The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-09-17
SHE LOVES A NEGRO
Pretty Maggie Woods Has
Come From Scotland
TO WED MARTIN HAMIL LION
Friends EnIighte9 Her as to
MiSCegenatiOn.
TO WE'D MARTIN HAMILTON

New York, Sept 1.-THE comely Scotch
lassie, Maggie Woods, VINO crossed the
ocean from Glasgow to wed Martin Ham
iton, negro, who formerly resided al
81 South Eighteenth street, Philadelphia,
was married to the girl today, despite the
protests of many persons VINO had urged
| objections TO the unnatural union.
Miss Woods is blonde, and pretty,
and % years old. She has rosy cheeks and
blue eyes. She entered the Barge Office
on her arrival with the other steerage
passengers from the steamer Monaghan,
from Glasgow. She said the man she was
going to marry lived in Philadelphia. but
he wtuld meet her here
A tall, well-formed negro, fashionably
dressed and with regular features, called
at the Barge Office. He said he was Mar
tin Hamilton, of No. 511 South Eighteenth
street, Philadelphia, and Maggie's sweet
heart.
Deputy Commissioner insolvency tried
to prevent the girl from marrying him
and her blue eyes filed with tears when
she was told that she could not see her
betrothed. Led into the room of the
matron, Mrs. Strickland, the lass, dressed
in black travelling gown, was a picture
Of grief.
Hamilton was originally from Buffalo,
she explained. While working for the
Albatros Asphalt company he was sent
to Glasgow to lay pavements and in that
city he boarded at the home of her sis
ter.
Miss Wood was visitin her sister. She
met Hamilton, the intelligent, athletic.
well-favored, tet-black colored man, who
is graceful in carriage and careful about
his dress. There were no social barriers
in the boarding house to theid daily asso-
citation.
An acquaintance OF four months de-
veloped into love on both sides. Comely
cOtch lass and coal black negro plighted
their troth. He gave her an engage
ment ring, promised that when ne returned
to America he would send the money to
bring her over the sea to marry him.
Such was the girls story.
Deputy Comisioner insolvency said to
the man:
You will make great mistake. Every
body Of her own race vii octracise this
girl as your wife"
Hamilton is 80 years old and talks with
dignity.
Il will make Miss Wood as good a
husband as nine out of ten white men,"
he replied holly. 1.-The system which you
decry was first inaugaurted by the white
race when one of the people of your own
color, Mr.. Commissioner, married a cousin
of Ham" But he was kept away from
his sweetheart and departed in anger.
The weeping girl said. MY parents APP
prove of this match. They say that If
Mr.. Hamilton strikes my fancy, they have
no objections to offer. lie IS me only man
who ever struck my fancy. lie has kept
every promise. 1 shall marry him if he
has to go to Europe to get me-
In order to show the girl the low lives
led by negroes the infatuated girl was
taken through Thompson street, where
the negro colony residese, and it was
pointed out to her that the negro residents
there would be her social equal and COM
panions. But even this did not deter her
from expressing her desire to link her
fate for life with that of Hamilton.
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