The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-05-07
WHITE HOUSE
WEDDING TO
TAKE PLACE
AT s O'clock This Evening in
Historical Blue Room of
the Mansion.
WITH SUPERB ELEGANCE
When One of the Presidents
Daughters Becomes Bride
of Secretary MeAdoo.
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WASHINGTON, D. c., May T.
With a plain circlet of pure gold.
typical of the quiet elegance of the
ceremony, Miss Eleanor Randolph
Wilson, youngest daughter Of the
president OF the United States and
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, will be married
at 6 o'clock this evening in the White
House, to William Gibbs McAdoo, sec
rotary of the treasury.
The simple and impressive wedding
service of the Presbyterian church
will be pronounced by the Rev. Syl-
vester Beach, pastor of the church in
Princeton, n. j., attended by the
president and Mrs. Wilson and their
family. The ceremony, while 1t is to
be notably elegant in all OF its APP
pointments, win be witnessed by the
smallest company that ever attended
so important a function in the White
House. The vice president and Mrs.
Marshall, the members of the cabinet
and their wives, relatives of the presi-.
dent and Mrs. Wilson, and of Secre-
tary McAdoo, and few intimate per-
sonal friends of the bride and bride
groom, comprise the list of guests.
In Historic Room.
The ceremony OF this evening takes
place in the historic Blue room, the
middle apartment of the suite on the
south side of the White House, be-
tween the East room and the State
dining room. 1t has been the scene
of more brilliant social functions than
any other room in the mansion. 1t is
in the Blue room that the president
formally receives his guests at White
House receptions. In recent years
its furnishings and appointments have
been changed entirely. Its oval form
has been retained but the scheme OF
decoration and furnishing has been
modernized. The color plan is blue,
but not the blue of a robins egg as of
old, but a dark shade of French blue.
The walls are paneled in rich corded
silk of the same shade, affording an
artistic background for the wonderful
spring-fower decorations which are a
feature of today's Wedding.
The massive furniture of days gone
by has been replaced with furniture
of lighter, If not more artistic de-
, sign. The floral decorations of the
room or in fact, of the entire man
sion on the first floor-will be mar
velously beautiful. Slender vases, of
graceful designs in cut glass and rare
porcelain, will be filed with cut flow
ers, including masses of lilies and
white orchids, products of the White
House Conservatives. The south side
will be backed with palms, to form a
background for great lunches of
spring blossoms of cherry, peach and
apple.
Wedding Music.
In the main lobby of the mansion,
the Marine band orchestra of fifty
pieces, under the direction of Lieut..
William H. Santleman, will render a
program of music specially selected
by Miss Wilson.
To the strains of Wagner's inspiring
wedding march from Lohengrin, the
wedding party will descend the main
staircase from the apartment above.
Miss Margaret Wilson and Mrs. Sayre,
the brides assistant, will be maid and
matron of honor. Two charming little
year-old daughter of the bridegroom,
and Miss Nancy Lane, the daughter
OF Secretary and Mrs. Franklin K.
Lane, will attend the bride as flower
girls. They will be attired in exquis-
lite white frocks, exactly matched.
The bride will be escorted to the
Blue room by her. father, the president
of the United States. At the beautiful
eXtemporized altar of white satin and
cut flowers, she will be Joined by the
bridegroom, Mr.. sfcAdoo, and his best
man, DR.. Cary T. Grayson, U. S. N,
an intimate friend alike Of the secre-
tary and of the president.
An informal reception will follow
the ceremony, after which the bridal
party and assembled guests sit down
to the wedding supper to be served
in the state dining room. Both the
Groom itself and the great dining table
will be superbly decorated, and the
latter particularly, will be vision in
sparkling cut glass, silyerware and
rare flowers.
Brief Honeymoon.
Later in the evening, Secretary Nc
Adoo and his bride will leave Wash
ington for brief honeymoon trip. 1t
is not expected they will remain long
away from Washington, as it is known
that the secretarys official duties, par
ticularly with reference to the federal
reserve board, will demand his pres
ence in the national capital.
The brides gown is superb crea-
ton of ivory sating adorned with
many yards Of Empress Eugenia lace,
of soft and elegant design. The gown
has sweeping train, several yards in
length. The satin which softly drapes
the bodice, is drawn into point be-
low the shoulders. leaving v-shaped
opening both back and front. Soft
folds of tulle finish this opening, and
there is tunic OF tulle made on the
new, long lines, and the sleeves,
which are long, are made Of tulle
mousquetaired. The lace is applied
with exquisite grace. 1t is draped over
the right shoulder. and crosses the
bodice in a sweeping line to the left
side of the waist, where it Is caught
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