The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-10-01

the ear of her who was by this time his
tiancee, of the ideal honeymoon awaiting
them, as they would travel among the
tropical islands of the Pacific and Indian
oceans around about through China and
Japan. and all the countries of the Orient,
finishing with Europe and the Continent.
Then America, after their desire to travel
had been satisfied, back to his fond par
entS who, by that time, would have en-
tirely recovered from the shock of their
marriage.
The prospect was too ent,cing, the fu-
ture pictured in these cOors looked too
heavenly for any girl Tot entirely an
angel to long withstand. 1t was with a
tinlid delight that Mary Reece finally
gave, her consent that the marriage
should take place in August. when she
expected TO take her vacation at the
store Aug. was fixed for the date,
and the matter of the clergyman she left
entirely with her lover, pleading, howev-
er, that as she was a Catholic she would
prefer to be married by Catholic cler-
gYman.
TO this request BigeloW, for the first
f>time, turned an unwilling ear. He eX-
planned that, as his parents were strict
Pedestrians, their forgiveness would be
much more easily won if they were mar
red by an Episcopal minister, and the
girl aSSented.
This was without the knowledge of
either her sisters or parents. Even her
twin. Helen, who looks enough like her
to pass for Mary at any time, knew
nothing of the momentous step her sis
ter was about TO take.
On Aug. 5. at the Little Church of the
Ascension, in Roxbury, mission chapel
of the Protestant Episcopal church, the
pain were married by the pastor, the
Rev. Edward L. Atkinson. The clergy
man knew neither party, but the license
Ei2elow handed him looked satisfactory,
and he made them one The marriage
record filed at city hail shows this fact
The next two weeks were spent by the
bride and groom at Newport, where the
Bigelow family has been known for near
ly a century. But, singularly enough,
no one of the groom's acquaintance
happened to meet them, and during all
the time the parents of the bride thought
she was visiting friends i'll the country
while those of the groom supposed him,
with other Harvard graduates, at the
mountains
On Aug. IS Mrs Bigelow came back
from her vacation" but did not go
back to work at the store of Jordan,
Marsh & Co. The idea of the wife Of a
multi-millionaire heir again becoming a
shop girl was too much for her husband
to imagine, so she stayed at home. To
her mother ana sisters SnG was, as De
fore, plain Mary Reece.
Albert S. Bigelow, father of the groom,
is estimated to be worth from $25,O00,0OO
to $50, 900 900 and since the death of Fred
erick L. Ames is the wealthiest man i'll
New England. He is the president Of the
Boston and Montana, Butte ana Boston,
TamaraclS and Osce0la Copper Mining
companies, and also Of the MERGED Cold
Mining company, besides being director
in numberless others. His fortune is esu-
mated TO have been increased by not less
than s. 000, 600 during the copper craze OF
the last two years, and he is known on
State street as the Copper King.
The first of September the long cherish
ed plans of the father and mother of the
groom for the round-the-N orld trip Of
their son r1ateralized, and he left Boston
for New York by night train. But al
though he babe Mr. and Mrs. Bigelow
goodbye alone at the door of the car,
in another parlor car sat Mrs. Horat1o
Bigelow, their unknown daughter-1n-iaW,
also in route for trip around the
world.
The next morning saw the young mar
ricd couple off from New York on their
trip across the continent tc San Fran
cisco where, five days later, they took the
Pacific Main steamer for Yokohama.
From San Francisco the groom wrote the
letter to his parents, announcing the
marriage, and his wife did the same to
hers.
The marriage has come Upon Albert S.
Eigelow, father of the groom, with a ter
riblc shock, and also upon the parents OF
the bride. While the latter are no doubt
pleased that their daughters romance
should nave ended in the way it did, they
take bitter exceptions to the fact being
the strictest Of German Catholics, that
she should have been married by
Protestant clergyman.
In the clubs it is rumored that young
Bigelow will be cut off altogether by his
father, while intimates Of the latter also
declare that he will in time accept the
inevitable In the meantime the happy
couple are spending their second honey
moon among the chrysanttemums OF the
island kingdom of Japan.