The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-09-30

son. They bought him at the aristocratic
Somerset Club, or the Boston Athletic
| Association, while he was with the girl of
| hihs heart
His parents were planning like the VAN
| derbuilt's had done-for an all around the
world tour for their oldest hope and heir
| after his graduation at Harvard last June.
! Young Bigelow was also planning such a
| tour, but with a different idea altogether.
He had decided TO take it. but not alone,
and he began to whisper into the ear Of
| her whowas by this time his fance, of
the ideal honeymoon awaiting them, as
they would travel among the tropical is
lands of the Pacific and Indian oceans
around about through China and Japan,
| and all the countries of the Orient fin
ishing with Europe and the continens.
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 the
marriage.
The prospect was too enticing, the future
pictured in these cnlors looked too heav-
emily for any girl not entirely an angel to
long Withstand 1t was with a timid de-
{
consent that the marriage should take
place in August when she expected TO take
her vacation at the store. August was
fixed for the date, and the matter of the
clergyman she left entirely with her lover,
pleading, however, that as she was
Catholic, she would prefer TO be mar
/ ried by Catholic clergyman.
To this request, Bigelow for the first
time. turned an unwilling ear. He ex-
planned that, as his parents were strict
PrOtestants, their forgiveness would be
much more easily won if they were mar
ried by an Episcopal minister, AMI the
girl ascented.
This was without the knowledge of eth
er her sisters or her parents. Even her
twin, Helen. who looks enough like her
to pass for Mary at any time, knew moth
ing of the momentous step her sister was
about to take.
On August 8, at the little church of the
Ancension in Roxbury, a mission chapel
of the Protestant Episcopal church. the
pair were married by the pastor. the Rev.
Edward L. Atkinson. The clergyman
knew neither party but the license Bige-
low offered him looked satisfactory, and
he made them one The marriage record
filed at city hall shows this fact.
The next two weeks were spent by the
bride and groom at Newport, wnere the
Bigelow family has been known for nearly
a century. But, singularly enough. no one
of the grooms acquaintance happened to
meet them. and during all the fife the
parents of the bride thought she was Wis
iting friends in the country, while those of
the groom supposed him, with other Har-
ward graduates at the mountains
On August IS. Mrs. Bigelow came back
from her vacation but did not go back TO
work at the store of Jordon, Marsh &, Co.
The idea of the wife of a ultl-millionaire
heir again becoming a shop girl was too
much for her husband to imagine, so she
stayed at home. To her mother and sister
she was as before, jain Mary Reece.
Albert S. Bigelow, father of the groom,
is estimated to be worth from $25, 100000
to $3O,000 900. and since the death of Fred
erick L. Ames is the wealthiest man in
New England. He is the president Of the
Boston and Montana, Butte and Boston,
Tamarack and Osceola Copper Mining
companies, and also of the MERGED Gold
Mining company, besides being director in
numberless others. His fortune IS esti-
mated to have been increased by not less
than 100000 during the recent 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 nd-the-world trip of
their son materialzed, and he left Bos-
ton for New York by a night train. But
although he bid Mr.. and Mrs. Bigelow
good by alone at the door of the car, in
another parlor car sat Mrs. Horatio Bige-
low, their unknown daughter-in-law, also
enroute Cor a trip around the world.
The next morning saw theyoung mar
ried couple off from New York on their
trip around the vbgkqhrdlutao
trip across the continent to San Francisco, |
where, five days later, they took the Pa /
cifc mail steamer for Yokohama. From |
San Francisco the groom wrote the let
ter to his parents announcing his marriage /
and his wife did the same to hers.
The marriage has come upon Albert S. /
Bigelow, father of the groom, with a ter |
rible shock and also upon the parents of /
the bride. While the later are no doubt /
Pleased tn3I their daughter romance /
should have ended in the way it did they /
take bitter exception to the fact, being /
he strictest of German Catholics. that she |
should have been married by a Protestant /.
In the clubs 1t IS rumored that young
Bigelow will be cut off altogether by his .
father, while intimates or the latter also .
declare that he will in fife accept the in
evitable. I nthe meantime the happy
couple are spending their honeymoon
among the chrysanthemums Of the Island
Kingdom of Japan.