The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-11-09
DEWEY WEDS.
Admiral of the U. s. Navy Uni
ted In Marriage.
To Mrs. Mildred NJ. Hazen This
Morning.
is MARRIED PRIVATE.
Ceremony Was Performed by
Father James T. Mackin.
There Were No Guests and Few
Relatives.
The Couple Leave For New York
This Afternoon.
s MARRIED PRIVATE.
There We're No Guests and Few
Relatives.

Washington, Nov. 9.-ATrs. Mildred
NJ Hazen and Admiral Dewey were
quietly married at 10 o'clock this morn
ing at the rectory of St. PauIs Catho-
lie church, 1926 V street, n. w The
ceremony was performed by Rev. Jas.
F. Mackin, pastor of the church, as
sisted by Rev. Joseph a. Foley. assist
ant pastor, and Rev. Sidney Hurlbut.
The ceremony was strictly private
and of the simplest character. The
bride was accompanied by Mrs. Wash
ington Mclean, her mother, and Mrs
Ludlow, her sister, while Admiral
Dewey was accompanied by Lieut..
Caldwell. his aide. There We're no 9TH
er guests and after the ceremony the
admiral and Mrs. Dewey entered a car
riage and We're driven to the residence
of Mrs. washington Mclean where
wedding breakfast was served and at
1245 they will leave for New York.
At the close Of the ceremony Admiral
Dewey grasped Father Mackin's hand
and said
Father, I am greatly pleased to have
been married by you; for 1 know that
at one time in your life, you were
sailor"
After procuring the license for the
wedding yesterday, Lieutenant Cald-
well called on Father Mackin, of St
Pauls, of which church Mrs Hazen is
a communicate and arranged for the
wedding this morning As Admiral
Dewey is not a Catholic, a special dis
pensatfOn was requested for the per-
fOrmance of the ceremony and this was
procured by Father Mackin from Bishop
Curtis, vicar general of the diocese OF
Baltimore, who granted 1t IN the aD-
senCe of Cardinal Gibbons, who is at
present in New Orleans. Father Mack
in went to Baltimore for this purpose
yesterday afternoon.
At 9:45 a. m. this morning, two car
riages containing the wedding party
drew up before the modest red brick
rectOry in the rear of st. Pauls. The
general public had no intimation of
where the ceremony was to take place
and not a single spectator was present
as the party alighted. Admiral Dewey
and Lieutenant Caldwell quickly step
ped from their carriage and the admiral
assisted the bride-elect and her mother
and sister from the other carriage.
Mrs. Hazen was gowned in a pearl
grav silk, over which she wore a long
stylish black wrap trimmed 3-ith silver
fox and lined with lavender silk. The
admiral wore a black frOck coat gray
trousers and a silk hat Upon enter
ing the rectOry they were uShered into
the reception room where Admiral
Dewey was presented to Father Mackin
and the two clergymen, who were to
assist in the ceremony. Upon being
presented to Father Mackln. the ad
miral said that he had heard that
Father Mackin had in his youth been a
sailor and it gave him additional hap
DlQeSS 10 KNOW lIlS4I i1G W dS " DG mar
rfed by a clergyman who had at one
time followed the sea Fa.her Mackin
replied happily that when ne found he
could not become an admiral, he had
determined to become a priest. Mrs
Hazen removed her wrap and she and
the admiral Immediately took their
places in the center of the little recep-
ton room, where the ceremony was
performed, which made them man and
wife. Father Mackin and his assist
ants wore simple black cassocks. Be
fore the ceremony Father Mackin ad-
| dressed the contracting parties as fol-
lows:
Before prOnOuncing the solemn
words which will bind you forever to-
gether, it may be weU to forget for a
moment the things that the around US
and to look upward We are the child
ren of Cod and we have a right to can