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Show .:myuA V Mr. and Mrs. William G. McAdoo. PRESIDENT'S THIRD DAUGHTER WEDDED Eleanor, Wilson Is Married to Secretary of the Treasury William G. McAdoo. FEW GUESTS SEE CEREMONY Blue' Room of White House Is the Scene Beautiful Gifts Are Received Re-ceived Bridal Gown and Other Oth-er Costumes Described. Washington, May 8. Eleanor Randolph Ran-dolph Wilson,, youngest daughter of the president, became the wife of Secretary Sec-retary of the Treasury W. G. McAdoo, at six o'clock yesterday afternoon in the White House. The wedding procession proceeded from the main stairway Into the corridor, cor-ridor, through the north door of the blue room, to the platform erected in the south bay window of the room. Miss Sallie McAdoo led the proc'es-Bion, proc'es-Bion, followed, by Mrs. Sayre and Miss Margaret Wilson. Miss Nancy Lane directly preceded the bride, who was escorted by the president. The groom, with Dr. Cary Travers Grayson, met the wedding party at the altar. Mr. McAdoo wore evening clothes and Dr. Grayson wore his uniform. Rev. Sylvester Syl-vester W. Beach performed the ceremony. cere-mony. After the ceremony the wedding party proceeded to the red room, where they received congratulations and good wishes of the company. The Marine band furnished the music. Supper was served at small tables in the state dining room. The decora-. decora-. tions of the blue room were lilies and ferns, and the decorations in the dining-room were pinls and white roses. Handsome Wedding Presents. In spite of the small list of invited guests the wedding presents were numerous. nu-merous. Prominent among them were the beautiful silver tea service, given by the members-of the house of representatives, rep-resentatives, a piece of jewelry from members of the senate, twelve silver plates and a platter from the cabinet ' members and their wives, and a hand-. hand-. some gift from the justices of the Supreme Su-preme court. From the diplomatic corps, no member of which was invited, in-vited, came flowers and good wishes. The bride's bouquet was of orange blossoms, white orchids and lilies of the valley. The flower girls carried white chip hats, hung by ribbons, filled with flowers. Miss Margaret Wilson's gown was j of soft blue crape with panniers and waist of blue tulle. The neck was finished with a cream lace ruff and a flowered sash completed the costume. With this costume was worn a blue lace hat, trimmed with pink roses and touches of black. Mrs. Sayre's costume cos-tume was exactly like Miss Wilson's except that the color was pirik. The gowns of the little flower girls were white, with blue and pink ribbons. Beautiful Wedding Gown. The wedding gown worn by Miss J Wilson is made of ivory-white satin and trimmed with real old point lace. The bodice is softly draped with satin, which crosses in front and is brought to a point below the shoulders, front and back. The V-shaped neck is finished fin-ished with folds, of soft tulle. The long mousquetaire sleeves are made of tulle. The real old point lace is gracefully draped over the right shoul-der shoul-der to the left side of the waist and is fastened with a spray of orange blossoms; blos-soms; the lace then continues as a border to the long, transparent tunic of tulle, which graduates to the side of the skirt at the train. The sweeping train is three and a' half yards in length. A cap effect bridal wreath, with orange blossoms and long draped veil was very effective. The old point lace used on the gown is a masterpiece and a work of art in lace making. It is a part of a world-famous world-famous collection. Her Gomg-Away Dress. The bride's going-away dress is a three-piece dress made of corbeau-blue gabardine. The coat is made of corbeau-blue charmeuse and gabardine The front and upper part of back of coat is made of charmeuse. The back is gathered at collar. The three-quarter sleeve of gabardine is topped with the blue charmeuse, the edge of the sleeve being bound with a flat back silk braid. The soft girdle of gabardine gabar-dine ends in front with an oval charmeuse buckle. The bodice is dark "blue chiffon over white. It has braided straps of gabardine over the shoulders, with 12 rows of braid over belt of blue gabardine. A white organdie vestee and collar are edged with a rose and gren flowered narrow ribbon, fastened In font by three ribbon buttons. Long blue sleeves over white chiffon end in wide cuffs of 16 rows of narrow black braid. The short skirt is of gabardine, with three circular flounces starting at sides of skirt. These are fastened at back with a strap of gabardine attached at-tached to which are four small black silk tassels. Between the flounces, corbeau charmeuse, to which they are attached, showing about one inch of charmeuse between each flounce. Flounces and bottom of Bkirt are edged with black silk braid. Sketch of Mrs. McAdoo. Mrs. McAdoo is the only one of the three daughters of the president who has evidenced no inclination to pursue an accomplishment or perfect herself in any branch of study. Like her mother, she has talent as an artist in oils and has spent two seasons at the Acadamy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. She has a keen sense of humor, and is much , of a diplomat. She is the only member of the White House family fam-ily who has a nickname. She Is called "Nell." In appearance, Mrs. McAdoo is tall, slender, with a girlish figure, and a light, swinging gait. She has a pleasant pleas-ant smile, fine teeth, a rather large mouth, blue eyes topped with dark brows and fringed with dark lashes, a fine clear white skin and quantities of soft, straight, dark hair. She rides, dances, swims and rows well and is quite a linguist. Her place in society as the wife of the secretary of the treasury will now be next to that of Mrs. Bryan. Career of the Groom. Mr. McAdoo .was born in Georgia in 1S63, of a family which had been wealthy, but had lost their all in the Civil war. At twenty-one young McAdoo Mc-Adoo was admitted to the bar and five years later he came to New York. There he formed a partnership with William McAdoo, who was no known relation. In 1SS6 Mr. McAdoo married Miss Sarah Fleming of Chattanooga, Tenn., who died four years ago. There are six children. Mr. McAdoo's principal residence is at Irvington-on-the-Hud-son, not far from New York. |