The San Francisco call., 1896-05-31
RINGING THE JUNE
MARRIAGE BELLS,
Two Weddings to Be Cele-
brated on Tuesday
Next.
Miss Cheesman and Lieutenant
Shoemaker to Be Quietly
United.
Miss Huntsman and Grayson Dutton
to Be Wed in a Bower of
White Roses.

Tuesday next is going to be busy day
for Hymen, for no less than five promi-
nent weddings will occur on that day.
Douglas Tilden and Miss Bessie Cole,
whose engagement was announced some
months ago, are to be married Tuesday,
June 9. The ceremony will be performed
at the home of the brides father, Leander
Goss Cole, at 1545 Webster street, Oakland.
DIR. Mclean, who is an old friend of the
family, will officiate.
1t will be high noon wedding, and the
spacious home will be decorated plenti-
fully with the flowers which grow upon all
sides of it.
Willis Polk will attend the groom as
best man, and Miss White, cousin of the
bride, will be maid of honor.
Just what method of performing the
ceremony DR.. Mclean will adopt remains
to be seen, and the features common to all
well-regulated weddings do not exhaust the
possibilities of this one
The personality of both bride and groom is
OF unusual interest, and the conventional ex-
presslons OF congratuiation can scarcely ex-
press the depth of feeling which friends ana
even strangers must have for this young
couple
Not many of those who are familiar with the
work OF Douglas Tilden, sculptor, are aware
that the artist cannot hear or speak. Forum
ately for him and for art, the young man
found very early in life vent for that express
sion which did not come to him as to others
a language in which he could pour out his best
thought.
Miss Bessie Cole, like her fiance, has never
heard the sound OF human voice. She has,
however, been carefully educated, and can use
her own voice somewhat.
She is an attractive young lady, and exceed
ingly animated. Her bright eyes catch every
shade OF emotion that plays about the faces of
those with whom she converses and even fol-
low the motions of the lips so closely as to
understand much of the language they speak.
Miss Cole is of d retiring disposition so far as
the great public is concerned, and has ex-
pressed a wish that the details of her wedding
shall not be discussed outside the circle of her
family and intimate friends.
Her father, who has never left ungratifed
any reasonable wish OF his motherless daugh-
ter, heeds this one matter of course. and
the wedding OF June will be very quiet af-
fair.
The young couple will reside in this CITY, and
there will be no extended tour for the reason
that Douglas Tilden is now engaged upon the
commemorative monument which James d.
Phelan will present to the City on Admission
day.
Mrs. Jennie Cheesman and Lieutenant Shoe
maker, young officer of the Philadelphia,
win join hands and hearts on Tuesday the
9th. The wedding is TO be quietly eelebra ted
at the residence OF the brides mother. 1907
Pacific avenue. Rev. DR.. Foute will perform
the ceremony which will be witnessed only by
relatives and a limited number of intimate
friends
Unfortunately the wedding of Miss Leah
Gerst and Mr.. Lowengarten, which was to
have been an elaborate affair, on account of
the critical illness of the brides mother, is to
be privately celebrated at the Gerst residence
on McAllister street. No one but relatives
will be present at the ceremony, at which Dr.
Voorsanger will officiate.
Miss Emma Hunisman, daughter of Mrs
George II. Huntsman, and n. Grayson Dutton,
son of n. j. Dutton, vice-president of the Fire
mems Fund, will be married Tuesday at noon
at Grace Church. It is to be a white wedding.
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white roses
The bride Is to he attended by her sister,
Miss Geuevieve Huntsman, who will oficiate
as maid of nonor, and the Misses Gertrude and
Mollie Dutton, Miss Louise Young and Miss
Lulu Huntsman, who are TO be the brides
maids.
Harry Dutton, brother Of the groom, is to be
his best man, and Henry Mandell, Donald
Smith, George Gardner and Henry Dutton
ushers
After the ceremony a bridal breakfast for
the relatives only. is to be served at the Hunts
man residence, S24 Sutter street.
The bride will wear magnificent gown OF
moire satin made deml-tra1n and trimmed
with point lace.
The maids viii be attired alike in white or
candle over white silk and wear large leghorn
hats adorned with white roses and festooned
with tulle. Rev. Dr. Foute will perform the
ceremony.
The wedding of Miss May Harley. daughter
of the late Charles Harley, and Livingston
jerks will be solenlnized on Tuesday evening
at the Harley residence on Scott street. DR..
dempnlll viii perform the ceremony. Iney
are to be no bridal attendants. Following the
ceremony there is to be a reception, for which
800 invitations have been issued.
After the wedding the young couple will
leave for an extended European visit
The wedding of Miss Helen Thornton,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Thornton and
William Haley, brother of ex-County Clerk NJ. +.
G. Haley, will be celebrated on Wednesday
morning at st. Bridget's Church. Miss Agnes
Thornton will be the maid of honor and Daniel
Haley best man. A breakfast will follow the
ceremony at the residence of the brides par
ents, 17l7 Green street.