The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-01-12

Three Ceremonies Were Necessary to
Unite New York Couple Firmly

New York Sun.
Gussie Gutstein was only seventeen years
old when she came to this country from
Russia five years ago, but she was comely
and energetic, and In her native home she
had acquired fair knowledge of dress
making. She established herself in three
tiny rooms on the first floor of No. 81 Or
chard street, and shortly after she hung out
her modest sign business began to come her
way. So marked, in fact, was her prosper
ity that all the neighborhood took notice Of
her and she was rated high in the matri-
monial market OF the lower East Side Now
there lived and worked in the basement of
the house barber named Francesca Mar
cnese. francesca, as his name implies is
an Italian, but Gussie was not aware of it,
lie was tall and swarthy, with Hebraic fea-
lures, and the girl thought he was a Jew
When he told her that he was a Hebrew
the girl believed him, for she had fallen in
love with him. but she thought it odd that
Il was born and raised in America" he
told her, land here they do not teach the
children OF the Jews the Hebrew language"
The girl appeared to be satisfied with this
explanation, but In her heart she doubted
his word, for several of her neighbors sub
sequently said that he was deceiving her.
III ne was Jew, they reasoned, why was he
never seen In the synagogue? Then, too,
what tongue was 1t he spoke when men
came to visit him from the territory west
or the Bowery! 1t certainly was not Eng
iish, nor German, nor Yiddish, but they
thought from its smoothness Of sound that
1t was Italian
1891. and their counting lasted until Febru-
airy or this year. BY this time the girl had
saved snug bit of money as much as
$l2co the neighbors said, when they dis
cussed her case in the push-cart market
or Hester street, and francesca was becom-
ing desperate. for Gussie had put him off
from time TO tiIne when he urged her to set
the day for their marriage. But the crisis
came when one night Francesca took the
glrl TO visit his parents in Baxter street
Inen she saw the picture of the Madonna
on the wall. Then she knew that Francesca
mad deceived her about his religion She
grew angry and charged him with the de-
ception. He tried to explain but she would
not listen, and she declared that she would
have nothing more to do with him
On March n, Gussie says, Marchese called
on ner and asked her again to marry him
When she refused, she declares, he pointed
a. pistol at her and said he would kill her if
she did not do as he wished. She was very
mucn frightened, and. fearing that he would
make good his threat, she consented He put
her IN carriage, and, accompanied by two
OF his friends, they drove to the City Hall
where they were married by Alderman
Elias Goodman. After the ceremony they
Went to live at No. II First avenue, where
Marchese opened a barber shop. A few
days later, Gussie says, her husband took
ner TO the Church Of the Most Precio,s
Blooc, In Baxter street, and she was bap-
tized by the Rev. Father Guilfo D'Arpino
AFTER which they were married according to
the rites OF the Roman Catholic Church.
Iney went back to live in First avenue and
q bad thing for him. for his wife says he
became dissipated. Finally she left him and
went TO live in the house Of DR.. and Nrs.
HenseI at No. los Delaney street.
Arter time she repented the stem abe
had taken when she gave m her :eli91on