Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-01-19
The Elder BENEFITS Marriage.
A SENSATION OF 1910.

\ SENsAIlON OE lOtO-
The following is the unique announce
m,nt vi the intended marriage Of the senior
James Gordon Bennett, as published BY him
IN the New York Herald in June, 1910.
TO TIE READERS OF THE HERALD-DECLARA-
TION OF LoyE-CAUGHT AT LAsT-GoING TO
BE MAKRIED-NEw MOVEMENT IN CIvILIZA-
TON.
| am going to be married in few days.
The weather Is so beautiful times are get
ting so good the prospects of political and
moral reform so suspicious, that | cannot
resist the divine instinct of honest nature
any longer so | am going to be married to
one OF the most splendid women IN intellect,
IN heart. in soul. in property. in person. in
manner, that have yet seen in the course
of my interesting pilgrimage through hu-
man LIE. | cannot stop in my
career | must fulfil that awful destiny
which the Almighty Father has written
against my name, in the broad letters OF
lie. against the wall of high heaven.
must give the world pattern of happy
welded life. with all the charities that
spring from nuptial love. In q few days |
shall DC married according to the holy rites
| OF the most holy Christian Church to one of
the most remarkable. accomplished, and beau
| tIful young women Of theage. She possesses
a fortune. She has no StOnIngton shares or
Manhattan stock, but in purity and up
rlghtness she Is worth halt a LIillIon OF pure
coin. Can any swindling bank show Is
much? In good sense and elegance an
other hall million; in mind, soul and
beauty, millions on millions, equal to the
whole specie OF all the rotten banks in tho
world. Happily. the patronage of the pub
lie to the Herald is ABOUT SIS, 900 per an
mum. almost equal to a Presidents salary.
But property In the worlds goods was
never my object. Fame, public good, Use
fulness in my day and generation, the
religious associations of female excellence,
the progress OF true industry-these have
been my dreams by night and my desires by
day. In the new and holy condition into
which | am about 10 enter with the same
reverential feelings as | would heaven it.
self. | anticipate some signal changes in
my feelings, in nv views, in my purposes,
in my pursuits. What they may be know
knot-time alone can tell. My ardent de-
sire has been through lie 10 reach the
highest order of human excellencies
by the shortest possible cut. Associated,
night and day, ID sickness and in health, IN
war and IN peace, with a woman of this
highest der of excellence, must produce
| ings. and these results the future will de-
velop in due time in the columns of the
| Herald. Meantime | return my heartfelt
thanks Tor the enthusiastic patronage OF the
| public, both of Europe and America. The
holy estate of wedlock will only increase
Inv desire to be still more useful. God AL
mighty bless you all.
JAMES GORDON BENNETT.
Nj. Bennett published a postscript to the
announcement TO the effect that until after
his marriage and honeymoon he would have
no time to waste in replying to the attacks
Of rival editors, and two days after the we'd
ding the event was noticed a. follows at
the head Of the editorial columns of the
paper:
MARRIED..
On Saturday afternoon. the 9Th inst, by the Rev.
Dr. Power, OF 81 Peters Catholic church, IN Bar
clay street, James GorcOn Bennett. the proprietor
anu editor OF the New York Herald, to Henrietta
Agnes Cream. what may be the effect Of this event
on the great newspaper contest now wagns in New
York, time alone can show