The Washington herald., 1917-11-16
President of Mexico and
Gen. Obregon Represent
ed at Mexican Embassy
Wedding Brilliant Nup-
tials of Miss Shonts and
Capt. Bingham.

Mr.. Z. de Cartier de Marchienne,
the Minister OF Belgium, celebrated
King Albert's patron Saints day at
the legation last evening by enter
tanning a small but distinguished
company at dinner who Joined him
In pledging the health and happiness
of the King.
The guests were Sir Cecil Arthur
Spring Rice. the Ambassador of Great
Britain; Mr.. Herbert Hoover. Mrs.
Barnard Baruch. Mr.. Hugh Gibson.
Lieut. Gen. Matthew Leclercq, Maj.
Osterriette, Mr.. Charles Symon.~ coun-
selor of the Belgian legation: Mr..
Leon Dswaele. Count d'Ursel and Mr..
Philip Dardier.
The President of Mexico, Senior Car
rama. will be chief witness at the
marriage Of Senorita Dolores Cecilia
Ronilias, elder daughter Of the Am
bassador of Mexico and Sonora de
Bonillas, to Senor DIR. Juan B. Roto,
first secretary of the embassy staff.
in the ballroom Of the embassy in
I street at IL o'clock Saturday morn
ing. As the President cannot be
present in person, he will be rep
resented by DR.. Alfred Caturegiie,
OF New York. who with Sonora de
Catureglie came from New York last
week to spend several days at the
embassy. Senor Catureglie will also
witness the wedding with his own
signature
Gen. Obregon. the famous Mexican
soldier and statesman who recently
spent some days In Washington, will
ed by proxy. DR.. Rojo will be at
tended by a younger brother, Senior
Don Guilermo RoJo de la Vega, who
brother. Senior Don Jose Rojo de la
Vega.
Senorita Maria Bonillas will attend
her sister as maid of honor, and Mgr.
Lee will perform the ceremony and
oficiate at the nuptial mass. Later
there will be a Wedding breakfast.
DR.. Rojo has taken an apartment
at the Somerset, and when he re-
turns with his bride from a short
wedding Journey, they will make
their horne there.
OF quite as much interest in Wash
ington as in New York was the mar
rage of Miss Marguerite Shonts,
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore
P. Shonts. to Capt. Rutherford Bing-
- ham, u. s. R., which took place in
the chapel of St Thomas Church.
New York, Wednesday afternoon.
The little chapel was filed with the
friends Of the young couple, Brig.
Gen. and Mrs. Theodore Bingham,
parents of the bridegroom. and we'll
known In society here, being chief
witnesses. The bride was escorted
and given away by her father, and
was further attended by her sister,
the Duchess de Chaulnes, and the lat
ter's small son. the Due de Chaulnes,
as page. Mrs. Bingham and her sis
ter were noted for their beautiful
toilets when in Washington, and the
bride wore for the wedding a COS
tume-hat and suit-of dark brown
velvet, and carried a small cluster of
orange blossoms. The Duchess de
Chaulnes wore a gown of black vel
vet, with a black velvet hat trimmed
In white plumes and deep scarf Of
gray fur.
The Rev. DR.. Ernest NJ. Stires off,
cisted at the ceremony, and the ush-
ers we're Lieut.. Col Constant Cor
oier, U. s. A, OF the General STAFF,
and III Allen Gouverneur Wellman,
Dir. F Morris Deer'ns, of the Ameri-
can c DlOmatic service. and W. G.
Chard, of Cazenovia, N. Y
Capt and Mrs. Bingham left after
the ceremony, there being no recep-
tion, and the former, who has been
serving with the Eighteenth Pennsyl-
vania Infantry, has been detached
from the army and appointed secre-
tary OF the American Embassy at
CopenhageG, wn1-e he will at once
take his bride.
The guests gathered In the chapel
to witness the ceremony included
Mr.. Frederic Courtlandt Penfeld, once
Ambassador to Austria Hungary; Mr..
Charles Pase Bryan, who was Am
bassador to japan; Mr.. Edward ].
Berwind, Mrs Hermann Oelrichs,
Mrs. William Post, Mrs. ]. Laurels
Van Allen. Mr. and Mrs. E. Reeve
Merritt, Mrs. Ansel Phelps, Mrs.
Gouverneur kortright, Mrs. Alexander
ID. B. Pratt, Mrs. Allen Gouverneut
Wellman, Mrs. John A. Black, Mrs.
Edward N. Breitung, Mrs. Frederick
w. Vanderbilt, Miss Mabel Gerry,
Mrs. Frederick Pearson, Mrs. Bever-
Iy Bogert, Mss Leslie F. Pearson.
Capt. Perry Belmont, U. s. r, and
Mrs. Belmont.
Washington will soon have another
distinguished Englishman as her guest
in the person OF Vice Admiral Sir
William Lowther Grant, of the Brit
ish navy, who, accompanied by his
STAFF, is now en- route to the Capital
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