The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-11
Canopy Leading from the Curb Lifted
by Women who Crawled Beneath
Ii and Blocked Entrance.
200 POLICEMEN PowERLEss
ONE wELL-DRESsED WOMAN DRAG
GED OUT BY THE ANKLES.
others i'm Gay Attire Found I'm n Coal
ROle Leading to the Church-De-
tails OF the Wedding.

NEW YORK, Nov 1O-The wedding Of
Miss Mae Goelet and the Duke Of Rox-
burehe in St. Thomas's Church was at
fenced by disgraceful scenes. Fifth ave-
nue. lin the vicinity of the church was the
scense before and during the ceremony OF
excitement and disorder unparalleled at
any ;of the previous great weddings in New
York. From the church to the Goelet resi-
denee. distance of five blocks. the avenue
was a surging mob. numbering fully 10000
persons, mostly women. whom a force OF
200 policemen was powerless to hold in
check
Before the service began several hundred
wons zen gained entrance to the church and
seated themselves in the galleries, from
which they were forcibly dislodged by a
squad of police few minutes before the
arrival of the bride.
When the carriage containing the bride
to lie and her brother, Robert Goelet.
neased the church, it was surrounded by
wopsen, who stopped the horses. and in
theiS efforts 20 see the bride clung to the
carriage. some of them getting on the step
andi thrusting their heads into the open
windows. Mr.. Goelet called TO the police.
but 1t was some moments before the half
dozen policemen who rushed 10 the rescne
were able to drive the curious women back
and enable the carriage to proceed
When the carriage OF Mr.. and Mrs Cor
nelias Vanderbilt, which was just ahead OF
the bride. reached the canopy leading from
the ttrb to the church, the crowd Of women
banked up twenty-five feet deep on either
side. rushed frantically forward. carrying
the solid lines of policemen with them and
for a moment choked the entrance. They
were forced back only to again rush for
ward when the brides carriage drew UP.
BY fhis time policemen from other points
had. been collected there, but in spite OF
them a group of half-dozen women stopped
down and lifted the canvas of the canopy
and lcrawled part way under. They crawled
TO Sheir positions notwithstanding all the
effotts of the police to pull them away and
several of them managed to keep their
heads under the canvas until the bride had
passed up. A patrolman caught one very
welI-dressed woman by one of her ankles
and dragged her along the walk she still
climbing to the canvass. until she was
forced to loose her hold. She was lifted up
smiang and satisfied. She had seen the
bride.
OH the Fifty-third street ide of the
chusch fifteen well-dressed wolAen crawled
down into a coal hole leading beneath the
chaAcel. They could not see anything. but
they could hear what was going on above
Policemen had to get in and drive them out.
-Four hours after the ceremony Fifth ave.
nue. was still crowded with curious women.
many of whom were laden with spoils from
the church decorations. for after the invited
gue,ts had left the mob crowded into the
chulch and proceeded at once to tear the
chrysanthemums and lilies from the pew
entrance In few minutes they began to
break the leaves from the palms and before
they could be stopped the church was de-
spoiled of many of the floral decorations.