Show SOLDIER WEDS DAUGH TER OF SECRETARY OF STATE IS A BRILLIANT AFFAIR pres dent vice president and other Distl ngu shed guests present union Is purely a love match washington in the presence of president and mrs roosevelt the and mrs fairbanks the justices 0 the supreme court and their wives several senators depre and other distinguished guests miss edith root on wednesday became the wife ol 01 ulysses simpson grant ad lieutenant united states engineer corps the wedding was generally lecog nihed at the capital as being the sec ond in social and official importance that has taken place during the roosevelt administration there being only less interest in the marriage than in that which centered about the fsr ariage of miss roosevelt to mr long worth the bride is the only daughter of secretary of state and mrs elihu root while the groom as everyone knows from his name is the grandson of general grant his father being general frederick dent grant of the 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 tor several years the pastor of the fourth presbyterian church at rush and superior streets chicago and who was a college friend of sec detary of state root a friendship that is to be made the closer by the mar ariage of the secretary s son to the college president daughter the tying of the bonds united two young people who are very much in love with each other there Is not a whisper in any quarter that position 01 name had the least thing in the world to do with the engagement the former miss root has always rather shunned the 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 wed ding with cupid s heart engaged in every detail the cards pt invitation to the wed ding read as follows tl e secretary of state and mrs root request the pleasure of the company of at the marriage of their daughter EDITH to ULYSSES S GRANT ad united states corps of engineers on the afternoon of wednesday the 2 th of november at four clock at 1500 rhode island avenue in the city of washington present at the wedding were elihu root jr and miss alida stryker daughter of dr M woolsey stryker president ot hamilton college mr root who Is the oldest son of the secretary of state will marry miss stryker just ten days from the day that saw his slater married to lieu tenant grant the invitations to the wedding were restricted as tar as washington was concerned to the persons who must be invited the local invitations were about in number and they include ed only the closes family friends and those persons who hold such official positions that they had to of feces sity be invited to be present the out of town invitations greatly outnumbered those given in washing ton but there were comparatively few of the out of town guests present the wish ot the secretary of state and i j family too tor that matter was to have the wedding company as snail as possible and the ceremony marked by attending simplicity of the groom s family there were present his father and mother general and mrs grant his aunts mrs nellie arant sartoris ls and mrs potter pal mer and several of his first cousins one of whom mrs sartoris ls daughter vivian not long ago married frederick roosevelt scovel a cousin of dent loosevelt Hoo sevelt and so although rather indirectly a connection Is es between the root and the roosevelt families by the root grant marriage the root residence where the cere mony took place belongs to former vice president leal P morton who occupied it for months between the times of the leaving of count who leased it for the russian ambas say quarters qu aiters and its renting tor resi dence purposes by secretary root while the wedding party was campara email the house is big enough to hold a multitude it stands on a 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 a huge drawing room known in the days when the countess cassini presided over social affairs in the residence as the yellow room miss root had no bridesmaids sev eral of lieutenant grant s classmates clas mates and other army officer friends were present at the wedding and his in potter palmer jr of chicago was his best man after the wedding lieutenant grant and his bride left tor a short honey moon trip they will go to clinton N T to be present december 7 at the wedding of the bride s brother and miss stryker from there lieutenant grant will take his bride directly to boston where in the suburb of 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 housekeep house keel ing lieu anant grant was ordered a short time ao from wasa ington to boston to carry on his en gi du acs ics 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 dent mckenley s second alon she is a gifted linguist an ac musician and Is devoted to outdoor sports she Is an expert horsewoman and her smart trap Is familiar to all the uptown sections of W ashington aleut grant has served as military aid at the white house during the last two seasons acting with capt fitzhugh lee jr and aleut philip sheridan he is a nephew of mrs potter pal mer of chicago his mother being miss louise honore sister of mrs palmer he Is a brother of princess zene of russia who was miss julia dent grant and the only child of the giant family born in the white house aleut grants early education was obtained in europe while bis father was minister austria hungary and he then spent four years in a state military school founded by empress maria theresa he entered columbia college in new york on his return to the united states and was graduated in when he at once joined ht father in porto rico where he had his first experience in warfare at the end of a year he entered west point graduating sixth in his class of 1102 he was ordered at once to the philippines where he did good service for three years and returning to the united states was eldered to wash ington barracks |