The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-10-25
Welded AFTER SUNDOWN


Church Rule Favors Marriages by Day
Light-Guests Became Entangled in a
Crowd of Mere Curious Onlookers.
The wedding Of Mr.. James Citizens and
Miss Maggie Jennings at St. Mary'S
Roman Catholic Church on Wednesday
evening has not yet ceased to be topic
of discussion among the thousand and
one members of the congregation who
were summarily dismissed from the
church by the Rev. Father Farrell. after
the evenings devotional services.
AS stated in THE JERSEY CITY NEWS
yesterday, arrangements had been made
for private wedding. Unfortunately
some of the invited guests had put in an
appearance before the devotional services
came to close, and these along with the
congregation were dismissed.
If the statement Of the person who was
there is to be relied upon as authentic q
sister of the bride and other near rela-
tives were included among those whom
Father Farrell (unintentionally of course)
ordered to vacate the church. and the fact
that the father and mother of the bride
were not present during the ceremony
has also given rise to the conjecture that
they too were prevented from witnessing
the ceremony.
| This, though, is purely a matter of con-
lecture.
CROWDED OUT.
AS also stated in THE JERSEY CITY
NEWS, when the sister was called upon to
verify these rumors she absolutely re-
fused to give any information whatever
concerning the affair beyond the fact that
the wedding took place in the church.
She is credited with having danced a
1fr1a <rfi ir1di a
the turn affairs had taken concerning the
wedding.
If rumor be true all the invited guests
manifested evidences of indignation, and
when the bridegroom arrived he hur-
riedly gave orders to the driver of the
coach to drive Immediately to the priests
home that he might ascertain why the
church doors had been closed upon him
and his bride and the invited guests.
THE CHURCH RULE.
The Roman Catholic Church favors the
solemni2ation of marriages within canon
ical hours, that is to say before sun
down; and to discourage evening we'd
dings, rule has been made that only
private ceremonies shall take place after
snndown. Father Farrell had arranged
for an exclusively private ceremony.
Hence his orders to clear the gallery and
the auditorium and the extinguishing of
the lights.
The bride and the bridegroom, accom-
panied by Miss Dwyer, of Erie street, and
Mr.. Charles McEntee, who stood up
with the couple, and about twenty
friends, were admitted through the
door of the priests house on
Third street, while many of the invited
guests were crowded out upon the side
walk, among the curious hundreds who
thronged about the doors to catch q
glimpse of the bride as she emerged after
the ceremony.
The bridal party filed singly through a
long, dark hallway that led to the church
and reached the darkened auditorium
through the altar entrance. One feeble
light fiickered away back near the Second
street entrance and threw a sickly glare
upon the ornaments of the spacious in
terror, its feeble rays scarcely reaching
those of the wax taper, by which the
priest read the marriage ceremony.
The wedding was duly celebrated, how
ever, at the BRIDES home, where Morrow
& Day served an elegant supper to 200
intimate friends of the popular couple.