The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-22
SHE WEEDS "GOB"


riage license. Miss Carnegie was
graduated from Miss Spencer's, an ex-
elusive girls school, in 1915. Miller,
at the time he went to France to be-
come truck driver in the French
army in 1916, was a sophomore at
Stevens Institute. where he was pre-
pairing to become an engineer. When
America entered the war he returned
to enter the navy, receiving an ensign's
commission. He served as engineer
of operations of squad II, submarine
chasers, and was stationed near New
York during most of the war.
The ceremony was perform ed by the
Rev. DR.. VIM. P. Merrill, pastor of the
Brick PRESBYTERIAN church and the
Rev. Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin of the
Madison Avenue Presbyterian church.
The bride wore a simple gown of
white satin, trimmed in applique lace
Her veil also was of white lace. She
carried lilies of the valley and was
unattended save by Miss Dorothy
Miller, one of her closest girl friends,
and a sister of the bridegroom, who
acted as maid of honor.
Groom in Naval Uniform.
Ensign Miller, though recently re-
leased from active service. wore his
naval uniform. His youngest brother,
c. Roberts Miller. a Princeton student,
was best man. Four college chums,
James B. Waller, jr., William H.
ert A. Franks, jr., acted as ushers.
The wedding was very simple and in
keeping with the domestic taste of both
bride and bridegroom. The magnifi-
cent Carnegie mansion, built at a cost
of several million dollars, was profuse-
ly decorated with ferns and palms.
The music was furnished by the i'm
mense pipe organ, one of the notable
features of the laird of Skibo's New
York home. n
The bride was given away by her
father. They passed down an aisle of
ferns and palms to the improvised al
tar to meet Miller and his best man;
Carnegie is in his eighty-fourth year,
his daughters engagement having
been announced on his eighty-third
birthday last November, At the time
of his marriage to Miss Lucy White
field In 1891 he was past Sc and was
already worth many millions His
wife. less than half his age, was also
wealthy.
On Secret Honeymoon.
Immediately after the ceremony a
wedding breakfast was served. Short
~ afterward Ensign and Mrs. Miller
left on their honeymoon. Their des-
tination is unknown, even to their in
innate friends.
Those present at the wedding were:
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Carnegie; Mr.
and Mrs. Andrew Carnegie II and
",
dino. Fla, and Manchester. Mass;
Mr.. and Mrs. T. M. Carnegie of New
York; Mr.. and Mrs. Oliver Ricketson
and daughter. Lucy, of Boston; Mr.
and Mrs Thomas Morrison of Pitts
burgh; Mr.. and Mrs. H. D. Whitefield
and daughter. Miss EsteIle, of New
York; Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin A. White
field and daughters, Misses Virginia
and Sue, of New York; George Lauder
and Mrs. George Lauder, Jr., of Pitts
All are relatives of the bride.
The bridegroom's relatives who at
tended were:
Mrs. Roswell Miller. his mother;
Mrs. w. H. Roberts. his grandmother;
Miss Dorothy Miller and c. Roberts
and Mrs. F. A. Miller of Danville, KY,
and Miss Louise Edgar.
Romance Began in 1917.
The marriage of Miss Carnegie and
Ensign Miller is the elimination of a
| romance which. began in 1917 upon
Miller's return from France. The two
met at party given by Miss Dorothy
Miller in honor of her brother. Miss
Carnegie, a schoolmate and close
chUm of Miss Miller, was invited 1t
proved to be q case of love at first
sight and from then on Ensign Miller
! and Miss Carnegie were almost con-
stantly together. Mrs. Carnegie and
Mrs Miller, mothers of the bride and
groom, have also long been intimate
! friends.
The favorite pastime of Miller and
Miss Carnegie has been to take long
| automobile drives into the country.
| With lunch baskets prepared in the
Carnegie kitchens and with Mrs. Mil
Ter and Mrs. Carnegie as chaperons,
| they would spend the entire days up
/ the Hudson, far away from the city.
| Carnegie was also very well pleased
4 with the match his daughter made.
having often expressed himself in IA
vor of an American husband for his
| daughter when royalty sought the
family haven while on their summer
sojourn to Skibo castle in Scotland
| In recent years the Carnegies have
| been spending their summers at their
Massachusetts home, Carnegie being
| too old to undertake the ocean trip to
Scotland Their home in the Berk-
| shire Hills, near Lenox. is one of the
most gorgeous in America The
landscape gardening and interior deco
rations were all designed or selected
by Miss Carnegie.
The family refused to give out the
list of presents received by the young
couple. but in difference to the wishes
4 of Carnegie, they are said to be very
few.