The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1914-05-07
WHITE HOUSE WEDDING
WAS SIMPLE AFFAIR
CEREMONY PERFORMED THIS AFTERNOON
UNITED w. g. McADOO AND BRIDE
ONLY FEW FRIENDS PRESENT
President and Mrs. Wilson's Daughter Eleanor the
Bride Makes Fourteenth Wedding to
Occur at the White House

WASHINGTON, May THE sim
plest of ceremonies today marked th
fourteenth White House wedding ant
the second of the Wilson administra
ton. Miss Eleanor Randolph Wilson
youngest daughter of the president
was married to William Gibbs Nc
Adoo, secretary Of the treasury. Only
members of the immediate family Of
the bride and the groom and McAdoo's
colleagues in the cabinet with the
vice-presideht and Mrs. Marshall
were present.
There was none of the pomp and
ceremony which attended the mar
riage last November of Miss Jessie
Wilson to Francis Bowes Sayre The
fact that the groom was a widower in
fluenced this decision
Ceremony In Blue Room.
The ceremony took place today in
the Blue Room; where Miss Frances
Folsom was welded to President
Cleveland. The nuptials were almost
identical with those of the Cleveland
wedding. 1t, too, was a private af-
fair, with only dozen or SO invited
guests.
President and Mrs. Wilson have al
ways maintained that the affairs of
the wofnan-folk of the White House
were not public business and so up
until today practically no information
was given out as to the wedding.
Secretary McAdoo, the groom, is 81
years of age. He has six children liv-
ing and one grandchild. Miss Wilson
is "a years old. She is the most vivac-
She first met Secretary McAdoo while
he was acting chairman of the demo-
cratic national committee and came
to the summer White House" at Sea
Girt to confer with the then democratic |
presidential candidate.
Both Fond of Dancing.
Both Miss Wilson and McAdoo had |
much in common. Both were fond of |
tennis. They enjoyed dancing the new |
style dances. Their acquaintanceship |
at Sea Girt ripened here in Washing
ton when McAdoo became one of the
presidents advisors. The two were
constantly together. Miss Mona Nc
Adoo, one of the secretarys daugh-
ters who is a year or so younger
than Miss Wilson, was her constant
companion. They took long automo-
bile drives and walks together and Nc
Adoo was Miss Wilson's favored dane
ing partner K
True to the Wilson tradition that 13,
the hoodoo number was their good
uck" numeral, the engagement of Miss !
Wilson and the secretary was an
on March 49, That day was
also Friday and friends of the Wilson
amily laughingly observed that an es-
,ecially fortunate date had been Sc
ected for the announcement, from the
Wilson standpoint.
Miss Wilson began the preparation ),
# her trousseau Immediately follow ),
ng the announcement of her engage 9
aent. She shopped in New York for :,
everal days, Secretary McAdoo ac-
her several times. =
Built Her Own TrOusseau. il
An expert needlewoman herself, she
i'd a lot of work in fixing the trous-
eau herself, aided by Miss Margaret :
1ilson. Mrs. Wilson, who suffered a -,
ervOus shock from a fall month or :,
lore ago, has been too i'll to assist !,
, was partly because of her indisposi- G.
on that the private wedding was held er
iss Eleanor, it is understood had m
oped to have wedding with "all the VI
ss and feathers" as she was quot
as expressing it of her sister, -,
rs. Sayre. No
Not word was obtained today as re-
the bridal trip. One report had it u
at the couple would take brief -
lropean tour, as did Mr.. and Mrs Ro
yre, but this was discounted be- of
use Secretary McAdoo is just now me
extremely busy man, and his pres er'
ce in Washington is almost imper- -. -
We, owing to the new currency law ere
ing into effect. in