Show J MGRANT1EODING jUNG SG = DIER WEDS DAUGHTER DAUGH-TER OF SECRETARY OF STATES STATE-S A BRILLIANT AFFAIR resIdent Vice President and Other Distinguished Guests Present Union Is Purely a Love Match wasblngtonIn the presence of jdcnt and Mrs Roosevelt tho jePrcsldent and Mrs Fairbanks ie Justices of tho supremo court and elr wives several senators repre tatle3 and other distinguished pests Miss Edith Root on Wednesday came tho wife of Ulysses Simpson rant 3d Lieutenant United States izlncer corps Tho wedding was generally recog I ted at tho capital as being the sec CJI In social and official Importance tat has taken place during the Iloose elt administration there being only than In ess Interest in tho marriage t at which centered about tho mar age of Miss Roosevelt to Mr Long orth Tho bride Is tho only daughter of retary of State and Mrs Ellhu oot while the groom as everyone ows from his name Is the grandson 1 General Grant his father being General Frederick Dent Grant of the r t I a Mc T 1 j 1 z i > ii MRS U S GRANT army Lieutenant Grant Is a nephew of Mrs Potter Palmer of Chicago The ceremony was performed by Rev Dr Stryker of Hamilton college who was for several years the pastor of the Fourth Presbyterian church at Rush and Superior streets Chicago I and who was a college friend of Secretary Sec-retary of State Root a friendship thaIs tha-Is to be made the closer by the marriage mar-riage of the secretarys son to the college presidents daughter The tying of thotibnds united two young people who are very much In love with each other There is not a whisper in any quarter that position or namo had the least thing in the world to do with the engagement Tho former Miss Root has always rattier shunned tho gayer life of the capital and Lieutenant Grant has never been any too fond of it He Is studious and so is his bride and both are of domestic inclinations It was a good old fashioned American wedding wed-ding with Cupids heart engaged in every detail i The cards of invitation to tho weddIng wed-ding read as follows < I 1 wish Of the secretary of state and hli family too for that matter wall to have tho wedding company as small as possible and the ceremony marked by attending simplicity or the grooms family thero wero present his father and mother General and Mrs Grant his aunts Mrs Nolllo Grant Sartorls and Mrs Potter Palmer Pal-mer and several of his first cousins one of whom Mrs Sartorls daughter Vivian not long ago married Frederick Roosevelt Scovol a cousin of President Presi-dent Roosevelt and so although rather Indirectly a connection Is established es-tablished between the Root and tho Roosevelt families by tho RootGrant marriage The Root residence where the ceremony I cere-mony took place belongs to former Vlce President Levi P Morton who occupied it for months between the times of tile leaving of Count Cassinl who leased It for the Russian embas say quarters and its renting for residence resi-dence purposes by Secretary Root While the wedding party was comparatively compara-tively small the house Is big enough to hold a multitude It stands on n triangular piece of ground with Scott Circle at one end Fifteenth street at the other end and a street on each side Lieutenant Grant and Miss Root were married In the great south room on the first floor of the residence a room which Is as long as the house Itself It Is Ia huge drawing room known in the days when the Countess Cassinl presided over social affairs In the residence as Ute yellow room Miss Root had no bridesmaids Several Sev-eral of Lieutenant Grants classmates and other army officer friends were present at the wedding and his cousin cous-in Potter Palmer Jr of Chicago was his best man After the wedding Lieutenant Grant and his bride left for a short honeymoon honey-moon trip They will go to Clinton N Y to be present December 7 at the wedding of the brides brother and Miss Stryker From there Lieutenant Grant will take his bride directly to Boston where In the suburb of Brookline Brook-line there is a pretty little house awaiting their occupancy The house was selected by the bride whose mother recently has Interested herself In furnishing It completely for housekeeping Lieutenant Grant was ordered a short time ago from WashIngton Wash-ington to Boston to carry on his en glnoeitng duties under the direction of Major Edward Burr who has charge of the river and harbor work along the Massachusetts coast Miss Root made her debut In New York several seasons ago and has twice been a cabinet girl although she was extremely young when her father was secretary of war in President Presi-dent McKinleys second administra tlon She Is a gifted linguist an accomplished ac-complished musician and is devoted to outdoor sports She is an expert horsewoman and her smart trap IB familiar to all the uptown sections of Washington Lieut Grant has served as military aid at the white house during the last two seasons acting with Capt Fitzhugh Lee Jr and Lieut Philip Sheridan He is a nephew of Mrs Potter Palmer Pal-mer of Chicago his mother being Miss Louise Honore sister of Mrs Palmer Ho is a brother of Princess Cantacu zene of Russia who was Miss Julia Dent Grant and the on ly child of the Grant family born In the white house Lieut Grants early education was obtained in Europe while his father was minister to Austria Hungary and 0 4 j91 fyIl PJ LIEUT U S GRANT 3D he then spent four years In a state military school founded by Empress Maria Theresa Ho entered Columbia college In Now York on his return to the United States and was dIn d-In 1898 when he at once joined his father In Porto Rico where ho had his first experience In warfare At the end of a year lie entered West Point graduating sixth In his class of 1002 He was ordered at once to tho Philippines where ho did good sorvlco for three years and returning to the United States was ordered to WashIngton Wash-ington barracks |