The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-04-08
A hILIPUTIAN COUNT
GIVES A TALL TITLE TO A SHORT
LITTLE WOMAN.
An Interesting Event in New horh
Sanetuary-Mrs. Gen. Tom Thumb
Wears the Orange Flowers-De-
scription of the Wedding.

New YORK, April s-A spanking team
of beautiful bay ponies drew the diminutlve
but elegantly appointed carriage In winch
Mrs Gen. Tom Thumb and the Lilputlan
count, Primo Magri. rode to the Church OF
the Holy Trinity to be married Monday aft
ernoon. They cantered up to the reduced
white canvas before the wide church doors
through the narrow pathway in q
dense throng of men, women, and children.
1t took fifty policemen to open a way FOL
the carriage Men and women hid the -four
corners of Forty -second street and Madison
avenue from view, crowded the roadways
full, were banked on the stoops of private
residences, and filed the house windows with
punches of curious faces; men and boys who
could find an inch of sidewalk to stand on
hung in clusters on telegraph poles and
lamp-posts, and stuck fast to the ornamental
lamps thatlight the church gateways at night.
1t took the tiny members of the bridal party
ten minutes to get from the carriage door
to the little reception room in the corridor,
where they stopped while to lay aside their
outer wraps and group for the wedding
march, Nobody was admitted to the church
without card.
Inc HSSSlUlI was notable. Men anu
women who are famous figures in society
were mingled with theatrical celebrities
politicians, club men, dudes and police
men. The women outnumbered the men
two to one. In the galleries they rose tier
about tier in banks of florid Easter millin
cry. On the floor they stood on tiptoe on
the pew-seats, sat in rows on the pew-backs,
clambering ON Administer ottomans, and
banked themselves around the chancel stairs
six rows deep. Mrs. Paran Stevens and a
party of friends had two pews. Mrs Au
gust Belmont looked on near by, and other
seats were occupied by members of the
Astor, Harper and Vanderbilt falilies. The
strains of Memberships wedding March
floated from the gold-frescoed organ. At 3:3C
p. III. forty policemen who stretched in com.
pact file along either side Of tie central aisle
drew themselves up statue>quely. The 5,00C
guests all stood up together with rustic OF
silk that sounded like the lap of waves on @
sandy beach, and the bridal party slowly en-
tered. They looked like a procession OF
brilliantly-dressed dolls, Ahead walked.M
Newell, the groom's best man, with Mis-
Lucie Adams, the tiny bridesmaid, resting
on his arm. The Count Magri with the
bride on his arm, walked next.
The bride was dressed as elegantly as she
was Feb. 10, 1868, when she walked amid q
similar throng in Grace church to be mar.
ried,to Gen. Tom Thumb Her little form
was enveloped in gown Of lavender satin
brocaded in uncut velvet. 1t had q court
train as long again as the bride The front
was decorated with lace beaded witt
| pearls. The neck was low and the sleeve,
short, Cinderella slippers of Lavender
| satin enveloped her feet, which loosely fit {
| No. infant Shoe A comb that blazed with
diamonds held her jet black hair coiled a
the back of her head. A diamond necklac,
with pendant glittered around her throa
diamonds bracelets sparkled at hel
| wrists, and lavender kid gloves that reached
nearly to her shoulders covered her shapely
hands and arms. The gloves wer,
of the size known as ~ infants, and they
were made on a special block. In her lef
hand she carried a bouquet OF La Franc,
roses that was much larger than her head
Nobody who looked at her smiling fac
would have thought it possible that she haC
passed her 40th year. The Count Magri wa
in evening dress; the bridesmaid in a gown
| of white satin.
| Immediately after the ceremony at tn
church the newly married couple held a re
ception at the Murray Hill hotel. Scores O
wcmsn waited hours in the corridors for
chance TO kiss the bride and congratulate
her. goldcu-haired S-year-old girl who's
face was pretty rs picture came in smiling
AMI lifted fresh. daisy in the groom's Goa
iappei. She was just as tall as he.
The Count and Countess Magri will go t
Italy in May. The counts wedding prt sen
to his bride was q valuable estate situated
near Balagn,, Italy, and which he inherite,
from bis father