The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-12-04
AFTER THE WEDDING.
General Grubb's Groomsmen Home
They Talk About Their Trip
and Uniforms.

When a little knot of parents ani
friends waited last Sunday on a New
York pier for the arrival Of the vesse
on which the guardsmen of the City
Troop were to arrive, returning from
General Grubb's wedding in London
hardly anyone thought they would
all come back together. They had
only been gone a month abroad and
it was thought unreasonable to ex
pect that six young men of wealthy
families who had been able to spare
the month from their affairs would all
be content with a flying trip like that.
Yet all six faces showed at the head
of the gangway and not one had
yielded to the temptation to stay that
had been held out by the truly
splendid entertainment they had re-
ceived at the hands of new-found
friends in and about London.
The stories of their adventures,
which John G. Groome, E. C. Knight,
Jr., William E. Bates. Barclay War
burton, Charles E. Henry and Ed
ward Browning have told III their
family circles, in their clubs and in
drawing rooms would fill quite a big
book. There was considerable
.'chaff" threshed by their friends dur
ing their absence from the country
over their EARNED invasion" of Eng
land with a Corporaf's guard of beau
s%abreurs, with uniforms and arms,
and jocular predictions were made
that the beautiful new uniforms they
had made for them would be
seized by the customs officers. They
turned the laugh rather neatly when
they heard of the gossip, as will be
seen from what followed, which
might be a composite interview with
all the six guardsmen, but is rather
the gistNof some of the stories they
told.
ANY fuss al the Custom House
over there? What nonsense! Hold on,
they did ask what we had in our tin
cases, and we told 'em they were uni
forms. The customs fellows thought
of curse we were English officers re-
turning from Bengal or Honduras or
the British West Indies, or some
where. and lever asked a question.
You know the cases are of the correct
pattern, made long, SO as to keep the
wrinkles out of the uniforms, and no
one could suspect anything like an
invasion Yet the band on board
the steamer marched ahead of US as
we landed. playing Yankee Doodle
and all that sort of thing, and they
didn't size us up for Americans even
then. But l don't think there would
been any fuss made over six
troopers from America, coming in
with sabres drawn. for SO peace
a mission as ours, do you?
THE wedding? The cabled reports
all right. only we didn't wear
our uniforms there. That was a mis-
take. But it was a good thing we
took them with us. Mrs. Sopwith,
who is now the dear old Generals
mother-in-law, asked us to wear them
at a ball at the Sopwith's London
house on the Saturday before the
wedding. We regarded that simply
as a compliment to General Grub.
Then we were at a dinner given by
Grubb to the Diplomatic
on Saturday evening, October
sort OF farewell to bachelordom
courtesy to his colleagues. Oh, yes,
were busy having a good time !
all the time.
we anu go TO Llnsinore, which is
almost as long a jump from London
Great Britain can show. On our
arrival in london Thursday, we dined
the Sopwith's London house, and
immediately made friends with Mr..
Sop NTH, who is a governor of the
Bank-the Bank of England itself, ,
you know-and a royal good fellow he
:: We CHARTERED at a good hotel and
Mr.. Sopwith took us around a good
ieal. We all dined at the Bank with
ihe Banks governors the day after we
rot over. Mr.. Sopwith could only in
ute one of US at a time to dinner at
he Bank, but each of US was fur
lished a host by his good offices. The
Sunday before the wedding we went
church and did Rotten Row, as is
proper, atterwara. In the evening we
with General Grubb's mother"
philadelphia Press.
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