Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-11-10


O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING
WITH NO ONE PRESENT Elk
! CEPT THE BRIDES MOTHER
AND SISTER AND DEWEY'S
SECRETARY-C Ell EBR AT E d
WITH CATHOLIC RITES UNDER
A DISPENSATION- CEREMONY
AND THE PRIESTS REMARKS
/ OCCUPIED ONLY FIVE MIN
UTES.
! WASHINGTON, D. c., November o.
Admiral George Dewey and Mrs. Mildred
| NJ. Hazen were married quietly al the
rectory of St. Paups Catholic church IN
| V street, near fifteenth, this city, shortly
| before ten o'clock this morning. Tae GER
! emony was performed by the Rev James
F. Mackin, pastor of the church. assisted
| by Rev. Joseph II. Foley, assistant pastor,
and the Rev. Sidney Hurlburt. The cere-
mony was of the simplest character. ac-
! cording TO the rites of the Catholic church,
and the only witnesses besides the Off
ciating clergymen were Mrs. Washington
Mclean and Mrs Ludlow, wife of Admiral
| Ludlow. mother and sister respectively OF
/ Dewey's secretary.
| The arrangements for the wedding were
made with the secrecy which has attended
| the whole affair. After procuring the Ii
cense for the wedding yesterday, Lieut..
| Caldwell called upon Father Mackin, of
| st. Paul's, of which church Mrs Hazen
is a communicate and arranged for the
wedding this morning. AS Admiral Dewey
| is not a Catholic. a special dispensation
| was required for the performance of the
! ceremony, and this was procured by
| Father Mackin from Bishop Curtis, vicar
! general of the diocese of Baltimore, who
| granted it in the absence of Cardinal Glib
| bons, who is at present in New Orleans.
Father Mackin went TO Baltimore for this
| purpose yesterday afternoon.
| At 9:45 this morning two carriages con-
| tanning the wedding party drew up be-
| fore 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 spec
! tator was present as the party alighted.
| Admiral Dewey and Lieut.. Caldwell quick
ly stepped 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 gray
| silk, over which she wore a long stylish
| black wrap, trimmed with silver fox and
| lined with lavendar silk. The admiral
wore a black frock coat, gray trousers
and silk hat. Upon entering the rec
! tory 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 Mackin the ad-
miral said that he had heard that Father
Mackin had in his early years been sail
or, and 1t gave him additional happiness to
know that he was to be ma rried by cer-
| gyman who had at one time followed the
sea. Father Mackin replied happily that
when he found he could not become an ad-
miral 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 reception
ROOM where the ceremony was performed
| which made them man and wife. Father
| Mackin and his assistants wore simple
/ black cassocks. Before the ceremony Fa-
| Their Mackin addressed the contracting
parties as follows:
| Before pronouncing the solemn words
which will bind you forever together it
|
! things which are around us and to look
upward We are the children of God and
we have right to call upon him in joy
and in sorrow. We need His help in both
extremes and never more than now, for
| although the promises you are about to
make are easily made and the work Of a
moment, their fulfllment is the work Of a
lifetime. We call upon God to witness and
to bless this union of which He is the au-
| thor and which he has made sacred No
matter how generous and devoted you may
| be to each other, there are in every life,
| trials in which we in our weakness need
the help that comes from above and this
| help will be given in its fulness in return
| for faithful fulfillment of our obligation.
! The higher your position in life the more
| incumbent upon you is the faithful fulfill
ment of your obligation and the more rig
| orous the accounts that will be exacted.
| The neglect of these obligations will cast
| its shadow upon eternity But this hour
we hope marks the beginning of a career
which will make you wiser, better and
more useful to your fellow creatures in
| this life and in the life beyond it. and when
death at last shall break the link which
| binds you, as death alone can break it,
may that last hour find the two hands as
| fondly clasped and the two hearts as close
| ~ joined they are to-day, and may the
| joys of this life be a foretaste of the joys
| that are to come
The ceremony was performed with the
ring, according to the nuptial rites of the
| Roman Catholic Church. Including the
| address OF Father Mackin, it consumed
| less than five minutes. Father Mackin was
/ the first to hail the bride as Mrs. Dewey.
Congra tulations and fluctuations followed,
and the wedding party drove directly from
| the rectory to the residence of the brides
mother. Mrs. Mclean, where a wedding
| breakfast was served.
| Father Mackin, who performed the Ger
emory, when a lad of II, ran away from
home with two other boys, and went to
sea. Father Maclxin's sea career, however,
was very brief. He said he discovered that
he was untitled for the life Of sailor
! and few months found him back at his
! books.
The bride of to-day was the widow Of
1 Brig Gen. William B. Hazen, to whom
she was married shortly after the civil
war. Gen. Hazen died in 1857, while act
/ ing as chief signal officer of the army.
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