the
1 United States and their families, the
ambassadors and ministers, repre-
senting kings and emperors through
out the civilized world, the Vice Pres
ident and Mrs. Marshall. the speak
er of the house and Mrs. Champ
Clark, Senator Kern and Representa-
tive Oscar Underwood, the democrat
ic leaders; and Senator Gallinger and
Representative Mann, the minority
leaders of congress, and their wives
these were the persons invited be-
cause of their official position.
though among them were many close
friends of the Wilson family.
Senators and members of the
house generally were not invited. II
they had been. the East Room could
not have held them. 1t was the
same arrangement as was carried out
at the Roosevelt wedding, in fact the
preparations. decorations and general
along somewhat the same general
scheme of the days program were
/ lines.
The diplomatic corps appeared in
uniform, and the assemblage
was a brilliant one. Though the
men were to wear the conventional
afternoon frock, for weeks that have
preceded gowns and toilettes have
been planned with minute care by the
feminine guests for the ceremony of
an hour.
The program had been mapped out
to the final detail, the White House
attaches fixing each part of 1t with
the exactness characteristic of func-
tions at the Executive Mansion.
High officials and relatives were to
enter at the north front, but the
guests generally were TO come in at
the east entrance through the glass
conservatory decorated with ferns
and palms and revealing through big
windows the south grounds with the
fountain and Italian pools, the hedg-
es and shrubbery-the exquisite gar
dening of years.
From the conservatory to the main
staircase leading up to the East Room
where, daily. hundreds of tourists
are permitted to promenade, where
the busts of celebrities and the tea
chests and relics of traditional his
tory are gathered-hcre was a staff
of ushers to assist the guests with
their wraps.
Wedding Room Beauty.
| The East Room as II was prepared
for the wedding was picture of
grandeur. The three crystal chan
deliers with their pseudo-candle
lights were to be but half-illuminat-
ed, spreading a dim that suffused
Hight over the gold trimmed walls
with their cream colored pilasters,
their huge vases and mantels of col
ored marble. The walls of the East
Room are covered with wood panel
ing, the ornamental ceiling is done in
stucco and set in the walls are IL
low relief panels. their subjects from
Aesop's fables. The window draper
les of heavy yellow silk damask were
hung loose today and the shades
drawn. At the east end of the room
facing the Treasury building there is
series of four windows. broken by
piers. 1t was in front of these win
dows on a dais banked with flowers