New-York tribune., 1900-04-22
MARRIED AT SAN lSlDRO.
THE INTERESTING WEDDING OF SENIOR
TIA GONZALES AND THE FILL
PINO APOTHECARY.


thinking over the rumor that Russia and the
United States We're about to engage in war, and
wondering if he would be lucky enough to re-
ceve appointment of Major Mex, as the
volunteer staff commissions are called. 1t was
a sizzling not day. Without the wide opened
windows a fair substitute for mocking bird
sang a dozen strains. and then seemingly col
lapsed, his song being dried up by the fierce
heat An orderly came brisllly into the sun
flooded Office and said: There's native wishes
t. see the Adjutant General, sir" And thus it |
happened that were all surprised and much |
Eratitied two days since to receive an invitation |
to attend the wedding of the one apothecary OF
this place and Senorita Gonzales. The hour for |
the ceremony was announced , in the morn |
iuC. in accordance with the custom of the |
Church But we were forced to believe that the |
necessary request of the groom that he and his |
friends lie permitted to appear on the streets |
at that early hour had not a little to do with |
the honor that was extended to us.
Five o'clock is somewhat early, even in COM |
munities that not in the heart of an enemy's |
country, and many occurrences remind us that
San lsdro is not yet pacifed. Only two nights |
ago-ndeed the very date that our invita- |
tion receved-a raid made by some
ladrones robbers, in of the outlying |
barrios. and family suspected of having |
friendly feelings for the Americans was villain
cusy maltreated and robbed. Nevertheless we
pleased to have the opportunity to attend
a Filipino wedding, and three of us had the
headquarters sentinel call us at 4:3O a. m, and
il the gray chill dawn hustled into our gar
ments that might see the ceremony. For was
it not to he a state affair? Surely the union of
the man of wealth and the daughter of the pro-
prietor of the thriving town bakery made it a
prospect of much display.
As came down into the deserted village
street we saw the tiny lamps and lanterns of
cccoanut oil, with their floating wicks. still
burning dimIy in front of each house Not q
soul was to he seen. Hurrying to the great
wooden church that with its two dwarfed
towers oVerloGks the main street found it
yet dark and silent Then it occurred to that
in the land of 'manana" in mat
ters matrimonial. The bells of the tower clock
changed five jangling strokes; hundred cocks
were growing shrilly from within hovel or bet
ter dwellings. From over the great wall that
surrounds the former Spanish military prison
came the voices of our teamsters as they moved
through their corral of mules, and as we waited
IN the fast rushing day We the trumpeter
Of the guard come out in front of the slowly
pacing sentinel at the guardhouse and then the
brass hugle sang first call" There was no
trace Of ''manana'' in that proceeding. 1t was
sharp $50, and the military day had begun
But the later I'VE can't get 'em up. We can't get
'em up in the morning" had brazened out in the
fast increasing sounds before We too early
guests saw anything of any of the wedding
party.
A CAUTIOUS WEDDING PARTY
sleepy patrol well tired from their long
nights proWling, passed before Us on their way
to rest and breakfast. Then a great cIamor
broke forth from the bells that hung in the
squat towers Overhea J. a half dozen ragged
men and boys were beating the crazy iron bells
with stout clubs. In the far distance we now
the bridegroom hurrying toward US AS
he came up he began a voluble explanation of
the delay. 1t seems that tho Ugh he had in
formed family friends that the guards all
understood that a wedding party had parmis-
sion to he about in the early morning, and that
there would be no awkward challenging by the
5uch assurances, and had all awaited the blar-
.1g bugles. Some of them had possibly eX-
perienced in former times certain disastrous re-
suits III early morning meeting Of groups of
Ehite clad men and those businegslike people
In khaki, and had with admirable discretion
chosen to wait bit
But now the candle CLEANS began to stream
through the creVCes in the riclety church, and
groups of spectators We're pattering toward us
along the dusty street The men were for the
most part in freshly Numbered suits of white
and the womens garments ran8rd in color from
the sombre black Of formal churchgoing dresses
'" the gayest of pinks and purples. Bur the