New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-10-28
MISS FITCH WED
TO {. LAWRENCE
St. Bartholomew in
ChrySanthemum Dress
for Ceremony.
MISS EDITH HASKIN
HUGH PORTER'S BRIDE
Miss A. B. Wells and r. E. Mer.
rift, of California, Married al
Broadway Tabernacle.

Miss Diantha Allen Fitch, daughter
Of DR.. and Mrs. Allen Fitch. was mar
rie1 yesterday afternoon in ST. Bar
tholomew's Church TO Common Law
renee, son Of Frank X. Lawrence, Of
534 Madison Avenue. The ceremony
was pc 'formed by the Rev. Or. Leighton
Parks, assisted by the Rev. George ".
Atkinson, of Grace Church, Washing
ton. The church was decorated with
pink and white chrysanthemums and
palms, and the house of DR.. and Mrs.
Fitch, 80 West Fifty-sixth Street,
where a reception was held afterward,
was decorated with pink roses and
pink chrysanthemums.
The bride, who was given away by
her father. was in gown of silver
brocade chiffon, with a Medici collar
of silver lace and white satin court
train. Her veil of lace, fastened with
a wreath of orange blossoms, was worn
by her grandmother at her wedding.
She carried q shower bouquet of gar
denias and lilies of-the valley.
Miss Marian and Miss Katharine
Fitch, sisters Of the bride. were the
maids Of honor, and the bridesmaids
were Miss Dorothy Brown, Miss Har-
riet Geyelin, Miss Jean Stewart, Miss
and Miss Ella Carpenter. The Misses
Fitch were in blue satin, with crinoline
ruffes of silver lace, with which they
wore large black hats lined with blue
satin, with a pink rose on the side.
The other attendants were dressed in
the same style gowns, in pink instead
of blue satin. They all carried shower
bouquets of pink roses and maidenhair
fern. Little Miss Eva Lawrence Tay-
Tor, niece of the bridegroom. served
as flower girl. she was in frock Of
white silk net, with pale blue ribbons.
frank Lawrence acted as best man,
and the ushers were Edwin Dickin-
son. Benjamin Harrison Mckee, Henry
S. Durand, Herbert Lawrence, David
H. Taylor, Raymond Schweizerm, Hor-
ace Dorsey Newson and Ronald Ferry.
On their return from their wedding
trip Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence will live
at ia East Eighty-fourth Street
The marriage Of Miss Edith Mae
Haskin. daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. John
Bassing Haskin, Of 81 West Eighty
sixth Street, TO Hugh S. Porter, took
place last evening in the ballroom of
the st. Regis. The ceremony was per-
formed by the Rev DIR. Henry Sloan
Coffin, under a bower of palms and
white and pink ehrysanthemums. The
bride, who was escorted 10 the tenn
porary altar by her father. wore
white satin gown trimmed with white
tulle. II had a long court train. over
which fell veil of tulle. She car
red white orchids and lilies Of the
valley. and her only ornament was
diamond and platinum brooch, the
gift of the bridegroom.
Mrs. W. Arthur Finn was her SIS
ter's matron Of honor, and she was
dressed in orchid-colored velvet,
trimmed with gray tulle md she car
ried lavender orchids. The brides
maids were another sister, Miss Edna
Bassing Haskin. Miss Ruth Conklin,
Miss Grace EiClitz and Miss J.. Mich
Ter. They we're all in blue silk, draped
with orchid-cOlored tulle and carried
lavender orchids.
w. Arthur Finn served as best man,
and the ushers were Ralph Blackburn,
Kenneth Weeks, Wilmot Wheeler and
George Caplin.
The ceremony was followed by re-
ception and dance. Mr.. and Mrs. Por-
ter will spend their honeymoon in the
South, and on their return will live
at 800 West Eighty-sixth Street.
Miss Agnes Booth Wells and Ralph
Ensign Merritt, both of Oakland, Cal,
were married in the chapel in the
Tabernacle, Broadway and Fifty-sixth
Street, yesterday afternoon. The Rev.
Dr. c. r. Brown. dean of the Divinity
School at Vale University, performed
the marriage ceremony. The wedding
was quiet one and only the near
relations ard friends Of the bride and
bridegroom were present. The bride
was in New York with her aunt. Miss
Mary Z. Nicholi. Both parents are
dead and she was under the chaper-
onage of Miss Nicholl Mrs Merritt
is a graduate Ct Stanf0d University
and Mr. Merritt of the University of
California. in Berkeley, Cal. Both
are descendants of the early settlers
of California, t1eir grandparents be-
ing among the Forty-niner's. Mrs.
Merritt's grandfather, the late John
Nicholl, was the settler and founder of
the town of Richmond, Cal, and was
one of the leading men of his day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Merritt will go at once
to California, visiting en- route the
Grand Canyon of Colorado and other
points of interest on their way TO
their future home in Oakland, Cal.
A wedding breakfast was served at
Sherry's previous to the wedding, and
the young couple started at once for
the Pacific Coast