The age-herald., 1898-03-27
 GREAT BARGAIN IN
 NUPTIAL KNOTS To Be Offered by the RGT. Wesley A.
 HunSbeFSer. AT ASBURY PARK CHURCH Get the Jersey License, and the Pastor
 Does the Rest. HIS BIG RECORD IN MILWAUKEE In Single Year He Presided Over Six Hun dred and Ninety-three Marriage Cere- monies, Beating the Best Prev
 ious Wisconsin Record.
HIS BIG RECORD IN MILWAUKEE

From the New York Journal.
 Rise up, ye lovesck swans and maidens of Greater New York! Lift up your voices in praise and much rejoicing Don your very best Sunday -afternoon-go visiting clothes and draw the last "flvers' from your scant accounts in the savings bank. Study the New Jersey railroad time tables when rising and lying down, and make ready for the event of your lifetime, for Greater New York may soon have bar gain counter marriage Mecca of it's own, and who is he or she of teen years of age that can resist the temptation then?
 There is much bliss in store for you, and additional cares for your hard-worlxed pa pas and wise-hearted mammas. To get married has seldom proved much of an m- possibility in these regions whenever the lad and lassie felt that to live divided was not to live at all. For the future your mar rages will come easier to you than visit to gay Coney Island. And all of this be- cause the First Methodist Church of As bury Park, N. J., is to have new pas- tor.
 The Rev. Wesley A. Hunsberger, hitherto pastor of the Grand Avenue Methodist Church at Milwaukee, Wis, is the man se lected, and more interesting choice could hardly have been made by the members of the Asbury Park congregation. Mir. Hans berger is the proud possessor of record, having welded more people in a single year than any other living minister. During his years of minstration to the inhabitants of the brewing center, generally known as the Cream City, he has devoted a. large part of his time to the services of youthful Chi cago couples. And by asking no questions and reducing the fees to a minimum he has acquired a fame which favorably compares with the blacksmith's of Gretna Green.
 The marriage laws of Wisconsin are very liberal when it is a question of tying, and not of loosing the nuptial knot, which is source of intense satisfaction to the people of neighboring states. Among the boys and girls of Minnesota it is quite a fashion to take sudden trip across the border to the little town of Hudson, Wis, and then to surprise loving relatives by returning as man and wife. In similar manner the impetuous youths of Chicago have been wont to make excursions to Milwaukee, es- pecially during the summer months, when the passenger rates on the lakes are low.
 It is a strange fact, which must be re- corded without any attempt at explanation, that, although Milwaukee is supposed to be full of churches, a large majority of the couples on marriage bent have found their way to the temple where MT. Hunsberger has been presiding Thus it came to hap pen that in the year of 1896 he settled the fate of 693 Benedcts, beating the previous record by more than hundred
 New Jersey marriages have not been un- common up to date. With MT. Hunsberger located at Asbury Park they are liable to increase in number and popularity. They are not only easily obtained, after the necessary license has been procured, but they very cheap. The cost of a moderate New York wedding, including a short wedding trip is estimated at $3O0 even for those who do not belong to the Four Hundred, and the marriage fee itself touches the low water mark at $10. Com pare with this sum the following figures, carefully computed and representing the cost of knot tied by Rev. Hunsberger and guaranteed to last for life.
 Fare to Asbury Park and return (ex-
 cufSlon rateS ..................,...$lo .$loo Wedding dinner for two (and tip)........ 175 Marriage Tee ...... .......,.......... zo0 Flowers, ice cream soda and other in-
 c1dentals ............. AO0
 Grand total ....... :............ ..SSl0
 This represents a saving of $291 90, and ought to suffice to establish the immense superiority of Asbury Park weddings.
 But, while MT. Hunsberger is always found willing to help young people to join their fates, he cannot be persuaded to look lightly upon the unions so easily estab- lished.
 "When I marry a couple,' he said to an interviewing reporter, "I do it with the direct understanding that the contract into which they are about to enter is for life They are welcome to marry in haste, but if they have not considered the matter well as it's importance requires, they will have lifetime in which to repent"