The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-12-03
AFTER THE WEDDING.
General Grubb's Groomsmen Home
They Talk About Their Trip
and Uniforms.

Wnen q llttle KNOT OF parents ana
friends waited last Sunday on q New
York pier for the arrival Of the vessel
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.
Vel all six faces showed at the head
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. G. Knight,
Jr., William E. Bates. Barclay War
burton, Charles E. Henry and Ed
ward Browning have told in their
family circles, in their clubs and in
drawing rooms would fill quite a big
book. There was considerable
''chaf" threshed by their friends dur
ing their absence from the country
over their EARNED invasion" of Eng
land with a Corporal's guard of beau
sabreurs, 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 q composite interview with
all the six guardsmen, but is rather
the gist of some of the stories they
fold.
'Any fuss at 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 never 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
have been any fuss made over six
troopers from America, coming in
even with sabres drawn, for so peace
full a mission as ours, do you?
"The weddings The cabled reports
were 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. Sopwjth,
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 Grubb.
Then we were at a dinner given by
General Grubb to the Diplomatic
Corps on Saturday evening, October
31-a sort of farewell to b~achelordom
courtesy to his colleagues. Oh, yes,
we were busy having a good time
all the time.
1--WE din't go to Linsmore, which is
almost as long a jump from London
do oiSot oiitdih Cdll nlOW. OA our
arrival in London Thursday, we dined
at the Sopwith's London house, and
Immediately made friends with Mr..
Sopwith. who is a governor of the
Bank-the Bank of England itself,
you know-and a royal good fellow he
is. We %quartered at a good hotel and
Mr.. Sopwith took us around a good
deal. We all dined at the Bank with
the Banks governors the day after we
got over. Mr.. Sopwith could only In
vite one of us at q time to dinner at
the Bank, but each of us was fur
nished a host by his good offices. The
to church and did Rotten Row, as is
proper, afterward. In the evening we
dined with General Grubb's mother"
philadelphia Press.