New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-07
M'AD00 NOW HAS
WEDDING LICENSE
Gives Age as Fifty When
Securing Document at
Washington.
GIFTS AND FRIENDS
ARRIVING HOURLY
Hold Rehearsal for Ceremony
and All Is In Readiness for
Marriage Fete.
From The Tribune Bureau. !


Washington. May civilian Gibbs Nc
Adoo nifty years old. took out a license
a, the City Clerks office this afternoon
70 marry Miss Eleanor Randolph Wilson.
The arrival OF more than twenty guests
st the White House and members OF the
NcAdoo family, who will stop at the
home Of the Secretary OF the Treasury. in
massachusetts, av., the delivery OF mys-
,erious packages. and the moving into the
White House from the gardens and the
pepartment OF Agriculture OF many palms
and rare ferns. all marked to-day the APP
proach OF the wedding Of the Presidents
daughter.
Miss Wilson, the bride-elect, made
hurried trip to a jewellers shop in the
downtown district TO purchase the two
little lockets which she will present to
her flower girls, Sallie Meade and Nancy
Lane, at the time of the wedding. These
leepsakes are OF plain gold. about an inch
in diameter. and with Miss Wilson's own
initials upon one side and a small da-
nond on the other. The bride Will hang
them about the necks of the flower girls
lust before they begin their triumphal
row.
While l. II. Hoover. head usher at the
White House. was buSying himself about
the marriage license for the bridegroom
he has obtained three of these historic
documents. that of Nicholas Longworth
and Alice Roosevelt and that of Presi-
dent Wilson's two daughters-M VIII
son and Mr. McAdoo were engaged in a
lively game of tennis on the south front
lawn.
number OF handsome gifts arrived at
the White House to-day for the bride.
Among them was a splendid Persian rug
~ great age and value from Dudley Field
Malone. Andrew Carnegie and Mrs. Car
ncgie duplicated the twelve silver plates
resented to Miss Jessie Wilson when
she married Mr.. Sayre \ diamond brace
let in addition 10 the one presented by
the Senate. was also received.
The circle of diamonds when Mr. Nc
Adoo included in his veritable chest Of
.ewels for his bride will be worn with
the wedding gown tomorrow, and will
hold in place the soft folds of tulle. lace
and satin. where it crosses over her
breast
Mr.. and Mrs John A. WILSON. the
former a cousin of the bride. arrived
az the White House to-day to remain
until after the wedding. 4 large party
OF the girl friends of the bride and her
sisters have already arrived and are
housed in the several new rooms on the
third floor of the White House.
In this party are Miss Marjorie
Brown, the cousin of the bride and who
served as one of the bridesmaids at the
wedding Of Miss Jessie Wilson and
Francis Bowes Sayre last November;
Miss Helen Hunter. of Portsmouth, Va;
Miss Elizabeth Duffield and Miss SUI
same Fine, of Princeton. Miss Henri
eta statlemann. of Wilmington, Del,
ard Mrs. Charles Kellogg, of Athens
Penn.
Miss Ruth Hall. the Princeton friend
NJ Miss Eleanor Wilson. who has spent
the winter in Washington, to. be near
her chum and VITO with her mother and
brother lives in Hopkins Place near
dupont Circle went TO the White House
to-day TO join the party.
Mr.. and Mrs Sayre, who were sched-
uled 20 arrive last night, were detained
ard did not reach Washington until this
evening
The first rehearsal was held this after
noon. the children going through their
parts in perfect accord
Tonight there was a party OF eighteen
occupying boxes 'at the New National all
Of the girls of the house party. Mr.. and
Mrs John Wilson and others being there.
Later, when the party returned TO the
White House. there WIS dancing and mu-
sic and the house is the liveliest it has
been since the Roosevelt family were
there
one Of the biggest secrets OF the whole
list Of Wedding gifts is the something"
presented 10 the bride by Sallie McAdoo
and Nancy Lane. They know but they
won't tell and 10 amount of teasing will
bring II out.
Miss Eleator Wilson has had little fun
all in her own way each day since the ar
rangements for her wedding became OF
such public interest Yesterday she
slipped away and went TO the circus in
the afternoon.
Miss Wilson has told her conidants that
her honeymoon will be a short one and
that she will be back in Washington in
less than a week. She wouldn't tell, how
ever. where the honeymoon Is to be spent