The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-12
LEFT A FEAST TO BE WE'D.
YOUNG SHIRLEY RICHARDSON
TUCK,S MIDNIG HT MARRIAGE.

while ut Dinner on n Firth Avenue Housstep
ne and His Actress Bride Determined 70
wed-An Hour Later and the Rev. Ed-
mund smith HAD Made Them Man and WIFE.
On the records of the Church OF the TransHgu-
ration, better known as the Little Church
Around tho Corner, there appears under the
date OF July 90 an entry OF the marriage Of Su-
settle Virginia Bernard to Shirley Richardson
Tuck, by the Rev. Edmund Smith, assistant to
the pastor, DIR. Houghton. With these simple
facts only the record concerns itself, but there
are other facts In the matter of this marriage
which remove 1t from the general category. 10
was what might be termed an after dinner sur.
prise.
Shirley Richardson Tuck 10 q son of Henry
Tuck. NJ. d., ViceP President Of the New York
Life Insurance Company. He 10 q youth Of
pleasantly rowing habits within the limits of the
metropolis, and has a wide acquaintance in the
hotel and theatre district. He Ia Of q ~particu-
larly engaging appearance. Susette Virginia
Bernard is also good to look at. She is an 40
tress. and her wide circle Of acquaintance
extends from upper Broadway to Wall street.
Some of her most intimate friends hail
from tho latter vicinity. and her tips on the
market are supposed to bo worthy OF considera-
ton. One Of her particular advisors was a mil
lionairc, who has rendered himself notorious by
figuring in various street rows and fights Of his
own manufacture. His figure In these Affairs
has usually been No. 2.
Miss BERNARD had an apartment In o build.
ing in Fifth avenue. There were potted palms
and things on the roof that made quite Q cosey
little roof garden for the use of Miss Bernard and
such friends as she might choose to entertain.
Entertainment were frequent and festive ON
the roof, and at all of them the millionaire was
an honored guest until the night OF July 81.
That pM. might i, he :. was y out Ct town H., -, TINT r,.r
night there was a dinner given on the roof By
Miss Bernard to a particularly gay party. the
ment of good cheer, suitably iced: Among the
guests was young Tuck. who had known and
the dinner he was very attentive to her, and
Nth the liquors he announced that he and
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prise. Nothing Of tho sort was evince / By the
guests At this dinner. They were in that calm
and substituted themselves for the incandescenb
lights on the roof. nobody would have cared.
Lets have some more bottles to the health
of the bride and groom" and the festivities
They continued to go on after Mr.. Tucker and
Miss Bernard had left which was nearly mid;
that couple care. The two young people Went
to the Little Church Around the Corner and rang
the Doll. SOMEBODY Can1e TO q WINDOW.
w want to be married. Let US in" said the
pair.
Its too late" said the somebody at the win
dow. Besides, DIR. Houghton is away"
Where can we find a Clergyman r. asked
young Tuck.
"Dr. Smith. the assistant, lives at las Lex
ington avenue" said the obliging somebody.
Perhaps you can get him up" -,
them. They did not return to the apartment in
Fifth avenue. but went to an uptown, hotel
Wall street man said when he heard of thu affair
Is not recorded.
"A Sun reporter called upon the Rev. DR..
Houghton last night and asked If the story Of
the marriage was true. DR.. Houghton looked
over his marriage record hook and said:
Shirley Richardson Tuck was married. to
Susette Virginia Bernard late on the night OF
July 81, the marriage ceremony being per
formed by my assistant, Mr.. Smith, at his
boarding house. That is all I can say about the
marriage. Mr.. Smith could probably tell more
about it. He is not in town at present, but the
marriage was performed in his boarding house.
/ believe, at midnight on July 81"
Young Mr.. Tuck's father is abroad, but his
mother is in this city. 1t was said last evening
that she is suffering from nervous prostration,
brought on BY the news Of her sons marriage.