The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-09-19
LEFT AT THE ALTAR.
The Sad Experience of a
Dashing Morristown
Girl.
DISAPPEARANCE OF THE GROOM.
The Romance Begins With Clipped
Curls and Ends With Sew
eral Heart Stings.
Epscial to the Jersey citu Nsu,.


MoRRIsToWN, Sept. 10, 1860. "A genuine
sensation set many tongues wagging in
this city yesterday, and interest in it has
not yet subsided. A charming, but now
broken hearted young woman, a dashing
but faithless young man and learned but
indignant priest figure in the sensation.
At half past eight O'Clock YESTERDAY
morning over three hundred persons as
sembled in st. Mary's Church to see the
marriage of Miss Kate Lyons, q
comeiy young woman of eigh-
teen years, and William Lines.
a barber, twenty-six years old. The
300 persons were some friends of the
couple and some curious idlers. The
ceremony was set for nine o'clock. Two
weeks ago the coming wedding had been
announced from the pulpit Yesterday
the Rt. Rev. Dean Flynn was ready to
perform the holy rites. The time, nine
O'CLOCK, came and went, and Father FLYNN
became impatient and the congregation
began to whisper and everybody knew
that something was wrong.
soon IL became apparent that Father
Flynn had received word from some-
where. He faced the waiting people and
announced that the wedding would not
take place; that the groom had disap
peared, and that he would thereafter un,
der no circumstances solemniZe the mar
riage OF Miss Lyons and Mr.. Lines. Then
the congregation rose and went out into
the open air. and it was then that the
tongues began to wag, and little inuuirF
revealed the true state of affairs
William Lines had indeed disappeared.
and Miss Kate Lyons was heartbroken
surrounded by sympathizing relatives
and friends. A little over six weeks aga
Lines stepped off a Morris and Essex
train and sauntered up to the business
portion OF the city. He looked very much
like bloated aristocrat looking for a
great country home. But his ambition
fell far short of that. He entered Albert
Wayrich's barber shop and said that he
wanted work. He got It, The fact Is
Lines is good looking fellow. He Is
compactly built, has black nair. dark
mustache and piercing black eyes and ID
about twenty-six years old. He handled the
razor like an expert and seemed sure to
become permanent fixture in Morris
town
But one day Miss Ka+e Lyons, q plump.
good looking. cheerful young woman,
came to Wayrich's shop to have her
bangs trimmed. Lines was not busy and
his eyes looked into Miss Kate's frank gray
orbs and Cupid did the rest. Somehow
her bangs needed more trimming than
usual after that, and four weeks after
her first meeting with Lines they were
engaged to be married. and the engage
ment was publicly announced at ST.
Mary's Church. Then bridesmaid was
chosen. and dressmakers were put to
work, and soon Lines saw his prospecsiya
bride In a charming white gown, des@
tined, il then seemed, to be worn in
church before her circle of friends. Manw
men who had basked in the fair Katesa
smiles sighed mournfulIy while Lines
smiled.
Suddenly Wayrich discharged Lines.
He had heard ugly reports about him,
and anxious creditors were besieginR the
shop. That was week ago. Prior 10
the Lyons family, to be near his affianced.
Tuesday night the ex-barber did not APP
pear at supper. Miss Kate had arranged
their presents, which were numerous. and
she wore her hsppiest smile.
The supper became cold and Lines came
not and the color left Miss Kate's cheeks
as the hours passed. She retired at late
hour with a heavy heart, but her hope
was not entirely gone. She came down
early in the morning to breakfast with
heavy eyes and an aching heart. Lines
had not appeared.
The trousseau was donned, however. so
that should he arrive there would be no
delay. Then eight o'clock came and passed
and the poor young worhan's tears fell as
fast as the seconds few by. IL then be-
came evident that the ex-barber haa dis
appeared as mysteriously as he had APP
peared six weeks ago. and word was sent
TO st. Mary's Church that the wedding
was off. Should Lines return the Lyons
family, which is respectable, will give
him warm reception.
Many tradesmen will also treat him Just
that way. and leading druggist, whose
fifty-trip ticket book on the Morris and
Essex Railroad he had borrowed and tailed
to return, will welcome him back just as
cordially. Miss Lyons is much chagrined
home, and will see no one, and will not
appear before her friends until the laE
wag of the tongues is recorded.