Evening star., 1938-05-08
John Roosevelt to Take Boston Bride
Like Brother James, Youngest Son of President
to Wed Back Bayer
Bx D0ROTHY WAYMAN.

and Mrs. Roosevelt, Will be married
June 10, at high noon, in Nahant, the
smallest town of Massachusetts,. to
Anne Clark. Boston society girl. Bride
and bridegroom are both %, he a grad
uate of Harvard University this June.
Just q year ago fate brought Anne
Clark to a crossroads Of destiny. when
she broke a betrothal that would have
brought deep shadows of unhappy for
tune, and subsequently entered on the
betrothal which takes her over the
threshold Of the White House.
The attractive Boston debutante's
first engagement was to Samuel
Stevens Sands, classmate Of John
Roosevelt at the exclusive preparatory
school. Groton, and at Harvard. Mr..
Sands mother is Mrs. Richard Whit
ney. making him the stepson of the
former president of the New York
Stock Exchange whose financial diff
flculties led. in April, to a cell in Sing
Sing Prison.
In April, 1887, Mrs. F. Haven Clark
of Boston and Nahant announced that
the engagement of her daughter to
Mr.. Sands had been broken by mutual
consent. In the same month, the
prospective engagement to John
Roosevelt was foreshadowed by Anne
Clark's visit to the White House. The
Clark Roosevelt betrothal was an open
secret by June, 1897, when John es-
corted her to the Delaware wedding
OF his brother, Franklin, jr., to Ethel
du Pont.
Becoming in Tweeds.
Like his elder brother, James
Roosevelt, who married Betsy Cush-
ing. daughter Of the famed Boston
brain surgeon, DR.. Hugh Gushing,
John Roosevelt has picked a bride
from the Boston debutante group.
Anne Clark, a diminutive, graceful
ash blonde with wide gray-blue eyes,
has the high, intelligent forehead and
straight generous mouth of the Boston
intellectual type. Tweeds and sport
oxfords become her personality better
than high heels and frou-frous
Her father, the late Franklin Haven
Clark, Boston investment banker, was
an ardent yachtsman and, until his
death in 1886, trained his oldest
daughter to be proficient sailor.
Nahant people say she can handle the
Clark 75-foot schooner in a stiff blow
John Roosevelt. of course. has had
liberal yachting experience with his
father at Campobello and more re-
Gently on the presidential vacations
on the Amberjack II and the destroyer
cruise to Hawaii in 1885.
Like his brother, Franklin, jr.. John
Roosevelt's pursuit of true love had
led him into the circles of wealth
castigated by his father. The Clarks
of Boston do not quite qualify, as do
the du Points, as one of the sixty
families" whose fortunes control the
! country, but Anne's mother is sufi-
ciently endowed with this world S
goods not only to give her oldest
daughter wedding party that may
cost upwards of $4,000, but to build
a s5O000 new summer cottage" at
Nahant this spring that will serve as
honeymoon cottage for the newly
married Roosevelts.
Nahant Ideally Situated.
Nahant is ideally situated. from the
point Of view Of the secret service men
who guard the Presidents journeyings.
1t is reached by a two-mile causeway
leading from Lynn, and the square
mile of land comprising the township
lies on steep. rocky peninsula extend
ing into the Atlantic Ocean.
President and Mrs. Roosevelt, from
their special train on a Boston g.
Maine siding in Lynn. If they come
that way. will have three miles to
drive. across the causeway. to the
wedding. BY June. it is expected that
the new Clark house on Swallow Cave
road, Nahant, will be completed. the
family moving out from their Winter
apartment in Boston's fashionable
Back Bay district
Mrs. Clark has two other daughters.
Sally, 18, maid of honor for her
sister, and Joan. 10, who will be flower
girl along with Eleanor "Sistie" Dali,
President Roosevelt's granddaughter,
whose mother is now Mrs. John Boet-
tiger of Seattle, Wash.
The other bridesmaids at the June
wedding include Mrs. James Roosevelt,
Mrs Boettiger, Mrs. Charles r. L.
Sturgis, Mrs. Leslie Laughlin. Miss
Nancy Cassels and Miss Elizabeth
Jaques Of Boston. Ushers will be
James and Elliott Roosevelt, brothers
Of the bridegroom: John Boettiger,
brother-in-law; John R. Clark, Phila-
delphia; John NJ Graham. Marshall
Field, jr., and Charles S. McVeigh Of
New York, John L. Lyman and Charles
r. L. Sturgis of Boston. Nathaniel T.
Clark, Dover, Mass; John Drayton,
Newport; Thomas B. Husband, Chi
cago; Elliott c. Bacon. Westbury,
Long Island: D. Eldridge jackson,
Providence, r. I.
John DraytOn Listed.
The only other President to visit
the little town of Nahant was Theo-
dore Roosevelt, who was guest of
Nahant's famed citizen, Senator
Henry Cabot Lodge, in August, 1902.
On that occasion. the town turned out
for an enthusiastic official reception.
Joseph T. Wilson. chairman Of the
Nahant selectmen. gave 1T. R." the
towns welcome. The present chair.
man of Nahant selectmen, James D.
Devereaux, may we'll pause before de-
livering official greetings when he