Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1910 — THEO. ROOSEVELT CLAIMS HIS BRIDE [ARTICLE]

THEO. ROOSEVELT CLAIMS HIS BRIDE

Theo. Jr. and Miss Alexander Are United In Marriage. FLORAL DECORATIONS FEATURE Immense Throng Attends Marriage of Popular Young Couple and Streets Are Crowded With the Curious —Reception Follows. New York, June 21. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. wais married to Miss Eleanor Alexander, the daughter of Mrs. Henry Addison Alexander, of 42 West Forty-Seventh street. Long before 4 o’clock, the hour set for the ceremony, the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian church at Fifty-Fifth street and Fifth avenue was more than comfortably filled by early arrivals among the 820 invited guests, and Fifth avenue, * for two blocks north and south of the church and along Fifty-Fifth street, was crowded with people who seemed equally divided between the desire to set a glimpse of the bride and a look at Col. Roosevelt. A Just at the last minute Col. Roosevelt remembered that his former regiment of. Rough Riders was in town and that they had’nt been invited, and in no time, Kenneth D. Robinson was hurrying around to the Rough Rider headquarters at the Hotel Buckingham to tell “the boys” to jump into their uniforms and come along. There was a mighty scurrying about for uniform? and strenuous efforts to round up the missing, but nearly fifty of the men managed to get together and marching two abreast reached the church in time to add a military touch to the wedding. At 3:40 the ripple of a cheer and_a sound of hand clapping up the avenue announced that Col. Roosevelt was coming. He drove up to one of the Fifth avenue entrances in an auto accompanied by Mrs. Roosevelt and Archie and Quentin, the two younger Roosevelt boys. Col. Roosevelt raised his hat to the Crowd and then turned to greet Inspector O’Brien, who stood at the door of the automobile. “Howare you. Steve?” said the colonel. ‘l’m mighty glad to see you.” Then he passed on into the church. While the crowd waited, the Rough Riders came marching up from the Buckingham. It was almost exactly 4 o’clock when the mounted police galloped up and down to shut off traffic on the avenue and clear the way for Miss Alexander’s auto which came through east Fifty-Fifth street and drew up at the church door at that side. The bride hid her face in a great bunch of lillies of the valley when her automobile was blocked just before reaching the church door. Then she lowered the bouquet and smiled out quite frankly at the people. Inside the church was a garden of flowers. Festoons of roses garlanded the columns on either side and at each window base, roses were massed in ferns. The aisles were walled with roses and lilies of the valley; each pew was outlined in roses backed by delicate ferns. The pulpit was carpeted with roses and the organ loft whs hidden with great branches of the pink Rambler rose upon a background of palms concealing Nathan Franke’s orchestra of fifty pieces. Asr Miss Alexander entered the church the orchestia, accompanied by the organ, began the Lohengrin wedding march. Miss Alexander walked

up the aisle with her mother and was met at the chancel steps by the bridegroom, accompanied by his brother, Kermit Roosevelt, as best man. The bride was dressed in white sating, the bodice trimmed with rare vallenciejrttes lace. The vox tulle veil was caught in the coiffeur with a coronet of orange blossoms. 'Her bouquet was of white ore* ids and lilies of the valley. The ceremony was performed 1 y Rev. Dr. Henry M.. Sanders, the great uncle of the bride, assisted bv the Rev, Gordon Russell, of Cranford, N. J. The couple knelt on a prie dieu of white satin surrounded by festoons of bride roses and with' an arch of flowers above. As they passed down the aisle after the ceremony the’ orchestra played the music of. Mendelsohn’s setting to “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” After the ceremony the bridal party was held up for a moment in the rush to shake hands with Col. and to congratulate bis son and give good wishes to the new Mrs. Roosevelt. Then Theodore Jr. and with an escort of police cavalry drove to the home of the bride’s uncle, Charles B. Alexander, at 4 West FjiftyEighth street, where the reception was held. The guests who left the reception carried with them little boxes of wedding cake marked with “A. R.” in a gold monogram. The secret of the honeymoon trig has been carefully guarded, but it is said that Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. will go for a short automobile tour before starting for San Francisco, where they will make their home and where Theodore Jr. is due on July 1, to begin w ork as the Pacific coast manager of the salts department of the Carpet factory at Thompsonville. Conn., where he went to work after leaving Harvard. Col. and Mrs. Roosevelt and family returned to Oyster Bay in a private car attached to the regular train.