Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-01-21
Romance of q Disaster.

Romance of Disaster.
A Woman's Pretty Picture Of the Couple who
were Killed at spuyten DuJVii.
Buffalo Courier.
On Thursday evening at 8 o'clock the
train from Boston via. the Fitchburg rMl-
road, passing through the Hoosac tunnel,
stopped Just beyond at North Adams,
when the writer. almost the sole occupant
of the coach Rosedale," bound for st.
Louis via Buffalo, stepped from the train
escorted by the polite conductor, to take
solitary " five minutes - supper. A great
commOtion was observed in the station,
and the girl behind the lunch counter has
tened to tell the conductor that a wedding
party was about to take his train. With
true feminine curiosity we burned our
mouth with a cup Of bitter boiling tea.
and returned in haste to the coach
lust in time to see enter pretty blushing
bride Of nineteen, followed by her hand
some young husband. who did not look to
be over twenty. After them came stout
gray haired senior, who, as the officiating
Clergyman, evidently deemed his duties
not complete until he had seen his young
charges safely started on their wedding
Journey. He was in danger of being
tramped upon by gay crowd Of young
fellows at his heels, whose Overcoats did
not conceal their satin ties and wedding
favors. They were the ushers and the
best men. Depositing their satchels and
bags--Of unmistakable newncss-the bride
nestled into 4 corner, lOoscned her seal
skin, studied her bridal bouquet, and then
tossing back her feathers, exclaimed1Dith
little sigh of satisfaction: "Didn't it
go off beautifully:'
The clergyman, smiling upon her be-
nignently, said: eyes, but that's what
they all say, my dear :"
so, | know it's an old story to you. sir;
but we've never been married before, have
We ," looking up mischievOusly from be-
meath her frizzes at her husband.
"No," said the young fellow, laugh
ingly, al believe not
"And to think of all these lovely pre-.
sents I've enough To fill our house, said
she.
But now the whistle proclaimed that
the five minutes ut North Adams was
passed. The clergyman kissed the bride,
grasped the hand of each and with L
hearty Happy journey my dears, de
parted precipitateIy. AS the train slowly
moved Out Of the depot a loud chorus of
"'rah, 'ral, 'rah'' sounded clear above
the din of the engine, and was responded
to in kind by the five noisy young gentle
men in the next section. The bride peer
ed out of the window until the cheers bad
subsided, and then turning exclaimed :
How lovely of them to come to the station
and give us such a glorious send-oif.''
We shall be pardoncd for having OF
served this party so intercstedly when we
explain that, since leaving Boston at three
p. m., We had been dependent upon the
attentive conductor for society, who, a
few moments before, had left us in a state
of cold terror, after recital of L hair
breadth escape from 4 recent railroad &C
cidcnt, closing his tale with the cheering
admission that accidents We're SD likely to
occur that he never allowed himself to
think OF them. Had it. not been for the
presence Of the ID. d., We should have in
stantly decided that this was case of
elOpement, for the bachelor friends Of the
bridegroom were SO Young, and
their conversation showed them to bG
members of some college society,
whose badge they sported. Our fancy
was pleased by the tone of remOnstrance
assumed toward them by the new made
benedict, who was the butt of all their
Jokes and was not allowed to enjoy his
wife's society during the hours ride to
Troy, each Of tine others in turn claiming
her attention. 1t was evident that cham
pagne had flowed at the wedding banquet
which, if not too freely enjoyed, had suiii
ciently enlivened them and loosened their
tongues, At one time Il bet was proposed
the amount to be paid in candy to the
bride. In the light of Subsequent events
We can but wonder why every little Incl
dent connected with this purity i'm pressed
itself SD iIlclibiy upon our mind. One of
the young fellows begged to be allowed a
peep into the locket which the bridegroom
wore OH his watch chain.
"Can let them see ," said the young
husband, looking over the back Of his sea!
at his wife. She smiled assent. When
upon opening it the curious yOungstel
looked up roguishly-': Yes said the
proud owner, " 1t is my wle-my girl y
As the train neared Troy the whole
party prepared to quit the car, and good
byes We're exchanged am )ng them. ''We'll
surely see you in June said one, ad
dressing himself To the happy pair.
"Oh! yes. Pll come down and bring
my wife,"
Our eyes followed the young woman =:
she passed out OF the Car with her crowd
of attendants, and she seemed conscious
of our interest for rs she disappeared
from view she turned and smiled back al
us. This was the last We saw Of this un
usually attractive and merry wedding
party, for now quiet was again restored to
the siumbrOus shades of "Rosedale.' >
But yesterday morning, on slancing a;
the head lines of the telegraphic dis
patches, a horror seized us on reading the
following "Tragic fate of young
couple on their wedding tour" and among
the list of those roasted alive in the rail.
road accident near Spuyten Duyvil june
ton: Park Valentine, of Bennington
VT. aged twenty-one, and wife, aged
nineteen" with the following explanation
"Valentine was 4 nephew of TrenOr w
Park. and was in business with his father,
one OF the wcalthiest citizens of Southern
Vermont. His wife was Miss Gaylord, OF
North Adams. They were Ell route to
Florida Oh their bridal tour. Both the
young couple might have been saved but
for the desperate cling Of the young bride
to her husband" AS We read these terri
ble lines our heart fairly ceases to beat
remembering how blithe and happy she
was an hour after her marriage, for hel
bright smile haunts us still.
Bucharest Circus Burned.
News has been received of the destruc.
tiOn by fire of the Circus kremser At
Bucharest. The flames spread so rapidly
that it was with the utmost difficulty that
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