The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-11-14
-HAZEN NUPTIALS
ADMIRAL DEWEY AND MRS. HAZEN ARE
QUIETLY MARRIED.
SAINT PAUL'S REGTORY PARLOR
The Place of h Ceremony and Father
lack the Officiating Clergyman.
Sister of the Bride and the AdniraI-ss
Secretary A Quiet Wedding Break
fast The Departure for New York
Quietly Made.

Washington, November s.-Admiral
George Dewey and Mrs. Mildred III.
Hazen We're quietly married ut the rec
o r ct ST Paul's Catholic church on
V. street, near Fifteenth. This city.
shortly before 10 O'Clock this morning.
The ceremony was performed by the
Rev. James F. MacKin, pastor Of the
church, assisted by Rev. Joseph H.
Foley, assistant pastor and Rev. Sid
ney Hurlbut. The ceremony was Of
the simplest character. according to the
rites Of the Catholic church, and the
only witnesses beside the officiating
clergymen, were Mrs. Washington Nc
Lean and Mrs. Ludlow, wife Of Admiral
Ludlow, mother and sister respective
ly OF the bride, and Lieutenant CaId-
wei, Admiral Dewey's secretary.
The arrangements for the wedding
were made with all the secrecy which
has attended the whole affair After
procuring the license for the wedding
yesterday, Lieutenant Caldwell called
upon Father MacKin, OF St. Paul's
OF which Mrs. Hazen Is a communicate,
and arranged for the wedding this
morning. As Admiral Dewey is not a
Catholic a special ~dispensation was re-
quired for the performance of the GER
emory and this was procured by Faith
er MacKin from Bishop Curtis. vicar
general Of the diocese of Baltimore,
who granted it in the absence of Car
dinal Gibbons. who is at present in New
Orleans. Father Mackin went to Bal
timore for this purpose yesterday after
noon.
AT Gas this morning two carriages
containing the wedding party drew up
before the modest red brick rectory in
the rear of St. Paul's. The general
pubic had 10 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 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 sil-
yer fox and lined with lavendar silk.
The admiral wore a black frock coat,
gray trowsers and a silk hat.
Upon entering the rectory they were
uShered into the reception room where
Admiral Dewey was presented to Faith
er MacKin n the clergymen who
were to assist in the Upon
being presented to Father MacKfn the
admiral said that he had heard thai
Father MacKin had in his early years
been a sailor and it gave him addition
al happiness to know that he was to
be married by a clergyman who had
at one time followed the sea. Father
MacKin replied happily that when he
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 tine little
reception room where the ceremony was
performed. which made them man and
wife. Father MacKin and his assis-
tantS wore similar black cassockS. Be-
fore the ceremony Father MacKin adj
dressed the contracting parties as fol-
lows:
Before ~pronouncing the solem words
which will. bind o forever together
it may be we'll to forget for a moment
the things that are around us and to
look upward. We are the children of
God and we have a right to call upon
Him in joy and in sorrow. We need
his help in extremes and never
more than now, for although the prom
iSes yuo are about to make are easily
made and the work of a moment, their
fulfi1lment is the work of a life time.
w call upon Goo 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. moments of trial when we,
in our weakness, need the help that
comes from above and this help will
be given in Its fullness In return for
the faithful fulfilln1ent of our obli-
CATION. The higher your position in
life, the more incumbent upon you is
the faithful fuqfillment of your obliga-
ton and the more rigorous 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 the life beyond It and when
death at last shall break the link
which bind you, as death alone can
break it, may that last hour find the
two hands as fondly clasped and the
two hearts as closely Joined as they
are today 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 Catholic church. Including the
address of Father MacKin it consumed
less than five minutes. Father Mac
Kin vas the first to hail the bride as
Mrs. Dewey. Congratulations and fe-
ncitations followed and the wedding
party drove directly from the rectory
to the residence of the brides mother,
Mrs. Mclean, where a wedding break
fast was served.
Father MacKfn, who performed
luC ceremony, WHcH d tdu " Ii yCdAS
ran away from home with two other
boys and went to sea- His sea career,
however, was ver brief. He said that
he found he was unified for the life
or a sailor and a few months found him
back at his books.
After arriving at the Mclean resi-
dence Admiral Dewey was driven TO
his own house. There he changed his
costume for a travelling suit, returning
to the Mclean residence on foot The
wedding breakfast lasted an hour.
There were present only the bride and
groom, Mrs. Mclean. Mrs. Ludlow.
Lieutenant Caldwell and Mr.. Fred
Bugher. The table was deliberately
decorated with bride roses.
About 1920 the admiral and Mrs.
Dewey left the Mclean residence for
uhe Pennsylvania depot Mrs. Dewey
had changed the gown in which she
was married for a black travelling suit.
Less than a dozen people had congre-
gated at the depot n there was no
demonstration as they passed hurried
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