The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-05-12

usually popular just now, the automo-
bile marriage ceremony promising to
lead in the near future. Mrs. Fannie
Carlson and Professor c. 3. Greenup
set the pace for the automobile mar
riage the other day, by having the ma
chine travelling at rapid pace over the
Eads bridge while the matrimonial
service was being pronounced. The
lady in the case had been married three
times already but she insists that this
was the most exciting and diverting
ceremony that she ever took a principal
part in II this automobile marriage is
TO become popular the unexpected ele-
ment in marriage ventures promises to
be increased at least 100 per cent
The railroad wedding at thirty miles
an hour always has been affected a
good deal Divorce is no more easy be-
cause of it, but the bridal tour begins
from three to twelve hours earlier.
Fred M.Drake of Barren, Ills. and
Miss Augusta Ida Keener Of Newark.
/ Wis, thus began a wedding tour be-
fore the ceremony was pronounced. The
license to marry had been procured at
Rockford. and going aboard the Illinois
Central limited train, the two were
married before the car had crossed over
the county line. Presiding Elder Bur-
ling of Freeport performed the cere-
mOny, and in the return certificate Of
marriage the place where the cere-
mony was performed is given as an
Illinois Central railroad train between
Rockford and Seward"
Another train wedding was that
which united Arthur Reister and Miss
Alice Frisbie in a parlor car approach
ing Plainheld, n. ]. Miss F'risbie, a
student in Cornell university, was one
( Of the favorites Of Sage college. She
had met young Reister and they had
fallen in love. Reister is a business
man in Brooklyn. and in their elope-
ment from Cornell the whole college
town was excited
. o q
Elopements where paterfamilias is
most concerned in opposition usually
have like endings. A scene at Norris
town, n. j., the other night will serve
for all. 1t might be staged, indeed,
for the real drama.
Frank Seymour Ainsley and Jennie
Bodawalt Nugent, saying that they had
come from Orange, appeared before
1 the Rev. Samuel Batten of the Baptist
/ church showing such evidence Of age,
sincerity and earnest affection that at
/ II O'Clock at night he was moved to
make them man Nnd wife. Then. after
an after theatre supper, the pair left
/ at 2 o'clock in the morning for the
/ west. AS they boarded a sleeping car
| at the end of the train a fat man, con-
/ siderably excited, was seen to drop
! from the rear Of a day coach ahead.
/ He headed for the stationmaster on a
\ bee line
Say" he called, have you seen any
! spoony young couple around here try
/ ing to get married tOday?'
sure. was the reply. II sent them
TO the preacher, they got fixed out all
/ right, and have just left on this train. %
What Left on this train?" echoed
/ the stout man
! Then, seeing the red lights of the dis
1 appearing train about 100 yards up the
| platform. he dashed away after It, and
| did not stop until the train had passed
out Of sight around the first curve. He
came back to the station swearing and
| tearing his hair. Finding there was no
other train until morning, the man
/ tried to hire an engine. Failing in that.
he wanted handcar. but that was not
TO be had. At last, somewhat calmer
he went to the operator, and with tears
/ IN his eyes sent a message to be deliv-
cred to Jennie Nugent on the train.
The message was:
Jennie, dear. come home. It is all
right Tell Frank love him. Papa"