The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-01-04
MAYNARD MISS WHEELER.
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In Love with . Neyvsboy- The Latest
klobozxen Sensation.
"The reason why object to the mar
rage of my daughter, Kate Wheeler. I'd
Morton lowering, said Mrs Wheeler at
her home on Seventh street, Hoboken. to
a representative Of the TA4Tr.ER last night
sis that he is not the right kind of man to
marry my daughter, does not come Of the
right kind Of family, and is unable to
take care OF Ter. He is q newspaper boy
that il, he serves customers with Tar
Tiers and other papers, she con-
tinued. she has been at work for
only year For four years before
that, he had been idle. He first came to
my house year ago last August. and since
that time have driven him away from the
wuse twenty times or more Ny daughter
IS wayward- She is 20 OF II years old. For
some Tins she helped her father, who il q
dealerin dyes and chemicals in New York.
month ago she secured an appointment
as a teacher IN one Of the public schools.
She was much away from home attending to
her business, and she hal opportunities to
meet the man outside that she wouldn't
have had if her round Of duties had been at
home more. At these casual or clandestina
meetings she evidently told him that the
coast was clear st the house, and as often
as he was driven away by me, he would
come hack again. He came some times to
ask her out with him. NO, would say.
your mother needs the money you propose
to spend with my daughterl' and I'd send
him away again. A young man named
Blake, living around the corner from here,
was instrumental, am satisfied, in urging
the man to take the girl away. Blakes Sis
ter was in love with him, and / suppose he
thought the easiest way to get him out Of
Miss Blake's way was to marry him TO my
girl. To-day week was my daughters
birthday. She went out ostensibly on an
errand and has not come back She went
to Rev. Mr.. JENNIE, of St. Pauls Church.
with lowering, and there they were mar
lied. She taught class in his Sunday
School, and / understand he got up out Of
a sick bed to perform the ceremony When
he had done it, he sent messenger o me
to report what he had done"
The Wheelers are evidently peoples {
culture and refinement. They live in nice
style at No. 60 Seventh street. There arc
two daughters still at home. Mrs. Wheeler
Illus LICK Ou4J cO1ulOIt III tHclus
For, she went on, 'sKate can never
warming. won't keep her clothes from
her of course, but if she comes for them
I'll throw them out of the window. She
can't come in for them, or for anything
else"
The contrast between the home that
Kate has left and that to which she has
gone is very marked. TArrLER reporter
found lowering living in tenement house
on Park avenue with his widowed mother.
9Let him come in the morning, was the
word he sent from his bedroom to the re-
porter, ssand III tell him all about it.
ssWell, perhaps can tell you 81 h
about it, added Mrs. Ley me
only thing to be said is that the young
couple are very devoted to each other, and
the idea of my son not being able to pro-
vide for his wifel guess any man that's
get $500 is able to take care of q wife! The
idea Of his being idle, too. Any man that
gets up at 2 o'clock in the morning, as be
does, to go to work, can't be accused Of
laziness.
The police say that at one time Lever
ing's father was an alderman in
Hoboken, and made good living. But
he finally abandoned his wife, and she had
him arrested for failure to support her.
He was in jail for six months. After his
release he went to New York, where he
died.
The clandestiDe marriage has created a
good deal Of gossip in Hoboken.
The following letter, written three days
after the marriage, is the first and only
demand Mrs. Wheeler has received from
her daughter for her effects. It is written
in a pretty hand, and shows the intelli-
gence Of the person writing:
HoBoKEN, Dec so, l884.it
MRs. Wnxx1KR.--I would like to know when q
will be convenient for you 10 have me call for my
clothes aud other belongings. / want nothing
whatever, but those things that were given me BY
my friends and alse those which bought myself.
win await for your answer two or three days
only. KATIE. LEvERNa.