New-York tribune., 1920-04-18
Miss Flora Payne Whitney
To Be Bride Tomorrow
Marriage to Roderick Tower Will Inaugurate Week
of Brilliant Weddings, Among Them That of
Miss Harriet NcCook to Jackson Boyd


Miss Flora Payne Whitney, daughter
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney
of this city and Old Westbury. L. L., to
Roderick Tower, of Philadelphia.
week of brilliant weddings will be in
auguarated.
Miss Whitney, who is grand
daughter of the late William C. Whit
ney, and a grandniece of the late
Colonel Oliver Payne, has chosen St
Bartholomew's Church for her nuptials
The ceremony will take place at 4
o'clock and will be followed by re-
ceptlon at the Whitney residence, S71
Fifth Avenue. Following the English
fashion. Miss Whitney will have only
children in her bridal party, her young
cousins, the Misses Giulia. Alice and
Gladys Szechenyi. the young daughters
Of Count and Countess Laszlo SEE
chenyi, and Miss Beatrice Stra ight,
another cousin. daughter OF Mrs. Will
lard D. Straight. Miss Barbara Whit
ney Will be her sisters maid of honor.
Master Whitney Straight will be the
page.
Mr.. Tower has chosen his brother,
Godfrey Tower, for his best man, and
the ushers will be Alfred o. Hoyt,
Francis Brooks, Bernard S. Parker,
Howland Shaw, Philip Walton, H.
Carey Morgan, William H. Chatfeld,
Charles r. Goldman, Henry st. John
Smith, William A. Barron jr.. J. K.
Howard, Charles F. Choate Sd. Francis
R. Appleton jr.. Thomas H. .Frothing
ham, Bronson Winthrop. Philip Boyer
and the brides brother, Cornelius
Vanderbilt Whitney Mr.. Tower is
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Charlemagne
Tower, Of Philadelphia, for whom Mrs.
Whitney gave Il luncheon yesterday at
her home. Mr. Tower gave his bache
lor dinner last evening at the Racquet
and Tennis Club.
On Tuesday afternoon at the resi-
dence Of the brides uncle and aunt,
Nir. and Mrs Charles B. Alexander,
West Fifty ghsh Street. Miss Harriet
McCook, daughter of Mrs. John ].
NcCook. will be married TO Jackson
BOYD, OF Harrisburg. Pa. Like Miss
Whitney. Miss McCook will have only
Young attendants, her niece. Miss Janet
Whitman. and her cousin, Miss Made
iaine Alexander, daughter of the Rev.
DR.. Maitland Alexander, the brides
uncle, who will officiate, with the Rev.
Dr. John II. kelman. Mr.. Boyd's
brother James Boyd, will be the best
man and his two ers-in-law, John
Colt and Thomas Graham, with Will
lam Paxton Roberts. Ehrick B. kilner
and James Bruce will serve as ushers.
The ceremony will be followed by the
usual reception.
Wednesday viii bring several we'd
dIngs OF interest. including that Of
Miss Helen Keeney to DR.. George Boil
Ing Lee, Of this city. She is the
daughter Of Mrs. James Ward Keeney,
and her wedding will take place at the
nome Of Mr.. and Mrs. T. SuHern Taller,
heeney will have Miss Betty Taller for
her aower girl. and her sister, Mrs.
iai5os Walker. for her matron Of
- nnonor. Dr. Lees brother, Robert Z.
Lee, viii be his best man. The cere-
mony will be followed by reception.
Miss Alice Augusta Haight. daughter
81 Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Sherman
ihaignt, VIII be another of Wednesday, s
meT son OF Professor and Mrs. Herbert
:. Elmer, Of Ithaca, y. Y, will take
pace that afternoon in ST. James s
.aprch, Madison Avenue and Seventy
x1s' street. The ceremony will be
ioiio"ed by a reception at the Haight
sss'oenes, 2Z East Sixtv-ninth Street.
slrs. Haisht Will give a dinner for her
gTahgnter ard the bridal party on
Tuesday evening.
..At the Hotei Gotham rhe same day.
giss Madeline Jackson, daughter Of
ar. ar and Nrs. Arthur p. Jackson, Of 3e0
nl}ef@ioe Drive. Will be married 10
ss@mez l.. Quackenbush. Her sister.
.iss Hazel Jackson, will be the maid
y nonor and her other attendants Will
~ Afs Alfred Long, Mrs. Herbert Og
sso' o. 1iss Ruin Ballard and Miss
1ifnon raucnois. Sumner Benedict,
WI serve Mr.. Quackenbush IA best
va Va ana me uNners VIII be Harold
'ay.or, Herbert Ogden. Milton Potter
sho DR. Heath. Following the ceremony.
yh'en %iD he performed by the Rev.
N Walter +. buchanan. Of the Broad
way grFsbytersan Church, there Will be
sFeception.
archbishop Hayes win oTciatc at the
m@sHiage on Wednesday morning Of
PISS Dorothy Dowling, daughter Of
gsas'aes and Mrs Victor J. Bowling. to
game ioenran Daily. son 81 the late
tans.i Ds'y. The Wedding viii be ~
''e'rrx IN 81. Pa1ric1's Cathedral,
10 Sssss Will Or naptial nlass. cels-