The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-01-16
MEYERS --MOIRHEID.
A Romance of the Gurglina
CatSkil1 Brook and the
Gushing Soda Water
Fountain.
TWENTY-FIVE AND SEVENTEEN.
Married in New York, Louis and
Mary Await There the Pater-
nal Benediction.

There is a great state of things In
society today. There are two homes
whose peace of mind is just turned inside
out. There is pretty how-to-do all
around And all because Louis Meyers
and Miss Mary Muirheid of York strees
went off quietly last Saturday aud were
married at the little church on the corneE
of Twentieth street aud Sixth avenue
New York. without asking parental con-
sent.
Mr.. Meyers may not be very tall. but
he has romance enough in his composition
for twice his size He is q clerk in the
employ Of the Pennsylvania Railroad,
and when it came time for hiG aation
last summer he went to the Hotel Catskill
at Catskill Village. New York. where Miss
Muirheid was spending the summer with
her family. OF course it WAS case OF
love at first sight, and MIR. Meyers went
back to Jersey City with Miss Mulrheid'5.
photograph indelibly stamped on his
heart.
SYRUP AND SODA WATER.
AS the object of his devotion was In
mourning for the death of her father. Mr.
William Muirheid. last October, she did
not enter into society SO that Mr.. Meyers
chances of seeing her seemed small But
1t is great natural truth that love will
find the way. There are no rustic stiles
or poetic woods il the heart of this town, Z
but Ewing's uptown drug store did
pretty we'll as substitute. There they
used to meet across the soda water
counter, and meet so often that Louis
friends began TO wonder why he had
grown such soda fiend. and someone
with a turn for practical joking put N
the why" column of local society
paper a question as to why Louie Meyers
found the place such potent attraction.
They will find out today.
On Saturday morning Miss Muirheld
went out for walk. In some mysterious
way Mr.. Meyers knew that she was going.
and went out for walk, too. They made
their way to the corner of Sixth avenue
and Twentieth street, where there is II
pretty little Episcopal Church, and at two
O'Clock the Rev. William w. Muir per-
formed the ceremony that made them
man and wife.
CYCLoNIC DISTURBANCES.
The news reached the Muirheid house
hold that night, and, as one might natur-
ally suppose, produced something of
full bloom tornado. Miss Muirheid Is one
of the very preItiest girls that ever lived
lin Jersey City. Her eyes are dark brown,
her hair almost black, and lies in little
rings around her face. her complexion
a brilliant PINK ana WnlJe, out Sn0
is not yet eighteen. The most painful
part OF the affair to the family of the
| bride is that her lover should not have
| told her guardians the state OF his mind
and asked for her hand. There was no
objection TO him. except on the ground
of the extreme youth of both parties, and
| had her guardians realized that they
couldn't help themselves. they would
have undoubtedly given consent.
When the news reached Mrs. Meyers.
who lives at No. so Wayne street, it pro-
duced much the same effect. although
| she has had some pre- paration, as not long
since her daughter Lillian was secretly
married to Frank Cox. Mrs. Myers is q
devout Roman Catholic. and it was said.
| declared that she would simply commit
| suicide il one of her children was not
married by priest.
Mrs. Meyers. Jr.. is daughter of the
| late William Muirheid. and resides with
her mother on Van Worst square. Her
| brother, Walter G. MuIrheid. Jr., Is an
amateur journalist. Mr.. Mevers ID
| twenty-five years old, and clerk In the
| employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
WAITING.
The happy pair are now living in New
York awaiting the arrival of parental
| forgiveness.
1t will arrive.