New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-11
Arthur Woods Makes the
Granddaughter of Late
J. P. Morgan Bride.
CEREMONY IN CHAPEL
NEAR COUNTRY HOME
Breakfast Served at Table Rock
Estate of Miss Hamilton's
Parents.

IN small Cndpei IN inc ntdIl VI NhV
Rnmapo Hills near Sterlington. n. Y,
Arthur Woods. New York's Commits
sioner of Police. married at | o'clock
yesterday Miss Helen Morgan Hamil-
ton, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. William
PIcrson Hamilton and granddaughter
Of the late J. Pierpont Morgan. Only
the immediate friends and relatives of
the bride and bridegroom witnessed
the wedding, but afterward 900 guests
arriving by motor and special train were
entertained at wedding breakfast and
reception at Table Rock. the Eliza
bethan country home of the brides
father, situated on the Hamilton estate
directly across the lake from the chapel.
When the Commissioner reached the
chapel few minutes before the car
riagc bearing the bride, with her father
and sister, he was saluted by soluble
line Of twenty-five police inspectors IN
dress uniform. The ceremony was per-
formed by the Right Rev. Philip NJ.
Rhinelandcr. Bishop Of Pennsylvania,
uncle of the bride The maid of honor
was Miss Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton,
the brides eight-year-old sister. The
best man was David II. Goodrich, OF
Mount Kisco. former captain Of
Harvard crew and well known hunter.
Elphalet Knott Potter, jr., Francis X.
Appleton, jr., and the brides brothers,
Picrpont NJ. Hamilton and Laurens NJ.
Hamilton, served as ushers.
Tables Under Tents.
At Table Rock tents had been erected
on the lawn west OF the house, covering
the tables which had been set for the
wedding breakfast. The bride and
bridegroom, with twenty-four guests,
were served in the state dining room
at a table decorated with lilies and
white sweetpeas and bearing IN the
centre a huge wedding cake and four
miniature traffic semaphores.
At this table. besides the bride and
bridegroom and the brides father and
mother. there were seated Mrs. Pier
pont Morgan, the brides grandmother;
David Goodrich. the best man; Miss
Carol Hartman. DR.. and Mrs. Richard
Derby, Miss Elizabeth Ha milton, the
brides sister; Dr. James Woods, the
bridegroom's brother; Mr.. and Mrs. J.
=. Morgan and Miss Frances Morgan,
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Lawrence. Fran !
CHS ~ 6DDitlDlls niioH ' ~ > illid '1lANutlif
Laurens VI. Hamilton and Pierpont NJ. |
Hamilton, Elephelet n. Potter, Miss Jo-
sephine Osborn. J. W. Burden, Mr.. and /
Mrs. n Sturgis, Dexter Blagden and !
Miss Mabel Satterlee.
BY the time the wedding party had
reached Table Rock the rain had
stopped, and the sides OF the tents
were rolled up to enable the guests to
obtain view of the twenty-five miles ]
Of hills that can be seen from the Ham |
ilton estate. On the lawn the Com !
missioner was presented by five youth
full inspectors of the junior police. who |
attended the wedding, with a silver |
loving cup, a badge and a commission !
rs lieutenant in the junior police I.
force, of which he was formerly an
honorary sergeant.
The Wedding Gifts.
Before the reception in the living
room, which was decorated with lark /
spur. Japanese iris and lilies, the
guests were taken TO see the display of
5000 wedding presents on the second
floor. Among the gifts of jewelry
which the bride received were a neck |
lace of pearls from Mrs. Pierpont Nor
gon, a diamond corsage ornament, the
gift of her father and mother, and
necklace of large diamonds from Mr..
and Mrs. J. Pierpont Morgan. The
brides sister and brothers gave her
set of table silver. Mayor and Mrs. |
Mitchell, who were present at the we'd
ding and at the reception later. sent a
silver coach horn, and a silver card
tray was the gift of Governor and
Mrs. Whitman.
The different branches of the New
York police force presented the bride
Of their Commissioner with a variety
of gifts. The traffic squad sent an i'm
mense Tiffany grandfather clock; the
honor legion presented a silver punch
bowl the detective force bronze
Jaguar, and the Sergeants' Benefit As
ISOLATION sent large silver tea ser
vice, while the gift of the detective
force was a bronze Orpheus and Fury
dice.
Present at the reception, in addition
TO the immediate family of the bride,
were Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert L. Satter-
lee. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Elliot, Mr.
and Mrs. Hamilton Fish, Junius Spen-
Ger Morgan, Mr.. and Mrs. Franklin d.
Roosevelt Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin Gould,
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Delafield, Mrs.
Stanford White. Mrs. Theodore Ere
linghuysen, George f. Baker. Mr.. and
Mrs. John Hadden, Mr. and Mrs. Percy
Rivington Pyne, the Misses Hewett,
Mr. and Mrs. Grenville Kane, Mrs. /
Rutherford Stuyvesant, Mr.. and Mrs. !
Frank S. Witherbee, Mrs. Ii. de Berke- Z
ley Parsons, Mr.. and Mrs. c. Ledyard I
Blair and Mr. and Mrs. Simon R. Gug- /
genheim.