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Show il-GBITIDDi1 i'OUNO r-.DItn WEDS DAUO'-I TEftPI SECRETARY OF STATE. S A BRILLIANT AFFAIR $ ffKi. Vice President and Other Di'itVaglihed Guests Present W tinlon Is Purely a Leve a Match. Wtslington In the presence of J?' 1 and Mr I loose v. -It. the' 'Vks-ItT Ment and Mrs Fairbanks 1 the Jsi.es of Hie supreme court and I Mir ,Vos, several sonslors, repre sMtttk, and other distinguished gixsU.Mias Ktlltt) Hoot on Wednesday baes) 1 he wife of I'ljsses Hlmpsnn Or sat M Lieutenant t'liltod Htales Hurts rorns fa wedding wan generally rerog nl'ej 11 Die capital as being tbe sec Ml! Is mmIuI and official Importance that taken pise during the Moose-JTSll Moose-JTSll sliiilnislrnllon. there being only less tat, rest In the marriage than In tbattimh centered about the mar rlsssei Mtw. ItiHiiH'Vilt to Mr long wottl, TV 1 ride Is the onl daughter of SkNImv of tiau- ami Mr Klllm lleol , iiiii tin groom ns ever)one knovi ft, un his nntiii Is the grandson of Otni ial Draut his father being Otuml I-1 id, rick Dent llrant of tbe Tta st-V. 1 MRS. U. 8. GRANT. amy Lieutenant 11 run l Is n nephew of Mrs Potter Palmer of Chicago, Hie ceremony was performed by ltrr Ilr Htrykcr of Hnmlllon college. wla was for several year a tho pastor ef U10 Fourth Presbyterian church at Huh and Superior streets, Chicago, uj who was a collego friend of See-rrUry See-rrUry of Btnto Hoot, a friendship that ll to bo mado tho closer by tho mar fate of tho secretary son to tho JjDegs president's daughter. T Tho tying of tho bonds united two roung peoplo who nro very much In lero with each other Thcro la not a whisper In any quarter that position or nnmo had tho least thing In U14 world to do with tho engagement. Tho former Miss Hoot has always rsthor shunned tho gayer llfo of the capital, and Lieutenant Grant has never bocn any too fond of IL Ha Is studious, nnd so Is his bride nnd both are of domestic Inclinations It was n good old fashioned American wed ding, with Cupid's heart engaged In every detail. 1 Tho cards of Invitation In tho wed ding read ns follows: Ths Hserelsry of Rials and Mrs. Hoot request ths ptsssurs of the twmiMinr of st tho msrrlss of llislr dnuahtcr . imiTH to I.tr.tlT. UI.YIWIifl fl (HUNT, II, United Htalss Corps uf niihliirtrs, on lli atlrrnnon of Wednesday, the !7lh of Novsinbrr, nt four utlotk at ItdO llhode island avrnus, In tho City of Washington Present at tho wedding were Klllm Knot, Jr., and Miss Allda Htrykcr. daughter of I)r M Woolsey Htryker, (resident of Hnmlllon college Mr Boot, who Is tho oldest son of the secretary of stale, will marry Miss Strykcr Just ten days from the day that taw bis tlsttr married to Lieu ttnnnt Grant. ''Tho Invitations to the wedding were restricted as far ss Washington was concerned to tho persons who "must bj Invited" The local Invitations were stout 20 In number nnd they Includ e3 only the closest family friends and those persons who hold such onitlil positions that they had to of iiece illy be Invited to be present The ouUiftown Invitations greatly outnumbered tlioso glvn In Washing-um, Washing-um, but there were eumpaiatlvely few Ot the out of -town guesls presonL The w ' 1 1 ' v "t s'ate and hll I i i I i n if matter wuk to ne tin . nil 1. i mpany an smnll n IK' .I. in I Hi, n remony marlied hi atli iidlng si nHilty Of the glooms Until) there were pn-nenf his futher and mother. Oeneral and Mm Omni, his aunt. Mrs Nellie llrant ftirlorla and Mr Potter Pal mer, mil. sewrnl nf hi first cousins, one of whom, Mrs Rartort' daughter Vivian, not long nso married Frederick llisnevelt Hi owl, a cousin nf Preet dent Roosevelt, and . although rather Indirectly, a connection Is established es-tablished between I he Hoot and thn Roosevelt families by the HootOrsnt marriage The Hoot residence, where the ceremony cere-mony took place, belong to former Vice-President lvl P. Morton, who occupied It for months lietween the time of the leaving or Count Uaetlnl, who leased II for the Russian embas-say embas-say quarters, and Its renting for rest dence purposes by Hecretar) Hoot While the wadding party waa eompara lively small, the house la big enough to hold a multitude It stands on a triangular piece of ground with Scott circle at one end, Fifteenth street st the other end and a street on each side Lieutenant (Irant nnd Miss Hoot were married In the great south room on the first floor of the residence, a room which la as long aa the house Itself It Is huge drawing room known In the day when the CotiuteM ('sain I presided over social affair In the residence as the "yellow room ' Miss Hoot had no bridesmaids Hev-eral Hev-eral of Lieutenant Orant's classmates nnd other army officer friend were present at the wedding, and Ids cousin, cous-in, Potter Palmer, Jr. of Chicago, was his best man After the wedding Lieutenant (lrant and hla bride left for a shott honeymoon honey-moon trip 'limy wilt go to Clinton. N Y, In be present, December 1. at the wedding of the bride's brother and Miss Htryker Prom there Lieutenant (Irant will take lilt brldo directly to Hoslon, where In thn suburb of llrooV-line llrooV-line there Is n pretty llltlo house awaiting their occuiianey. Tho house was selected by the brldo whose mother recently has Interested herself In furnishing It completely for housekeeping Lieutenant (lrant was ordered a short lime ngu from Wash Ington lo Hoslon (o carry on his engineering en-gineering dullest under the direction of Major Kdward Hiirr, who has charge of the river and harbor work along the Massachusetts coast Mis Hoot made her debut In N'nw York sirernl seasons ago nnd has twice been a cabinet ulrl. although she was extremely )oung when her father was secretary of war In Presl limit McKlnlev's second ndmlnlslrn Hon flhe Is a gifted linguist, nn accomplished ac-complished musician, and Is devoted lo outdoor sports Hho Is an export horsewoman, nnd her smart trap Is familiar to all tho uptown sections uf Washington. Lieut. (Irani has scrvod as military aid at tho whltu liouso during tho Inst two seaaona, acting with Capt. Pltihugh Lt-o, Jr and I.lout, Philip Hlierldan. Ho la n nephow of Mrs Potior Pal-mofof Pal-mofof ,Chlr'ghtsmffther Tx-lnaTMlss Ixuilso Honnre. sister of Mrs. Palmer. Ho Is a brother of Princess Cnntacu-teno Cnntacu-teno of Russia, who was Miss Julia Dent flrant, nnd tho only child of tho Grant family horn In tho whlta liouso Lieut Ornnt's early education was obtained In Uiiroix) while his father was minister to Austria Hungary and LIEUT. U. S. ORANT 3D, ho then spent four years In n stato mllllary school founded by Kmprras Maria Theresa Ho entered Columbia college In New York on his return to tho Hulled Mate and was graduated In 1 Still, when ho nt unco Joined his father In Porto Hlco, whero ho had his first experience In warfnro At the end of a year he entered West Point, graduating sixth In his clnss ot 1902 He was ordered ut once to tho Philippine, where he did good servlco for three years, and, returning In tho Dulled States, waa nidsred to Washington Wash-ington barracks |