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Show with roses on a background of feath-cry feath-cry ferns. Pluk rambler roaea also hid the. pulpit pul-pit The organ was. covered with rotes. Roses framed the windows. The Roosevelt Family. Colonel Roosevelt sat with his wife and their children. Quenttn and Archie. Behind thern sat Mr and Mrs. Nicholas Nich-olas Longworth. Mrs. Longworth ore a ,whife chiffon gown, trimmed with Mack and pale yellow, with a hlg black and yellow hat and a profusion pro-fusion of Jewelry. The bride wore a high necked gown of soft white satin and tulle, richly trimmed with Duchess lace, which had been worn by tho bride's mother and grandmother at their weddings. Her train was tnree yards long and her veil fell to her waist Tbe bride's mother, Mrs. Hendry Addisou Alexander, Alexan-der, gave her away. Mrs. Alexander wore a pale yellow chiffon gown, with a Louis V train of hlue and g-jld brocade bro-cade and a large hat trlmmd with a single large ostrich plume. The Bridal Party. The matron of honor was Mrs. Snewden A. Fahenstock. who was Miss Elizabeth Bertron until a few weeks ago, when Miss Alexander was maid of honor at her wedding. She wore a bodice of dull pink taffeta and carried car-ried forget-me-nots. The bridesmaids were Miss Ethel Roosevelt, the bridegroom's sister; the Misses Harriet and Junetta Alexander, Alex-ander, cousins of the bride, and Miss Jean W. Delano and Miss Jessie MM-llngton-Drakc. They wore leghorn hats trimmed with pink roses, white chiffon gowns with polnte de 'esprit fichus, caught up with blue ribbons. Bouquets of pink rambler roses were in, their arms. Kerniit Roosevelt was the best man; the ushers were Oeorge Emlin Roosevelt and Monroe Douglas Robinson, cousins of the bridegroom, and George F. R Roche, Hamilton Fish, Jr., Fulton Cutting. John Cutler, Grafton Chapman, Eliot Cutler and E. Morgan Gilbert. Orchestra of Fifty Pieces. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Dr. Henry. M. Sanders, greac uncle of the bride. While the guests assembled there was an hour of music mu-sic by an orchestra of fifty, pieces, all the selections for which were chosen by the bride, herself an accomplished ac-complished musician. Among the guests were Mrs. Russell Rus-sell Sage. Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Alexan-dor, Alexan-dor, John Burroughs, the naturalist; Rear Admiral and Mrs. Cowles Mrs. Cowles is a sister of Colonel Roosevelt. Roose-velt. Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Robin-sou, Robin-sou, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Alsop, Dr.'. and Mrs. J. A. Ilartwell. Mrs. Jennie Crocker of San Francisco, Dr. Samuel Alexander, Mr. and Mrs. Archibald 5. Alexander, Mr. and Mrs. S R. Bertron. Ber-tron. Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Roosevelt, Secretary ?Ieer of the navy department depart-ment and Mrs. Meyer, Brayton Ives, Miss .Martha McCook. Mayor G'ajnor and Mrs. Gaynor. Governor Hughes sent his regrets. Many Costly Presents. There were six hundred presents to the bride, b'lt her husband would not penult a list of them to be given out Those acknowlejged by the donors were a diamond ruedallk.n from Mrs. Russell Sage, a diamond tiara rrom Mrs. C. J. Alexander, a dozen stiver platen from Mr. and .Mrs. Andrew Carnegie, an jmposing silver water pitcher from President Taft. and a ' gold vanity mirror from Mrs. George J. Gould. After the honoymoon Is over the bridal couple w""l live at San Francisco, Fran-cisco, where young Roosevelt will enter en-ter business. TEDDY INVITES THE ROUGH RIDERS NEW YORK, June 20. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., and Miss Eleanor Butler But-ler Alexander were married at four o'clock this afternoon In the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian church. Bride and bridegroom knelt on white satin cushions for their responses. The bride's voice vas inandlblo, but young Roosevelt said "1 do" with an emphasis em-phasis that brought many smiles'' among the guests. Ixuig before tho hour set for the wedding the neighborhood neigh-borhood of the church was packed with crowds of curious. A special de-iall de-iall of one hundred policemen held them at a distance to prevent their fingering the texture of the dresses of guests. Over Ihe shoulders of the 01IV cers peeped milliners and dressmnk- Old Cavalryman as Escort. Miss Alexauder was escorted to the church ly the anie mounted offleer, an old cavalryman of Spanish war days, who rode at the elbow of Theodore Theo-dore Roosevelt last Saturday in the loud parade from the Battery to Central Cen-tral Hark; and when she came out as Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., ho saw her safelv to the reception given after the ceremony at the home of Mrs. B Alexander, au aunt of the brldo. Colonel s Rough Riders Present. Conspicuous among the guests were forty-two rouh riders in full uniform. Colonel Roosevelt decided this morning thai H would never do o leave his comrades out In the cold at his eldest sou's wedding'. Accordingly he sent out a hurried call at the eleventh elev-enth hour to as many on m still In town or could be found The troopers sat In the gallerv. When the colonel had taken his place with dignity, he turned to look for them, and, when they waved at him, waed back again with boyiah fieedom. More beautiful floral decoiatlons than those of the church today are not remembered at anv of the brilliant bril-liant weddings to which a sophisticated sophisti-cated c-llv has grown accustomed The bride walked to the attar d.-wn a laue walld with white roses and UDes of the valley. Each pew was outlined |