The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-07-09
OCEAN FOR AN AErAR.
A San Francisco Couple Welded on a Tug
 Get Very seasicls.

Get Very seasick.
 ttrom the san Francisco Chroniclel
 John O. Heydenfeldt, the "baby" son
 of the late ex-Judge Solomon Heyden-
 feldt, and Mrs Maud E. Freer, a widow
 of years of experience, both of this city
 were the high contracting parties in
 romantic marriage on the high seas yes { terday afternoon.
 Young Heyden has not reached hls
 majority yet and his guardian and
 brother long since put their foot down
 against any indulgence in matrimony. The boy had led himself to believe that
 he was thoroughly in love with the wid- Widow Freer and determined to mar " her at all hazards. The fact that
 ne IS soon to fall heir to a large for tune lends added interest to the mar riage on the high seas.
 l Frankie Faircloth, a flaxen-haired | youth belonging to the featherweight class was intrusted with the task of [ securing Q wedding tug. Inside of an hour he had chartered the tug Katie 1 O'Neill and secured the services of Cap tain Frank Morley, who, being the pos
 sessor of a deep sea license, had author 1 fty to so out beyond the three-league
 limit and play parson. The wedding
 party boarded the tug at the Main
 street pier shortly before noon. Fran
 kie brought along some whiskey, wine ! and some crackers under the delusion that trip beyond the heads amounted 1 to little more than a picnic. He had I ao ltra fn o1o +t,. turn trip was made.
 l The voyage out to the Golden Gate
 was pleasant and the young folks pass ! ed the time away in singing and listen- l ing to Frankie's tales of how he had fooled the newspapers and Heyden- feldt's relatives. But when the tug reached the oeeanl a feeling of unrest and anxiety pervaded the party. It was not such smooth sailing as the bay afforded and they began to wish that they were at home. Frankie fear ed he had swallowed a fly during one of his enthusiastic discourses on his own cleverness and excused himself from the rest of the party The deck hands were compelled to hold him by the coat to prevent him from going ov- erboard while he paid tribute to Nep- tune Mrs. Hart was next taken i'll, and then the bride and groom. They were a sorry looking lot when Captain Morley stopped the boat about fifteen miles west of the North Heads and announced that they had arrived at the church, as the three-league limit is called. There was question, then, as to whether there should be any cere- mony or not, as all of the interested parties had other matters which required their attention. But the sad looking couple, with their sadder looking atten- dants, went into the wheelhouse, and while leaning on the arms of snicker- ing deckhands listened to the captain stumble through the orthodox marriage ceremony, which he read from q greasy and well-worn prayer book.
 On the return trip the party revived somewhat and Frankie even essayed a song. MT. and Mrs. Heydenfeldt dis embarked at Meigg's wharf and disap- peared Frankie and Teddy accom- panied Captain Morley back to Main street pier to assist him in deluding
 the party of awaiting newspaper men into the belief that the runaway couple l were recent escapes from Stockton.
 It is said that young Heydenfeldt has been acquainted with the woman he married but a short time and that his
 relatives strenuously opposed his desire to wed.