The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-19
WERE MARRIED BY PROXY.
SENIOR CAMACHO AND HIS BRIDE
WERE 5000 MILES APART

Tho Fuldn brings tho Pretty bride
to the Husband She Had Not Seen since They
Parted ns Lovers-An international Mar
riaEe Recognized by Law In 10th Countries.
As the North German Lloyd steamship Fulda,
from Genoa, warped into her dock at Hoboken
yesterday afternoon a group Of young Span
iards, somewhat nervous, looked expectantly
up at the ships rail, lined with cabin passen-
gers, who waved greetings to unidentified
friends ON the pier. There was one particularly
pretty young Spanish woman gazing intently at
the throng ashore. She started whom she saw
among the Spanish group tho face of her
husband, whom she had not seen for
nearly eighteen months, or seventeen months
before her marriage. She appeared on the pas
senger list as Mrs. Manuel Canacho. That has
been her namo since she assumed his, in a mar
riago ceremony at the house of her father, jose
Carreno, Ex-Governor of Grenada, on July 30.
The uncle Of the bride. Juan NJ. Sanchez, acted
as proxy for the absent bridegroom, out In
Montclair, n. j., three thousand miles away.
Tho moment Schor Camacho saw that his
bride had picked him out of the group he exc
cuted a few steps Of a bolero. exclaimed jubi.
lantly. She knows mel' drew out his handkcr-
chief. and waved 1t in a delirium OF love. His
pretty wife caught his spirit, or had it already.
and she also began theoretically making signals
with the international love-code flags. 1hen
there q was fusillnde, atlong range. of kisses that
did not hit, and an exchange Of glances that did.
And everybody was looking on. but the sehor
and tho sehora did not notice anybody but each
other, which was quito natural under the cir
cumstances.
The Fulda was a long time docking; at least,
that Is what the young man and the young NO.
man said aftor But at last she was warped
In. and the gangplank was hoisted up. by this
time nearly ever body aboard tho ship knew
that there was a bride aboard. The officers of
the Fuldn decided to give her the first chance to
get ashore. The ardent bridegroom was at the
As she tripped down tho incline toward
him he advanced to meet her. She ia
petite. and whom she few into his arms
she was lifted clear or her feet by the momen.
husband. But she did not mind it. Then there
was some sure.enough kissing at very close
range. After that there was the bother of in
specting baggage, which the sympathetic nspec-
the senior and %sehora. radiant with love, went to
the homo OF Camacho's partner and brother-in-
law. Manuel de Tornos. at Montclair.
The sonora Is ~ years old. and she and her
They say they will not be married again. as the
Spanish and American law both recognize the
validity Of their union by proxy. The announce
ment that the ceremony would take place In the
churches In Grenada and Montclair. There
was q civil as well as q religious
at Grenada. Sehor CamRcho Is 20 yenrs old.
He Is a Spanish notary and translator in the Of
nee OF Senior do Tornos, at 2 Stone street, this
city. Sehora do Tornos ID a sister OF Se6ora
Camacho.
After the bride and bridegroom arrived at
Montclair last evening they went TO the residence
Church of the Immaculate Conception. who
gave them his blessing.