Show I Harvester King W Weds ed Secretary Cyrus McCormick and Bride Sail for European European Eu- Eu Trip BO BOSTON TOX April 25 AP Cyrus AP-Cyrus Cyrus H H. McCormick 67 year 6 chairman chairman chair chair- man mati of ot the n board of th n Harvester com company pan and his bride the former Miss l A Alice ice M. M 1 tt of Chicago were were hon honeymoon honeymooning ing ink on p the high seas today bound fo for E EU Europe rope q f aboard board the Cel Celtic ic They b the steamship he here e ei i d n ec tz h 1 l I Ing ss illg kept successfully uIl kept a a ecret ret of their wedding the village of df Dublin N last ast Fr FrId Friday d Sirs Mr r 1 who wo o b by her marriage becomes a sister law of of ot Harold F. F F. McCormick husband of Ganna Walka of operatic tame fame ame had served Mp Mr 11 McCormick as private private private vate secretary secretary fol for several ye years rs She Is about 45 years old The ceremony ceremony was performed at atthe atthe atthe the home of Miss Hoit's Holts niece Mrs Eric Weld of ot Brook by the Rev Austin H. H Reed an Episcopal clergyman clergyman- of Keene N. N J. J The guests guests- who were few In Included Included In- In eluded Mr and Mrs Cyrus McCormick Mc- Mc Cormick Jr Mrs 1 Weld and Mr and Mrs Ed Edward ward M. M Mackey of ot Brookline Mrs Mackey is a sister sister sister sis sis- sis sis- ter of the bride PLANS KEPT SECRET Only intimate intimate friends friends of the principals prin prin- were were acquainted with their intentions Miss Holt Hoit came eat eaSt early atly last week presumably to visit Mrs 1 Mackey while Mr McCormick departed a da da- da later ostensibly on ona ona ona a business trip rip While in Europe they will nIl visit the younger l and Mr 1 M McCormick's CormIck's second son Gordon who is studying In Paris CHICAGO AP When AP-When When the bride oi Cyrys tC r s H. H McCormick returns from her European honeymoon honeymoon honeymoon honey honey- moon with the chairman of the thc board of ot the International Harvester Harves Harves- ter company she will step into a place of paramo paramount nt social Asocial Importance Importance importance Import- Import ance as as mistress of ot the McCormick residence on on- the Gold Coast and nd of ot the millionaires summer estate Walden at Lake Fores Foresti ti t. FAMIL FAMILY DIDN'T KNOW So successfully were vere pla plans s t for for- r last Friday at Dub Dub- lin un N H. H guarded guard d that not even brothers and sisters rs of of- f Miss Hott living with her k ew- ew of her intentIons and and the the first word that Chicago Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- cago society heard head of the hc wedding Continued on page e 5 5 Harvester King Weds Secretary Continued from page pagel 1 was through announcement nt last night by the Ue McCormick family Charles Holt a brother departed for New on a business business business busi busi- ness trip unaware of ot the marriage Joseph R. R Newton Holts Holt's business partner said Miss Holt HoIt told her brother that she was going to be married soon but said she would write him who the lucky man was after the ceremony ceremony Miss Holt Hoit had been employed by bythe bythe bythe the International Harvester company com company com com- pany eight or nine years years When I 1 Mr McCormick shifted shined from the presidency to to chairman of the of-the the board some time ago he transferred transferred Miss take charge of his personal arr affairs irs I HAS I She is isi the youngest daughter of Air Mr and Mrs Jeremiah Holt who came to Chicago as pioneers in 1813 Probably no working girl In truth or fiction ever WE wed l so wealthy a man as Mr McCormick Even the most conservative financial finan finan financial cial experts here here- estimated the wealth wealth of ot the Chicago go capitalist at or more more more- Mr McCormick's 1 name has has' b been e linked with big business since he was as graduated from Princeton In fn 1879 1819 He is a a a. son of Cyrus Cyrus' Hall f 1 Mc Mc- cCormick c- c Cormick Inventor Cormick-Inventor Inventor of the reaper reaner and fou founder d r o of the great McCormick t fortune In 1884 hIs hIs- his father father died and McCormick only 25 was voted r ot of th the McCormick Reaper company r In n. n 1902 when whence the the International Harvester c company mp wa was formed Cyrus H H. McCormick II was elected president nt and h he held that post un- un until til 1918 The Harvester chairman's first wife who vas was was- Harriet Hammond died in 1921 She was vas a leader of Chicago society and her interests were wide and numerous Two years ago ago Air Ir McCormick and his sons Cyrus Jr and Gordon donated donate to the Chicago Y Yo M. M C Co A. A for or a building to be erected in her memory Mr McCormick was a friend of the late President Wilson lie He toured Russia t W to st study d the agricuLtural tural needs there and was vas decorated decorated decorated deco deco- rated hy IY y the president of ot France with the order of merite agrIc agricole le an honor rarely conferred on apy any except Frenchmen |