St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-17
Mr.. JIMERSOH OF JERSEY
An Irate Parent Who Thouqht ta
Squelch Loves Young Dream.
BUT HIS DAUGHTER ELOPEs
And She and Her Husky Husband ASK
For and Receive the BLESSINGS of
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JERSEY CITY, n. j., June 14.-The
little village of NetherwOOd, mile this
side of Plainfield, has had romance
which threatened at one time to become
tragedy.
"You must leave this house at once"
cried an angry father, land if you re-
turn to 1t 1t will be at the peril of your
life"
The man who said this Aaron L. JIM
erSon. He lives in a pretty cottage,
hidden in a grove of trees, just back of
the big brick Hotel Netherwood. He is
brickmaker, and his brick yard can be
seen from the vine-cOvered porch of his
cottage. He was speaking to Frederick
F. Bulkley, a youth who had clandes-
timely secured the affections of his
daughter Eva. The Emerson family
consists of Mr.. and Mrs. Emerson, a
a son of twenty-five, and the pet of the
family, a brown-eyed school girl of six
teen, in short dresses, the daughter,
| Eva.
In the summer they take boarders,
and one of the persons who applied this
year was Bulkley. His father is in
business in Newark, but for ten
or twelve years, until about year ago,
he was farmer and lived on the Rah.
way road, about mile from FanWood.
Young Jimerson had known him, and
his family were known by repute to
Mr.. and Mrs. Jimerson. He became
member of the household in the latter
part of April. He had travelled eXten-
Siyely in foreign countries; his manners
were polished, and his appearance was
prepossessing, but no one in the family
suspected that he was making love to
Miss Eva. She still wore her hair in
long braids down her back, and went to
school in the Plainfield seminary. One
night Mr.. Jimerson, sitting on the stoop
watching the young people playing
croquet, thought he saw signs of love-
making.
''Don't you think that young Bulkley
is getting pretty affectionate toward
Eva?" he asked his wife.
''Oh, no." she answered, "and as soon
| as the house fills up his attention will
be attracted to plenty of others.''
Nothing happened to disturb the
serenity of the household until last
Monday night. Then young Bulkley
called Mr.. Emerson aside.
Eva and | are married." he said.
1t was this that provoked the out
break. ''It was awful" said Mrs. JIM
ersOn yesterday. "5fr. Jimerson is
man of quick temper, and / was afraid
he would kill him. Just to think of it'll
Why, we looked upon Eva as our baby.
She is only sixteen, and altogether too
young to think of getting married"
Mr.. Bulkley left the house and estab-
liShed himself in the Hotel NetherWOod.
His bride took to tears. On Tuesday he
tried to see her, but Mr. Emerson was
on the watch for him, and drove him
away with threats that ended his at
temptS to get at his bride by force and
arms. She still did nothing but weep.
On Wednesday he reSorted to the law.
Lawyer Charles A. Reed, of Planfeld,
sued out writ of habeaS corpus for the
production OF the bride in court. Be-
fore having it served the husband de-
termined to make one more effort. He
sent a note from the Hotel Netherwood
on Thursday evening asking Mr.. JIM
erSOn to come and see him. Mr.. Jimer-
son, meantime, had not been idle. He
had looked up the law and had decided
to get the marriage annulled, but his
daughters grief had touched his heart,
and he sent for his son-in-law to come
to him.
''We have settled it ALL" said Mrs.
Jimerson yesterday, land Fred stayed
here last night. We had no objection
to him. 1t was only because we thought
Eva too young to marry. Fred'S father
says he is able to support a wife, and he
paid her board yesterday just as if she
were any other boarder. We made one
condition with him, and that was that
he is not to take her away from u.s."
As soon as the trouble was settled the
story of the marriage came out. In all
of young Mr.. Dulkley'S travels he had
never met anyone who touched his
heart as did the brown-eyed Jersey
school girl. He loved her almost from
the first, and she fell in love with him
while they rolled the croquet balls over
the lawn. In less than two weeks after
he went there to board she promised to
be his wife. but urged him to wait until
she was twenty one. He did not want
to wait and proposed to speak to her
father, but this she wOuld not allow
She was afraid of his anger. She re-
duced the time of waiting until the time
when she should be eighteen, and, fin
all overcome by his ardOr, she agreed to
secret marriage at once. Then luck
favored them. Young Bulkley let his
sister into the secret and she came to
help him out.
''They were married on May 49," said
Mrs. Emerson. I'VE were all to go to
Plainfield that day for some shopping,
but L did not feel very well, and as the
young people all seemed TO want to &c
we decided to let them go alone.o
Buckley, his sister and Eva went, and
they drove straight to the house of
Rev. DIR. Schneck, of the Dutch Re-
formed church. He thought the
would-be bride looked young, but when
they all assured him that She was
eighteen, he gave her the benefit of the
doubt and tied the knot. The party
came directly back, and no one suS-
pected the truth until Bulkley made the
announcement on Monday. 1t is in
order now for their friends to congratu.