The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-11-28
BRIDAL PARTY RODE
In THE BLACK MARIA
EDITOR TRENHAM INITIATES A
NOVEL WEDDING CUSTOM
After an All Nights stay I'm q snow-
Stalled strces Car, He and His
Bride Revel IN n Luxurious Black
Maria.


Newton Trenham. editor OF the Alex
andrfa Citizen. has had his cup of Bit
terness filed to OVERLOOKING lately.
Trenhan trotted to the Pacific slope
and back with the rest Of the state
EDITORS in ten days and a fraction, and
liked the speed So we'll he thought he
would take a little exercise this fall
and run for the legislature. He was In
the also ran class, so he came to st.
PAU and welded charming girl to
console him for the loss of political
tonors on the advice Of some neighbor-
ing EDITORS who had found the salve a
healing one in such cases.
The wedding was a delightful one,
out before starting on their honeymoon
trip MI and Mrs. Trenham engaged
two seats on a Como interurban car at
maximum rental of five cents per
seat, intending to ride to see some
friends. This was last Monday after
noon at o'clock. If they had started
at 800 1t might not have been so bad,
but the O'Clock car had troubles of its
own. 1t wasn't running for the legis-
lature either. 1t was running for home
the best it could, and that wasn't very
We'll 1t was the first time the Como
lhterurban had ever experienced a
snow furry and it was not acclimated
!renham did not see how the engineer
Ing talent that had surmoupted the
Rockles and Selldrks could balk at a
little thing like a snow shower, and he
and his bride made out imaginary
menus and things. for the nervous pas
sengers on board who had no honey
moons with them. and knew the gro
Gerry Dill was going on at home just the
same. 1t was lots of fun for a while
But as the shades of night began to
get two and three feet deep, and the
STOW drifts even deeper, and the con-
dLctons on the other cars that were
stalled in the drift began to carry coal
into Mr.. and Mrs. Trenham's and pre-
pare to stand a siege, the Alexandria
editor began to wonder If matrimony
was all it was cracked up to be, in ST.
Paul, at least.
~ midnight the bride and groom had
become somewhat reconciled to their
tate, and the dawn of the next day was
a time of delight. for the coal supply
wasn't high, except in price. AT last a
ca" from Minneapolis arrived early in
the afternoon, sand "toted" the bridal
party to the woraxhouse. which is a
somewhat out of the way resort for
honeymooners, but none the less an in
terestlng innovation in bridal parties.
The street railway peop,e assured the
passengers that they would find Supt.
Fitzgerald Il real nice man, and Mr..
Lowry would send a four-horse bus
over to the works just as soon as he
could.
But Trenham had read about Black
Marias, ard while he had never before
had an ardent desire to WOO one. he
had more or less we'll defined notion
that Mr.. Low'Ty's bus was a Hans
Christian Andersen fairy tale and he
handed Supt. Fitzgerald a glorious
jolly about his workhouse being the
finest he, Trenham. had ever spent a
honeymoon in. and if he had his way
he never would patronize any other
workhouse on any of his wedding tours.
so there was nothing for it but for the
superintendent to hitch up the Black
Maria and see that his adIniring visit
ors got over to the University avenue
lire, which was then open, on a sort of
R2lnes law compromise.
So the bride and groom and sundry
other of the belated pas, engers rode to
city life again in the workhouse van.
and the Minnesota editor has again
demonstrated his ability to go out OF
the beaten paths and challenge the
world by the originality of his devices.