The San Francisco call., 1895-11-14
FLED FROM HIS BRIDE,
A Tremendous Social Sen
sation Rocks the
Potrero.
WHERE rs JIM DAILY?
He Failed to Materialize on His
Wedding Day When the
Feast Was Spread.
a CROWD WAS DISAPPOINTED
Mamie Connors Ready for the Altar and
the Little Flat Furnished on
Scotch Hill.
A CROWD WAS DISAPPOINTED.

Potrero society has been rocking on its
foundations since last Sunday night. At
least that figurative assertion will do quite
we'll in telling of the social sensation that
began out there on Sunday evening, when
a BRIDEGROOM came not to the altar of St.
Church when the rather impos-
ing edifice was crowded to the doors at the
appointed time; and this sensation, with
its romance, its mystery, it's speeding
rumors and its clashing sounds of battle
and of human trouble, has been the one
and universal topic of conversation ever
since.
James Daily is the recreant bridegroom
and Mamie Connors the more or less dis
consulate bride. DAILY was expected all
through the day of the wedding and until
the wedding feast was ready late at night,
but he disappeared on Sunday. He hasn't
been seen since, and what became of him
is Potrero mystery. A little fiat was all
furnished and ready, the bride was
dressed, the priest waited to perform an
other happy ceremony and nearly 2OOU
people gathered in or about the church to
see the function that was to the Potrero
oOue W IldL dS IuG duu0TD1lG
aft air was to New York.
When o'clock came on Sunday evening
the great broad steps of st. Theresas S
Church and the sidewalks about were
packed with wondering and expactant
throng. Then Father O'Connor, the parish
priest, addressed the crowd briefly, telling
that perhaps the couple had got married
in the City, and the crowd slowly dis
persed through the hilly streets of the
Potrero, beginning terrific gossiplng that
is Vet growing in volume and intensity.
The affair is gossiped about in the saloons
and stores and all through the great shops
of the Union Iron Works as eagerly as it
is about the gates and kitchen tables
10 whether jim Daily should have allowed
his folks to wreck the wedding in that
fashion, as to the degree in which the
Daily family are warranted in holding their
Jim and themselves to be too good for
Mamie Connors, and as to the degree in
which Jim is to blame, for it was the
bridegroom's family that headed off the
function by drastic measures for the rea-
son intimated.
jim Daily and Mamie Connors have been
raised at the Potrero are known to every
body, as are their people, and they have
been leading social lights amid the balls
and routs that tighten the lives of toll
beyond Islais Creek. MI DAILY Sr. settled
at the Potrero before Jim was born, and
that was twenty-five years and more ago.
The Days have led eminently respectable
lives. devoutly religious and decently and
aristocratically exclusive. Mr.. Daily toiled
away at the gas works and elsewhere as
his children grew up and were well edu-
Gated in the public schools. These, now
young men or women, found good posi-
tions in large downtown establishments,
and as age CAME to the parents certain
air of refinement and gentility increased
in the happy but obscure little home.
A little over fouryears ago Jim left the
grammar-school and became a machinst
apprentice at the Union Iron Works. He
was tout of his time" a few weeks ago
that is, he became a journeyman and began
a new and successful career as man at
his trade. Jim was always decent fellow,
and it would seem that a picture of a
strong, Industrious, well-Hked young man
completing his apprenticeship while he
was furnishing a pretty little home on
hill and getting ready to end an old love
affair in the proper way must be one that
ii would be cruel to spoil.
Mamie Connors is vivacious and quite
pretty Miss of Is years or so. She lives
with her people in a neatly and newiy
furnished lower fiat right across the street
from the fine new schoolhouse. Mamie
has worked at the rope-walk for a long
time, land has ever been ready for gay even
ing affairs, whether at the Potrero or at
lxora Hall. People won't say ANYTHING
worse of her than, "Well, she'd 90 to
dances every night in the week if she
could, and l guess Daly's folks didn't like
her STYLE"
Jim liked dances, too, and for four wears
he has been ''her company" Out of the
association grew !he love and the engage
ment that was able to defy opposition
until the critical hour arrived. Peonle
don't know just how the Days got Jim 10
give his bride the slip right at the altar.
One current report was tha the was
drugged, and another was to the effect that
his father had him arrested. But gossin
is ruthless and unkind. 1t is even told that
Mamie's mother lured Jim into the matri-
monial net and that one thing that helped
make the Days so proud was piano that
Mrs. Hydenfeidt gave Jim's sister after the
latter was witness for the former in the
Hydenfeldt litigation.
1t should be remem bered that human
nature is quite the same in the Potrero
and the Western Addition and that CUPID
is as impartial as death. 1t is only the
trimmings that vary, and why may not
Sierra street climb hill tc as interesting
q love story as may California street.
Mamie Connors was at home yesterday
and, after some giggles in the hall, she
cheerily apologized in the parlor for not
being fixed up. Mamie was not crying
about anything. Smiles and little laughs
her pretty teeth right along.
mo, / haven't seen or heard of him
yet" she said, "and 1 don't know how it's
going to come out any more'n anybody
else. wished / did know. Well, if he
don't come back / s'pose I'll have to wait
for copoa o4bar fallo,y and che laurba1